<p>PH Coll 1034.Bozarth, M1</p>
<p> 	Mary Ebey was born in Columbus, Ohio, the daughter of Jacob and Sarah Ebey. The Ebeys were among the first settlers on Whidbey Island, arriving in 1854. She married Thomas S. Wright on September 25, 1842 and divorced him on February 13, 1857; they had two children, Polk and Almira. In 1858, she married Urban E. Bozarth. In 1868, county commissioners approached her about using her family's burial ground overlooking Ebey's Prairie for their first public cemetery, and Bozarth agreed. On April 6, 1869, she sold the one and a quarter acre plot to Island County for $1.00. The county records referred to the burying ground as the "County Grave Yard on the Hill," later renamed Sunnyside Cemetery, where Bozarth and the rest of her family are buried. </p>
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