Home Mission Cemetery

The Home Mission Cemetery is a historic cemetery located on West Dove Wing Way in the Maricopa County of Arizona, United States, slightly outside of the Surprise town border.

[1] Lewis and his wife Marie Thompson were homesteaders who settled down in the area which is now part of the town of Surprise.

In 1936, Marie established a small cemetery in one acre of the Thompson family ranch.

In 1936, their son, 15 year-old Robert Thompson and his friend were playing with a gun when suddenly it accidentally went off and fatally shot him.

[2] In the 1950s the property, which included the cemetery, was passed on to Reverent James Outlaw, a Pentecostal preacher and his religious Mission.

Home Mission Cemetery