There is also a cemetery at Twin Lakes up on the side of Mt. Elbert and
there is a single grave of a little girl who died on the stage coach on its
way into Leadville, about 20 miles from Leadville. She is buried along the
old stage coach road just before the Hayden stretch.
Gail Meyer Kilgore
Casa Grande, AZ
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Hi,
First, as you can read I am in AZ and I have a son and daughter who are on
this list, son lives in Colorado Spgs and daughter lives in Durango and I
doubt that my son will be going to Leadville until spring. If they have
gotten any snow.....Leadville without snow, bet me!!!, the roads to the
cemetery are not plowed unless they are going to bury someone and then they
open the road for the funeral otherwise the cemetery is left in peace
blanketed with white snow until spring.
Gail Meyer Kilgore
Casa Gr
Gail Meyer Kilgore
Casa Grande, AZ
Distributor of: Ostfriesen Gruengold, Black Tee
Tchibo Exclusive Coffee from Hamburg, Germany
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Ok, just thought of this too....the Odd Fellows is fenced in and Evergreen
is not nor is the Elks but in the trees outside of the Odd Fellows are some
very old graves and a lot of the markers are buried under by pine needles
or you will just find deteriorated wooden crosses. It is not the pauper's
graves they are up to the front of Evergreen off to the right and over by
the Elks.
Gail Meyer Kilgore
Casa Grande, AZ
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Tchibo Exclusive Coffee from Hamburg, Germ
A couple of summers ago, my wife and I were working with an archeologist
a few miles east of Leadville. We were near the eastern edge of the
mine area, in the trees off a two-track trail, and we found a small
grave with a weathered wooden marker that still bore a faint
inscription. Our best best guess at the letters in the inscription was
TIPSY. The grave was probably that of a pet, but could have been that
of a small child. There was nothing around the grave to indicate that
it had been visited for ma
Hi,
I found my g grandmother's grave and also three of her children through the
library in Leadville several years ago.
A woman's group had documented the old graves and had them typed out and on
file there. I don't know what years it covered, but my g grandmother died in
the early 1880s.
Alice from WY
Hi,
Has everybody found who they are looking for in Lake Co.? We have some new
members that haven't even posted....how about Mr.Rood...did you get your
reply from TX. We can't help you if you don't post.
Gail Meyer Kilgore
Casa Grande, AZ
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I am going to say this....
Evergreen Cemetery
St. Joseph's Catholic Cemetery
Odd Fellows Cemetery
Elks Cemetery
There was a burial place up on the Chicken Hill where we lived and it was
over under some big pines and had a iron fence around several of the
graves
and in the winter time when the snow was deep, that little burial ground
was dry as a bone. The snow was too deep to get the dead into Leadville
let alone to the cemetery so they were buried on the hillside and I am
sure
the spot was cho
Hi again,
Since we were on the subject of cemeteries I thought I would share a
happening in Leadville. My father-in-law was county treasurer but he was
also on the sanitation board and he was also a registered surveyor. So,
when they were running a new sewer line from Leadville towards Stringtown
where the sewer plant was the bulldozer cut a swath in the side of the hill
and all 'H" broke loose..whoever.. .was suppose to remove the graves to the
new cemetery did not do it and the bulldozer cut off the en
Looking for information about William Kelly and his wife Molly Fitzgerald.
William was a miner who is supposed to have died of "lead poisoning" in
Leadville, CO. Their daughter, Mary Theresa, was b. 1888, so my guess is that
he died between then and the late 1890's. I don't know what happened to
Molly, but their daughter was raised by an aunt and uncle back in Nebraska.
If you know anything about these folk, or have access to Leadville cemetery
information, I'd love to hear from you. Jo Newkirk-Hornecker