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Cemeteries

In Saguache county we are not lucky enough that transcriptions have been made for many of our cemeteries. One of my priorities as County Coordinator will be to improve this situation. Below are listed all known cemeteries in the county, with links to burial transcriptions (full or partial), photos, and maps, where available. I have included links to up to three burial transcripts for those cemeteries for which such transcripts exist. If you have corrections or additions for this list, please submit them to me at: cosaguache@genweb.us.

Miscellaneous Links Relating to Cemeteries
USGENWEB Tombstone Transcription Project for Saguache (25 cemeteries, only 4 with transcriptions) Saguache Cemeteries at the Colorado GENWEB Tombstone Photos Project (4 cemeteries) Saguache Cemeteries at Find-a-Grave (20 cemeteries)	USGS Listing of Cemeteries in Saguache County, Colorado USGENWEB Archives Saguache Cemeteries (scroll down)

Cemetery	Location & Notes	Latitude	Longitude	Burials 1	Burials 2	Burials 3	Photo	Map
Saguache County Cemeteries
60 cemeteries are now included
Adler Cemetery	SW of Alder; west of US 285; early 1870's; now abandoned
Bhryley Cemetery	About 1 mile west of Villa Grove; Graves of Mr. and Mrs. Bhryley
Bidell Cemetery	North of La Garita; Used during Buckhorn & Esperonza mining boom
Bonanza Cemetery	Lower end of town			Burials
Bonanza Cemetery	Upper end of town near Exchequer
Bryley Plot	Off of Bonanza Road on the mesa above Villa Grove
Calvert, Sam	NW of Saguache on Ford Creek on Mesa above Cow Camp; Single grave
Camaro Creek Cemetery	Near Center
Campo Santo Cemetery	Saguache	380517N	1061332W					Map
Charles Family Cemetery	West of Crestone on Charles property; About 8 family graves
Chicago Campo Santo Cemetery	Saguache, CO 81149; 1860 - Present; Catholic. History of Chicago Cemetery			Burials
Cordova, Alex	On Jacks Creek Rd about 4 miles NW of Colorado 114; Members of the Cordova family
Cotton Creek Cemetery	Valley View	380758N	1054939W					Map
Cottonwood Cemetery
Crestone Cemetery	Crestone; 1901? - Present; Records at the Town Clerk's Office, Crestone, CO 81131			Burials	Burials	Burials
Dance Hall Girl	W of Kerber City site; Single Grave
Duncan Cemetery
Exchequer Cemetery	N of Bonanza City; lower end of old Exchequer site; Est 1880's - 1965
Fults, Baby	In vicinity of Columbia Gulch, on Hotspot; Single Grave
Graveyard Gulch Cemetery	See - White Cemetery
Hillside Cemetery	Saguache Cemetery Association, Saugache, CO 81149; 1854 - Present	380454N	1060745W	Burials	Burials			Map
Hodding Cemetery	Abt 1/2 mile S of old Hodding Ranch, by the Little Brown Schoolhouse
Hooper Cemetery	Abt 3 miles N of Hooper
Indian Woman	On Oxcart Ranch (Originally the old Hice homestead); Old Indian woman abandoned by her tribe; single grave
Iris Cemetery	Iris; abt 1.5 miles S of Gunnison County Line	382418N	1064920W					Map
Jacks Creek Cemetery	Lake Mountain	381144N	1062114W					Map
Kerber Creek Ranch Cemetery	See - Wells Ranch Cemetery
La Garita Cemetery	La Garita, CO 81132; Abt 1/2 mile W of town, E of St. John Catholic Church
McDonald Family Cemetery	McDonald Family members
Mirage Cemetery	N of Mirage	380705N	1055152W					Map
Mirage Spanish Cemetery	Go 2 mile N, 2 miles E, abt 1/4 mile N of Mirage
Monk, Major Arthur Lloyd	Abt 17 miles W of Saguache; Single Grave;
New Berlin Cemetery	On the Townsite of New Berlin, Abt 2.75 miles N of Moffat; German Colony; Abandoned; Part of cemetery now under N Moffat Hwy
North Park Cemetery	At head of Sheep Creek
Orient Ironmine Graves
Piquet Cemetery	E side of Millde Creek along old rd; Several graves thought to be Piquet family
Rito Alta Cemetery	Abt 8 miles NE of Moffat; 1889 - now; Records held by Otis Albert, Rural Route, Moffat, CO 81143			Burials	Burials		Photo
Rural Cemetery No. 1	From Center go W on Colo 112 abt 5 miles ,N 3.25 mils, W 3.5 miles (Abt 3 miles S of La Garita); Still in use
Rural Cemetery No. 2	In brush field where the old log school house stood; SW of Moffat?; 3 graves
Rural Cemetery No. 3	12 miles NW of Cachetopa Pass, N of Dome Lakes State Wildlife Area, E of Colo 114
Rural Cemetery No. 4	Along road S of the Flying M Ranch (now Bessecker Dude Ranch); 5 graves
Rural Cemetery No. 5	Near site of Sedgwick; Graves of 2 old unknown prospectors
Sacred Heart Cemetery	Cotton Creek (now Mirage); Catholic
Saguache Cemetery	Eastern edge of Saguache, CO 81149						Photo
Sargents Cemetery	S of Sargents; 2 unknown graves of a man and boy
Sedgwick Cemetery	On private land about a mile south of the old Bonanza town site or abt 1/2 mile W of townsite of Sedgwick; 4 marked graves, 11 unknown; Est abt 1881 now abandoned
Smith Ranch Cemetery	N Tracy Canon, on Smith Ranch (now owned by Texans); Burials of County charges who died while under care of Mrs. Wales on the Smith Ranch; Abandoned
Teton Cemetery	Abt 1 mile SE of Crestone, at site of Teton; Abt 1890 - 1953; Records at the Colorado Genealogical Society, P.O. Box 9671, Denver, CO 80209	375917N	1054039W	Burials	Burials			Map
Tracy Canyon Mesa Cemetery	At mouth of Tracy Canyon; burial place for stillborn or aborted babies from Saguache & construction workers on U.S. 285; Abt 1935 or later
Tracy, Sport	E of U.S. 285, S of Saguache in brush field at the old townsite of Clevis; Tracy Canyon named after this man; single grave
Unknown Grave No. 1	SW of Alder, just W of U.S. 285; Single grave
Unknown Grave No. 2	At Hughes Mine, in Razor Creek Park, abt 15 miles SW of Sargents; Single grave
Unknown Grave No. 3	Abt 1.5 mile NW of McDonough Reservoir No. 2, take rd to Dome Lake Wildlife area abt 4.5 miles S from Colo. 114, then W abt 6 miles; Single grave
Unknown Grave No. 4	From La Garita, go W about 1 mile, S 1 mile, on E side of rd
Unknown Grave No. 5	Abt 2 miles S of Liberty; Single grave
Upper Saguache Big Park Cemetery
Van Tassel Cemetery	On Colo 114, abt 19 miles S of U.S. 50; 10 unknown graves, one from 1896; Copy of records at the Denver Public Library
Villa Grove Cemetery	Abt 1.5 miles N of Villa Grove, W of U.S. 285; From 1882 - Now; Copy of records at the Denver Public Library	381518N	1055716W	Burials	Burials		Photo	Map
Wells Ranch Cemetery	Wells Family, Villa Grove. AKA Kerber Creek Ranch Cemetery
Whites or Graveyard Gulch Cemetery	In mouth of Graveyard Gulch; on Little Kerber Creek, abt 8 miles W of Villa Grove;1885 - 1933; White family and 2 unknown graves outside the family fence	381222N	1060433W					Map

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