Boulder County Cemeteries

Dear Ancestor

Your Tombstone stands among the rest,
neglected and alone.
The name and dates are chiseled here,
on polished marbled stone.

It reaches out to all who care,
though it is too late to mourn.
You do not know that I exist,
you died and I was born.
Yet each of us are cells of you,
in flesh, in blood, and bone.

The place you filled so many years ago,
I wonder if you could have known,
would spread among the ones you left
in all the seeds you've sown.

I wonder if you lived and loved?
I wonder if you ever knew?
That someday I would find you in this spot,
and come to visit you?

Unknown author

Mountain View, Longmont (Mountain View Cemetery is now in book form and on a CD). Contact the Longmont Genealogical Society for more information. This society is very active and their website is worth visiting. They have a number of cemetery transcription CDs for sale as well as several other projects in progress.

Other Boulder County Cemeteries

In 1936, on January 20th at 6:30 a.m., an explosion occurred at the Monarch No. 2 Mine. Eight men perished; seven bodies were recovered:

Ray Bailey
Oscar Baird
Steve Davis
Anthony De Santis
Kester Novinger
Tom Stevens
Leland Ward

The body of Joe C. Jaramillo remains entombed. His monument can be seen six miles from Boulder on the road to Denver.

Joe C. Jaran Jaramillo
1887–1936
A faithful employee
who died in the performance of his duty.

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Between Ward and Left Hand Creek stands a tree with a board inscribed:

Mary Ann HARRY
d. Aug. 7, 18?3

It is said there were once 60 graves at this site.

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Lyons, Colorado — Highway 7, south of St. Vrain Rd., is a small family plot with three children’s graves.

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Niwot: Haystack Mountain, Section 27 — one Indian grave site near the creek.