Paupers Cemetery, Colorado Springs, El Paso County, Colorado 

Donated to the Colorado Archives by the Pikes Peak Genealogical
Society, June 6, 2000. 

In 1957, seven graves were found when a road was being built on
land that had been part of the El Paso County poor farm.
Unmarked, the graves were moved a short distance to the southwest
corner of Lower Gold camp Road and 21st Street. Today the graves
and blank markers are cared for by the El Paso County parks
department.

The poor farm's records were destroyed when the farm's first
hospital burned January 20, 1900. According to county
information, anyone who died of smallpox in the county was buried
here.

A Colorado Springs Gazette Telegraph newspaper article (April 24,
1957, page 1) identifies one burial as that of Henry PARKS, 46, a
resident of the farm from July 7, 1899 until Nov. 10, 1900, when
he died after an epileptic seizure. He was born Arkansas.
     
Questions may be directed to: Cemetery Project, Pikes Peak GS,
P.O. Box 1262, Colorado Springs, CO 80901. 

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