Widefield Cemetery, Widefield, El Paso County, Colorado 

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

In September 1949, Mrs. Kittie Paster Fryhofer, chairperson of the
committee to erect a memorial to pioneers buried in Mesa Cemetery (now
Pioneer Park), Colorado Springs, spoke at the dedication of the
memorial. In her speech, she mentioned other early burying grounds in
the county, including one in Widefield:

     "A graveyard was started on a hillside east of Widefield as
     early as 1863 or 64. Names are remembered of seven people
     buried there: 
     
     Viola BEESON 
     Lucy STUBBS MILLER and her baby 
     Minnie ROBERTS 
     Connie McWHINNEY 
     Mrs. LANAHAN 
     Joe MEESON 
     
     The burial ground is entirely obliterated. No trace of it
     whatever remains."
     
A copy of the speech is in the archives at the Colorado Springs Pioneers
Museum, Colorado Springs.

Questions may be directed to: Cemetery Project, Pikes Peak
GS, P.O. Box 1262, Colorado Springs, CO 80901. 

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