Irwin Cemetery, Gunnison County, Colorado



Transcribed by Darin D. Foran <http://www.mesaview.net/> June 2001.



The Irwin Cemetery is very very small so I will just give you the 

names of the stones that are there.

 

The cemetery is located on Kebbler Pass and to get to the cemetery 

you can either take HWY 92 out of Delta Colorado which connects 

with HWY 133 and then the trail road that takes you to Kebbler Pass 

or you can drive from Gunnison Colorado through Crested Butte to 

get there, it is shorter and better road to come from Gunnison.   

Kebbler pass is at an elevation of 10,007 feet, and it is very 

beautiful there in the Spring and summer.  The road is closed from 

late August to late May early June due to snow.

 

At the entrance to the cemetery is a sign that reads:  



       THE BRIGHT PROMISE OF RUBY SILVER DREW 5000 PEOPLE TO THIS 

        AREA IN 1879.  FROM AS FAR AS ENGLAND AND SCOTLAND.  IRWIN 

         BECAME A GHOST TOWN WHEN SILVER WAS DEMONETIZED IN 1884.  

          THIS CEMETERY WAS KNOWN AS RUBY CAMP CEMETERY IN 1879.  

          IT WAS RENAMED IRWIN CEMETERY IN 1880 APPOXIMATELY 50 

         BURIALS WERE MADE HERE BEFORE IT WAS ABANDONED IN 1885.



   On the back of the Mounument it states:      



       THIS MOUNMENT WAS DONATED AND ERECTED BY THE COLORADO 

          MOUNUMENT ASSOCIATION IN 1958 AND PLACED HERE BY 

       COLORADO SURVAULT COMPANY OF GRAND JUNCTION, COLORADO.

 

Most of the graves are unmarked and the only marked graves 

are the ones from recent burials and they are as follows:

 

BAMBRAUGH, MARY  DIED JULY 31, 1881 AGE 17, DAUGHTER OF FOSTER BAMBROUGH.

 

LORAH, RALPH 1907-1984

LORAH, MARY 1905-1993

 

RENEKER, DAVID LEE 12-1-1942-12-3-1979

 

ROZMAN, JOSEPH R  SEPT 2, 1915 - JAN 10, 1980

ROZMAN, VONDA M.  MAY 11, 1919 - JUN 10, 1982       

        MARRIED MARCH 30, 1940

 

UNKNOWN, JOHN 12-171997    "GOD LOVE YOU"

 

WHEELER, MERVIN C.  1916-1974   CPL US ARMY WORLD WAR II  -  

Mr. Wheelers marker is a flat goverment bronze.  Accompaning 

it is an slanted upright marker with a poem written by his 

daughter Linda, this marker was erected June 2001 to replace 

a wooden marker that had been there previously.  This stone 

had to be hand carried from the road to it place in the 

cemetery as the cemetery is unaccessable by vehicle.

 



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