Photos, Ouray Memorial Cemetery, Ignacio, La Plata County, Colorado

May 2005 Edition of the Cemetery Photo Index

The indexed photographs can be viewed by visiting the Colorado 
Tombstone Photo Project page at:
http://www.usgwarchives.net/co/costones/laplata/ute.htm

Ouray Memorial Cemetery is the cemetery for the Southern Ute Indian 
Tribe at Ignacio, CO, LaPlata county.  It is located on the 
Southern Ute Indian Reservation, Ignacio, CO.  To get to the 
cemetery go east out of Ignacio on Colorado Highway 151 for about 
a half mile then turn north on County Road 521 for about a mile or 
so and you will see the cemetery on the west side of the road a 
short distance off of 521.  There is a frontage to the cemetery.

The photographs in this portion of the archives were contributed by:
Jim Davenport (jd)
Leroy Oldham (lo)

Headstones

   * Box, Fritz Bent, Sep 25, 1913-Dec 31, 1996, PFC US ARMY, WWII (jd)
   * Buckskin Charlie, "This tablet is the property of the State of Colorado; 
       To the Memory of; Buckskin Charlie; Chief of the Southern Utes; 
       Counselor for Peace; Champion for Agricultural Advancement; of his People; 
       A Friend and Beloved by all who knew him.  
       Date of Birth Unknown, Died May 8 1936  
       Erected by The State Historical Society of Colorado; 
       From the C. A. __?__ fund and the Council of the Southern Ute Tribe of Indians 1983"
   * Silva, Jose S., CORP CO A, 1 N MEX INF (jd)
   * Washington, Martha, (no dates); Martha Washington once lived at a well 
       known land mark now known as Washington Flats.

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