Pinion Cemetery, Montrose County, Colorado
http://files.usgwarchives.net/co/montrose/cemeteries/pinon.txt

Donated by:
Zilla May Brown  <ZBrown5515@aol.com>
Fore-Kin Trails Genealogy Society
Montrose, Colorado 81402
September 2005

Pinon Cemetery in Montrose County.

Directions to the cemetery: From Naturita, go to intersection of CO 141 & 97.
Go East on CO 141 for about 3½ miles.  Turn North on CO 90.
Go North and East about 8 miles to Pinon.
(Sec. 3, T46N, R14W, N.M.P.M.)

Most graves had no dates

                         PINION CEMETERY

Mrs. Susan DEARE - Died 27 Dec 1897, aged 78 yrs, 9 mo, 10 d.,
                   the first burial in the Pinion Cemetery.  Born
                   in Bath, England March 17, 1809.  SOURCE: The
                   Altrurian, Pinion, Colorado, Jan 1898.

Jim COOPER - No dates.
Mrs. BARNES - No dates.  Was Postmistress at Pinion.
Ed WHITNEY - No dates.  Boiler blew up at Tumble Creek Sawmill in
             1898.
Jim HUTCHINSON - No dates.  Was Crazy.
Minor DUNN - No dates. *01
Mr. RIEHL - No dates.  Was Harness maker.
Lester GIBBS - No dates.  A baby.
Jake DOBLER'S babies - No dates.  Were twins.
PRIESTLEY baby - No dates.
Miles BOWN'S baby - No dates.
George SPECK'S baby - No dates.
Joe KINDER - No dates.  Typhoid Fever.
Oscar AGEE - No dates.
Charles HIRSH - Baby. No dates.
RIGNEY, ____ - No dates.

GRAVES AROUND THE WEST END OF MONTROSE COUNTY AREA

Maude ROWLY - No dates.  "Mother".  On hill north of The Old Don
              Watson Place 1 mile East of 4 corners of Nucla South
              Main Street.

English boy in Calamity Gulch, West of 4 Corners.

The Dolph BAIN'S babies' graves.  Located north of Nucla on 25 Mesa
                 Road, 1/2 mile off road in timber.  2 babies.

Graves on John H. URCH place.  Baby girl named Dora Darleen - No
          dates.  Also an unknown adult grave.

Mrs. LONSWAY - No dates.  Across the river bridge on highway, just
               after Calamity Gulch.

Mr. and Mrs. Alex HANNAH'S baby son -  1906.
Mr. and Mrs. George SPECK twin babies - No dates.
Mr. and Mrs. Bill STEELE'S baby - No dates.
    The above graves on hill East of Highway between Nucla and
    Naturita on D Road.

Mr. CHRISTIAN - No dates.  Grave located in the Narrows below Uravan
                in Dolores River Canyon.

Sam Jim RICHARDS - No dates.  Buried on his range in Tabeguache Basin.

Mr. KELLY - No dates.  Was killed and buried on hill across from old
            house above the VCA Mill at Naturita.

                                   ******

Notes:
*01  Minor Dunn was born William Minor Dunn 13 June 1877 in Weston, 
     Wisconson the son of Chester and Angie (Heath) Dunn who moved to Pinion
     sometime before 1900.  Wm Minor Dunn died before 1900.
      -- Candie Sherman

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