Milton Gibbs Gravesite, Park County, Colorado
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Transcription by Chuck and LuAnn Hazelwood
Sept 12, 2000

This is my great grandfather's grave located above Shawnee near 
Gibbs Gulch where he homesteaded.  - LuAnn Hazelwood


Milton Gibbs 
Born 1841 in PA, Died 1/19/1909 in CO 
Civil War Veteran, 9/5/1864 - 4/11/1865, Wounded 11/17/1864 
Co. F, 211 PA Inf. 


Located in the SE1/4 SW1/4 Sec. 20, T7S, R73W.  Between Gibbs 
Gulch and Bill Tyler Gulch.  On the ridge on the westerly side of 
a gulch running northeasterly into Gibbs Gulch. 

There are two unmarked graves inside the fence that stands now.  
Some documentation (The Foothills Inquirer--Volume 5, No. 1-- 
1985, page 22) states that Milton's wife is also buried there, but 
she is buried in Maybell, CO.  They could be children as they lost 
5 children of Diphtheria on their way across county. 

Milton Gibbs shows on the CO 1885 and 1900 Precinct No 19 Chase) 
Censuses in Park County.  Milton Gibbs was a logger in the Park 
County area.  He homesteaded in the Shawnee area and the hand-hewn 
log cabin that he built is still standing up on Forest Service 
Land to the east of the grave.  The cabin was moved from where it 
stood when construction of Highway 285 took place.  It later 
become a hotel and now is not used.    

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