Mildred Cemetery, Yuma County, Colorado http://files.usgwarchives.net/co/yuma/cemeteries/mildred.txt Names transcribed with permission from a listing in Aileen Tombaugh's 1992 book,"Yuma County Cemeteries" by Lee Zion . ----------------------------------------------------------------- (This summary is original to Lee Zion. Any mistakes are my own.) The Mildred community cemetery is located some 19 miles south of Eckley on the west side of County Road U in the northeast corner of Section 36, Township 2 South, Range 46 West. The first known burial in the Mildred Cemetery was in 1912 and the last in 1932. The cemetery was then abandoned. Shortly after 1950, R.M. and Lotus Wingfield took on the project of identifying and mapping known Mildred Cemetery graves. By then only the marble Civil War veterans stone marking the grave of Fred Kailey, 1842-1918, still survived and it was badly weathered. The Wingfield's research, with the help of "old timers" in the community, turned up sixteen burials. There may well be more. In 1972, the Mildred Extension Club adopted the cemetery, placed numbered cement markers on each of the known graves and erected a central marker providing an index to the names. Today the cemetery has reverted back to "abandoned" the landowner is the State of Colorado. The Leo Prather family has unofficially adopted the cemetery as a family project. ============================================== Mildred Cemetery Community Project 1972 Campbell, William D. 1921 - 1922 Carpenter, Charlie 1861 - 1912 Carpenter, Lynn Infant of 1929 - 1929 Carpenter, Frank 1932 - 1932 Cockrin, (Infants) Eastin, Lea 1912 - 1912 Foot, Bessie 1897 - 1917 and Infant Child Kailey, Fred 1842 - 1916 Civil War Veteran (footnote) Miller, Myrl Genevieve 1915 - 1916 Kindred, Archie 1887 - 1918 King, Peter 1856 - 1913 (footnote) Orfield, John 1868 - 1916 (footnote) Solver, Carl (Infant) Scherupp, Twins of Fred 1916 - 1916 ------------------------------------- More transcriber notes: Native long stem grasses have replaced the Buffalo Grass planted by the Mildred club in 1972. Fred Kaily military stone has disappeared since 1950. Peter King now has a small grave stone. John Orfield, 1873-1915, dates from his Colorado death certificate. (Info provided by gg granddaugther Autumn Mont.) ------------------------------------- USGenWeb Copyright Notice - Copyright and all further publishing rights remain with the transcriber. Those wishing to publish this document in print or on the internet must seek specific permission from the transcriber.