Stillwater Cemetery
submitted by June Mandeville, junbugforr@aol.com

From Vol. II, page 14,  They Gazed on the Beartooths by Jim 
Annin, 1964 - "Columbus Has Had Many Cemeteries - Like many 
frontier stations, Columbus has had several cemeteries. The 
first recorded burial was a stagecoach driver near Sheep Dip. 
When Stillwater was established, a small burial plat was 
selected about half a mile north of the courthouse, and 
contained ten graves when it was abandoned in favor of a 
new site on the north side of the hill from which sandstone 
was obtained for the quarry operation. It was here that the 
first Memorial Day service was held at the turn of the century
When Mountain View Cemetery was developed west of town, all 
the bodies whose identity was known, were moved to the new 
burial ground, but a good many unknowns remain where they 
were originally interred."

STILLWATER CEMETERY 1/2 mile north of Columbus, Montana

Only one stone remains and was replaced as the old on 
deteriorated.

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WYLIE, Lizzy, Born April the 30th A.D. 1867, Died Sept the 
8th A.D. 1882.