Colorado Cemetery and Graveyard Records

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Kay R. Merrill, ed., The Colorado Cemetery Directory (Colorado Council of Genealogical Societies, 1985) attempts to identify, locate, and publish information from every known cemetery in the state of Colorado. The book is divided by county and then by alphabetical name of the cemetery. Location, type of cemetery, history, status, and existence of published records are included in this comprehensive publication. Contact the staff at Denver Public Library—Western History and Genealogy (see Archives, Libraries, and Societies), for update information.

A number of Colorado cemeteries have been indexed or abstracted on various websites, particularly those associated with the USGenWeb project. See <www.rootsweb.com/usgenweb/co/cofiles.htm> for links to many of these cemetery records. The Colorado National Guard maintains an incomplete registration for military graves that covers military burials (1862–1949). These restricted records are located at the Colorado State Archives, but an unrestricted index is available at its website <http://www.colorado.gov/dpa/doit/archives/military/graves/>.

If a copy of the original or cause of death is desired, the researcher will need authorization from the Office of the Adjutant General, Colorado Department of Military Affairs, Administration, 6848 S. Revere Pkwy., Englewood, CO 80112.

There are two national cemeteries in Colorado: Fort Logan National Cemetery, 3698 S. Sheridan Blvd., Denver, CO 80235, and Fort Lyon National Cemetery, VA Medical Center, Fort Lyon, CO 81038. An index to each of these is available at <www.interment.net/data/us/co/denver/logan/index.htm> and <www.interment.net/data/us/co/bent/ftlyonnat> respectively.

Colorado Cemetery records and gravestone inscriptions are a rich source of information for family historians. Cemetery and other sources of information associated with death include:

FOR DEFINITIONS OF ALL CEMETERY TERMS SEE THE GENEALOGY ENCYCLOPEDIA
  • Biographical works
  • Burial permits
  • Church burial registers
  • Cemetery records (often several different kinds are kept)
  • Cemetery indexes (often compiled by genealogical societies)
  • Cemetery sextons’ records
  • Cemetery deed and plot registers
  • Death certificates
  • Death indexes
  • Family bibles
  • Family burial plots
  • Funeral director’s records
  • Grave opening orders
  • Gravestone (monument) inscriptions
  • Military records
  • Monuments and memorials
  • Necrologies
  • Newspaper death notices
  • Obituaries
  • Probate records
  • Published death records
  • Religious records
  • Transcriptions of cemetery inscriptions
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