Fisher Cemetery, Carbondale, Garfield County, Colorado
Transcribed by Judy Crook July 1998
To find this
cemetery, take Highway 82 south from Glenwood Springs
to Aspen about 5 miles. Turn right onto County Road 114. Drive 8
miles, passing Colorado Mountain College on your right. Just before
the 8th mile marker is a power plant. Just beyond the 8th mile
marker is a red gate on the right. There is no sign to let one know
that a cemetery lies beyond the gate. From this gate, Fisher Cemetery
is about 1 mile down the dirt road.
Be sure to close the gate each time you pass through it.
Fisher Cemetery
Left to right, from the easternmost row to the westernmost row.
Row 1:
Joseph Richard
Yeoman
Nov. 6, 1915
Jan. 26, 1993
"Wonderful dad and grandpa"
"Loving
Mother"
Mina Opal Scott
Sept. 13, 1912
Oct. 11, 1986
"In God's Care"
"Mother"
Mattie Yeoman
1887-1955
David Alva
Yeoman
Oct. 17, 1909
Dec. 26, 1930
Amy Lorraine
Yeoman
April 29, 1919
April 29, 1919
Bonita Inez
Yeoman
July 16, 1917
March 30, 1918
Martha P.
Thompson
Oct. 14, 1861
Apr. 22, 1916
"Asleep in Jesus"
David C.
Thompson
Dec. 21, 1861
Nov. 4, 1942
"Son"
Matt D. Thompson
June 14, 1903
Jan. 8, 1967
Veltus, Robert
Wayne
Nov. 11, 1926 - July 4, 1984
"Greater love than this no one has, that one lay down his life for
his friends."
John 15:13
"Carnegie Hero Award Recipient"
3 apparent graves marked by sticks
Row 2:
Harmon H.
Kindall
U.S. Army
World War I
1895-1980
"Mother"
Enid E. Kindall
1903-1973
Cox
"Father"
Loy Carlin [Brand ELI bar]
Aug. 2, 1885
Mar. 8, 1862
"Son"
Loy Carlin
Feb. 1, 1930
Feb. 1, 1930
"M"
Beulah V. Martin
1900-1919
Apparent grave marked with stick
2 metal markers
Jeanette
F.Cox
1869-1928
Children
of Cyrus and Cora Kendall
B.K. Baby "Gone but not forgotten"
C.J.K. Charles J. Died Sep. 1, 1898
Aged 2 ys. 1 mo. 10 ds.
"Sleep on sweet babe and take thy rest.
God called thee home he thought it best."
Row 3:
Norwood Kissee
May 21, 1930
Horace A.
Haff
Mar. 25, 1875
Oct. 23, 1940
"He giveth his beloved sleep."
Second stone:
Horace A. Haff
Colorado
Pvt. 1 Ter US Vol Inf.
October 23, 1940
"Mother"
Emma May
Wife of Horace A. Haff
1882-1920
Haff
"Grandfather"
John Lockwood
Indian Scout and Cowboy
"Grandmother"
Matilda Alden
1847-1881
"Buried Boulder, Colo."
"C"
Lafayette Cox
1855-1900
"Father"
2 metal markers
In one fence:
3 markers in fenced in plot--E.A., R.F.A., G.A.
Ruhamah, F. Wife of E. Alden 1821-1896
E. Alden 1836-1903
G. Alden 1859-1896
3 metal markers.
Row 4:
Bentley
"Mother"
Florence L.
1890-1964
"Father"
William A.
1878-1962
"Married Oct. 13, 1943"
Metal enclosure:
James Y. Van Cleve
April 3, 1813
March 20, 1891
"Christ is my hope"
Gibbons
Nancy J. Fielden T.
"Wife of Fielden T." Feb. 27, 1839
July 3, 1837 Feb. 26, 1894
Sept. 23, 1894 "Neither could speak
"Silent on earth Neither could hear"
More silent here."
In one fence:
Raymond C. Hopkins
U.S. Army
1899-1974
Hopkins.
"In memory of our dear mother"
Mary B. Hopkins.
June 22, 1848
July 1, 1911
John W.
Hopkins
Died Dec. 28, 1891
Aged 66 yrs. 8 mos. 16 ds.
"For
we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved,
we have a building of God, a house not made with hands,
eternal in the Heavens."
Metal marker
W.H. Downing
1881-1950
Row 5:
Beckham
Nannie 1880-1911
Claude 1874-1934
John A. Clark
Born Jan. 12, 1880
Died Jan. 21, 1891
Aged 11 yrs. 9 ds.
"In life beloved, in death lamented.
There is no parting in Heaven."
"Mother"
Addie E. Clark Downing
1858-1920
A.J. Fisher
1831-1903
Acneth Fisher 1837-1917
Wm. Fisher 1873-1885
Green C.
Fisher
1876-1958
Row 6:
Wooden enclosure with no visible markers.
Roy P. Coulter
1895-1896
"The
Sherrill Family"
William A. "Gus"
August 17, 1863-Mar. 1, 1937
"His Wife"
Frances L.
Jan. 19, 1880-Apr. 1, 1977
"Their Sons"
Harry A.
May 15, 1903-Nov. 14, 1993
"His wife"
Hazel C.
1916 [living]
F. Hoyt
Jan. 7, 1906-July 29, 1986
Leone M.
Mar. 22, 1907-Mar. 3, 1978
Kenneth W.
Nov. 8, 1911-Apr. 24, 1997
"His wife"
Nancy N.
Feb. 4, 1919-Oct. 2, 1987
Dana D.
Sept. 23, 1913-May 16, 1997
"His wife"
Sally F.
Apr. 26, 1916-Jan. 19, 1983
Back:
Gus Sherill, in his early years, was a miner.
He superintended mining operations in Costa Rica,
Georgia, and several "digs" in Colorado. He met
and courted Frances Little in Oklahoma, and
they were married in Lawton on February 12, 1902.
Gus later became a realtor in Denver, and
then became interested in the development of
land on Red Mesa and Spring Valley where he
and Frances settled in 1905. Together they
cleared the land, developed the ranch, and had
four sons--Harry, Hoyt, Kenneth, and Dana who
spent their youth on the ranch. Gus was more
than a farmer--he was a master entertainer and
public speaker. Frances was an author and
teacher, having taught at Silt, New Castle, and
Carbondale. Although the four boys had careers
that took them throughout the world, Mt. Sopris
and the valley below was always home.
Individual
stones:
William A. Sherill
1865-1937
Frances Little
Sherill
"Proud mother of Harry, Hoyt, Kenneth, and Dana"
January 19, 1880-April 1, 1977
Leone
"Beloved Wife of Hoyt Sherill"
March 22, 1906-March 3, 1977 [note discrepancy with dates on stone above]
Gregory K.
Sherill
May 31, 1956
November 14, 1975
"A Truly Great Guy"
Row 7:
Theresa Young
Mar. 21, 1917
Jan. 11, 1996
Virgil W.
Mattivi
Dec. 1, 1934
Apr. 21, 1994
Wooden marker, carving barely visible.
Cora E. Miller
June 5, 1871
Jan. 22, 1900
"Life, Truth, Love"
Row 8:
Glen Alden
Haff
Sgt. U.S. Army
World War II
May 4, 1919
Dec. 10, 1995
Haff
Rose Zella
1920 [living]
Glen Alden
May 4, 1919
Dec. 10, 1995
Donald Elmer
1949 [living]
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