Cemetery Works |
Boulder, Colorado, USA established 2001 |
Soldiers Buried in Columbia [Pioneer] Cemetery, Boulder, Colorado | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Soldiers / Sailors Buried in Columbia Cemetery
There are 306 soldiers and sailors documented to be interred in Columbia Cemetery, Boulder, Colorado, USA. The majority of these [230] are American Civil War veterans. The correspondence between the number of soldier / sailors and the war in which they serviced is tabulated below.
served in both the Mexican War and the American Civil War. and the Plain Indian Wars. and the Philippine Insurrection. 1865 - 1868 . Rosters for Columbia Cemetery and are provided on separate webpages. The roster of veterans of the Plains Indians Wars is below. This partitioning allows the American Civil War information to 'stand alone' consist with aka, the War of the Rebellion, 1861-1865 |
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Future Efforts
An effort will be undertaken to verify the military service of the veterans
currently regarded as "to be verified" and add them to the appropriate roster.Applications will be made to the US Department of Veterans' Affairs for military headstone for those veterans whose graves are currently unmarked. Twenty-five [ 25 ] applications are currently in work. An searchable online database will be developed. Permission will be sought from the Boulder Genealogical Society to include available: to facilitate use of this data for genealogical investigations. A digital image(s) of the headstone of any of the Columbia Cemetery Veterans can be provided on request to this website. |
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Boulder Genealogical Society
Additional biographic information on the veterans interred in Columbia Cemetery may be available from the Email inquires to this site will be forward to the Boulder Genealogical Society, if appropriate. |
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George F. Clements is documented to have 'became a member of US Forces during the
Indian Disturbances and was stationed at Fort Morgan for a number of years'. [:CVGR db] Henry Fulton, George W. Hathaway, and Tom Horn are documented to have served in the US [ Regular ] Cavalry in the Plains Indian Wars. After service with Union forces in the American Civil War, and served with the US [ Regular ] Cavalry in the west. Tom Horn's biographies report that he served as a US Cavalry scout and participated in the surrender of the Chiricahua Apache leader Geronimo in 1886. Jarib L. Sanderson was conferred the honorary rank of colonel by the US Government, in 1861, for service in protecting government property. Bent's Fort was used as a stage stop by Barlow and Sanderson's Southern Overland Mail and Express. The inscription on his headstone in Columbia Cemetery reads: Col. J. L. Sanderson 1820-1915 The End of the Trail. George W. Woods is documented to have served in the US [ Regular ] Infantry 'in the Indian Wars of the West under General McGibbon.' (:CVGR db)]. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Disclaimer:
This site has no affiliation with the Excepting that, the website developer [ the 'Webmeister' ] is a member of and has received conservancy training from the 'Columbia Cemetery Conservation Corps'. |
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Corrections / comments:
Corrections / comments are welcome and can be posted to the WebMeister.
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