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Known Persons in the Highlandlake cemetery


Angus, D.B no dates Co., B. Indpt. PA L.A.
(Note: Family member says that he died while visiting relatives in Highlandlake).

Barnhart, A. L. 6 Oct 1860 - 24 Nov. 1899 "Woodman of the World"

Brown, Netta Pearl 5 Sept 1889 - 23 Mar, 1898

Coates, Mary Bumstead 10 July 1863 - 24 Mar 1898 Born in Boston, wife of F.H. Coates.
(Note: Mary was the first women minister to serve in Colorado. It was through her efforts that the Highlandlake Church building was built. She was also a returned missionary from Africa where she served 7 years until ill health forced her return to the states.)

Comstock, O. M. 22 Sept 1878  32 y 10m 9 d, "Our Brother" on the Oviatt shaft.

The following 4 are buried in a wrought iron enclosed plot.

Davis, George 16 Oct 1817 - 18 Nov 1897 "Father"
(Note; George Davis was a Congregational missionary who founded the first 4 congregational churches in Colorado. Central City, Black Hawk, Longmont and Highlandlake. He built his house on the southeast corner of Highlandlake in 1878 finishing it in 1881, and in 1896 sold it to the Highlandlake church for use as a parsonage.)

Mary Holden Davis 3 Feb 1821 - 24 Aug 1897 "Mother"
(Note: Mary was the wife of George Davis).

Davis, Samuel P.  Nov 1845 - 19 Jan 1882 (Note: Son of George & Mary Holden Davis.
(Note: Samuel was the first church secretary of the fledgling Highlandlake Church. There is a stained glass window in the church dedicated to him)

Maxwell, Mary Alice 1 Aug. 1854 - 14 Nov 1928
(Note: Daughter of George & Mary Holden Davis)

Fowler, Pheebe  (age on stone is buried) 17 Dec 1882 Mother

Glenn, Ruth  7 Mar 1907 - 3 July 1907

Helms, Robert age 5, 3 Dec 1900 Son of G.W. & F.L Helms

Hollenbeck, J. no dates Co., C., 7 Wis, Inf

Hutchinson, Myrtle Irine, 13 Oct. 1896 - 30 Nov 1907 Dau. of J.H. & N.J. Hutchinson

Jenkins, Mehetabel M. 5 July 1813 - 22 Nov 1899

Jepperson, Minnie 1903 - 1909

Johnson, Sarah Ann 17 Mar 1860 - 29 Sept. 1900 Wife of J.A. Johnson

Kerr, Bertha May 24 Mar 1889 - 3 July 1906 Dau of J.A. Kerr

Kerr, Charles E. 22 Feb 1872 - 5 Mar 1904 Woodman of the World

Kerr, Samuel r. 64 y, 5 m, 14 Dec 1896


Markham, Benjamin F. 9 Sept 1847 - 29 Jan 1896

Markham, Elisabeth L. 28 Mar 1912 - 17 Mar 1913
(Note: was the daughter of George Markham)

Markham, Paul Hiram 5 Apr 1905 - 15 July 1907
(Note: Was the son of George Markham)

Maxwell, Mary Alice 1 Aug 1854 - 14 Nov 1928

Mead, Elizabeth C. 1841 - 1922

Mead, Fred E. 1870 - 1905

Mead, Helen 1893-1907

Mead, Loren C. 1832 - 1908 
(Loren also known as L. C. and Deacon Mead was the founder of Highlandlake)

Mead, Malcolm C. 1875-1948 Masonic symbol
(Malcolm was the son of L.C. & Elizabeth C. Mead)

Mead, Martin L. 23 Jan 1834-15 Sept. 1899
(Dr. Martin Luther Mead)

Mead, Myra J. 6 Aug 1843 - 28 Feb 193
(Note: Wife of Martin. L. Mead)

Mead, Paul Martin 24 Feb. 1869 - 1 Sept. 1945
(Note: Paul was a nephew of L.C. Mead. he donated part of his farm for the town of Mead, which formed 2 miles southeast of Highlandlake after the train bypassed the community of Highlandlake.)

Newby, William C. 46y 9 m, 13 d, 2 Sept 1886 "Sacred to the memory of my husband"
(Note: Husband of Caltha Kate Henderson Newby. She is buried in Mountain View Cemetery in Longmont)

Oviatt, A.C. 14 Aug 1853 - 7 July 1896
( Note: A.C. was the first postmaster of Highlandlake)

Oviatt, Allie 35 y & 3 m, 19 Dec 1890 Wife of A.C. Oviatt

Pound, Albert L. 22y 20 Sept 1887

Rampp, Pearl L. Jan 26, 1886 - Oct. 29, 1935

Robbins, William Frank 1874-1900

Stryker, Alvin C. 15 y 10 m, 6 d, 10 Dec 1880 Son of C.V. (C.J.) & U.S. Stryker

Stryker,Cornelius V. 1838 - 1911

Stryker, Ursula S. 1832 - 1901

Thompson, Lycena 1830 - 1899

Torres, Emma 15 Sept 1928 - 22 Aug 1947

Torres, Isabel 31 Dec 1939 - 23 Mar 1942

Torres, Patricio 29 May 1945 - 5 Sept 1945

Torres, Paul V. 17 Apr 1906 - 27 Mar 1939

Velasquez, John B. 4 June 1907 - 18 Apr 1936 crude cement, 2 other wood stakes.

Waite, Effie M. d. 23 Dec 1882 Wife of F.P. Waite

Waite, Charlie H. 13 y 2m, 8 Dec 1884 Son of F.P. & E.M. Waite

Waite, Fred M. Age 26y, d. 27 Sept 1902
(The Waite family shaft has words on the east side which cannot be read; the top of the shaft is also broken off).

Whowell, Joseph R. 31 y 5m d. 24 May 1887