Cemetery: Crescent Cemetery
Other: Cresent Cemetery
Sign: Yes
Street: Corner of Whittemore Rd and Trogilo Rd
City: Tructon or Truckton
Township:
County: El Paso
State: Colorado
Nation: USA
Zip: 80833
lat_ns: N
lat_h: 38°
lat_mmss: 46´00.8\"N
long_ew: W
long_h: 104
long_mmss: 06´37.3\"W
Status: Abandoned
Size: Small
Directions: I placed a marble sign 2 years ago off Trogilo Rd, it is in a white frame made by highschool kids
Type: Road-public
Location: Rural
Terrain: Level
Watersource: No
Features: Prairie grass/cactus
Property: Private
Access: Open
Enclosure: None
Gate: None
Established: 1908
Gravestones: 38
Oldest: 1910 M. J. Eichman
Newest: 1934
Removed: Unknown
Relocated: No
Repairs: Yes
Methods: Other
Restoration: Unsure
Association: No
Records: Yes
Inventory:
Availability: Published in Colorado Genealogist, volume 34, page 32, by athlyn Luzier in (1971)
Landscaping: No
Paths: No
Trees: No
Crypts: No
Fencing: No
Brickwork: No
Ironwork: No
Sculpture: No
Fountains: No
Roads: No
Buildings: No
Cement: Yes
Granite: Yes
Marble: Yes
Native:
Slate:
Others:
Wood: No
Materials: Yes
Architectural: Unsure
Angels: Unsure
Draperies: Unsure
Fraternal: No
Hands: Unsure
Lambs: Yes
Monograms: Unsure
Plants: Unsure
Photos: No
Religious: Yes
Scrollwork: Unsure
Urns: No
Carvings: Unsure
Condition: Cemetery in danger of destruction
Unmarked: Yes
Broken: Yes
Toppled: Yes
Disintegrating: Yes
Buried: Yes
Weather: Unknown
Pollution: No
Vandalized: No
Report:
VA1:
VA2:
VA3:
VA4:
VA5:
Overgrowth:
Overgrowth1: Problem-Access
Overgrowth2:
Overgrowth3:
Overgrowth4:
GroundCover: Yes
Moss:
Vines:
Drainage: Good
Problem1:
Problem2:
Owner: Cemetery
Use:
Bordering: Residential
Change: Same
Reason:
Visited: Rarely
Archeology: No
Habitat: No
Surnames: Alderman
Baer
Barger
Cooper
CHNSN
CHRISN
Christensen
Christenson
Courtney
Dail
Eichman
Fairman
Flaxbeard
Franklin
Frische
Garnett
Jackson
Johnson
Low
Marple
Mcconell
Melbuer (Mebrew)
Meyers
Molloy (McLoy)
Michael
Musick
Smith
Spicess
Steinborn
Trogolo
Webb
White
Williams
Zorn
Other_Information: Per the assessors office in 2014, the last known owner was william Zorn. Schedule # 500000007. Owner listed as church & cemetery, c/o town clerk. Location 04-15-60.
Mailing address Rush Colorado. Legal description: tract in SE corner of SE4 sec 4-15-60. There is a broken down church across the street from the cemetery on Trogilo Rd. It was the Crescent school and church. The land for the cemetery was donated by John Hitchcock in 1908 or 1909. The largetcemetery sign and fence have both recently fallen down and been removed.
Contacted: Local residents and antioch community church in Truckton.
Support: I know of noone but myself,
Joy Marshall
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