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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Cemetery: Old No. 2 Cemetery

Other:

Sign: No

Street: Junction of Rt. 7 and 17 south of Pritchett

City: Pritchett

Township: Pritchett

County: Baca

State: Colorado

Nation: United States

Zip: 81064

lat_ns: N

lat_h:

lat_mmss: 37.30842

long_ew: W

long_h:

long_mmss: 102.76562

Status: Abandoned

Size: Small

Directions: South from Pritchett on Route 13, then east on Route 7 to junction with Route 17, cemetery is 1/4 to 1/2 mile east in pasture

Type: Road-public

Location: Rural

Terrain: Level

Watersource: No

Features: sagebrush and tall grass

Property: Private

Access: Inaccessible

Enclosure: Fence-Broken

Gate: None

Established: est. 1915

Gravestones: 10 visible, we know there are more

Oldest: 1915

Newest: 1983

Removed: Unknown

Relocated: Unsure

Repairs: No

Methods:

Restoration: Yes

Association: Unsure

Records: Unsure

Inventory: Unsure

Availability:

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:

Materials:

Architectural:

Angels:

Draperies:

Fraternal:

Hands:

Lambs:

Monograms:

Plants: Yes

Photos:

Religious:

Scrollwork:

Urns:

Carvings:

Condition: Cemetery neglected

Unmarked: Unsure

Broken: Yes

Toppled: Yes

Disintegrating: Yes

Buried: Unsure

Weather: Unknown

Pollution: No

Vandalized: Yes

Report: No

VA1: Gravestones-Overturned

VA2:

VA3:

VA4:

VA5:

Overgrowth:

Overgrowth1: Problem-Access

Overgrowth2:

Overgrowth3:

Overgrowth4:

GroundCover: Yes

Moss:

Vines:

Drainage: Good

Problem1:

Problem2: Apathy

Owner: Cemetery

Use: Agricultural

Bordering: Agricultural

Change: Same

Reason:

Visited: Unknown

Archeology: Unknown

Habitat: Unknown

Surnames: Aubrey, Cummings, Huff, Miller, Pearce (reported by Leon Barton from visible stones - we know that there are Swanners there too but no photo evidence)

Other_Information: A recently-found grandmother is here and Leon Barton has photographed the site - it is desolate and with only 10 visible graves, buried in a cow pasture (he thinks cows knocked over the stones), no road leading to it. 

Contacted: We are talking to Maltbie Funeral Home about helping set stones back up and asked the Baca County offices for information on the location of the cremetery - they sent locale Section 36, Township 31, Range 48

Support:

Name: Barbara Pearce

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