Project is based on the cemetery surveys published in the New Mexico Genealogist, The Journal of the New Mexico Genealogical Society. P.O. Box 8283; Albuquerque, NM 87198 8283. The magazine's volume, date, and and page number is displayed under the cemetery's name. Our appreciation to the New Mexico Genealogical Society and the survey compliers.

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Transcriptions 20 Feb 1988 by Betty Short and Nancy Robertson

DREW CEMETERY NE 1/4, S10, T30N, R28E, 594/4078, Union Co. ,NM, Fosom Quad, N3645-W10352.5/7.5, top of rise south of State Route 72, east of Drew ranch road. Reportedly this cemetery was near a Catholic Church. No evidence of a foundation was noticed. Iron and wood fencing still visible from the road.

W. F. Crank, Co. E. 1st. MO L.A.

Alzie A., Son of W. & M. Tomlin, died June 22, 1882,aged 2 years.

Infant Son of J. I. 5. G. R. Kent, 1906.

James I. Kent, 1874 - 1909

Infant Dau. of Geo. and Cora Thomas d. Aug 14, 1897

In Memory of Infant Daughter of T. P. & M. A. James, stillborn, Sept. 13, 1892. 

Jas. Kelt

BROWN CEMETERY SE 1/4, S16. T31N, R30E, 611/4086, Union Co., NM, Cross L Ranch Quad, N3652.5-W10337.5/7.5, Jay Brown's Lower Vega, N of Dry Cimarron, S of irrigation ditch. The wooded point also contains a rock pile, a stone outlined grave, and four posts from a fenced in area.

W. T. Withers, Son of Wra. & Martha J. Withers, b. Oct 9, 1897; d. April 8, 1881

(Withers was reportedly the bookkeeper of the Prairie Cattle Company, Cross L. Ranch.

HARDESTY CEMETERY SW 1/4, 328, T32N, R3U3, Union Co., NM, Cross L Ranch Quad, N3652.5-W10337.5/7.5, red hill in Fourteen Vega, between Long and Cow Canyons, between Ruth Brown's, Hardesty and Hopkinson, N of road past Tom Brown's log

Frankie Hardesty, 1886 - 1887 cabin.

Eveline Hardesty, 1895-1899

Martin C. Wells, 1824 - 1905

Lee Kelley, ca 1906 - 1927

Wm. Lee Hardesty, Apr. 11, 1903 - Dec 9, 1980 (Granddaddy.)

Althea R. Hardesty, Oct 1, 1907 - May 9, 1979, Mother at the Ranch

2 babies

Colfax County Tombstone
NMG XXVII, No. 4 December 1988, page 119

Reverend Tolby's tombstone has been replaced. Nancy Robertson of Raton, Colfax County attended a Colfax County War Symposium at the St. James Hotel in Cimarron, NM and was surprised to see the broken tombstone of the Rev. Mr. F. J. Tolby who died 14 Sep 1875 (see FRA 5 (5):30) leaning against the Ladies' Room door. In order to save the stone from thieves, the community has replaced the original white stone with a modern black one, carrying a different set of inscriptions. A booklet has even been published with the new stone featured on the cover. Historians visiting the windy hill south of Cimarron will not see Tolby's original stone, but another of a different time and period.

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