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Louisville, Coal Creek, Lafayette Update, and Superior, Boulder Colorado, County Cemeteries Colorado State Society National Society Daughters of the American Revolution Genealogical Records Committee Report: Series 1. Volume 2 Louisville Cemetery, Coal Creek Cemetery, and Superior Cemetery Headstone Inscriptions Indian Peaks Chapter, NSDAR Karen Yudnich, Chapter GRC Chair Tyler Hancock, Colorado State GRC Chair Jeannine Dobbins, Colorado State Regent Ann Turner Dillon, President General, National Society Daughters of the American Revolution Sue Tener Thompson, National Chair Genealogical Records Committee 2018 ©2018 National Society Daughters of the American Revolution. No portion of this book may be copied in any form, electronically, photographically, digitally, or otherwise, without the express written permission of the Genealogical Records Committee, DAR Library, National Society Daughters of the American Revolution 1776 D Street NW, Washington, DC 2006-5303. Louisville, Coal Creek, Lafayette and Superior Cemeteries 1820-2018 Compiled by: Members of the Indian Peaks Chapter NSDAR Melinda Medrick-Nye Karen Marrill Kathy MacQueen Terri Stone Gayle Asbury Kristen Bardsley Pat Winters Rani Machoi Carol Marsh Cherry Moore Bob Yudnich Tambi Gilmore Allie Golon Patty Rocha I dedicate this book to my mother, Dorothy Negley, the oldest organizing member of Indian Peaks Chapter. Karen Yudnich Indian Peaks Chapter NSDAR Genealogical Records Committee Chair 2 Table of Contents Louisville Cemetery ........................................................................................................................ 4 World War I Memorial ............................................................................................................... 7 Coal Creek Memorial Cemetery ................................................................................................. 256 Lafayette Cemetery ..................................................................................................................... 279 2015-2016 Burials ................................................................................................................... 279 2017 Burials ............................................................................................................................ 280 2018 Burials ............................................................................................................................ 281 Superior Cemetery ...................................................................................................................... 283 Appendix ..................................................................................................................................... 285 Women of Woodcraft ............................................................................................................. 285 Superior’s Pioneer Cemetery, Part 1 ....................................................................................... 289 Superior’s Pioneer Cemetery, Part 2 ....................................................................................... 291 Index for Louisville Cemetery .................................................................................................... 294 Index to Coal Creek Cemetery Crypts ........................................................................................ 362 Index to the Lafayette Burials 2015-2018 .................................................................................. 369 Index to Superior Cemetery ........................................................................................................ 371 3 Louisville Cemetery Highway 42 & Empire Road Louisville, Colorado Historical Background Located on the Colorado prairie between Denver and Boulder, the town of Louisville was incorporated in 1878 as a pioneer agricultural and coal mining settlement. Populated predominantly by Italian, German, Welsh and French immigrant miners and their families, over time, the settlers were joined by others of Anglo-Saxon and Hispanic origin. Although cemeteries existed in the larger area, in 1892, the community established its own burial ground southeast of town. The land was acquired by three Louisville fraternal organizations: Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Knights of Pythias, and Improved Order of Red Men. After the Louisville Cemetery was established, a number of graves were reportedly moved there from the Superior cemetery (this would explain burials at the cemetery with dates of death prior to 1892). The new cemetery divided into three sections of twenty-four burial blocks. Each were further divided into hundreds of burial lots. A grid pattern of narrow unpaved drives traversed the site, providing access first by wagon and later the automobile. Common at the time of the cemetery’s founding, the burial sections were individually managed by the fraternal organizations. The City of Louisville eventually became a part- manager of the site, with its own section for the burial of citizens not associated with the fraternal lodges. Evidence of the distinct fraternal sections remains in the cemetery today. Aside from the graves and markers, it appears that the site was not landscaped throughout its first four decades of use. During those early years, it was most likely a dryland cemetery with native prairie grass and few, if any, trees or shrubs. From the 1930s to the 1970s, the site was maintained with dedication by long- time locals George and Laura Ellis. George Ellis later recalled that a water line was first extended to the cemetery in 1909. However, it remained planted with native grass until 1935, when George and Laura determined to beautify the site. The couple approached the town board with a request for funding to plant trees. The town provided $25 and the Ellis’ went to work, recruiting planting help from other citizens. Additional fundraising provided money to purchase hoses. George acquired sod from town citizens in 1940 and created the lawns that remain there today. When a storage shed was needed, George Ellis coordinated the work of a group of Louisville residents to construct one on the site. Rocks were gathered from Eldorado Springs, iron rails to support the roof were acquired from the adjacent coal mine, and the cement work was donated by local businesses. George and Laura spent much of their free time over more than forty years 4 improving, maintaining, and grooming the site. By the 1970s, the fraternal lodges were in decline and the cemetery’s care was taken over by the City of Louisville, which allocated regular funding for the site’s maintenance. In the 1990s, the City expanded the site to the west with two additional burial sections. In 2008, the Louisville Cemetery Master Plan was adopted, and in 2009, Phase 1 of the cemetery expansion was completed. Original documentation prepared by Tatanka Historical Associates, Inc., May 7, 2008 and included in the City’s 2010 Cemetery Master Plan. (3) Sources: 1) Find-A-Grave: https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/1977863/lafayette- cemetery; accessed 2 Aug 2018. 2) City of Louisville: https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/57404/louisville- cemetery; accessed 2 Aug. 2018. 3) Ron Sladek, Tatanka Historical Associates, Inc. Louisville Cemetery. Louisville 2010 Cemetery Master Plan, May 7, 2008, http://www.louisvilleco.gov/residents/parks-recreation/cemetery-536. Louisville Cemetery History. Accessed 2 Aug 2018.* *Article reprinted here with permission of Ron Sladek, Tatanka Historical Associates, Inc. granted August 1, 2018. Total numbers found in 2018: Graves: 2,032 Veterans: 193 5 This page left intentionally blank. 6 WORLD WAR I MEMORIAL WORLD WAR HONOR ROLL GENEVIEVE MOFFITT J. ALEX JR. A.S. LALLIE J. ANDRICH F. LASALLE F. ANFANG W. LASALLE JR. R.N. AUSTIN A. LECOMTE J. BAMMER E.W. MACHIN J. BARDAY H. MACHIN T. BEVERIDGE JR. N. MCNELLIS D. BITTNER F. MOFFITT F. BODHAINE F. MOLK E.J. BROWN M.R. MORGAN * B. BUFFO W.D. MORGAN H.J. BURNS M. MUDROCK L.W. BURNS P. MUDROCK F. BUTCHER L.F. OBERDING E. COMOZZI C. OBOLE G. CUNNING JR. J. OBOLE E. D’AGOSTINO A.C. O’HANIAN F. DALE M.P. PETRUN * R. DALE D.C. PHILP A. DIONIGI J. PORTA J. DIONIGI L. RAPLERE R.A. EGGLESTON S. RAPPA J. FABRIZIO * W. RHOADES * A. FANCHINI D. RIORDAN A. FASSIOT F. RIZZI A. FILACCHIONE I.H. ROBBINGS N.F. GALLUCCI B. ROBINSON A. GARRETT H. ROBINSON F. GILES * A.C. ROMANO F.E. HODGSON J. ROSS L.L. HODGSON D. ROSSER J.J. HOYE C. SIROKMAN A.R. HUDGINS G.G. SIROKMAN B. HUMPHREY G.E. SMITH A. IRWIN L. STOIBER F.P. JACQUES G. STOUT H. JAMES J. TARTAGLIO R. JONES M. TARTAGLIO K.K. KENNEDY T. TAYLOR J.K. KERR W.F. THIRLAWAY H. LAFEVRE * P. TIERCE 7 G.A. VAN ARSDALE L.M. WINKLER E. WARD O. WINKLER J. WATSON JR. E. YOUNG E. WILCOXON A. ZURICK R.W. WILLIS A. ZURICK F.J. WINKLER F. ZURICK F.M. WINKLER ERECTED BY RESIDENTS OF LOUISVILLE AND VICINITY UNDER THE AUSPICES OF THE WOMEN’S CLUB A.D. 1924. 8 BLOCK 1; ROW 1; S→N VARLEY FRANK FANNIE 1862-1915 1879-1918 MOTHER ADOLPHINE DUEZ BROTHER LEON WATTELET MOTHER LEAH BLANKETTI JUNE 5, 1884-MAY 23, 1949 LEANCE BRUNET JULY 7, 1882 MAY 1, 1918 (PHRASE) FATHER PETE D BLANKETTI SEPT. 3, 1886 JUNE 25, 1950 (PHRASE) Ici repose le corpse de TURENNE BODHAINE (LAST NAME) Ne le 8 auot 1868 a Auchet France Decede LE 6 OCT. 1893 a Louisville, COLO. (PHRASE) (BACK) BODHAINE (FindaGrave.com Birth 9 Aug. 1869 Death: 6 Oct 1898) 9 Ici repose en paiy Bearette par sa Famille JOSEPH BODHAINE Ne le 2 MAR 1838 aii vieux Conde depar terrient du Nord France Decede le 24 Juin 1896 a Louisvile) Birth