The Historic Rosita Cemetery
Description: Rosita Cemetery Gates and Tombstones Tell History of a Colorado Ghost Town.
ROSITA CEMETERY
These headstones keep the history of one of Colorado's ghost towns, it's survivors, and their ancestors dedication to honoring their loved one's memories.
Local Mason chapter histories present well in bronze plaques located on the Rosita Cemetery Gate, dedicated in 1992, in memory of the Rosita Masonic chapter.
This Headstone matched several others that have obviously been lovingly replaced.
The grave of Anna Keller, located among the others within the Keller family plot.
The grave of Joseph Keller.
A hard frontier life, even in the late 1880's, was often brief.
James W Hill has a Mason's grave marker that has been repaired with concrete.
"At Rest in Jesus Faithful Arms. At Rest Us in a Peaceful Bed. Secure from All the Dreadful Storms. Which Round this Sinful World are Spread"
Here Lies Lucinda J. the wife of L. W. Harlow.
The grave of George White.
"Until the Day Breaks and the Shadows Flee Away."
The F.E. Gay Family marker, worn from many mountain winters, a still reminder of mountaineer hardship.
The grave of William H. Saubel, born in 1865, deceased 19?? Is it empty?
Carl Wurlsten, Founder of the 100 family German Colony in Wet Mountain Valley.
A pile of pine cones is stacked on the grave of Robert G Abbott.
"At Rest In The Hills of Home"
This intricate rod iron Cemetery gate protects the Keller family plot in the Rosita Cemetery.
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