Monument Cemetery
800 Beacon Lite Road Monument, CO 80132
- FEES (link to Town Fee Schedule)
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- Visit CO GenWeb's Tombstone Transcription Project for Monument Cemetery (care of Pikes Peak Genealogical Society)
HISTORY:
In 1880 Charles R. Bissil conveyed to the Town of Monument a five-acre tract of land that had been used as a cemetery since 1874. The deed was dated May 28, 1880 and recorded the same day in Book 50, Page 237 with El Paso County Clerk and Recorder.
In 1889, a newspaper correspondent wrote from Monument, “Hitherto the dead were buried indiscriminately no one having a lot and families have consequence therefore became badly mixed. Hereafter, a certain sum will be required for each lot and the money derived there from will be used for the improvement of the cemetery. The council fixed the price of lots at $10.00 each and hired a sexton at $5.00 per year to take care of the cemetery.”
In 1890, it was surveyed and platted and the plat was recorded in Plat Book, Page 28.
Historical research indicates that the well was dug during the summer of 1886. Initially, water was obtained using a rope pulley and buckets. In the early 1920’s, a hand pump was installed. In the late 1920’s and early 1930’s, a windmill was utilized with a water tank at the east side of the cemetery and pipe lines were laid throughout the cemetery for the purpose of irrigation.
Some time in the 1920’s, a Mr. Bougher donated a parcel of land on the east side of the cemetery to the Town of Monument to be utilized for burial plots.
Vandals shot holes in the water tank and the windmill was torn down in the late1940’s or early 1950’s.
The caretaker of the Monument Cemetery in the 1920’s up through the year 1950 was paid $15.00 a year to look after the cemetery which was turning the water on in May and shutting the water off in September, keeping the cemetery records and obtaining someone to dig the graves.
Per Lucille Lavelett
February 8, 1972
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