Cedarvale Cemetery in White Oaks, New Mexico

 

Historic Cedarvale Cemetery

The graves here date back to the 1800s.  A listing of the people buried here includes people of all ages, from infants to senior citizens.

The oldest graves are

unmarked.

G.L. Conover, W.J. Williams,

Charles H. Sherrick, 

B. Frank Wilson, Frank White,

 William B. Mitchell,

John Davis, George W. Baxter

Died by Suffocation in the Old

Abe Mine March 9, 1895

The graves of Robert Lee,

died on May 13, 1893 

26 years & 20 days &

James Wendell Lee, 

born on June 4, 1903. 

died on August 27, 1904

William C. McDonald

April 11, 1918

The first State Governor

of New Mexico

1911 - 1915

Dena Lynn Gore

October 12, 1976 

July 22, 1986

God lent us this child for

9 precious years

Now her soul flies free

as a flag in the wind

In loving memory of

Oswald Barrett Scott

Of Smytham Torrington,

England

Died December 11, 1895

Aged 30 years

One of several rustic

markers:

John Ahnu

1827 - 1936

Susan MacSween Barber

1845 - 1931

She is known as the

Cattle Queen of New Mexico

James W. Bell

Deputy Sheriff

Born 1853 - Died April 28, 1881

Murdered by William Bonney

A.K.A. Billy the Kid during

his escape from the Lincoln

County Jail in Lincoln, N.M.

Wallace L. Gumm

was a Mason

1863 - 1919