Sunday, October 8, 2023

Cedarvale Cemetery in White Oaks, New Mexico

 













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


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



1845 - 1931

She is known as the
Cattle Queen of New Mexico




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

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