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Sligo Cemetery, Grover, Weld County, Colorado

Transcribed by Merle and Allene Niehaus MNiehaus@worldnet.att.net 

NAMES AND DATES FROM SLIGO CEMETERY Located west of Pawnee Buttes From Briggsdale, CO, take Colorado State Highway 14 approx. 17 miles east. Turn left on RD 390 and go approx. 13 miles to RD 112. Turn east and go about 1 1/2 miles. The cemetery is on the south side of the road and has a sign over the gate saying "Sligo Cemetery." (Note: There may be a better route; and we recommend getting a detailed map from the U.S. Forest Service for the Grasslands.)

Sligo cemetery is a lovely, peaceful place with long views of the countryside, which seems to be part of the Pawnee National Grasslands. In early June after a wet spring, there were lovely wildflowers and some yellow iris surviving.  Some of the markers are granite, some are concrete. Others are old wood. Sometimes the graves are outlined with wood or stone. Some have only a small metal marker provided by Adamson Mortuary. These metal markers had a special place for date of birth and date of death but not all numbers were recorded and some were worn; but for the main part, they could still be read. To the best of our ability, we recorded the following: (If no dates are given, then no dates were found on the markers.) 

IN THE FIRST ROW CLOSEST TO THE GATE AND PROCEEDING SOUTH 

PAEGLOW 
Mamie E. 1889 - 1976 
George 1888 - 1964 
Marion E. 1915 - 1931 

FRITZLER 
August 29 Aug 1922 - Nov 1926 

EDWARDS 
Thomas R. 1862 - 1925 

GRAVELE 
Child 
Art no dates 

VON FORREL 
Daughter "Gone But Not Forgotten" Katie E. 1893 - 1916 

HILZER 
Rest in Peace 
Peter 1844 - 1930 
Christina 1844? - 1917 
Eva 1902 - 1927 
Anna 1921 - 1930 
Thelma 1929 - 1929 

EIDSON 
Eugene P. 1915 - 1917 

FARRELL 
Child 
Fred 

MORELAND 
Child 
C. W. MYERS 
Child 
Henry 

SECOND ROW, PROCEEDING SOUTH 

PRESSWOOD 
Wilbur R. Sept 1929 (By this marker was a piece of pottery with colored fruit on it.) 

RAY 
Daughter of Ennis and Jo Joan - Janice 18 Aug 1928 

BALL 
Mack W. Oct 1888 Age 14 mos. (This marker was very old wood with a thin strip of metal on the top. The lettering seemed to have been done, or redone, recently. As far as we could tell, this is the first burial in the cemetery; and there is not another one until 1911 so there must be a story behind those facts.) At the base of the marker were some seashells. 

ROTH 
Anna Katrina 14 Jun 1881 - 29 Aug 1922 This grave had a granite marker with "Ruhe in Frieden" inscribed. The granite sits on a piece of concrete in which someone wrote "Mother May 23, 1937." There was also a large metal box with artificial flowers enclosed behind glass. 

SHIVERS 
Robert 1844 - 1911 
Mrs. Robert 1851 - 1918 

DAVIS 
Lizzie Irene Daughter "We Loved Her" 26 Apr 1897 - 21 Feb 1915 
William H. Father "We Loved Him" 16 Jun 1858 - 19 May 1914 This marker was a granite obelisk. 

FRANKLIN 
Child 
Geo 

CONWAY 
George 
Floyd 

ATTERBERRY 
Harlan 

THIRD ROW AND PROCEEDING SOUTH 

EPPERSON 
Manervia 1857 - 1932 

MARTINEZ 
Child 
Virg 

BOARDMAN 
Edwin S. ? - 1938? 

DUNLAP 
"In Loving Memory" Roy L. 1903? - 1953 
Ida L. 1870 - 1964 
Sherman L. 1867 - 1942 
There was a small metal marker nearby but had no readable names or dates. 

HOSACK 
Daughter of Arch and Velma Glenna Fern 1931 - 1935

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