Volunteers Search For Unmarked Graves At Historic Cemetery

[eleny]

"WELD COUNTY, Colo. -- Twenty three years ago, Pauli Smith spotted a grave marker beneath 6-foot tall weeds while walking along a dirt road in Weld County. It became her mission to care for the neglected site. Today, the Highland Lake Pioneer Cemetery is well manicured, but many mysteries remain.

Her long-time dream of locating and documenting unmarked graves in the cemetery may soon become reality, with the help of radar technology.

"We are sending radar waves into the ground and they are reflecting off of caskets, off of burial shafts," said Larry Conyers, professor of anthropology at the University of Denver.

He and a group of volunteer students will create a 3D map of the cemetery using data from the ground penetrating radar, as well as, good old fashioned measurements."
http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/23491249/detail.html

To maintain the cemetery, unused plots will be sold by the historic society to eligible locals once again.

[donco6]

1. Interesting.

My partner and I just bought plots for ourselves in a small pioneer cemetery near Rosita, CO. His family homesteaded there. Glad to see someone is rediscovering old places and "resurrecting" them. LOL!

[eleny]

2. Ha!

I refrained from saying that the old cemetery was getting some new life.

How nice that you found such a historic resting place. Pretty cool that it has a family connection to the area. Really lovely.

[donco6]

3. And you know, his family is old farmer Warren and Wilma, . . .

and they have been nothing but kind and generous with me from Day One. I love them. It's an honor to be treated like family.

[eleny]

4. Nice!

I presumed Rosita is SW Colorado but then checked the map to be sure. It looks like a piece of old Colorado.

Our neighbor across the street from us is from nearby Westcliff. Small world.