Colorado County Cemeteries

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Carlton Cemetery

Bratcher, Annie; born: 1870; died: Feb 13, 1962;
Daughter of Will and Martha Glover

Bratcher, Jesse; born: Jan 25, 1896; died: Apr 11, 1962;
Son of Annie Bratcher, veteran of World War I

Davis, Charles; born: Aug 10, 1906; died: Jun 17, 1929;

Glover, Martha; born: unknown; died: May 30, 1928;
Married Will Glover

Glover, Will; born: unknown; died: unknown;

Jamison, G.T.; born: Oct 19, 1822; died: Oct 8, 1869;

Maner, Benjamin M.; born: Mar 4, 1844; died: Dec 21, 1890;

Maner, Elinor; born: May 14, 1841; died: Nov 2, 1899;
Née Bennett, married G.T. Jamison, Nov 27, 1860, married Benjamin M. Maner in 1874

Perry, Conrad Byars; born: unknown; died: unknown;
Son of John Lewis and Rosa Lena (Hahn) Perry

Perry, George Leroy; born: unknown; died: unknown;
Son of John Lewis and Rosa Lena (Hahn) Perry

Thompson, Silas; b. c. 1862; d. Jul 20, 1940;

Carter Family Cemetery

  • Location: on the north side of Highway 71, at its intersection with Garden Lane, just north of the north river bridge in Columbus
  • Universal Transverse Mercator coordinates: 14, 737036E, 3290097N (NAD83/WGS84) 
  • Earliest known year of death: 1874
  • Racial mix: all white
  • Comments: The cemetery contains just one stone, and that not erect. It lies near the remains of a small iron gate.
  • Survey by Bill Stein in 1988
  • Number of known burials to date: 2

Carter, John A.; born: c. 1831; died: Apr 14, 1909;
Married Marcie R. Carter Feb 25, 1869. Confederate veteran

Carter, Sarah Virginia; born: 1852; died: Jan 1, 1874;
Daughter of James Lucius and Mary E. Walker, married C. R. Carter Oct 2, 1872

Cheetham Cemetery

  • Location: south of Highway 90A, just west of its intersection with Lake Sheridan Road (County Road 275), and about a mile east of Sheridan
  • Earliest known year of death: 1877
  • Racial mix: all white

Clear Creek Cemetery

  • Alternate name: Devil's Pocket Cemetery
  • Location: on County Road 250, less than one half mile from its intersection with FM 2144 and just after its intersection with County Road 252
  • Earliest known year of death: 1855
  • Racial mix: all white
  • Number of known burials to date: 74

Columbus City Cemetery

  • Location: on the west side of Columbus, just south of Highway 90, between Rampart Street and Legion Drive
  • Earliest known year of death: 1853
  • Racial mix: whites and blacks

Columbus Confederate Cemetery

  • Location: unknown
  • Earliest known year of death: 1863
  • Most recent known burial: 1863
  • Comments: During the Civil War, numerous Confederate soldiers were stationed in and around Columbus. In addition, for several months at least, the Confederatemilitary maintained a hospital in Columbus. The diary of James Pitman Saunders, published in John Bennett Boddie, comp., Historical Southern Families, vol. 7(Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1963), pp. 173-198, confirms that the military also had a cemetery in or near Columbus. Pitman visited the cemetery on April 18 and April 21,1863. On the 21st he wrote, "There is about fifty graves here so new that there is no grass growing on them and men at the hospital dying at the rate of 2 or 3 a week.They are buried in a verry plain coffin, a shallow grave without a vault in a verry loose sandy piece of ground, dressed in their own everyday wearing clothes. No fencing whatever about the graves."
  • Number of known burials to date: about 50
  • Anderson, John M.; born: unknown; died: Apr 11, 1863;
    Confederate veteran
  • Bovell, John; born: unknown; died: Mar 1863;
    Confederate veteran
  • Burton, Jacob; born: unknown; died: May 4, 1863;
    Confederate veteran
  • Scott, Levi; born: unknown; died: May 5, 1863;
    Confederate veteran
  • Sullivan, unknown; born: unknown; died: Apr 21, 1863;
    Confederate veteran

Columbus Odd Fellows Rest Cemetery

  • Location: in Columbus, on Montezuma Street, south of its intersection with FM 806
  • Earliest known year of death: 1852
  • Racial mix: all white

Corner Cemetery

  • Location: southeast of Altair, near the east end of County Road 212, but on private property and thus inaccessible to public traffic
  • Earliest known year of death: 1917
  • Racial mix: all black
  • Number of known burials to date: 21

Alexander, Freeman; born: unknown; died: Dec 20, 1918;
Son of James and Sylvia (Owens) Alexander

Alexander, Matilda; born: unknown; died: Oct 31, 1924;
Daughter of Nathan Harris

Alexander, Overton; born: unknown; died: Oct 12, 1918;
Son of Henry and Susie (Kyles) Alexander

Alexander, Sylvia; born: unknown; died: Dec 27, 1922;

Austin, Norris; born: c. 1902; died: Apr 23, 1923;
Son of Wash and Mary B. (Polk) Austin, drowned

Collier, Charley; born: c. 1862; died: Aug 16, 1917;

Forde, Jessie; born: Oct 19, 1893; died: Apr 1, 1939;
Son of Jerry and Ardella (Washington) Forde
[birth date and parents from death certificate]

Foster, John Lee; born: c. 1902; died: Apr 23, 1923;
Drowned

Green, Willie; born: Sep 6, 1904; died: Sep 30, 1925;

Haynes, Jessie; born: c. 1898; died: Apr 23, 1923;
Son of Turner and Hattie (Roberson) Haynes, drowned

Haynes, unknown; born: Jun 30, 1938; died: Jun 30, 1938;
Son of Willie and Annie (Woods) Haynes

Lowe, Missouri; born: Jul 28, 1880; died: Aug 23, 1956;
Daughter of John B. Wilson

Lowe, Theo; born: unknown; died: Jan 23, 1922;
Son of Cary and Sendia (Lewis) Lowe

Polk, Eliza Jane; born: unknown; died: Feb 12, 1959;

Polk, Jeffie; born: unknown; died: Jan 13, 1922;
Daughter of Clabe and Fannie (Nelson) Allen

Spann, Ira; born: Feb 24, 1902; died: Aug 2, 1944;
Son of Steve and Annie (Reed) Spann

Spann, Joseph; born: c. 1905; died: Apr 23, 1923;
Son of Stephen and Emma (Turner) Spann...drowned

Spann, Stephen; born: Aug 7, 1871; died: Sep 25, 1943;
Son of Trim and Caroline (Cooks) Spann

Spann, Steve, Jr.; born: Jan 9, 1894; died: Feb 2, 1952;
Son of Steve and Annie (Reed) Spann

Upson, Connie Lee; born: c. 1906; died: Nov 26, 1925;
Son of Alfred and Amanda (Johnson) Upso

Washington, Mattie; born: Dec 2, 1894; died: Dec 6, 1954;
Daughter of Madison and Lil (Jackson) Carter

Cox Family Cemetery

  • Location: in Columbus, on the corner of Martin Luther King (formerly Malleck) and Prairie Streets, north of Martine Luther King and east of Prairie
  • Universal Transverse Mercator coordinates: 14, 737569E, 3289293N (NAD83/WGS84)
  • Earliest known year of death: unknown
  • Racial mix: presumed to be all white
  • Number of known burials to date: 0
  • Comments: On December 28, 1867, Mary Jane Cox, the widow of George W. Cox, and her three children, George Lawrence Cox, Mary Laura Cox, and William H. Cox sold all of lots 2 and 3 of block 93 in Columbus "except ten (10) Varas Square including the graves in the S. W. Corner of lot No three." Mary Jane Cox died on November 1, 1882. Seven years later, on June 10, 1889, the three children sold the remaining small square of block 93, describing it as "having been used at one time by our parents [as] a family burial ground." The Cox family, in the person of George W. Cox, had acquired the property on December 31, 1850, and apparently buried more than one of their number on the site. George W. Cox, Robert Cox, Francis Cox, and Emmeretta Cox, the last three all children of George W. and Mary Jane Cox, all apparently died before the first sale cited above was made, and might have been buried on the site. George W., Robert, and Francis Cox all appear on the 1850 census, but not on the 1860 census. Emmeretta is on the 1860 census but not mentioned in either of the deeds. If her husband and some of her children were buried there, then Mary Jane Cox might have been as well (see Colorado County Deed Records, Book G, p. 326, Book M, p. 612; Colorado Citizen, November 2, 1882)
 

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