Fort Steele
Carbon County
Wyoming USA
|
|
Cemetery notes and/or description:
The Fort Steele Cemetery is part of the Fort Fred Steele Historic Site which is about 12 miles east of Rawlins. It's a little over a mile north of the I-80 Fort Steele Rest Area. There are 83 burials listed on a paper document posted on a wooden marker. They were posted by C. Dan Brownell, Superintendent of the Fort Steele Historic Site in 1998.
Some of the bodies have been reinterred at the Fort McPherson National Cemetery in Wisconsin in 1892:
Graves 1-19, 21-29, 32-35, 40-41, 47-49, 52, 54-55, 59, 65-67, 70-71, 73, 80.
The following bodies remain: Graves 20, 30-31, 36-39, 42-46, 50-51, 53, 56-58, 60-64, 68-69, 72, 74-79, 81-83. See further details about the cemetery in the bio of Joseph Dubacee. |
|
|
|
