Find A Grave - Montana

Anderson, Forrest Howard b. January 30, 1913 d. July, 1989
Montana Governor. Served as the Governor of Montana from 1969 to 1973. Also served as Justice of the Montana State Supreme Court in 1951, and Montana State Attorney General in 1957.
Forestvale Cemetery, Helena, Lewis and Clark County, Montana, USA
Awesome (Alfonso), Mike (Michael) b. January 24, 1965 d. February 17, 2007
Professional Wrestler. Born Michael Alfonso, he broke into the business in the 1980s learning his trade in the Pro Wrestling Federation. In 1990, he debuted in the Frontier Martial Arts Wrestling league Japan and at 6‘6" 290 pounds, became known as "The Gladiator". In the FMW, he went on to two World Brass Knuckles Tag Team Championships, World Street Fight Six-Man Tag Team Champion and Independent World Heavyweight Title Champion by 1997. He returned the United States, joined the Eastern...[Read More] (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)
Cause of death: Suicide
Elmwood Estates, Great Falls, Cascade County, Montana, USA
Plot: Row 2, Plot #6
Axton, Hoyt b. March 25, 1938 d. October 26, 1999
Singer, Songwriter, Actor. Born Hoyt Wayne Axton. in Duncan, Oklahoma to John and Mae Boren Axton. His father was a teacher and high school athletics coach. His mother was also a school teacher and songwriter. She co-wrote Elvis‘ smash hit, "Heartbreak Hotel". Raised primarily in Jacksonville, FL, he studied classical piano as a child before switching to guitar, writing his first songs at 15. Hoyt played football at Robert E. Lee High in Jacksonville, Florida. His athletic ability was such that...[Read More] (Bio by: Jane Eubanks)
Cause of death: heart disease
Riverview Cemetery, Hamilton, Ravalli County, Montana, USA
Ayers, Roy Elmer b. November 9, 1882 d. May 23, 1955
US Congressman. Elected to represent Montana in the United States House of Representatives, serving from 1933 to 1937. Also served as a State Court Judge from 1913 to 1922, Justice of the Montana Supreme Court in 1922, and ZGovernor of Montana from 1937 to 1941. He was defeated in 1940. (Bio by: K)
Lewistown City Cemetery, Lewistown, Fergus County, Montana, USA
Big Bull the Buffalo 'Hornaday's Bull' d. 1886
"Big Bull" (aka "Hornaday's Bull") is the buffalo that the United States Treasury Department used as a model for its Buffalo Nickel. William T. Hornaday killed and stuffed Big Bull in 1886 because he wanted something to remember the wild buffalo by that were becoming increasing small in numbers due to the settlers out West overhunting them. Big Bull was then shipped to the Smithsonian Institute where the Treasury Department discovered him. They used Big Bull as the model for stamps and nickels...[Read More] (Bio by: Heather from VA)
Museum of the Upper Missouri, Fort Benton, Chouteau County, Montana, USA
Plot: Inside the Museum
Boyer, Mitch b. 1837 d. June 25, 1876
Frontiersman. He was an interpreter for the 7th United States Cavalry. H e accompanied Lieutenant Colonel George A. Custer's column and died with him at the Battle of the Little Big Horn. Also called Kar-paysh, or Kape. His mother was a full-blooded Santee Indian. His father was John Baptiste Boyer, a French Canadian fur trapper, hunter, and blacksmith. In 1849, he lived with his family at Fort Laramie (his father was killed by Indians while trapping in 1863). He was an Interpreter at Fort...[Read More] (Bio by: Kit and Morgan Benson)
Custer National Cemetery, Crow Agency, Big Horn County, Montana, USA
Plot: Buried in mass grave
Bozeman, John Marion b. January, 1835 d. April 20, 1867
Pioneer. He headed west from Georgia to Colorado in 1858. However, after his claims there discovered that the they had no gold to pan out, he moved to Montana in 1862. He, along with John Jacobs, blazed the Bozeman Trail, a cutoff route from the Oregon Trail that traced from Wyoming to Bannack, Montana, in 1863 (the former trail closed in 1868 because of the Indian Wars). The same year, he discovered Bozeman, Montana, and the Gallatin Valley (which he thought as a most desirable place to live)...[Read More] (Bio by: Bona Rae Villarta)
Cause of death: Murdered
Sunset Hills Cemetery, Bozeman, Gallatin County, Montana, USA
Cable, Joseph A. b. 1848 d. October 15, 1877
Indian Campaigns Congressional Medal of Honor Recipient. He died at Bear Paw Mountain, Montana. He served as a Corporal in the United States Army in Company I, 5th U.S. Infantry. He was awarded the Medal of Honor for action between October, 1876 and January 1877 at Cedar Creek, etc., Montana. His citation reads "Gallantry in action." (Bio by: Don Morfe)
Custer National Cemetery, Crow Agency, Big Horn County, Montana, USA
Plot: Cemetery has no burial record for him
Campbell, Albert James b. December 12, 1857 d. August 9, 1907
US Congressman. Elected to represent Montana in the United States House of Representatives, serving from 1899 to 1901. Also served as a Member of the Montana State House of Representatives in 1897. (Bio by: K)
Mount Moriah Cemetery, Butte, Silver Bow County, Montana, USA
Campbell, Walter Stanley b. August 15, 1877 d. December 25, 1957
Historian, Author. Born as Stanley Vestal in Kansas, he took the surname of his stepfather, Campbell. At age twelve his family removed to Oklahoma. He became a graduate of what is now Southwestern Oklahoma State University and was a Rhodes Scholar from Oklahoma earning a B.A. and M.A. in English literature at Oxford. Professor of English at the University of Oklahoma. Using his pen name Stanley Vestal, he was the author of twenty-four books, numerous articles and was a noted authority on the...[Read More] (Bio by: Steve Dunn)
Custer National Cemetery, Crow Agency, Big Horn County, Montana, USA
Charlo, Pvt. Louis Charles b. September 26, 1926 d. March 2, 1945
United States Marine Corps Private. One of the six Marines who raised the first American flag on Mount Surabachi on Iwo Jima on February 23, 1945. This flag was later replaced by the flag in the famous flag raising photograph taken by Joe Rosenthal of the Associated Press. Private Charlo was killed in action on March 2, 1945. (Bio by: Erik Lander)
Saint Ignatius Catholic Cemetery, Saint Ignatius, Lake County, Montana, USA
Comstock, Henry Tompkins b. 1820 d. September 27, 1870
Prospector. His name is connected to one of the world’s richest mining discoveries. A native of Trenton, Ontario, Canada he traveled the United States and Mexico working as a gold prospector, trapper and shepherd. In 1857, Ethan and Hosea Grosh laid claim to a gold mine they discovered in western Nevada. Mysteriously, both brothers died shortly after their find. He took possession of the brothers' cabin and began searching for their old sites. In 1859, he and his partners sold their interests...[Read More] (Bio by: Bigwoo)
Sunset Hills Cemetery, Bozeman, Gallatin County, Montana, USA
Cooney, Frank Henry b. December 31, 1872 d. December 15, 1935
US Governor. Served as Governor of Montana from 1933 until his death in 1935. Also served as Lieutenant Governor of Montana in 1933. (Bio by: K)
Saint Mary Cemetery, Missoula, Missoula County, Montana, USA
Coonrod, Aquilla b. January 3, 1832 d. May 14, 1884
Indian Compaigns Congressional Medal of Honor Recipient. His headstone incorrectly states his last name as "Coonrad." The son of Woollery and Hulda Coonrod, Aquilla is reputed to be the first white child born in Williams County, Ohio. Sergeant, Company F, 7th US Cavalry. Awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions during the Indian Wars period 1876-1877. Aquilla was the first white male born within the present borders of Williams County, North Dakota. In October 1876, he was in an engagement...[Read More] (Bio by: Kit and Morgan Benson)
Custer National Cemetery, Crow Agency, Big Horn County, Montana, USA
Plot: Section A, Grave 372
Coups, Plenty b. 1848 d. March 4, 1932
Native Mountain Crow Chief. His name was A-Lek-Chea-Ahoosh which means "Many Achievements". In his early youth he was known as Swift Arrow and gained respect through his merits, exploits of bravery and war deeds. At 25, he became chief of the Mountain Crow. In 1876 he was the head of scouts for General George Crook as Crook was making his way to meet Custer. On the Rosebud River in Montana, he and his Indian scouts saved General Crook from a Custer fate. During the 1880s and 1890s he made...[Read More] (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)
Plenty Coups State Park, Pryor, Big Horn County, Montana, USA
Plot: Small cemetery near the Crow Cultural Center.
Crittenden, John Jordan b. June 7, 1854 d. June 25, 1876
United States Army Officer. Served as a Lieutenant temporarily attached to Company L in the 7th United States Cavalry. He was killed on Calhoun Hill during the Battle of Little Big Horn on June 25, 1876. He had suffered an eye wound less than a year before, and had to have his eye replaced with a glass one. It was this prosthetic eye that helped identify his remains after the battle. A year later his remains were exhumed and moved to a permanent place on Calhoun Hill, in accordance with the...[Read More] (Bio by: Ethan F. Bishop)
Custer National Cemetery, Crow Agency, Big Horn County, Montana, USA
Plot: Section A Site 601-A
Cummins, Andrew Johnson b. December 6, 1868 d. September 15, 1923
Spanish-American War Congressional Medal of Honor Recipient. He enlisted in United States Army on January 6, 1891, and served during the War with Spain as a Sergeant in Company F, 10th United States Infantry. He was awarded the CMOH for his bravery at Santiago, Cuba, on July 1, 1898. His citation reads "Gallantly assisted in the rescue of the wounded from in front of the lines and under heavy fire from the enemy". His Medal was awarded to him on June 22, 1899. (Bio by: Don Morfe)
Lewistown City Cemetery, Lewistown, Fergus County, Montana, USA
Curly b. 1856 d. May 21, 1923
Crow Indian. Private, Indian Scouts. Participated in the ill-fated Custer Expedition in 1876, and may be the only human survivor of the Custer Column. Also called Shay-shee-ahsh. Born on the Little Rosebud Creek, Montana Territory. Enlisted April 10, 1876 at Crow Agency, Montana, for six months with the 7th Infantry. Accompanied Lieutenant Charles Varnum, 7th Cavalry, on the trip to Crow's Nest, on June 26, 1876. Assigned to Custer's attacking column that afternoon, he may have witnessed...[Read More] (Bio by: Kit and Morgan Benson)
Custer National Cemetery, Crow Agency, Big Horn County, Montana, USA
Plot: Section A, Grave 1063
D'Ewart, Wesley Abner b. 1889 d. 1973
US Congressman. Elected to represent Montana in the United States House of Representatives, serving from 1943 to 1955. Also served as a Member of the Montana State Legislature. (Bio by: K)
Mountainview Cemetery, Livingston, Park County, Montana, USA
Dixon, Joseph Moore b. July 31, 1867 d. May 22, 1934
US Congressman. Elected to represent Montana in the United States House of Representatives, serving from 1903 to 1907. Also served as a Member of the Montana State Legislature, United States Senator from Montana from 1907 to 1913, and Governor of Montana from 1921 to 1925. He was defeated in 1924. (Bio by: K)
Missoula Cemetery, Missoula, Missoula County, Montana, USA

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