Horn Cemetery
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Horn Cemetery

Park County, Colorado, USA

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    Coordinates: 39.44360, -105.44330
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"Deer Creek Cemetery/Horn Cemetery (1875)
The 1875 interment of Robert S. Kelso is the oldest known burial at Deer Creek/Horn Cemetery at Deer Creek, located along U.S. Highway 285 3.1 miles northeast of Bailey. Deer Creek postmaster Leonard Alkire received a patent for the land containing the cemetery in 1878. Peter O. and Melissa Horn subsequently acquired the land and sold it to Deer Creek Fishing and Boating Association (predecessor of Deer Valley Park Association) in 1887. In the same year, the Association deeded approximately one acre containing the cemetery to Park County but continued maintaining the burial ground and enclosed it with a barbed wire fence about 1900. Obituaries appearing in local newspapers in the early twentieth century referred to this graveyard as Deer Creek Cemetery. According to Park County cemetery historian Harold Warren it received the name Horn Cemetery "because there are more members of the Horn family buried in marked graves
than of any other family." Burials at the site declined after the 1910s. Still in active use, the cemetery includes an estimated two hundred burials, with a fairly large proportion being more recent graves."

Park County, Colorado, Historic Cemeteries, "Historic Cemetery Development in Park County, Colorado, 1859-1965", United States Department of the Interior, National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places Multiple Property Documentation Form, prepared by R. Laurie Simmons and Thomas H. Simmons, Front Range Research Associates, Inc., Denver, Colorado, Section number E, page 16.



"Deer Creek Cemetery/Horn Cemetery (1875)
The 1875 interment of Robert S. Kelso is the oldest known burial at Deer Creek/Horn Cemetery at Deer Creek, located along U.S. Highway 285 3.1 miles northeast of Bailey. Deer Creek postmaster Leonard Alkire received a patent for the land containing the cemetery in 1878. Peter O. and Melissa Horn subsequently acquired the land and sold it to Deer Creek Fishing and Boating Association (predecessor of Deer Valley Park Association) in 1887. In the same year, the Association deeded approximately one acre containing the cemetery to Park County but continued maintaining the burial ground and enclosed it with a barbed wire fence about 1900. Obituaries appearing in local newspapers in the early twentieth century referred to this graveyard as Deer Creek Cemetery. According to Park County cemetery historian Harold Warren it received the name Horn Cemetery "because there are more members of the Horn family buried in marked graves
than of any other family." Burials at the site declined after the 1910s. Still in active use, the cemetery includes an estimated two hundred burials, with a fairly large proportion being more recent graves."

Park County, Colorado, Historic Cemeteries, "Historic Cemetery Development in Park County, Colorado, 1859-1965", United States Department of the Interior, National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places Multiple Property Documentation Form, prepared by R. Laurie Simmons and Thomas H. Simmons, Front Range Research Associates, Inc., Denver, Colorado, Section number E, page 16.



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