Historic Cemetery of the Southern Arizona Veterans in Sierra Vista, Arizona

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Get directions 1300 Buffalo Soldiers Trail
Sierra Vista, Arizona 85635 United States

Coordinates: 31.54110, -110.30500
(520)-458-7144
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This unique cemetery within a cemetery was established as a final resting place for veterans who served prior to World War One. It is located within and is administered by the Southern Arizona Veterans Memorial Cemetery. The first burials within the Historic Cemetery were for the partial remains of 60 soldiers and family members found during a construction project in Tucson at the site of the old Fort Lowell Cemetery. The partial remains of some, but not all, of these soldiers also are buried in the San Francisco National Cemetery; their memorials contain a link to the identified grave in San Francisco. Since the Veterans Administration will not issue two headstones for any soldier or veteran, all 60 graves here are marked "UNKNOWN." Efforts continue to have the graves of those soldiers who are buried only in this cemetery marked with a headstone bearing their names. Any pre-World War One veteran discovered in the future would be eligible for burial in the Historic Cemetery.