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Emma Hawxhurst

Birth
Death
1880
Park County, Colorado, USA
Burial
Jefferson, Park County, Colorado, USA Add to Map
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From:
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 17.

"In the early 1860s George and Hannah Hawxhurst arrived in Park County, where he engaged in mining. The couple settled on a Tarryall ranch in the late 1870s and received a homestead patent in 1881. The burial ground contains only two graves, those of their daughters, Emma and Annie. The two sisters fell victim to an 1880 diphtheria epidemic that also prompted creation of Bordenville Cemetery."
From:
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 17.

"In the early 1860s George and Hannah Hawxhurst arrived in Park County, where he engaged in mining. The couple settled on a Tarryall ranch in the late 1870s and received a homestead patent in 1881. The burial ground contains only two graves, those of their daughters, Emma and Annie. The two sisters fell victim to an 1880 diphtheria epidemic that also prompted creation of Bordenville Cemetery."


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