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Crawford Cemetery
Lamar, Prowers

Cemetery:       Crawford Cemetery
Other:         
Sign:           No
Street:         County  Road  LL
City:           Lamar
Township:      
County:         Prowers
State:          Co
Nation:         USA
Zip:            81052
lat_ns:         N
lat_h:         
lat_mmss:    38'  7.415'  
long_ew:        W
long_h:        
long_mmss:   102' 39.560' 
Status:         Abandoned
Size:           Small
Directions:     Take US hiway 50 & 287 North from Lamar to County Road 7, go North 1 mile, turn left and go West 1 1/2 miles, turn left on farm road and go 1/2mile south. On top of hill.
Type:           Road-private
Location:       Rural
Terrain:        Hillside
Watersource:    No
Features:       natural prarie grasses and yucca
Property:       Private
Access:         Permission-required
Enclosure:      Fence-Broken
Gate:           Non-locking
Established:    1888
Gravestones:     65
Oldest:         1888
Newest:         1931
Removed:        Unknown
Relocated:      No
Repairs:        No
Methods:        Adhesives
Restoration:    Yes
Association:    No
Records:        No
Inventory:      Yes
Availability:   Marianne West ,  Prowers County Genealogical Society
Landscaping:    Yes
Paths:          Yes
Trees:          No
Crypts:         No
Fencing:        No
Brickwork:      No
Ironwork:       Yes
Sculpture:      No
Fountains:      No
Roads:          No
Buildings:      No
Cement:         Yes
Granite:        Yes
Marble:         Yes
Native:         Yes
Slate:          No
Others:         Yes
Wood:           Yes
Materials:      Unsure
Architectural:  Yes
Angels:         Yes
Draperies:      Yes
Fraternal:      Yes
Hands:          Yes
Lambs:          Yes
Monograms:      Yes
Plants:         Yes
Photos:         Yes
Religious:      Yes
Scrollwork:     Yes
Urns:           Yes
Carvings:       Yes
Condition:      Cemetery poorly maintained
Unmarked:       Yes
Broken:         Yes
Toppled:        Yes
Disintegrating: Yes
Buried:         Unsure
Weather:        No
Pollution:      No
Vandalized:     No
Report:         Yes
VA1:           
VA2:           
VA3:           
VA4:           
VA5:           
Overgrowth:    
Overgrowth1:   
Overgrowth2:   
Overgrowth3:    Gravestones-Disturbing
Overgrowth4:   
GroundCover:    Yes
Moss:          
Vines:         
Drainage:       Good
Problem1:      
Problem2:       Apathy
Owner:          Cemetery
Use:            Agricultural
Bordering:      Agricultural
Change:         Same
Reason:         Roads
Visited:        Rarely
Archeology:     No
Habitat:        Yes
Contacted:      Boy Scout Troop #   , Clay Peacock, Sam Peacock, Ray Gilbert

Surnames:

Beavers, Border, Bowles, Caswell, Coleman, Crawford, Delea, Durant, Evans, Ferguson, Gettings, Harmon, Hates, Hess, Jacaway, Job, Johnson, Millard, Morich, Morris, Morse, Park, Pearl, Pope, Shinn, Stevens, Stevenson, Stickler, Swaddley, Tuttle, VanIdler, Wagner, Williams, Wilson, Woods, Yowell

Other_Information:


Support:

Martha S. Wade, President Prowers County Genealogical Society

Update Feb 2, 2006 - Add forms and carvings found on stones:  YES= Architechural forms,Fraternal Symbols,Lambs, Monograms, Plant or flower symbols, Religious symbols, Scrollwork, Other carvings.  NO= Angels, Draperies, Hands,Photographic images, Urns.


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Name:           Martha S. Wade
Email:          m_artys522@centurytel.net
Date:           Feb. 20, 2006



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