The Cemetery at Timnath
By: Tanner, Tara and Marie.
The cemetery was built in 1884. The land for the cemetery was given to the church when the people of the town decided to get a cemetery. The man that gave the land to church was Tomase J. Wilkins. When people bought lots of 6 to 12 burial sites some of the farmers would use there digging appliances to dig the graves of the deceased. Most people made their own family's grave stones of wood or stone.
The first person that died and went to rest was on Feb. 7, 1884. The last recorded burial was in 1920, but I went to the cemetery and found one from 1933.
The cemetery has been vandalized many times before. Cattle broke in to graze, but they did much damage. The cows did knock over the most expensive headstones. In 1969 there were many clean ups. On Saturdays the farmers and the residents of Timnath came to clean up.
There are many people buried in our cemetery, here are just a majority of them, they are listed youngest to oldest and families at the end.
Baxter 1909-1909 still born
This was the child daughter of Reverend Baxter. She was a stillborn and didn't get to see her mom or dad. At the time, Reverend Baxter was the Pastor at Timnath Presbyterian Church in Timnath.
Chagolla 1912-1912 2 months old
Verndor Chagolla died August 19, 1912 of the dreaded whooping cough. He was two months eight days old when he died. The grave is unmarked, and no one knows where he is buried.
Martinez 1909-1910 7 months
Benito Martinez died at the age of seven months on July 27, 1910 the cause that the family reported was an accidental drowning. The people who used to know the family said they don't remember this occurring and the family doesn't live in Timnath anymore.
Garcia 1911-1912 1 year old
Santiago M. Garcia died at the age of nine months on May 7, 1912 of erysipleas. There is no marker and the graves location is unknown.
West 1908-1913 5 years old
Charlie West was the son of Molly and Al West. They lived at Dick Springer Place or northwest of Timnath. He was born on April 13, 1908 and died on February 23, 1913. He was a handicapped child. He died of measles followed by pneumonia.
Morgan 1898-1905 7 years old
Ora was born in December 1898, and died on April 22, 1905. He lived on the Strange farm at the bottom of a river west on Timnath. He was a spirited boy. He died by climbing a tree with a rope in his hand. A tree limb broke and the rope got caught on a tree branch then raped around his neck. He died in suffocation.
Catlett 1870-1894 24 years old
Charlie died of typhoid fever in September of 1894, at the age of twenty four years old. He worked for Aaron Kitchel, a brother of Mrs. Herbert M. Lewis, and died at the Kitchel's home. He was a good friend of Esther Kitchel. He had no relatives living in the west. The grave is not marked.
McGinley 1845-1889 44 Years Old
Armstrong A McGinley was possibly the second person buried in Timnath Cemetery. He and his wife had a son who died February 7, 1884 at the age of five weeks old. The child's grave is the only original grave in the cemetery. His marker is still there today.
Pratt 1860-1885 25 years old
Rosetta, wife of Henry F. Pratt, was born September 4, 1860, and died November 26, 1885. The family lived near Lewis Corner. Her children¹s names are Arthur and Cora.
Clark 1852-1896 40 years old
Jenny was married to Joel Clark. They had a son and named him Harry B. Clark. He died when he was 10 months we don¹t how he died. Jenny was born on December 11, 1852, and died on February 28, 1898. No one remembers their family.
Elliot 1845- 1886 41 years old
James Elliot was born August 19, 1845 in England. He was Married in Denver in 1872 in the American Hotel. He and his wife made their home in Timnath in 1880. They had seven children. Their names were: Abraham, Grace, James, May, Shoup, Clyde and one who died when he was born. James Elliot died October 8, 1886 and was one of the first to be buried in Timnath Cemetery.
Evens 1826-1889 - 63 years old
Elihu worked as a farm laborer and also did carpenter work. His oldest son Jesse, and Jesse's wife are still alive, and living in Windsor.
Rutledge 1849-1912 63 Years Old
George W. Rutledge was born in 1849 and committed suicide in 1912. All of his children were buried in Timnath Cemetery when they were either stillborn or died at a young age. Their names were: Linnie May, Thomas G. and Sarah J.
Sylvester 1833-1909 - 76 years old
Thomas was an old sailor and was the father of Winnie Sylvester. His wife was a member of the Columbine Club.
Carshrud more than 1 person
The Carshrud family, Jenny, Albert, Lillian, Clyde and Mr. & Mrs. Hans Carshrud, went on a picnic at the Lewis farm lake with Mr. Carshrud's brother. A friend also came along. Late afternoon the three men took four of the children on a boat ride. The boat had a leak in but the men were not worried about, but the boat sunk. We don¹t know if the boat sunk of the leak or of some reason of the boat capsizing, but everyone ended up in the water. After the third time going under water Mr. Carshrud heard Clara screaming for help, Mr. Carshrud attempted to save her, even though he had on irrigation boots from irrigating earlier that day, he succeed saving her. Jenny, Albert, Lillian and the two younger men drowned. Clyde was a baby so he stayed on the shore with Mrs. Carshrud.
Giddings more than 1 person
Edith Wills married S.R Gidddings, and they lived in Timnath until their deaths. Their daughter, Dorothy died October 7,1914. Another daughter, Leilah Elizabeth, only lived to be 1 year old. Also born to the Gidding's family, was a stillborn baby girl in 1901, she was unnamed. These three little girls are buried in the Timnath Cemetery.
Bibilograhy
Miller, Del and Elsie Fisher. Timnath.
Timnath: Columbine Club, Colorado 1996.
Tanner's Personal Page
I made this page when I was in the sixth grade. I got my information from Timnath Book written by Del Miller and Elsie Fisher. I chose this topic because I live right by the Timnath Cemetery and I like to research people. The interview day is when I got the most information from Del Miller and Elsie Fisher. The most interesting thing I got to do was to walk up to the cemetery and look at all of the grave stones and see that most of the people buried there were about one year old or younger. Only about one third of the people buried there were 30 or older. Thank you to all of the people who helped me on this project like Del Miller and Elsie Fisher. You helped this project turn out great. A word of advice, when you are doing this topic, go to the cemetery and copy down all of the names and the dates they died. The Timnath Book has a lot of information that you won¹t need during the project. It will only be helpful if you are doing the people buried there.
Tara's Processing Page
I got my information from from the Timnath History book written by Del Miller and Elsie Fisher. I wrote my part of the Timnath web page in my final choice class for the year. I chose to do the Timnath Cemetery, because it is in walking distance of my house and I had been there many times before I even started the research. My favorite part of this project was when our class had many people come and we got to interview them. If I had more time in this class I would have also included more about the cemetery and a few more people. This was a very fun and interesting way to finish out the year¹s choice classes.
Marie's Processing Page
I created part of the cemetery page when I was in sixth grade as part of a final choice class. I chose the cemetery because it sounded like an interesting topic. I got all of my information from the Timnath History book. I interviewed Elsie Fisher and Del Miller, but they didn¹t have much information about the cemetery, but they did have a lot of good stories. I wasn¹t really nervous because there was nothing really to be nervous about. It was fun interviewing older people because they also told stories. I liked the researching the most because you learned a lot about the people in the cemetery. If you plan to research you should look in the Timnath History book because it is a lot of help. It will be hard adding all this to the web page in one day but I think we can manage.
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