Palmer Divide Research

Bartruff graves

Also: Frederick Bartruff, 1831-1875, and daughters

CemeteriesHistoric or vanishedDouglas County

What we know

Two marked graves on a private ranch off Hwy 83 near Franktown, picket-fenced, abandoned (1999 form).

Where it was

GPS reading 39°18'19" N, 104°43'16" W on the Colorado Cemetery Names Project form (Aug. 31, 1999; Cherry Valley binder LHS_3 p. 8); legal description SE1/4 Sec. 36, T8S R66W agrees.

Placed from a written description, such as a land section, a distance from a landmark or an old survey note.

See it on the map

Sources

Sources are named in the text above. Numbers such as S-0080 refer to our source list. Most newspaper quotations were read in the Colorado Historic Newspapers Collection. Long quotations from recent books are shortened here.

Know more about Bartruff graves?

Corrections, family stories, photographs, deeds, letters and maps are all welcome. Messages and files come to Michael Christensen privately; nothing appears on the site until it has been checked, and you'll be credited the way you ask.