RSSHigh water tables ruined early cemetery
James Chenoweth, who died Sept. 15, 1883, was buried at Hope Cemetery before his remains were moved to the Orchard Mesa Cemetery in 1904.
Second in a series on the history of local cemeteries. Cemeteries must have been a profitable business in the late 1890s, when Grand Junction was still a hamlet. Mesa County records show that…
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