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ADAMS COUNTY, COLORADO
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Riverside Cemetery
Commerce City, Adams County
5201 Brighton Boulevard
Denver, CO 80216
(303) 293-2466
FAX (303) 293-2803
| Riverside Cemetery is
the Denver area's oldest existing cemetery. Twelve
early Denver area settlers first conceived the idea of a
private rural cemetery for the citizens of Denver and the
surrounding area. Three years after the city of
Denver acquired City Cemetery (formerly Mount Prospect
Cemetery) this dozen men met to hammer out papers of
incorporation and find a location for the new burial site.
Dr. John Morrison "offered to sell to the
incorporators one hundred sixty acres of land which lay
on the east bank of the South Plate River about four
miles downstream from Denver's business district."
The offer was accepted and the next day The
Denver Tribune reported, "Denver will shortly be
favored with a resting place for the dead that cannot
fail to be a credit to the city." The Riverside Cemetery Association was officially incorporated on April 1, 1876 with a capital stock of $2,000 divided into twenty shares. Among the original twenty stockholders were:
The stockholders elected Benjamin F.
Woodward, President and Henri R. Foster, Secretary. |
| This site is an attempt
to index as many Riverside Cemetery interments as
possible in one place. They will be collected
from various sources, not the least of which will be you,
the visitor to these pages. There are over 66,000 occupants.
Please consider submitting to this index. Submissions
to this index should be sent to: All Woodmen of the World names were contributed by Jim Davenport, For veteran burials through 1949 see Interment.Net Riverside Cemetery (These were abstracted from the Colorado State Archives Colorado Veterans’ Grave Registrations 1862 - 1949) Most records that indicate that the information is taken from "Funeral Notice, Rocky Mountain News" contributed by Rita Timm (Colorado Clues) These records are here to assist researchers. The webmaster makes no claim of accuracy; primary records should be consulted whenever possible. Click on the letters below for the Surnames you are researching | A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V |W | X | Y | Z | |
This Page Was Last Updated On: 09/07/2004
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