It's been several months since I posted, but the "Friends of Caribou Cemetery" in Boulder County, Colorado, are moving forward in our preservation of the Caribou Cemetery. As previously mentioned, this was a silver mining town at 10,000 feet, with much of its population from Cornwall. Here's info on our recent "work day," https://www.themtnear.com/articles/cleaning-up-and-preserving-the-caribou-cemetery/ For more info on the cemetery, see http://cariboucemetery.com

Please do consider memorializing these miners. Wonderful that you have documentation! I hope that my efforts regarding the Caribou Cemetery will inspire you and others. My colleagues and I are literally waiting for snow to melt (cemetery at 10,000 feet), but we have partnered with a local historical society so that donations are tax-deductible. And, I have also created our website, cariboucemetery.com -- all to create awareness. You can certainly do the same in your community. In your case, you could even place individual markers, but you could also create one large interpretive sign with a "map" to show (and identify) the graves. If, through the CAHS I start a Special Interest Group on Cornish (and predominately Cornish) cemeteries, your cemetery should be included. I wonder how many others we can find?

Good to know.... thanks.

How interesting! And thanks so much for this new information. I will make these contacts today. Silvia

Below is a photo of the long-gone gravestone of Mary Webster. Mary, her husband Joseph, and their three children initially immigrated to Morris County, New Jersey, where Joseph found work in an iron mine. Then, in the mid-1870s, after Mary gave birth to two more children, the family made their way to Caribou, Colorado –– to a log cabin at 10,000 feet in the Rocky Mountains. While Joseph worked in Caribou's silver mines, Mary's life centered around activities in the town's one-room school, as well as the church, whose the mostly Methodist congregation was regularly visited by a circuit-riding preacher. Likely, his message touched on the community’s biggest fears –– mine accidents, fire, and disease. Mary died during a diphtheria epidemic, on July 1, 1879, at the age of 39.