Gold Hill Cemetery
Grant County, New
Mexico
Submitted by Steve on March 23, 2001
This cemetery is located in Grant county just north of Lordsburg, east of Highway 90. The
cemetery
is on US Forest Service land. The town of Gold hill had a post office from
1886 to 1906. there are no buildings left. (This location is reached
by passing through a private ranch property, very near the ranch house.
Trespassing is not recommended.) The size of the cemetery
could possibly hold forty or fifty graves but I only observed thirteen obvious
sites. Of these, only eight had head stones. Two of these contained only
the persons name. The listing is as follows:
#1 Henry Riel (the name is
carved across the top of an arrastra stone)
#2 (no stone)
#3 David Egelston (the
name is carved across the top of a metate stone)
#4 James Patterson 1833-1892
#5 Nettie B. Williams
Nov. 13,
1879 Oct. 29, 1893
#6 Infant son of
W. I. Neil Died
1889 (carved on a slab of green richolite stone)
#7 Frankey F. Colbath 10-28-1881
11-11-1891
#8 Luther L. Colbath Born
Dec. 25, 1881 Died June 19, 1897
#9 (no stone)
#10 (no stone)
#11 (no stone)
#12 (no stone)
#13 Harmon D. Wright
4-18-1868 4-4-1902