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Please add profiles for all those who were born, lived or died in El Paso County, Texas. Official Website The county was created in 1850 and later organized in 1871. El Paso is short for "El Paso del Norte", which is Spanish for "The Pass of the North". It is named for the pass the Rio Grande creates through the mountains on either side of the river. The county is northeast of the Mexico–Unit...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in the City of El Paso, El Paso County, Texas. Official Website Overview El Paso is a city and the county seat of El Paso County, Texas, United States, in the far western part of the state. It stands on the Rio Grande across the Mexico–United States border from Ciudad Juárez, the most populous city in the Mexican state of Chihuahua w...
Wikipedia =Fort Bliss National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery located in the United States Army post of Fort Bliss, in El Paso County, Texas. Find a Grave
Fort Bliss is a United States Army post in New Mexico and Texas, with its headquarters in El Paso, Texas. Named in honor of LTC William Bliss (1815–1853), a mathematics professor who was the son-in-law of President Zachary Taylor, Ft. Bliss has an area of about 1,700 square miles; it is the largest installation in FORSCOM (United States Army Forces Command) and second-largest in the Army overal...
Wikipedia The University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) is a public, research, Ph.D.-granting institution in the University of Texas System. The school was founded in 1914 as the State School of Mines and Metallurgy, and a practice mineshaft survives on the mountainous desert campus. Following a reorganization of the University of Texas in 1920, the school was renamed the College of Mines and Met...
Fort Carson is a United States Army post located directly south of Colorado Springs in El Paso, Pueblo, Fremont, and Huerfano counties, Colorado, United States. The developed portion of Fort Carson is located near the City of Colorado Springs in El Paso County. Fort Carson is the home of the 4th Infantry Division, the 10th Special Forces Group, the 4th Security Force Assistance Brigade (SFAB),...
Wikipedia =The Colorado College (also known as CC) is a private liberal arts college in Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States, near the foot of the Rocky Mountains. It was founded in 1874 by Thomas Nelson Haskell. The college enrolls approximately 2,000 undergraduates at its 90-acre (36 ha) campus, 70 miles (110 km) south of Denver. The college offers 42 majors and 33 minors, and has a stud...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in El Paso County, Colorado. Official Website Overview In July 1858, gold was discovered along the South Platte River in Arapahoe County, Kansas Territory. This discovery precipitated the Pike's Peak Gold Rush. Many residents of the mining region felt disconnected from the remote territorial governments of Kansas and Nebraska, so the...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Colorado Springs, Colorado.Colorado Springs is the county seat of El Paso County. = Official Website = History Before it was founded, the site of modern-day Colorado Springs, Colorado, was part of the American frontier. Old Colorado City, built in 1858 during the Pike's Peak Gold Rush was the Colorado Territory capital. The town of Co...
Evergreen Cemetery,El Paso, El Paso County, Texas, 79905 USA : Evergreen Alameda Cemetery opened for business in 1894. Many of El Paso's pioneer families are buried here. This cemetery is now considered full and only has burials for families who have pre-purchased plots.
Est. 1856 Historic Concordia Cemetery is a resting place for over 66,000 members of the El Paso community. Some are well known, some are unknown, while others are unmarked but each contributing to the story of El Paso and Historic Concordia Cemetery. Known as Concordia during the 1840s, this area was the home of Chihuahua trader Hugh & Juana Stephenson. In 1856 his wife, Juana (Ascarate), was...
Restlawn Cemetery is located at 8700 Dyer. It covers 85 acres with over 20,000 burials. There are about 450 burials here each year. Restlawn was started by Mrs Bull in 1927. She sold it to Norman Anderson who later sold the cemetery to the Service Corporation International. It has been resold. TX Gen Web Find a Grave Ancestors at Rest
When Colorado Springs was founded in 1871 there were already two cemeteries serving El Paso County but both were quickly found to be inadequate in serving the needs of the rapidly growing city. In 1874, the founder of Colorado Springs, General William Jackson Palmer, founded a new cemetery two miles from town. The original names were the Mount Washington or Mountain Home Cemetery. In 1877, the ...
Fairview Cemetery is a 32-acre cemetery owned by the city of Colorado Springs, El Paso County, Colorado. A cemetery for area pioneers, the cemetery was founded in 1895 on the west side of the city, but there were earlier burials on the land. The land was donated by Anthony Bott in exchange for water rights. Bott was a founder of Colorado City, now known as Old Colorado City. It offers views of ...
This project is for those who are interred in the Shrine of Remembrance Mausoleum, Colorado Springs, Colorado. Notable Interments Ruth Etting (1896-1978) - Entertainer, Actress, Singer Newton F. "Newt" Heisley (1920-2009) - Designer of the POW-MIA flag Ethel Merman (1908-1984) - Entertainer, Actress, Singer Links Official Website Find a Grave
This project is for all those interred in the Memorial Gardens Cemetery & Mausoleum in Colorado Springs, El Paso County, Colorado.The cemetery is located on 3825 Airport Road. Links Official Website Find a Grave Tombstone-Inscriptions Billion Graves