The Ute Cemetery

Cemetery fence, quite near the Wheeler Ditch Trail.
Restoration of the cemetery was completed around 10 years ago.

Soldier's graves with similar government-issue headstones all sent from the East in 1890.

"J.B.Meginity: U.S.Soldier."
Meginity was a Civil War Veteran who came to Aspen to work in a silver mine.
He died in an avalanche on March 11, 1884.

Many graves and family plots have surrounding fences: this is one of the most elaborate

Grave of Jacqueline Penz, March 22, 1897-September 8, 1897