GuffeyNews.com Cemetery

Cemetery Project

The goals of the GCA, with regards to the Guffey Cemetery, are to have it designated a Historic Site, clean up the area, and obtain the property from the current owner so it can be passed on to Park County. The GCA is currently looking into who all are buried in the cemetery with the goal of marking their graves with names and dates. We hope to learn as much as possible about the individuals and document what we learn about them on this page. We will, if possible, inform their living descendents of our actions. We are currently using Ancestry.com to gain more information on these folks and their descendents and will contact them, if possible, for additional information. We want to learn from these descendents as much as possible about their buried ancestors, especially about their time spent here in Guffey and possibly what they did for a living. In addition, we would like to have the cemetery area surveyed so that the true bounders are marked.

What we have done as of Dec. 12, 2011 ---

In addition to the behind the desk research work (see the files below), we've made a few trips to the cemetery to assess the clean up work that will be required next spring. We've also found, what appears to be, two of the cemetery survey corner pins from one of the surveys completed in the late 1960s or early 1970s.

What we are working on now ---

We are attempting to find a generous surveyor who will do a pro bono survey of the cemetery so we are sure of the boundaries in which we need to work. We will also be working to find a person who will do a ground radar survey so that the unmarked graves can be located and marked.

We are working with the daughter of deceased Jerry Mills, the former property owner, to see if the 5 acre cemetery plot can be transferred to the County as a Historic Site. This property is presently in probate so it will be a long process.

In the spring/summer, unless there are some snags that keep us off of the property, we will start to clean up the property and photograph the grave sites (before and after clean up) and post the head stone photos on this page.

If anyone reading this has information or work time to contribute, please click here to send a message to the GuffeyNews.com webmaster.

Guffey cemetery committee (16 KB)

Cemetery Grave Locations (302 KB)

Cemetery Mapping (53.2 KB)

Guffey Town Plat (207 KB)

Cemetery corner pins (243 KB)

Deeds

Gustave Cohen 1897 Deed (1.17 MB) Transfer of 110 acres (now town of Guffey) from US Government to Gustave Cohen.

Cover Mtn. Subdivision Deed transfers from 1942 through 1969 to the Cover Mtn. Developer. These land transfers contain the 5 acre cemetery.

Stahl to Johnson Deed (109 KB) Part of 1943 transfer of property (now Cover Mtn.) from Stanley R. Stahl to Dean F. Johnson.

Johnson to Norris Deed (154 KB) 1956 transfer of property (now Cover Mtn.) from Dean F. Johnson to Robert C. Norris

Norris to Mills Ranches Deed (341 KB) 1967 transfer of property (now Cover Mtn.) from Robert C. Norris to Mills Ranches

Mills Ranches to Sports Enterprises Limited Deed (111 KB) 1969 transfer of property (now Cover Mtn.) from Mills Ranches to Sports Enterprises Limited

Interesting tidbits:

W. T. Boutwell, buried in Guffey Cemetery:

As listed in the book "Thirteenth Regiment of New Hampshire Volunteer Infantry in the War of the Rebellion 1861-1865", by S. Millett Thompson, published in 1888.

William T. Boutwell, age 21, of Lyndeborough, N.H., enlisted Sept. '62. Transferred to Veterans Reserve Corps, Aug. 10, '64.

If he was 21 in 1862, that would indicate he was born in 1841.