Continuing my current series on Evergreen Cemetery, here's a large gravestone for a tiny infant. In fact, he was born and died on the same day, December 6, 1874. I can't imagine his parents' terrible grief. I was intrigued by their surname, because there is a Spinney Mountain and a Spinney Reservoir in Park County and I wondered if this family was somehow connected, especially as they clearly lived here in the 1870s, when Colorado was still a territory, and likely even before that. A monument this large means they must have had money; with money comes influence, and with influence come things like having a large mountain named after you. But I could find very little information on how or why the mountain and reservoir got their name. If I ever do find out, I'll make sure to update the blog.
2 comments:
Always intriguing to walk around a cemetery.
Very poignant.
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