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Unmarked grave
She was the wife of William Burton and the mother of Lewis, Elmer, Richard, John E., Clarissa (Burton) Wigant & Sara Elizabeth (Burton) Capehart
* Note: Mrs. Lundy, the clerk of Lincoln Co. Colorado, said that Walks Camp Cemetery used to be an old Buffalo Camp. Thomas Wigant's Grave is in Block 1, Lot 14, Grave 3. Source of information: Mary Stone, a descendant of Thomas Wigant. If this is the case, I wonder if this is where Thomas is buried and the name and the date of death are wrong on the marker? The Th in Thomas might have resembled a capital M on original record.
Genoa is located in Lincoln County which lies in the Great Plains section of East Central Colorado, including part of the area known as the Arkansas Divide. Lincoln County was partly in the Cheyenne Arapahoe Reservation and in Douglas County, one of the 17 original counties. It was created in 1889 from parts of Elbert and Bent Counties and named for President Abraham Lincoln.
Genoa was established in 1888 in Elbert County as CREECH and renamed CABLE in 1895. In 1903 the CABLE post office was moved and renamed GENOA by Mrs. Echternacht, the postmistress. The town was laid out in 1906 by her and John Nolan and was incorporated in 1925. It is located 10 miles east of Limon, near source of Hell Creek. The town had a total population of 211 when the 2000 census was taken.
Mary Jane (Briggs ?) Burton, wife of William Burton and Thomas F. Wigant (son-in law of William and husband of William's daughter, Clarissa) were buried in old buffalo nesting grounds at Walk's Camp. There are 2 Walk's Camp churches, the Lutheran Church and Methodist Church, both with cemeteries. The Lutheran Church still stands at its original location but the Methodist Church has been moved. We believe Mary Jane and Thomas were buried in the Walk's Camp Methodist Cemetery. We did find a grave marker for M. Wigant in the Walk's Camp Methodist Cemetery. So far, no one seems to know how he/she is related to the Wigant's.
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Walk's Camp Methodist Cemetery, Lincoln Co., CO
Walk's Camp Methodist Cemetery is located in Lincoln County, CO, north of Genoa. It was named for John Walk, a buffalo hunter who had a hunting camp there.
Cemetery Entrance
Unmarked grave
He was the husband of Clarissa (Burton) Wigant
M. Wigant
b. (no date)
d. 1918
buried sixth row, counting from the gate. (Block 1, Lot 14, Grave 3)
Love Funeral Home mortuary marker in concrete
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BURTON
Mary Jane
b. 10 Jan 1841
d. 17 Mar 1916
WIGANT
Thomas F.
b. 26 Feb 1839
d. 28 Oct 1914
NOTE: We visited Walk's Camp Methodist Cemetery in May of 2005 and took the grave marker photo shown here. The first time we heard of Walk's Camp was in reference to the burial place of Martin's great grandmother, Mary Jane (Briggs) Burton. Since she was of native American ancestry we thought Walk's Camp was possibly an Indian burial ground. We have since learned that she and her daughter's husband, Thomas Wigant, are both buried in buffalo nests in this cemetery. Her grave is unmarked. There is a Love Funeral Home Mortuary marker in the cemetery with the name M. Wigant and date of death of 1918 on it. This would be 4 years later than Thomas Wigant's date of death. We wonder if the marker was placed a few years later and the Th in Thomas was misread for a M and the 1914 date of death was misread as 1918. Since no one knows of any other Wigant family member being buried there we think there is a good possibility this is Thomas Wigant's gravesite. We will probably never know for sure.
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