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~~ Winterowd ~~
Lakeview Cemetery
Sugar City, CO
Sugar City, located in Crowley County, was founded in 1891 by the National Sugar Company who saw great potential in the area for growing sugar beets and making sugar from them. The town wasn't platted until 1899 and the first people didn't arrive until the spring of 1900. Work then began on the sugar factory and by June 1900 there were 689 inhabitants. It is thought there were about 2,000 residents by October of that year. The Sugar Factory ws completed in November and the areas first sugar beets were harvested. The National Sugar Beet Company closed its factory in 1967 and the town remains an agricultural area. Sugar City is perched above Lake Meredith from which the area obtains the water for their well-irrigated land. Sugar City is also on the Missouri Pacific Railroad and a yellow caboose is on display there.
Lakeview Cemetery is on Hwy 96, just outside the town of Sugar City. It is a nice little dry prairie cemetery with currently about 750 known burials. It is thought that during an epidemic people were buried in mass burials and no records were kept of the burials.
NOTE: We visited Lakeview Cemetery in May of 2006 and took the photos shown here. My cousin, Sylvina (Wigant) Winterowd, daughter of my aunt Clarissa (Burton) Wigant may be buried here in an unmarked grave.
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Cemetery Entrance
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Sylvina (Wigant)
Winterowd
b. 20 Mar. 1893
d. 12 Dec. 1918
Wife of Peter Jasper Winterowd
Daughter of Thomas F. & Clarissa (Burton) Wigant
This is where we think Sylvina (Wigant) Winterowd is buried. It is in an area of unmarked mass graves used during an epidemic
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