Text Box: The Story of Hillside Cemetery, Volume 1
Text Box: In serene repose on Boulder’s breast, 
age and youth lie in peaceful rest.  
This mountain has in trust to hold, 
a dust more precious than dust of gold.

Email: freda28@aol.com

Freda Peterson

P.O. Box 115

Silverton, CO  81433

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Books now available by the author are:

Volume 1

Surnames

beginning with

letters A  through L

478 pages

Burials 1872 – 1996

Text Box: The Story of Hillside Cemetery, Volume 2

Volume 2

Surnames

beginning with

letters M  through Z

440 pages

Burials 1872 - 1997

The two volumes document burials in San Juan County, with detailed information on the life of each person.  Events, names, dates, places, relatives, ancestors and descendants are profusely noted throughout the volumes.

 

The present compilation, based principally on tombstone data and exhaustive newspaper research, identifies more than 3,000 burials, as well as providing a wealth of historical biographical and genealogical details.

 

As you progress through these life stories, you will gradually find yourself being drawn into the life of each person as you learn of their experiences from birth to death … lives filled with accomplishment, happiness, hopelessness, disappointment, tragedy, quiet desperation  and bitterness.  Without realizing it, you will absorb the colorful history of the Silverton area and learn what it was like to live in a high country mining camp where life and the environment were extremely harsh and dangerous.

Text Box: Over My Dead Body - SOLD OUT

154 pages of selected excerpts from the more detailed Volumes 1 and 2 of The Story of Hillside Cemetery. 

 

An interesting quick trip into history, it depicts the colorful character of Silverton and its people.

Text Box: Where Daisies Nod

Another small volume of selected excerpts from The Story of Hillside.

Text Box: Death in the Snow

This volume concentrates on the astounding number of snowslide deaths in the Silverton area.

Text Box: Faces of the Flu

The 1918 flu epidemic in

Silverton, Colorado

Text Box: Died Here - Buried There

Those who died in San Juan County, Colorado, but were buried elsewhere.