Grandview Cemetery is a cemetery in

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Larimer County, Colorado Larimer County is a county located in the U.S. state of Colorado. As of the 2020 census, the population was 359,066. The county seat and most populous city is Fort Collins. The county was named for William Larimer, Jr., the founder of Denver. ...

. The land for the cemetery was purchased in 1887; at the time it was west of the city limits of Fort Collins. Mountain Home Cemetery had been used prior to this, but it was closer to town, and with the population of Fort Collins rapidly expanding it was deemed necessary to find another location farther from town. The remains buried at Mountain Home were gradually transferred to Grandview beginning in late 1887 or early 1888 and by the 1920s the site of the former cemetery at Mountain Home had been converted to a playground.
Fort Collins City website accessed September 6, 2009 The first interment at Grandview took place on November 21, 1887, when a three-month-old infant named Felix Scoville was buried there. As of 2009 Grandview consisted of approximately development, 34,000 grave spaces, 70 crypts, 336 niches, and over 22,000 burials.

Notable burials

* James B. Arthur (1831-1905), Colorado state senator * Fred N. Cummings (1864-1952), American rancher and democrat *

Jean Bethke Elshtain Jean Paulette Bethke Elshtain (1941–2013) was an American ethicist, political philosopher, and public intellectual. She was the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Professor of Social and Political Ethics in the University of Chicago Divinity School with ...

(1941–2013), scholar of religion and political philosophy * William Silas Hill (1886-1972), U.S. representative * Henderson C. Howard (1839-1919), Union army soldier and Pennsylvania sheriff * Mark D. Miller (1891-1970), American photographer *

Charles Bateman Timberlake Charles Bateman Timberlake (September 25, 1854 – May 31, 1941) was a U.S. Representative from Colorado. Born in Wilmington, Ohio, Timberlake attended the common schools and Earlham College, Richmond, Indiana from 1871 to 1874. He taught scho ...

(1851-1941), U.S representative

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External links

* {{Find a Grave cemetery, 144374912
History of Fort Collins Cemeteries at Fort Collins City website

Interment Index of Grandview and Roselawn Cemeteries
nbsp;(Note: For the Interment Index, click I Agree, then click on the Search by pull down box (defaults to Address), change to Cemetery Plot (Last Name) to search for interments by last name. If the Cemetery ID begins with a 'G' the burial was at Grandview, if it begins with an 'R' the burial was at Roselawn Cemetery, also in Fort Collins.) * Finding th

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