Santa Fe County, New Mexico
Genealogy Trails
From The New Mexico Bureau of Immigration, 1906 [Abstracted and submitted
by: Candi H. -2008]
Cemeteries
The oldest cemetery in the Southwest, except the graveyard immediately surrounding San Miguel Church (Santa Fe City), was very near the Garita (Santa Fe City), and the high adobe wall surrounding it is still in quite good repair. On one side of it was a small mortuary chapel where funeral services were conducted. Many celebrated historical characters are buried here, but, unfortunately, no monumental stones distinguish their last resting places.
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Santa Fe
National Cemetery |
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The National Cemetery is a beautiful burial ground where repose the bodies of over a thousand soldiers who fell in the war of the Rebellion, the Indian wars, or died at Santa Fe and vicinity in more peaceful days. It is the only National Cemetery in New Mexico or Arizona since the abandonment recently of the cemetery at Fort Sumner and the re-interment at Santa Fe of the bodies in the National Cemetery. |
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| San Miguel's Cemetery Location: Santa Fe Around the Church |
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| The Odd Fellows'
Cemetery Location: Santa Fe |
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| Fairview Cemetery Location: Santa Fe |
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| Rosario Cemetery Location: Santa Fe |
Rosario Chapel, in Rosario Cemetery, commemorates the victory of De Vargas over the Pueblo Indians in 1692, and is the terminus of the annual historic De Vargas procession, which, with the two annual Corpus Christi processions and the custom of celebrating Guadalupe Day, Christmas Eve and other holidays by the lighting of numerous bonfires, is an echo of "ye olden" days that gives Santa Fe a charm peculiarly its own. | |
| Santa Fe Memorial Gardens | ||