If I continue concentrating on citizens and covering cemeteries, couldn’t I call my column “Crazy Cec’s comments and cemetery chatter?” Certainly. No I’m not back on prednisone or the sauce either — just feeling good and glad to be alive!

Before I get off of this cemetery kick, I want to pass along some info, that I find to be interesting.

Shortly before “Corky” Coleman passed away, he and I looked for the grave of a Spanish lady buried in, the low ground, which lies south of the regular cemetery. (This cut away area is within the fenced boundary of the cemetery property). Bruce Ward remembers when the Saguache Road and Bridge Dept. hauled away dirt for building up the road bed in the swampy area south of there. This was back during the big depression and Eugene Williams was road supervisor. Most of the hauling was done with teams of horses and wagons with dump boxes. Bruce says the road and bridge dept. also hauled dirt from the George Robertson property (the location of the old flour mill) in order to have enough road material to complete this project.

Now to get back to looking for the lady’s grave - we never did find any trace of any grave - no marker - nothing.

A recent conversation with my friend “Spike” tells me the identity of this lady. Spike says, “Do you remember Emillo Lovato?”  I said “sure I remember him, when I was a kid - he always wore a black hat”. Anyway, Emillo had a brother Charlie. The lady buried in the grave we could not find was the mother-in-law of Charlie Lovato. Can any of you oldtimers help us in any way? It would. be great to locate the grave and also come up with her name. I think it would be nice to place a grave marker in the area where Corky remembered her grave to be, even though it may not be in the exact spot.