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Here’s a bargain you can’t live without!  When you buy 4 grave sites at Fairview Cemetery, as advertised recently in The Mountain Mail, you save $400! 

Here’s some of the company you would be keeping, according to ”Chaffee County, Colorado Burials” by June Shaputis:

BLANCHARD, Nancy E. 3 May 1834 – 13 Sep 1908 (1900 census, age 66, widowed, 10 children, 9 living, a Poncha Springs farmer).

BLANKIS, Frank 1870 – 19 Aug 1936.  In 1921, he was a laborer at the National Lumber and Creosoteing Co and lived in Smelter town.

BLAKE, Thomas 8 Jun 1882 – 12 Mar 1949.  Lived in the duplex log home at Newitt on Trout Creek Pass near the Lime Quarry. He had heart attack while walking to Newitt from Hwy. 285. He was the Superintendent of the Mary Murphy Mine and the Raleigh Mine at Bonanza, CO. Left a wife and sons.

Or, mingle with the more famous, such as Twitchell, N R, b. 1841, ME.  He was known as the “pioneer real estate man of Salida,” and in 1890 built The Twitchell Building at the corner of 1st and F.  It is described as “distinguished by segmental arch bays accented by radiating voussoirs and stone sills.”

Begin now to write your headstone, but get the plots first.  Call 720 851 4276.