Almost Forgotten

It is a sad place
graves without names tug at my
heart, make me wonder

~ carliewired

A lonely little cemetery a few miles from Highway 95 has only sketchy information. A dozen graves are marked with a plaque listing four adults, five children and two infants. Only one has a name. The story is that an Hispanic family came up the Colorado River on a steamboat in the 1800s. They landed and settled at what is now Fisher's Landing. In 1899 they all died of small pox during an epidemic and were buried on an island in the lake. When the Imperial Dam was to be built on the Colorado River in the 1930s, a mortuary from Yuma came to remove the graves from the island and reburied them in their present location as the island was soon to disappear. In 1977 the Yuma Women's Reel and Rifle Club erected a cairn to provide the little information that was known.