Dear Editor,

I really enjoyed the article about the Caribou Cemetery in Issue 14. I feel so fortunate to have explored the Caribou Cemetery nearly 50 years ago. At that time the tombstones were numerous and most were beautifully chiseled monuments. The lettering was clear and most stones mentioned the words “mother,” “father,” or “child.”

The cause of death was typically listed, the most common cause of death for men being mining accidents and timbering accidents followed by horse and carriage accidents. I did not see children’s names on the stones and the cause of death was not mentioned on women’s stones. Unfortunately, the stones were often mounted on a chiseled base and easily lifted out. The stones were seen on the back of a pickup truck passing through Nederland in 1972. The beautiful iron fencing disappeared around the same time.

Jimmy Keith

Nederland