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Bent County
County Seat - Las Animas
(1870 Fort Lyon, 1870-1872 Boggsville)
Population - 5,998
Bent 1870-1874
Bent 1874-1889
Bent 1889-Today
Bent County was created in 1870 from part of Huerfano County and Indian Reserves.
In 1874 part of Greenwood County was added to Bent.
In 1889, parts of Bent were split off for Lincoln, Cheyenne, Kiowa, Otero and Prowers Counties.
Go to: Biographies, Cemeteries, Census, Directories, Obits, Vitals- Death Cert
 
Title/Subject Size Donor Date
Biographies
Stone's 1918 "History of Colorado" Avg 5 KB Dec 99 -
Mar 00
Maggie Stewart-Zimmerman
Allen, Mary Paralee, Campbell, Leroy M., McCauley, Marion R., Murphy, Will Richard,
Wallinger, Einar J.
Cemeteries
Icon indicates cemetery headstone photographs have been donated to the Colorado Tombstone Photo Project.
Bent County Cemetery Notes 5 KB Oct 99 Luella Marlman
Fort Lyon National Cemetery 370 kb Jun 06 Joy Fisher
Home Cemetery, South Of McClave 36 kb Mar 03 Mel West
Indian Rock Cemetery 1 KB Jul 01 John Realph
Las Animas Cemetery
A-B | C-E | F-H | I-L | M | N-R | S | T-Z
Avg 90 KB Oct 99 Luella Marlman
Union Valley Cemetery, Hasty 36 kb Mar 03 Mel West
WWII Vets Memoral, Las Animas 3 KB Oct 99 Luella Marlman
Census Indexes
1870 Census Mortality Index 1.3 KB Aug 97 Diane White
1880 Census Mortality Index 4.1 KB Jun 01 Marta Norton
1880 Federal Census - Schedule Images
Publisher's Notes | Schedules (51 Gif Images)
  Sep 00 Gary E Kelley and S-K Publications
Directories
1911 Colorado Business Directory   Nov-Dec 04 Joy Fisher
Towns: Caddoa, Prowers, Las Animas and McClave
Obits/Death Notices
Bergsten, Freddie August USN died Sept 1918 1 kb Nov 07 Joy Fisher
Vital Records (Death Cert)
Samaniego, Maria Vicenta (AKA Bessie)
Aug 23, 1998
  May 07 Bojie Samaniego-Armstrong
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