{"id":2316,"date":"2017-03-05T10:44:37","date_gmt":"2017-03-05T17:44:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidmjessup.com\/?p=2316"},"modified":"2017-03-06T17:12:28","modified_gmt":"2017-03-07T00:12:28","slug":"medina-cemetery-mystery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmjessup.com\/?p=2316","title":{"rendered":"Medina Cemetery Mystery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Historian Ken Jessen just wrote two excellent pieces about the history of Mariano Medina&#8217;s Cemetery. A third article in the series is on its way. Here is the link to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reporterherald.com\/columnists\/colorado-history\/ci_30815964\/mariano-medina-started-thompson-valleys-first-settlement-and\">first article<\/a>. \u00a0The second article is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reporterherald.com\/columnists\/colorado-history\/ci_30831761\/questions-remain-about-medina-family-cemetery?source=rss&amp;utm_source=PrairieMountainMedia.com&amp;utm_campaign=7ed19b1904-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_9151d91528-7ed19b1904-285843809\">here<\/a>: \u00a0After the cemetery was destroyed by the county in early 1960, as Jessen notes, &#8220;the remains were put in &#8220;suitable containers&#8221; and transported the short distance to Namaqua Park where they were buried and covered with a single concrete slab combined with an elongated tombstone-like feature. On the slab are the names of those thought to have been removed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1200\" style=\"width: 226px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1200\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1200\" src=\"https:\/\/www.davidmjessup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/mariano-medina-in-chair-84-bpi--216x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"216\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.davidmjessup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/mariano-medina-in-chair-84-bpi--216x300.jpg 216w, https:\/\/www.davidmjessup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/mariano-medina-in-chair-84-bpi-.jpg 420w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 216px) 100vw, 216px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1200\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mariano Medina<\/p><\/div>\n<p>One of the names on the new marker is that if Marcelina (Lena) Medina, Mariano&#8217;s young daughter who tragically died shortly after her 15th birthday. \u00a0Whether her real bones rest there is a mystery. \u00a0According to one early pioneer recollection, Lena&#8217;s body was stolen from their house on the Big Thompson River and spirited off by her mother for a secret burial on a ridge to the west. \u00a0That incident became the initial scene in my historical novel,\u00a0Mariano&#8217;s Crossing, published by Pronghorn Press in 2012.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Historian Ken Jessen just wrote two excellent pieces about the history of Mariano Medina&#8217;s Cemetery. A third article in the series is on its way. Here is the link to the first article. \u00a0The second article is here: \u00a0After the cemetery was destroyed by the county in early 1960, as Jessen notes, &#8220;the remains were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,21],"tags":[122,80,119,120,71,44,74,123,121],"class_list":["post-2316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-news","tag-bill-mierath","tag-colorado-history","tag-ken-jessen","tag-loveland-history","tag-mariano-medina","tag-marianos-crossing","tag-medina-cemetery","tag-pronghorn-press","tag-zethyl-gates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmjessup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmjessup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmjessup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmjessup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmjessup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2316"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmjessup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2325,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmjessup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2316\/revisions\/2325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmjessup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmjessup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmjessup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}