Cemetery Files: Fairmont Cemetery (Raton, NM) Update (Sep 2026)
Companion post to Episode 3 of A Country Girl Rambles. An update on where Fairmont Cemetery stands, for anyone who's been following along — or wants to start! 2,993 Down, 3,481 to Go Back in 2020, I wrote about starting work on Fairmont Cemetery in Raton, New Mexico — almost 7,000 feet up, and at the time close to 7,000 memorials already logged on FindAGrave. I've since moved to Molalla, Oregon, but the work on Fairmont hasn't stopped! I've shared periodic updates since then, but it's been a while! So, here are the numbers to date: 2,993 profiles have been created on WikiTree for people buried at Fairmont, and 3,481 headstone photos are still awaiting a profile. Building a profile Here's how a profile actually comes together, start to finish! It starts with WikiTree Sourcer . I pull up the person's FamilySearch profile — or Ancestry, if that's where the record lives — and Sourcer brings over all the validated sources and writes a narrative bi...
