Fort Huachuca Post Cemetery

GPS Coordinates: 31.547866, -110.375724
County: Cochise
Record count: 6,025

Ownership: U.S. Army

Directions: Located within Fort Huachuca, the post cemetery sits at the far south-west part of the fort, at the end of Burt Rd.

Background: Fort Huachuca Post Cemetery, located in southeastern Arizona's Huachuca Mountains, has origins tied to the frontier military era. Fort Huachuca was established in 1877 to protect settlers and travel routes while blocking Apache plunder routes through the San Pedro River Valley into Mexico.

The cemetery's first location was near the southwest corner of Grierson and Mizner Avenues, with the first burial being Private Thomas P. Kelly of Company B, 6th Cavalry, in 1878. After 16 burials, the cemetery was moved to its present location on May 18, 1883. The cemetery served as the burial place for cavalrymen, pioneers, Apache Indian Scouts, and their families during frontier days. It was closed in May 1948 but reopened and designated an active post cemetery in September 1967, continuing to serve the Fort Huachuca community today.

Records over a century old show that 4,171 known dead and 98 unknown have been interred here since 1883.

Documents

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  Fort Huachuca Post Cemetery, Office of Army Cemeteries

Burial Records

• View All Transcriptions Combined, 6,025 records
  • Office of Army Cemeteries, compiled by Interment.net, September 6, 2025, (4,518 records)
  • Document Transcription, compiled by Interment.net, August 3, 2025, (18 records)
  • Veterans Affairs Database, compiled by Interment.net, April 17, 2025, (1,489 records)

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