# Fagan's Grave

- URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/fagans-grave/
- Also known as: O'Falley's Grave (1858)
- Kind: Cemeteries
- Status: Historic or vanished
- County: El Paso County, Colorado
- Point: 39.1074, -104.5967 (from Scott's 1999 trail map, with a second source (a few hundred feet))

- Updated: 2026-10-06

## What we know

The grave Augustus Voorhees called 'O'Falley's Grave' in 1858, twelve miles along the trail from Marcy's camps; its headstone faced south below the Point of Rocks in 1979 (von Ahlefeldt pp. 20-21).

## Where it was

'Fagan's Grave Camping Place': Scott, Historic Trail Map of the Denver 1x2 Quadrangle (USGS I-2639, 1999, S-0106), symbol read from the reprojected sheet good to a few hundred feet); beside Kiowa Creek just west of Scott's Point of Rocks. 'Along the Jimmy Camp Trail on the west bank of Kiowa Creek near the Point of Rocks' (von Ahlefeldt p. 20, photo p. 21); the 1987 Black Forest plan's Map 2 No. 25.

Read from Glenn R. Scott's USGS historic trail map of 1999 and confirmed by a second, independent source.

## Nearby

- [Billy Paul barn](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/billy-paul-barn/): 1.7 mi south
- [Grandview Ranch](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/grandview-ranch/): 2.8 mi southeast
- [Eastonville Episcopal church (moved)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/eastonville-episcopal-church-moved/): 3.6 mi southeast
- [Eastonville](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/eastonville/): 3.7 mi southeast
- [Clermont](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/clermont/): 3.7 mi northwest
- [Russell Homestead](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/russell-homestead/): 4.4 mi west

Source numbers (S-0000) refer to https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/. Compiled by Michael Christensen for Palmer Divide Research; CC BY 4.0.