Edward Dorris, a stagecoach driver, died on July 21, 1865, aged 31 years 2 months and 28 days, of a sunstroke or a heart attack en route to Bent’s Old Fort, a Barlow and Sanderson stagecoach station in the 1860's. Like others who had gone before him, the hardship of life on the Santa Fe Trail ended here at Bent’s Fort. Of the thirteen graves located in this cemetery, twelve are covered with adobe bricks while Dorris’ grave is covered with limestone and marked. This may be the cemetery described by visitors to Bent’s Fort in the 1840's, including an 1847 account by Lt. Abert of the U.S. Army of the West that told of a Missouri volunteer who died and was buried, with graves covered by prickly pear or rocks to keep wolves from tearing the bodies out of the ground. The cemetery was never completely excavated.