Arvada Cemetery was established in 1863. Volunteers of Foothills Genealogical Society of Colorado copied the tombstone inscriptions of Arvada Cemetery in 1983. Information was copied from tombstones, mortuary markers, other metal markers and foot stones. The recording of tombstones inscriptions was done row by row, and published that way, to keep family burials more intact than if listed alphabetically. Volunteers also referred to cemetery records which allowed burials that did not have tombst