This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/lY.2ADE/669.1.3.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Nice to here from you. I live up copper gulch area, about 17 miles North of Westcliffe, and about 24 miles southwest of Canon City, or about 14 miles south of highway 50 near Cotopaxi. I am from Grand Junction, and decided to retire here in Fremont Co. I have not retired yet but soon. Yes, Florence and Canon City have really changed. We got a Home Depot, 2 new places to eat, and 4 movie houses. It is growing like a weed. When was the last time you were here? I really don't know too many people because I live out to far. The place is still as beautfiul as ever. I love it down here. Where are you from, and are you retired? Send me a note when you can. Your friend Doug

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/lY.2ADE/669.1.3.1.1 Message Board Post: Hi Doud, I seen where you wanted to talk on here so thought i would see how things have changed back there. I grad. from cchs in 1948 and moved to oregon. I had quite a few friends there at that time but probably most are gone now. I would have liked to come for class reunion but not enough left to be interested i guess. My old girlfriend s name was Mildred Mann. I guess she had 7 kids. She married a Jim or Fred MYERS. I think they live in Florence. Florence used to be almost a ghost town like cripple creek. I guess thats all changed. My mom and dad had a fruit ranch behind the belvedare 0n 9th st. in lincoln park. y grandparents had their place off of 9th st. on elm in lincoln park. Well Doud if you get this hoping you get time to answer and keep me up on the news back there. Sincerly Gene HIATT

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/lY.2ADE/676.1.1.1.1.1.2.1.1 Message Board Post: Hi June, thanks for your reply. Yes im sure things are alot different there now. It used to be a 5.00 fine for walking down main st. with a lunch pail. Canon was a retire ies paradise. Mostly fruit ranches etc. Bud Chess s parents had a cattle ranch along with a few others. Bud Berry s dad had the only new car dealership in town. David FRY s dad owned the only jewelry store in town. One cab in town.(cottons).Bob and Windy Witchmans dad owned fawn hollow tavern. Cripple Creek was a ghost town as was Florence. The only thing in florence was a cat house. Sorry about that but true story. I dont know if the old Renfro place still stands or not. It was a big neat old building on 9th st. just before elm st. Di Nardies used to have a store on 9 th st. to. The royal george was free then to. My old girlfriend lived on college st right below the pen and skyline rd. Her dad used to sleep with a loaded shotgun by his bed all the time. They had a prison break there in 1947. Warden Best w! as the warden at that time. He was so drunk that night they had to help him to the prison.Really cold that night and they almost froze. Anyway June appreciate the reply and just a little news. Sincerly Gene Hiatt

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/lY.2ADE/676.1.1.1.1.1.2.1 Message Board Post: Gene: Canon City is still a nice place to live. We are growing thou. and have a lot more prisons than before. I graduated in 1959 growing up 50's style. It is still a great place to raise children compared to some towns. None of the names you mentioned sound familar as I was quite young then. June

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/lY.2ADE/676.1.1.1.1.1.2 Message Board Post: Hi June, I grad. from cchs in 1948 and guess there isnt enough of us old ducks left to have a reunion.We used to have a fruit ranch in lincoln park behind the belvedare. My grandparents owned the farm on the corner of 9th st. and elm.I had my year book of 48 swiped years ago and wish i knew where to get another one. My old girlfriends name was Mildred Mann. She lived at 521 college st. She played the drums in the band. I often wonder what happened to her. My old friend Louis Muschetti died i guess a few years agoof sugar diebetes. Super guy as was his whole family. Anyway June if you get a chance write me. I really miss the old town but i m sure it s not as nice as it used to be. Sincerly Gene Hiatt

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/lY.2ADE/701.1.1 Message Board Post: Hi Gayle, there used to be a coal mine on the outskirts of florence called the black diamond. There used to be a zink mine out of canon city also. My old girlfriends dad used to work there. He also had caught the record rainbow trout out of the arkansaw river. name was earnest Mann.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: melrose,bryant,watson Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/lY.2ADE/761 Message Board Post: Can someone do a lookup for an obituary for Harry Guy Melrose, born 1893 at Pagosa Springs, died at Canon City, 5 Mar1982 and his wife, Nettie, died at Canon City, 7 mar 1984. They are buried in Union Highland Cemetery at Florence, Colo. They lived up the canyon from Coaldale, Colo. Did he have any children and was there an estate or probate record? What happened to his property, his home that he built? Harry was the son of James W. Melrose and Nellie Dowell of Pagosa Springs and James later lived in Denver with his second wife and child. Jame's father was Hugh Hudson Melrose who had come into Pueblo and the Hardscrabble area as early as 1862. Hugh was born in Felton, Northumberland, in 1837. Thank you for your help. Wendell Hugh Melrose

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Hackett Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/lY.2ADE/760 Message Board Post: Looking for any information about the family of a B. Hackett which The Colorado Tombstone Project lists at Union Highland Cemetery, Florence, Fremont Co., CO -- B. Hackett, No. 1,332, Lot 7, 23 Aug 1904. No age or birth date is given.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: HASKINS, DAVENPORT Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/lY.2ADE/759 Message Board Post: Hello Fellow Fremont Posters! First some background: My G>Grandfather, Charles F. HASKINS, was an engineer on the D&RGRR in the mid 1880's. During his tenure, he and his fireman, Dave DAVENPORT, were involved in the famous wreck of '85. What?! Youv'e never heard of this accident that brought about the end of narrow gauge lines in the Rockys, and ended up causing the company to reform as the D&RGW??? No suprise. The company took great pains to make this situation "go away". The gist of the story follows: On May 9th, 1885, sometime after 3:40 P.M., while hauling a mixed load (ore and passengers) along a narrow gauge line of the Grape Creek Extension(Silver Creek Branch towards Westcliff), the trestle gave way in front and in an effort to save the passengers, which he did, he rode the engine (train # 49)(Locomotive 74 drawing train 71) over the downed trestle and plummeted 104 feet into the ravine. I have been researching this accident for the better part of 30 years but have had trouble finding related documentation. My Query: Does anyone have any info on this accident and, particularly, PHOTOS or newspaper articles, or documents pertaining to this accident or the Grape Creek Extention? I would like info on Mr. Dave Davenport as well but have not had much luck. Both men lived in Canon City at the time. Please! Any help would be appreciated. Thanks soooooooooo much in advance, Carl

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/lY.2ADE/748.3 Message Board Post: This obituary proved to be harder to locate than I ever would have imagined. I was finally able to obtain it thru the local museum/history center. For genealogists needing research assistance for the Canon City area, the Royal Gorge Regional Museum and History Center will do research at very reasonable rates. They can be reached at: Royal Gorge Museum and History Center 612 Royal Gorge Blvd. PO Box 1460 Canon City, CO 81215 (719) 269-9036 Big thanks to the kind folks at the museum, and to all who replied. Mike C

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/lY.2ADE/758 Message Board Post: ====================================================================== Sources source note 1: Gladys Marie Stovall Armstrong source note 2: Hyrum Anderson Mead Jr. source note 3: obituary - Opal Estella Jarrell Mead, 17 Aug 2004 ====================================================================== I'm looking for additional data on the following: FAMILY EDGE PLUS EXTENDED FAMILY REPORT ====================================================================== WIFE: Mary KINDT BORN: 2 Aug 1882 Hillside, Fremont Co CO DIED: 10 Jun 1974 Pueblo, Pueblo Co CO BURIED: Gardner Cem, Gardner, Huerfano Co CO ADD. SP: Married "Fred" Frederick Wilhelm YOUCK (Jauch); FATHER: Charles Christopher "the immigrant" KINDT b:24 Jul 1846, Mecklenburg, GERMANY; d:12 Jan 1933, Gardner, Huerfano Co CO. MOTHER: Rose (Ahleit/Ollie) "the immigrant" KUCK (Kueck/Kick) b:21 Dec 1853, Hanover, GERMANY; d:14 Sep 1912, Gardner, Huerfano Co CO. SOURCES: BPlace..data supplied by source note 2, 27 Sep 2003 Other...data supplied by source note 1, 31 Jan 2000 ====================================================================== HUSBAND: Robert N. JARRELL BORN: 11 Apr 1877 AL MARR: 7 Oct 1917 Silver Cliff, Custer Co CO DIED: 25 Oct 1923 Gardner, Huerfano Co CO BURIED: Gardner Cem, Gardner, Huerfano Co CO FATHER: "Nat" Nathaniel JARRELL b:17 May 1834, AL; d:1900, Nacogdoches Co TX; buried Nat Cemetery; served with the CSA in The War for Southern Independence; child #5 of David JARRELL and Mahala (Mahaley A.) ABNEY; [Note: town of Nat Texas is named for him]. MOTHER: Alice V. ALFORD b:1846 to 1847, AL; child of D. Fenner ALFORD and Sarah A.G. CHERRY. SOURCES: BPlace..data supplied by source note 2, 27 Sep 2003 DPlace..data supplied by source note 2, 27 Sep 2003 Other...data supplied by source note 1, 31 Jan 2000 ====================================================================== 1 | NAME: Ruth Alice JARRELL M | BORN: 1 Apr 1918 Gardner, Huerfano Co CO | MARR: 9 Dec 19(private) | DIED: 31 Dec 1987 Payette Co ID | WIFE: John Paul PENNINGTON | BORN: 21 May 1903 DIED: 17 Feb 1976 | SRCE: Other...data supplied by source note 1, 31 Jan 2000 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | Grandchild by John Paul PENNINGTON 1 | NAME: Betty Lou PENNINGTON F | BORN: | MARR: | DIED: before 27 Sep 2003 | SRCE: Oth..data supplied by source note 2, 27 Sep 2003 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | Grandchild by John Paul PENNINGTON 2 | NAME: Alice Jane PENNINGTON F | BORN: | MARR: | DIED: | SRCE: Oth..data supplied by source note 2, 27 Sep 2003 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 2 | NAME: Opal Estella JARRELL F | BORN: 10 Feb 1921 Gardner, Huerfano Co CO | MARR: 26 Dec 19(private) Raton, Colfax Co NM | DIED: 13 Aug 2004 Rye, Pueblo Co CO | HUSB: Hyrum Anderson MEAD | BORN: 12 Jul 1920 DIED: living 13 Aug 2004 | SRCE: BPlace..data supplied by source note 2, 27 Sep 2003 | Death...source note 3 | DPlace..source note 3 | Other...data supplied by source note 1, 31 Jan 2000 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | Grandchild by Hyrum Anderson MEAD 1 | NAME: Elaine Gail MEAD F | BORN: 6 Nov 19(private) Aurora, Arapahoe Co CO | MARR: | DIED: 7 Nov 1942 Aurora, Arapahoe Co CO | BUR: Fort Logan National Cem, Fort Logan, Arapahoe Co CO | SRCE: Oth..data supplied by source note 2, 27 Sep 2003 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | Grandchild by Hyrum Anderson MEAD 2 | NAME: Hyrum Anderson MEAD Jr. M | BORN: 24 Mar 19(private) Pueblo, Pueblo Co CO | MARR: 2 Jan 19(private) Salt Lake City, Salt Lake Co UT | DIED: living 13 Aug 2004 North Salt Lake, Davis Co UT | WIFE: Gloria Rosemary DUNN | BORN: 12 Sep 19(private) DIED: living 1 Oct 2003 | SRCE: Dth..source note 3 | Oth..data supplied by source note 2, 27 Sep 2003 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | Grandchild by Hyrum Anderson MEAD 3 | NAME: Colleen Joy MEAD F | BORN: 12 Jan 19(private) Pueblo, Pueblo Co CO | MARR: 2 Aug 19(private) Provo, Utah Co UT | DIED: living 13 Aug 2004 Shelley, Bingham Co ID | HUSB: David Maurice EVENSEN | BORN: 20 Nov 19(private) DIED: living 13 Aug 2004 | SRCE: Dth..source note 3 | DPl..source note 3 | Oth..data supplied by source note 2, 27 Sep 2003 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | Grandchild by Hyrum Anderson MEAD 4 | NAME: Delaine Joyce MEAD F | BORN: 9 Oct 19(private) Pueblo, Pueblo Co CO | MARR: 30 Mar 19(private) Salt Lake City, Salt Lake Co UT | DIED: living 13 Aug 2004 Rye, Pueblo Co CO | HUSB: Robert Kent SHIFFLETT (Shifflet) | BORN: 11 Jun 19(private) DIED: living 13 Aug 2004 | SRCE: Dth..source note 3 | DPl..source note 3 | Oth..data supplied by source note 2, 27 Sep 2003 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | Grandchild by Hyrum Anderson MEAD 5 | NAME: Nola Jean MEAD F | BORN: 19 Jul 19(private) Pueblo, Pueblo Co CO | MARR: 28 May 19(private) Salt Lake City, Salt Lake Co UT | DIED: living 13 Aug 2004 Salt Lake City, Salt Lake Co UT | HUSB: Reid Cummings SWENSON | BORN: 3 Apr 19(private) DIED: living 13 Aug 2004 | SRCE: Dth..source note 3 | DPl..source note 3 | Oth..data supplied by source note 2, 27 Sep 2003 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | Grandchild by Hyrum Anderson MEAD 6 | NAME: Carl Wayne MEAD M | BORN: 4 Jan 19(private) Pueblo, Pueblo Co CO | MARR: 5 Jun 19(private) Logan, Cache Co CO | DIED: living 13 Aug 2004 Kaysville, Davis Co UT | WIFE: Patricia Ann WINGET | BORN: 28 Jul 19(private) DIED: living 13 Aug 2004 | SRCE: Dth..source note 3 | DPl..source note 3 | Oth..data supplied by source note 2, 27 Sep 2003 ====================================================================== If you can add, subtract, delete, change any of the above data please advise. If you have any questions about the data feel free to ask! Wiley Alston Jarrell 15610 Edenvale Friendswood Texas, 77546 wajarrell@earthlink.net

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/lY.2ADE/440.1.2 Message Board Post: Doris May Dowler (Noble) was My Aunt. From what I could Find out from my other aunys before they died, she was born on 13-May-1913 in Chenney, Nebraska. She died on 1-July-1935 in Rockvale, Colorado, and is burried in Florence, Colorado. Her father's name was Harry Comer Dowker, and her mother's name was Anna May (Powers) Dowler I hope this helps.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/lY.2ADE/757 Message Board Post: I am looking for an obituary for my great uncle Carl Robert BAKER who was born March 02, 1921 and died January 04, 1988 he lived in Coal Creek, Fremont, Colorado. He was an extra for western movies. he played the town drunk in them. He was in a few movies with John Wayne I remember seeing his obituary when I was younger the summer after he passed and it made mention of these movies. can someone please help me I would really like to get and add these to my family history his widow was Mildred. thank you Tracy Staadt charmedgirl1972@yahoo.com

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Cook, Campbell Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/lY.2ADE/756 Message Board Post: I am trying to find information on the parents of my grandmother, Ethel Campbell Cook, (this is the name on my dad's birth certificate) who was born in 1888 in Canon City, CO. She was adopted when she was 3 by J. D. and Martha Wilcox. They moved to El Paso TX I think, but it may have been El Paso county CO. All I have is her obit stating that they moved to El Paso. Since she married my grandfather in Texas I just assumed it was El Paso TX. I have a census from Texas that states her parents were born in Kentucky. Thanks for any information you have. please send information to the following address ponchiedeen@hotmail.com Thanks, Ponchie Deen

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Lloyd, Evans Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.co.uk/mbexec/msg/5538/lY.2ADE/755 Message Board Post: I am interesting in tracing any descendants of Walter Lloyd from Wales who emigrated to the USA as a miner with his wife Mari. They were living in Rosita, Custer, Colorado during the 1880 census and there were 3 children born in Illinois. Mary was born in 1871, William in 1874 and Elizabeth (known as Lizzie) in around 1878/79. The family, later moved to Main Street , Coal Creek, Fremont County where they may have owned a stores. Walter died around 1917. The last known contact to the family in Wales was from Lizzie around 1922. If there is any of Walter's family who would like to exchange information, please get in touch. Thank you.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Mussat, Gwillam, Koerner, Spaulding Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/lY.2ADE/754 Message Board Post: Info from a remember when column in the Canon City Daily Record, CO, under the heading "75 years ago", published January 2006: No new developments have taken place concerning the assassination attempt of James Mussat by unknown persons while he was driving from Canon City to the Thomas Gwillam dairy at the foot of the Oak Creek Grade road. Sheriff Koerner and Deputy Sheriff Ed Spaulding were busy with the investigation.

Hi Cameron, There is a mountain west of CANON CITY, CO called 39 as it is 39 miles from Colorado Springs (or so I've been told). I understood that one of the ranches in the area was called 39 mile ranch. This area being west of Canon City is closer to the town of Lake George than Canon City. Also the town of Florissant is only a few miles south of there. Most folks in them days received their mail with a Florissant, CO address (or at least my grandfather did). (He homesteaded near Lake George). By the way, most of this area is in Park County. The County headquarters are in Fairplay. The cemeteries in this area would be located in Fairplay, Lake George, Florissant, Cripple Creek, Victor, Guffey, and of course Canon City. Sorry, I cannot help with a death record (if there even was one). Quite often the only record in those days was a note in one of the local newspapers if that. Henry In Colorful Colorado 2johansens@prodigy.net ----- Original Message ----- > Hello everyone, > > I am new to this list, having just today found a connection to > Fremont county. I have a puzzle that I hope can be solved. Here it goes: > > My great great great grandfather John Haighton Noyes moved to Canada from England in the mid 1850's. He married and had four children. Apparently they split and he moved to the states. The only notation I have relating to his death is from the Gloucestershire Record Office in England the notation reads: > > NOYES, John Haighton. Of Canyon's City, South Carolina, USA. Died 14th November 1870 at 39, Mile Ranch, near Canyon City. Admin granted to etc. > > At first I looked in South Carolina for a Canyon's City and found no such thing. I had been at a loss for a while now until I realized it was 39 Mile ranch rather than he died at age 39. I googled it and sure enough 39-Mile Ranch came up three times and it was apparently a ranch outside of Canon City in Fremont County, Colorado. > > What I would dream of finding is his gravestone, but I don't know if this is possible. What is possible perhaps is that there is a death record for him in Fremont County. Again, he died on November 14th, 1870. He was born in 1832, so he would be around 38-39. Is it possible for anyone to find his death record? Perhaps even there is mention of his death in a local newspaper. And has anyone here ever heard of 39-Mile Ranch? I would appreciate any help anyone can give. This is very important to me, and I would be ever grateful to one who could shed light on my puzzle. > > Thanks and Best Regards, > > Cameron Bryant > > > ==== COFREMON Mailing List ==== > Fremont County, Colorado COGenWeb > http://www.rootsweb.com/~cofremon/ > ------------- Also list for ------------- > Custer County, Colorado COGenweb > http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Meadows/3456/custer1.html > > ============================== > Search the US Census Collection. Over 140 million records added in the > last 12 months. Largest online collection in the world. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13965/rd.ashx > >

Hello everyone, I am new to this list, having just today found a connection to Fremont county. I have a puzzle that I hope can be solved. Here it goes: My great great great grandfather John Haighton Noyes moved to Canada from England in the mid 1850's. He married and had four children. Apparently they split and he moved to the states. The only notation I have relating to his death is from the Gloucestershire Record Office in England the notation reads: NOYES, John Haighton. Of Canyon's City, South Carolina, USA. Died 14th November 1870 at 39, Mile Ranch, near Canyon City. Admin granted to etc. At first I looked in South Carolina for a Canyon's City and found no such thing. I had been at a loss for a while now until I realized it was 39 Mile ranch rather than he died at age 39. I googled it and sure enough 39-Mile Ranch came up three times and it was apparently a ranch outside of Canon City in Fremont County, Colorado. What I would dream of finding is his gravestone, but I don't know if this is possible. What is possible perhaps is that there is a death record for him in Fremont County. Again, he died on November 14th, 1870. He was born in 1832, so he would be around 38-39. Is it possible for anyone to find his death record? Perhaps even there is mention of his death in a local newspaper. And has anyone here ever heard of 39-Mile Ranch? I would appreciate any help anyone can give. This is very important to me, and I would be ever grateful to one who could shed light on my puzzle. Thanks and Best Regards, Cameron Bryant

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/lY.2ADE/748.1.1 Message Board Post: Shelly: Did you ever get the obit on Eunice Wentworth for Mike C. If so, I would also appreciate a copy. Eunice was my great uncle's wife. Thanks

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Rickwalt, Wentworth Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/lY.2ADE/748.2 Message Board Post: Don't have the obit, but will send you my family group sheet on Eunice. Attempted to attach it here, but the system won't allow me to attach a pdf. file.