This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Shotwell, Lowes, Rupp, Jackson, Blanton, Davis, Cuff Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/5YB.2ACE/2873 Message Board Post: Eli L. Shotwell was born in Nebraska February 5, 1889, son of Benjamin and Melissa Lowes Shotwell. He passed this life in Cheyenne Hospital November 6, 1957. In passing he leaves his beloved wife, Ida, three daughters, Florence Rupp of Tucson, Arizona, Edith Jackson and Vera Blanton of Cheyenne, and one son Eli, Jr. of the home address. Three sisters survive. They are Mrs. Margaret Davis and Mrs. Ida Shotwell Cuff of Sayre, and Mrs. Pearl Davis of Omaha, Nebraksa, and one sister-in-law, Mrs. Josie Shotwell of Sayre. Seventeen grandchildren and eleven great grandchildren and eleven great grandchildren survive. He was a member of the Methodist church and of the Odd Fellows lodge of Cheyenne. Funeral services were held Friday at the Methodist church in this city in the presence of a large crowd of relatives and friends. In charge of the services were Rev. Gerald Main and Dr. Buster of Cheyenne and Rev. Leonard Cronin of Sayre. The local Odd Fellows lodge conducted graveside services. Burial was in the Cheyenne cemetery, Cheyenne, Roger Mills County, Oklahoma under the direction of Scroggins Funeral Home. Cheyenne Star, Cheyenne, OK