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Kit Carson County Pioneers:

John F. Scott, 6 South 49 West



John claimed a quarter in 27, 6S 49W in 1891, and another next to it in 1895.

POSSIBLE

John Scott and Julia Ann Arnold married April 25, 1839 in Richland County, Ohio.

John Scott was born in Columbiana county, Ohio, July 6,1817, where he resided until the age of seventeen years, at which time his parents removed to Ashland county and located in Vermillion township. Mr. Scott has always lived in the county, with the exception of two years he spent in Hancock County. He has lived in this township twenty-three years. Andrew Scott, his father was born in Washington county Pennsylvania, in 1769. His mother was born in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania in 1785.
They reared a family of twelve children, all of whom lived to maturity. Their names were: Margaret, Elizabeth, Jane, Sarah, Mary, John, Duncun, Andrew, Joseph P., Alexander, David, and Jason. All are living but Elizabeth, Sarah, and Duncun, and all are married but Jason. John is the sixth child, and was married April 25,1837, to Julia Ann Arnold, who was born in Vermillion township.
The fruits of this union are twelve children, ten of whom are living: Catharine A., who was born May 24,1842; John F., who was born March 6,1844; Harriet Jane, who was born December 22,1845; Calista C., who was born October 25,1847; Julia I., who was born March 12,1850; Mary Amanda, born April 7,1852; Joseph P., born January 19,1857; James R., born January 7,1860; Ann E., born November 16,1862; and Arizona, born October 5,1868. All are married but three; Joseph P., James R., and Arizona. One child died in infancy, and Andrew departed this life July 2,1841, age 15 months. Mr. Scott is a farmer. He ran a threshing machine for twenty-eight years in succession, and from time to time since, but for the past six years he has paid all his attention to his farm and stock. Arizona, the youngest, is the only child living at home.

In 1850 Ashland County, Ohio, John F. Scott is 14, with John 40 and Julia A. 38, farming. Catherine is 17, Harriet 12.
Calista S. is 9, Julia J. 7, Mary A. 5, Joseph P. 3 and newborn James R., all born in Ohiol.

John 1817-1891 # 23949517 and Julia A. (Arnold) Scott 1822-1897 # 23949516 are buried in Ashland COunty.

Joseph Patterson Scott, born about 1857 to John Scott and Julia Arnold, died Feb 4, 1909 in Richalrand County.
Zona Scott Boyd, born Oct 5, 1868 in Ashland County, married Joseph Boyd, died Sept 14, 1946.
Zona # 23849655 and Joseph S. Boyd are buried in Ashland County.
Harriett Jane Hostetter, widow of Henry Hershey Hostetter, born Dec 22, 1847 at Mifflin Ohio, died in Evanston, Illinois April 10, 1926, to be buried at Palo (Should be Polo), Illinois.
Harriett # 87295151, and Henry 1834-1918 # 8295123 are buried in Fairmount Cemetery, Polo, Ogle Couty.

Sedelia Balyeat, born October 19, 1850 in Ohio, widowed, died Feb 18, 1911 in Van Wert, Ohio. She was to be buried in Van Wert. # 29911044 has her bureid in Van Wert, with Marquis De Lafayette Balyeat 18451880. |


In 1880 Denver, John F. Scott is a carpenter, 32, born in Ohio, living in a boarding house.

In 1900 Elbert County, John is farming, born November 1850 in Ohio, widowed,

August 28, 1903 Elbert County, Colorado "James Ryan, foreman of the Globe smelter, Denver, is visiting John F. Scott of Fairview."

November 24, 1905 Elbert County

In 1910 El Paso County, John is divorced, 64, born in Ohio, farming.

John 35, married Ida H. Spurlock on July 8, 1915 in Colorado Springs. This is the sonof W. S. and Oliva L. Scott who were in Texas County, Missouri in 1880.

The older John is still in El Paso County in 1920, widowed, 74.


ANOTHER POSSIBLE
In 1880 Douglas County, Colorado, Alex Scott is 40, Jane 33, both born in Scotland. Alex is 13, Ann 10, John 9, Georgana 7, and Frank 4.

In 1885 Douglas County, Alex is 45, Jane M. 43, Alex Jr. 18, all born in Scotland. Anna 15 and John 14 were born in Illinois, Georgiana 11 and Frank 9 in Colorado.

Castle Rock Colorado " Mr. John Scott and Miss Mary Woodhouse, and Mr. Theophilus Harkins and Miss Sarah Woodhouse, at the home of the brides' parents at 2:30 p.m. Wednesday, November 15th, 1890, Rev. Chas. W. Null officiating. Only the near relatives of the contracting parties were present. The young couples start out on life's journey with bright prospects. THE JOURNAL extends congratulations."
John was 28, Mary 21.

John 1871-1941 is buried in Castle Rock # 2842144, with Mary E. 1878-1928.
Februrary 21, 1941
"News of the sudden death of John Scott, which occurred last Saturday afternoon, came as a shock to every one, and brought sorrow to all. Mr. Scott had been in failing health for quite some time and suffered with heart attacks. As he had always led an active life and took great interest in his work on the ranch, he disregarded his doctor's advice, and continuea with the work from which he derived much satisfaction.
On Saturday morning, he busied himself with the feeding of his cattle and other such work. He and his son had planned on sawing up some stove wood in the afternoon. After dinner, the son went out and commenced sawing the wood, not waiting for his father to join him. However, when Mr. Scott started to leave the house he suffered a severe heart attack, and fell dead.
Funeral services were held for him at the Methodist Episcopal church in Castle Rock, on Tuesday afternoon, Rev. D. S. Jay officiating, and burial was made in the Castle Rock cemetery. The attendance at these services and the many floral tributes attested the great esteem in which Mr. Scott was held in the community in which he had spent practically all of his life.
John Scott was born March 5, 1871 in Chicago, Illinois. He passed away at his home February 15, 1941 at tho age of 69 years, 11 months and 10 days.
When but a small child he moved with his parents to Denver and lived there a short time. His father, a few years later, purchased a ranch northeast of Castle Rock, where Mr. Scott lived until the time of his marriage to Mary Elizabeth Woodouse of Castle Rock, Colorado on November 15, 1899.
Mr. and Mrs. Scott established a home a short distance from this ranch and in 1900 moved to the Woodhouse ranch, just north of Castle Rock, where he resided until 1919. At this time he moved with his family to the ranch south of Louviers, where he resided until the time of his death.
His wife preceded hm in death just thirteen years, lacking two days. She passee away February 17, 1928.
To this marriage four children were born: Mrs. Guy Anderson, of Castle Rock, Alva Charles Scott, Sedalia, Mrs. Alice Mae Krakaw of Idaho Springs, and one child that died in infancy.
Besides his son and daughters, Mr. Scot is survived by three grandchildren, Vernon and Frances Scott and Donald Anderson, ; one sister, Mrs. Anna Abbey, of Fresno, California; and one brother, Frank Scott, of Hayden, Colorado.

Mr. Scott was a loving father and kind friend. He will be greatly missed by all who knew him.
The sincere gympafchy of all is extended to the sorrowing relatives in their time of bereavement.


Alva Charles Scott, Sedalia, Colorado, Son; Ethel Viola Anderson, Castle Rock, Daughter; Alice May Kracaw, Idaho Springs, Colorado, Daughter "

Frank Scott married Alwilda Conant in Castle Rock June 26, 1901.
"Invitations were issued this week to a limited number of intimate friends for the weddiug of Miss Alwilda Conant and Mr. Frank Scott. The ceremony occurs at the home of the bride's parents next Wednesday afternoon. Mr. Scott is one of the most successful young ranchmen and stock growers in Douglas county while Miss Conant has an enviable reputation as a successful school teacher. Both of the young people are very popular and will start life with the best wishes of a host of friends."

Frank H. Scott 1875-1954 is buried in Hayden, Colorado # 144715522.
In 1910 he was in Rio Blanco County, 34, farming, with Alwilda C. 34 both born in Colorado. They've been married 7 years, and have Wilda J. 8, and Lillian B. 5. He had married Lena M. Elliott on July 25, 1920 in Steamboat Springs.

Alwilda Scott 1875-1914 is buried in Yampa, Colorado # 82420626.

"Frank Scott, widely known Hayden resident, died suddenly Sunday morning at his ranch home following a heart attack. He was 78 years old and made his home at Hayden since 1903. Funeral services were held yesterday, afternoon at the Hayden Congregational church, interment was at the Hayden cemetery and pallbearers were Ernest Signs, Porter Cozzens, Frank Rowley, William Foster, Harold Wilson and Lester Grandbouche. Rev. Miller officiated.
Mr. Scott was born September 20, 1875, in Denver. Surviving are three sons, Delbert, Harold and Howard, all of Hayden ; four daughters, Mrs. Wilda Kitchens of Winnemucca, Nev. ; Mrs. Lillian Ramey, Grand Junction ; Mrs. Dorothy Gray, Hayden ; Mrs. Bonnie Gllland, Hayden, and a sister, Mrs. Anna Abbey of Fresno, Calif.
Wilda J. Scott, age 18, married A. Ray Lyons on July 25, 1920 in Steamboat Springs.

In 1940 Hayden, Colorado, Abner R. is farming 45, born in Missouri, with Wilda J. 37, Leora 18 an office assistant, Robert L. 17, Ralph C. 13, and Marvin D. 8.

September 3, 1942 "Mrs. Wilda Lyons went to Denver this week to attend the marriage of her daughter to a Mr. Steele. The wedding was to be Sept. 3 at the chapel in Fort Logan."


July 6, 1944 " Our community was given a real surprise the last of the week when the marriage of John C. Kitchens and Mrs. Wilda Lyons was announced. Only a small group of close friends had an inkling that such an event was pending. The couple went to Salt Lake City Wednesday afternoon and were married Thursday afternoon by a minister in Salt Lake City. They were back in Hayden by Sunday and will live on the Dickinson place north of town where John is in charge of part of the Bolten cattle. Mrs. Kitchens is the daughter of Frank Scott, one of our pioneers. She was born and raised in * -his part of the county, and also attended school here. For many months she has been an assistant nurse at the hospital. She has many friends and acquaintances in this community as well as being the mother of three boys and one girl, all of whom have been students in our grade and high school. John Kitchens is a member of the Lemuel Kitchens family and has lived here most of his life, although he spent several years in southern California, but later came back to Routt county, where he spent most of his life. John is one oi the best known men in the Hayden valley and has engaged in the livestock business through the years. He is still a first-class cattleman and is carrying on that line of work for Mr. Bolten. Scores of friends and acquaintances extend best wishes to Mr. and Mrs. Kitchens for their health and happiness."

Abner Ray Lyons registered for WWII in Hayden, with Mrs. Wilda Lyons as referenfce. ABNER R. LYONS Hayden. Private, Battery E, 36th Regiment, Coast Artillery Corps. Born at Brookfield, Mo., Feb. 14, 1895. Son of Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Lyons. Entered service July 14, 1918; mustered out Dec. 20, 1918.
"Marvin
"Corky" D. Lyons of Grand Junction passed away peacefully on August 20, 2015, at HopeWest Hospice Center. He was 84 years old.
Corky was born July 4, 1931, to Abner R. and Wilda J. Lyons in Hayden, Colorado. He spent his childhood on a ranch outside of Hayden until his high school graduation in Craig, Colorado.
He met his wife, Dorothy, in Craig and they were married in Glenwood Springs on July 15, 1950. From there he attended Colorado State University and Adams State College where he obtained his bachelor's and master's degrees in Education.
Corky was a teacher, coach and referee in Glenwood Springs until his retirement in 1986. A talented storyteller and consummate practical joker, he was an avid outdoorsman who loved hunting and fishing and shared this passion with his family and friends.
He is survived by his three children: sons, Mark (Brenda) Lyons, of Desert Hills, AZ, and Kirk Lyons, of Westminster, CO, and daughter, Terri (Tom) Smedra, of Minneapolis, MN; sister, Leora (Keith) Smith, of Baltimore, MD; brother, Ralph Lyons, of Delta, CO; four grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.
He is preceded in death by his wife, parents and one brother. "

"Anna Lyons died June 29, 2015, at Horizons Care Center in Eckert. She was 84. Anna Marie Lepp was born Nov. 28, 1930, in Bismarck, N.D., to Arthur and Anna (Roth) Lepp. She married Ralph Lyons in Denver on Nov. 24, 1951. She is survived by her husband, Ralph Lyons of Delta; sons, Ray Lyons of Florida, Paul Lyons and Dave Lyons, both of Craig, and Robert Lyons of Delta; a daughter, Cindy Peterson of Highlands Ranch; 10 grandchildren and 10 great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by a daughter, Janie Mills; and a son, Barry Lyons. Sunset Mesa Funeral Directors handled the arrangements.:
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Today is March the 11th, 2014, and I’m just inside the Baltimore City limits interviewing Lee Smith or Leora Smith, who likes to go by Lee Smith. And this is a very exciting interview, I am sure. Lee, could I start out by asking you when you were born and where you were born – your early years.
LS: I was born the 16th of April 1921, ten miles from the town of Hayden, Colorado, which sits on the banks of the Yampa River in a beautiful part of Northwestern Colorado.
MM: Did you continue to live in Colorado for your early years, your elementary education, high school education? LS: Yes, I did. In fact, I rode a horse to school for elementary school and my children think it’s very funny that I can’t ride a bicycle. And I have informed them that that’s alright, I can ride a horse. I went to high school in Hayden and then I went to a small junior college in Grand Junction, which is now a four year college. This is Grand Junction, Western Colorado. And I went there, but I did not get a degree from there.
MM: Were you interested in any particular subjects at that time?
LS: Music. I’ve always played the piano and my mother has a lovely singing voice.
MM: Isn’t that interesting. That was my favorite instrument, too, when I was growing up. I’m very grateful to my mother for getting me the piano. This takes you to approximately the late 20s or the early 1930s, the Depression, the Crash. Was that particularly evident in Colorado, where you were growing up and being educated, the Depression years?
LS: There was probably no money and not very much time to do anything. My mother could do all kinds of wonderful things. She was a great cook. She knew how to make clothes. She made all my brothers’ shirts. She made all my school clothes, until I got big enough to do that. And she was a creative person in her way. We stopped every night of our lives to look at the sunset, because the view from our ranch window across the north was a whole range of mountains. And when the sun would set there in the late afternoon, particularly in the winter time when there was snow, it was incredible. So, being outside, learning to look at things, I think was part of my very early education. And I think making clothes was a real outlet for me, because today all the kids want to look alike. In those days, you wanted something different.
MM: As we go into the 1930s, and war begins to seem imminent in Europe, I wonder to what extent you had interest in or an awareness of the world outside Colorado or outside the United States. Or did all of this going to war, the European War starting and then Pearl Harbor, was this kind of a shock to you or something that was part of your growing consciousness.
LS: I think it was just growing consciousness. Because when I graduated from high school in 1929, I went off to this junior college for a year on a scholarship – that was not renewable unless I lived there – so I did not go back, because I didn’t have enough money to do that. So I got a job selling yard goods in a department store and then I married. And everybody was either in military or going to war, or your family was, your brothers, your uncles, your aunts, all of my school friends. The town of Hayden lost one man during the war. We felt very, very lucky. But it was something that everybody was doing and the thought that I personally would ever visit either Japan or Germany; I would have laughed at them. Who, me? No way! And, yet, I did do that later. MM: So you were working in the department store in the late 30s, early 40s, during World War II? And you met your husband.
LS: Yes We married in ’42. He was in Air Force. He ended up in the Pacific. In fact, he helped drive the Burma Road.
MM: He flew cargo over Burma Road?
LS: He was security with them. I think he drove through there. This is probably what, in the long run, caused the marriage to break up. And it did this to a lot of young people because the men were sent overseas, they learned a lot of things, they saw a different world, and the rest of us had stayed home. So when they came back, we were not the same people.
MM: Did you get into any kind of – I know you had some art training here along the way – and I would like to know where that was and how that came about. And do you remember women going off to work in factories and things like that during World War II.
LS: A lot of young women that I knew, worked in factories. And I interviewed for a job once at the Gates Rubber Company making fan belts. And when they told me I would stand at a machine for my 8 hour shift and cut fan belts, I said, I can’t do that. I just could not do it. But I didn’t have art training, as such, at that point. It was not taught in my high school. We did a lot of music and dancing, but we didn’t have art. I went to college, again, no art. That just came from this love of making things. I always wanted to paint, but I didn’t have anything to paint with. Let me think a minute here. After the marriage broke up, and I came back from Japan, I had then gotten into photography.
MM: Oh. Ok. Well we’ll then get that into the narrative.
LS: Then I went to photography school. That was the first time I did any kind of educational thing, which was art-related.

I came back from Japan, after that first marriage broke up in ’48
Well, I married again in Japan and it didn’t last at all. MM: An American? LS: Yes. MM: A civilian? LS: Yes, came back and lived in Vermont, but I lived there for three years. And, I’d been there, done that. So I wanted to go overseas again. So I applied to go to Europe"






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