Kit Carson County, Colorado
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Kit Carson County Pioneers:
Charles R. Barron, 7 South 51 West
Charles claimed a quarter in section 20,
7S 51W in 1909.
POSSIBLY
Charles Barren was born January 25, 1884 in Moody County, South Dakota to William Barron and Ann Forsyth.
In 1910 Moody County, Charles is farming, 26, with brother Henry 23 and sister Mary 21.
Charles R. Barron is in Moody County, South Dakota in 1920, age 35, born in South Dakota, with his brother Henry S. 33 and sister Mary T. 30. Their parents were born in Scotland.
In 1930, Charles is married to Sarah M. 3 born in Iowa, with Meredith 7 born in South Dakota and newborn Helen born in Minnesota, with brother Henry 43.
In 1940 Moody County, Charles is 56, wife Tillie 44 born in Iowa, son Meredith 17 born in South Dakota, Helen 10, and Zona 8 both born in Minnesota, and brother Henry 53.
Charles is buried in Moody County 1884-1974 # 85093307.
"Charles married Sarah Matilda (McNeil) (1895 - 1998) on January 19, 1921. Charles and Henry continued to operate the farm known as "Arcadia Farm", raising Clydesdale horses and Shorthorn cattle. They traveled to affairs and shows and gained much recognition when he honors and ribbons for their livestock. Many of the ribbons are on display at the Moody County Historic Museum. Henry married Lulu Ethel Grove June 5, 1948. They made their home on his farm which was part of the Homestead. Mary left home and entered business school in Minneapolis and returned to Sioux Falls as a bookkeeper for Shipley's Laundry until retirement in 1967; and at that time she returned to Flandreau to make her home.
Charles and Sarah had three children: Meredith Charles (1922), Helen Madeleine (1929), and Zona Loyce (1931). Meredith married Darleen Southard (1923 - 1969) August 15, 1943, and after serving in WWII, came back in 1951 to farm which his aunt Mary owned. Meredith and Darleen had two children, Larry Douglas (1944) and Linda Kay (1950). Larry married Patti Schramm in 1965 and have four children: David Michael (1966), Claudia Marie (1968), April Lynn (1973), and McLain Douglas (1982).
Helen attended business college and did bookkeeping at various locations. In 1957 she settled in Chicago, Illinois and worked for United Airline until retirement in 1983.
Zona attended business school and was employed in Huron before her marriage to Victor Helge Sanderson September 27, 1953. They moved to the "Barron Homestead"in 1956.. Zona and Victor have three children: Brad Victor, Deborah Lanette, and Todd Lee.
Charles and Sarah made their home on the Homestead in a second house until April, 1967 when they moved into Flandreau. There small home on the farm was sold to their grandson, Larry, and was moved to his farm union Township where they are living. Zona, Victor, and family third-generation living and farming this Homestead."
POSSIBLY
In 1900 Clear Creek County, Colorado,
Charles, born June 1850 in Canada, immigrating
in 1870, married in 1883 to Mary K. 43 born in
Ohio. Percy M. is 15, William 4, both born in Colorado.
In 1910 Idaho Springs, Colorado,
Charles Barron is 52, widowed, born in Canada,
immigrating in 1875. William C. is 17, son,
born in Colorado.
William Charles Barron, son of Charles William Barron and Mary E. Wilt, born in Clear Creek County in 1892,
died in 1943, buried in Pierce County, Washington
# 125233655, with Carrie Catlin (Rants) Barron born 1892 in Colorado, dying 1973 # 136609168.
POSSIBLY
In Jasper County, Iowa,
Benjamin Young and Rachel Woods' fourth child was
Mary M Young, 18 Nov 1856, Iowa/28 Nov 1948/ Charles Barron
Charles and Mary were in Custer County, Nebraska in 1910, and Kearney, Nebraska in 1920, Charles S. 69, Mary M. 63, adn Homer 22.
Mary is widowed in 1941 Kearney, living at 520 W. 27th.
POSSIBLY
Charles R. LeBarron, 29, son of Chas B. LaBarron and Rosena C. Roth,
married Wilma Damewood on Dec 24, 1916 in Page County., Iowa
Charles LeBarron is in Page County, Iowa in 1920, born in Nebraska, with wife, born in Iowa, both 30.
Charles R. LeBarron 1888-1949 buried in Clarinda Iowa # 79387466, with Wilma J. 1886-1971.
POSSIBLY THE ONE IN HUGO
In the 1850s, a young man from Missouri arrived in the area later known as Colorado. His name was John W. Barron, later known as “Cap” Barron.
Soon, gold was discovered in the Rocky Mountain, but to get to the gold, prospectors had to cross what New York newspaperman Horace Greeley dismissed as a region “of sterility and thirst.” This region was home to Cap Barron, and later was home to Hugo.
A couple of stage lines came through the area not long afterward; the Leavenworth & Pikes Peak line arrived in 1859 but was in business only a few months. The Butterfield Overland Dispatch arrived in 1864 and stayed longer. The B. O. D. located a station just west of present day Hugo, and called it “Hogan’s station.” Cap Barron became the B. O. D. agent at Hogan’s station, and had land in that area, including a plentiful supply of water, later known as Cap Barron’s Spring.
Back in the gold rush days, herds of Texas longhorn beef cattle were driven north to serve the mining camps. Some of those cattlemen and their herders liked the looks of eastern Colorado, and the region between Kansas and the mountains became range for a handful of huge cattle operations. The first real cattle ranch operator in the Hugo area was Cap Barron.
Prior to the arrival of the railroad, Cap Barron’s place was situated just inside the Arapaho and Cheyenne Indian Reserve. But as the railroad arrived, the company officials decided they needed their own county, and the Territorial legislature created one for them, naming it after a railroad construction official, Colonel Greenwood. The town of Kit Carson boasted several thousand people then, so county seat honors went to Kit Carson. It was a fleeting glory. The rails moved on west, taking most of the people with them, and Greenwood County was abolished in 1874.
The county’s territory was itself carved up, with the northern end becoming Elbert County. Hugo was near the center of the new Elbert County empire, and Hugo residents were involved in the new county’s beginnings, with Clifford Rogers being appointed justice of the peace here. Cap Barron, William Hill and A. K. Clarke were called for the first jury. Clarke and rancher Frank T. Cochrane later served as Elbert County Commissioners, and Cap Barron was Elbert County’s sheriff for a term.
In 1880 Elbert County, Colorado (which then included
current Lincoln and Kit Carson County,
John W. Barron is a cattle raiser, 58,
with Eliza 49, both born in Missouri.
Charles 26 and William 15 were born in California, Luna 13 in Missouri.
Captain John W. Barron 1821-1902 is buried in Denver # 145783895,
with Mary B. Barron 1835-1901 # 147519430.
One post says "In 1849 John and Thomas Barron along with several others from Ray Co., MO traveled over the Oregon Trail and then headed to California gold fields. Thomas & John Barron are found in El Dorado Co., CA in 1850 working as miners. In 1859 John W. Barron m. to Eliza Coburn in El Dorado Co. and they are on the 1860 census with 2 children. They left California and returned to Missouri briefly - their last child born there in 1867. Then John W. and Eliza moved to Colorado and remained in the Arapahoe/Elbert Co. area.Eliza died before 1900 in Denver.
Children:
1. Alida C. Barron b. 26 Oct 1852 El Dorado Co., CA - d. 24 Dec 1920 Adams Co., CO (Denver). She m. Thomas Loftus Feb 1875 in CO.
2. Charles W. Barron b. 1855 El Dorado Co., CA
appears to have lived in the Denver area most his life
3. William W. Barron b. 1865 El Dorado Co., CA
m. 23 Nov 1885 to Luella Wyant.
worked for the RR. Colorful news report about them.
4. Eulalie Luna/Lulu Barron b. 1867 Missouri
She eloped with a Will Hall and married 10 Jul 1882. Her father came after them and arrested Hall. News report gives details. Possibly moved to Montana.
1917 Hugo
1921 "Billy" Barron, son of Cap Barron,
one of the first settlers in Hugo, after whom
Barron street in Hugo, and Barron gulch,
west of town, were named, passed thru
Hugo Monday morning on his way westward."
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