Kit Carson County, Colorado
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Kit Carson County Pioneers:
Holiday Peters, 7 South 51 West
His parents were Charles Peters, farming in Richland County, Wisconsin in 1880,
age 25, with Elizabeth 20 and "daughter" Clarence 1, all born in Wisconsin.
Charles' father was named Holliday Peters, who was in Eagle,
Richland County, Wisconsin in 1870, age 37, with Nancy F. 23 and adult children.
"Holiday Peters erected in 1878 a steam sawmill about one-half mile south of the Stanley mill, and cut a large amount of logs into lumber."
1881 Richland Center, Wisconsin "The steam saw mill of Holiday Peters, about eight miles from this
place, was totally destroyed by fire, Monday night. Loss, $3,000;
held no insurance."
Holiday was in Knox County, Nebraska in 1885, age 57, with Lena 12,
Nancy 31, and Sherman 21. (Sherman might be in Las Animas County,
Colorado in 1900, a railroad brakeman, and in Pueblo County in 1910,
dying in 1915, FindaGrave # 112666063.)
Thanks to the Pueblo County Library for the Obituary. But this, based on the survivors, is not the same Sherman
Peters, son of Holiday.
Holiday is buried in Richland County 1830-1894 # 93159858
"m/1 Eliza Jane Thompson November 27, 1851 in Indiana
m/2 Nancy Ellen Coutney February 27, 1870"
Charles 55 and Eliza J. 50 Peters are
in Marion County, Oregon in 1910, living with son
Larned C. 31 and his wife Maud 30.
Lola 5 and Clyde 1 were born in South Dakota.
In 1900 Rock County, Wisconsin, Day Peters is a student, born March 1883 in Nebraska,
Leonard Peters working on the railroad,
Oct 1875 in Wisconsin, both boarding with Robert and Lillie Becker.
Holiday's father Charles died in Oregon in 1926
His mother died in 1939
HOLIDAY AND ELIZABETH
Holiday Peters, of Flagler, Colorado, 24, and Elizabeth G. Timmerman,
19, of Sioux Falls, South Dakota, married
in Minnehaha County, South Dakota on November 14, 1907.
Holiday claimed a tract in section 18, 7S 51W in 1908.
1912 "HOLIDAY D. PETERS, OF SIOUX FALLS, SOUTH DAKOTA.
HEADLIGHT-OPERATING DEVICE.
rounds curves in order that the beams of light may be thrown directly in advance of the vehicle. A
The invention has for its primary object a simple, durable and efficient construction of an automobile headlight turning device which may be easily manufactured and susceptible of easy attachment to the. framework of an automobile. "
Holiday registered for WWI in Ransom County, manager of the Englevale CoOp, with Elizabeth Gladys Peters.
In 1920 Ransom County, North Dakota, Holiday is an oil salesman, 37, born in Wisconsin, with Elizabeth G. 32 Illinois. Wilbur C. 11, Helen B. 7, and Otla F. 5 were born in South Dakota.
Holiday is operating a service station in 1930 Deschutes
County, Oregon, 48, born in Indiana,
with Elizabeth 43, Wilbur 21 working at the service stateion
, Helen 17, and Otto 14 a newsboy.
In 1940 Deschutes County, Oregon, Holiday is transportation manager for a feed and seed warehouse, 57, born in Nebraska, with
Elizabeth 52 in Illinois. Otto 24 has no occupation.
Their daughter Helen Hedden 27 is 27, her husband
Gerald F. Hedden 25 born in California, a truck driver for the warehouse, with son Gerald M. 1 born in California.
Holiday # 27517866 and Elizabeth # 27517865 are both buried in Salem, Oregon.
FindaGrave # 194728095 has Helen Peters (Howard) (Hedden) Burns
"Helen Virginia Peters was the daughter of Holiday Peters and Elizabeth Gladys Timmerman.
She married Donald Howard on May 15, 1933, in Yakima, Washington.
She married Gerald Francis Hedden, son of Eugene Augustus Hedden and Theolesca Tremblay, in the late 1930s; the marriage ended no later than 1943. The couple had one child, a son, who is living.
She married James E. Burns, son of Louis Burns and Bertha McClellan, on July 17, 1943, in Vancouver, Clark County, Washington; they were married until her death. James was born on May 1, 1898, in Glendive, Dawson County, Montana, and died on March 10, 1986, in Multnomah County, Oregon."
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