Lake County

REGINA O'MALIA EDINGTON

Former Leadville resident Regina O'Malia Edington, 102, died June 18, 2001in her sleep at Town and County Manor in Santa Ana, Calif.

Born September 5, 1898 in Leadville to Edward Robert and Regina [Pulaski]O'Malia, she grew up in Leadville with her sister Angela [McNeese], and brothers Charles,George, and Austin O'Malia.  She is the last of that generation.

Her father, in partnership with J. J. Moynahan, established a funeralparlor/furniture store on Harrison Avenue, where a plaque remained for years.

She taught school in Denver, the Los Angeles area, and the Imperial Valley[southern California], where she met and married her husband Neil Edington [who died in1954].

Although they had no children of their own, they raised their threeO'Malia nieces, Joan O. Hughes, Rita O. Sutherland and Mary Adele O. Geary.

She retired to LaJolla, California, where she traveled extensively, readand became and avid bridge player.

When the year 2000 arrived, she took delight in having lived in threedifferent centuries.

Her McNeece and O'Malia families celebrated her life at a Memorial Mass atHoly Family Cathedral in Orange, California on July 6, 2001.
Herald Democrat, July 12, 2001

Egan, Michael F.

Michael F. Egan - Leadville Carbonate Chronicle - October 26, 1914 - Death
of M. F. Egan - Michael F. Egan, at one time treasurer of Lake county, died
yesterday in the Woodcraft sanatorium, for the insane at Pueblo.  He was
about 60 years old.  Egan was adjudged insane in the county court here,
September 11 last, after his mental condition had become so deranged that he
was a menace to the other wards at the county hospital where he had been an
inmate for several years.  During the term of 1889 and 1890 Egan was county
treasurer of Lake county and lived in a fine house in West Eighth street.
He followed mining in California gulch for a time also, and made several
small stakes.  During another period of his residence in Leadville he
managed a blacksmith shop in East Third street.  After his days of
prosperity, however, Egan lost all he had and finally came to be a county
ward.  Three sons who are believed to survive him have not been heard offor
some time.  Word of Egan's death was sent by the Woodcroft authorities to
the county commissioners here yesterday

Estey, Robert B.

Robert B. Estey - Leadville Carbonate Chronicle - November 2, 1914 -
Leadville's Veteran Mining Man Passes Away at Ripe Old Age - Prominently
Identified With Life of District - Robert B. Estey died at Boulder yesterday
afternoon.  The telephone message to this effect was received by Mr. A. V.
Hunter, of this city, and later in the evening Mr. Norman Estey gave the
intelligence to the Herald Democrat.  Mrs. Estey, the widow, and Norman
Estey, the son, live at 1662 Pearl street in Denver.  During the afternoon
yesterday word reached them that Mr. Estey, at the Boulder sanitarium, was
sinking rapidly.  His son at once started for Boulder, but before he could
reach the bedside, Mr. Estey was dead.  About two years ago failing health
compelled Mr. Estey to retire from active business life.  He spent sometime
at Clark's Wells in Pueblo, and a year ago appeared to be considerably
improved.  While the symptoms of disease appeared to leave him, he slowly
and steadily grew weaker, and a short time ago went to the Boulder
sanitarium, within easy reach of Denver so that his wife and son were
enabled to spend much of their time at his bedside.  Mr. Estey was 79 years
old at the time of his death.  "Mr. Estey has done more for the mining
industry of Leadville than any other single man," was the tribute paid last
night to his memory by John Groberg, who for twenty-seven years has been his
most trusted mining superintendent and close personal friend.  No man
acquainted with the work which Mr. Estey has done in this district will
doubt for a moment the truth of this tribute.  Since 1879 he had been
closely identified with the development of the district and was the active
promoter of many of its largest and most important enterprises.  Robert B.
Estey was born 79 years ago at Calais, Maine, of old New England ancestors.
When a mere boy Mr. Estey was attracted by the stories from the golden
shores of California and was among the first of the Argonauts to reach that
promised land.  He made the trip across the Isthmus of Panama and spent
several years in the pioneer days of the first gold discovery on the Pacific
coast.  Mr. Estey later lived in Nevada where he actively engaged inmining,
laying the foundation for a practical knowledge of the business combined
with a thorough technical training which proved later so valuable to him
when he came to the Leadville district.  He arrived here in 1879, and oneof
his first mining ventures was the sinking of a shaft on Iron Hill not far
from the Silver Cord.  Later he became associated with Mr. S. W. Mudd inthe
development of property on Carbonate Hill, operating for some time the
Leadville Consolidated Mining company group.  In the early nineties Mr.
Estey organized the Union Leasing and Mining company, the first attempt at
consolidation in the Leadville district.  The properties acquired by the
company consisted of a number of claims on East Fryer Hill which hitherto
had been operated individually, but owing to heavy pumping expenses could
not be worked to a profit.  The Union company established a central pumping
plant at the El Paso shaft and drained the East Fryer Hill (?) basin, taking
out several million dollars worth of ore up to the time of the strike.
After the Union company ceased operations, Mr. Estey, either individually or
through various companies in which he became actively interested, sank a
number of shafts in many portions of the district, and did much toward the
development of its geology and the opening up of important ore bodies.
Among these enterprises were the Rialto, the Comstock, the Revenue, and the
Delante.  The Coronado Mining company, one of the largest producers in the
Downtown district, was one of Mr. Estey's most successful enterprises.  A
few years ago he and Mr. Norman Estey, his son, who was associated with him
in his mining ventures, operated the Chippewa mine successfully.  Mr. Estey
was an authority on the geology of the Leadville district.  Mining menfound
him to be a storehouse of knowledge concerning the geological formations and
ore deposits, and the promoters of many large mining enterprises in which he
was not financially interested eagerly sought his advice and counsel.  Mr.
Estey was associated in many important mining enterprises, with prominent
eastern capitalists who relied implicitly on his judgment and knowledge of
the mining business.  He was engaged with Mr. S. W. Mudd for a number of
years and entered into an active partnership with the late Henry L. Higgins.
His relations with his employees and business associates were of the most
cordial character.  He treated his men justly and generously.  The menwho
served him faithfully he usually retained in his employee, and some of the
best and oldest miners in the district were associated underground with the
veteran mining man.  Engaged as he was during the many years of his active
life in ___ing to his many mining ventures and enterprises, Mr. Estey
apparently had little time for recreation.  He found, however, one sourceof
genuine pleasure and amusement.  During the fishing season he took his rod
and line and spent days at a time along the banks of the Eagle river, his
favorite fishing ground.  Leadville will today pay its tribute of respect
and admiration to Mr. Estey, for it is to him and men like him that this
district owes its prosperity and its importance.  He made money, only to
spend it again in opening up new sections and new mines.  He was a type of
the true western mining spirit, the spirit of venture, the spirit to which
the west owes its greatness.

FELTON, GEORGE  -  Colorado Outdoor Magazine, 93

George Feltner, 93, retired Colorado Outdoor Magazine Asst. Editor.
Born May 17, 1908 in Leadville: passed away April 25, 2002.  Survived by wife Arti;sons Don and Jon; son Gary (deceased); grandchildren Christine (Bryan) Howard, MelissaFeltner, Zoriah Miller; great-grandchildren
Savanah; sister Eve Beyeler.

Visitation, Tuesday 5 p.m. to 7 p.m.; services, Wednesday 10 a.m.;
both at Olinger Wadsworth Chapel (NE corner).

Delivered papers to Baby Doe Tabor, saw Buffalo Bill's "Wild West Show", lovedto watch 20+ trains a day going through Leadville, was a "Cub Reporter" forHerald Democrat newspaper. . . covered hangings to barroom brawls and infamous"badger fights".  . . was shot at, laughed at, laughed  with, andloved by family and friends.

Donations to Seventh Avenue Congregational Church, 666 King St.,
Denver 80204; or Hospice of St. John, 1320 Everett Ct., Lakewood 80215.

Fikani, Asad

Asad Fikani - Leadville Carbonate Chronicle - May 6, 1912 - Dies in
Littleton - Word has been received here from Littleton, Colo., of the recent
death of Asad Fikani, formerly a resident of Leadville.  Mr. Fikani wasborn
in Mount Lebanon, Syria, and was 67 years of age.  He came to America
twenty-two years ago, residing in Denver and Leadville until five years ago
when he went to Littleton, and has lived there ever since.  He leaves awife
and three sons and four daughters, Mrs. Frank Fikani, of Littleton; Mrs.
George Harris, of Panama, Mo.; Mrs. F. Kelloff, of Segundo, Colo., and Ethel
Fikani, who graduated from Leadville High school last year and is now
attending Chicago university.  The sons are all in Leadville, where the
father was in business for twelve years.

FISHER - Saturday, April 23, [1920] at St. Vincent's hospital, MissRuth Fisher, aged 52 years.

Funeral, in charge of Moynahan-O'Malia Co., announced later.

FLANNERY

THOMAS FRANCIS FLANNERY
Submitted by: Kathleen R. Minion

Funeral services, which were held this morning for the late Thomas Flannery, formerLeadville resident, were largely attended by local friends and a representation of Gilmancitizens, as he had been living at Gilman for the past twenty-three years. The serviceswere held at 9:30 this morning from the Church of the Annunciation, the funeral cortegeleaving the Moynahan-O'Malia funeral chapel at 1 o'clock.

Rev. Father E. L. Horgan officiated at mass. Two vocal solos, "Prayerfor Happy Death" and "One Fleeting Hour" were sung by Mrs. Kate Forman,accompanied by Miss Mary Genry, organist.

Interment was in St. Joseph's cemetery and the pallbearers, all citizens of Gilman,Colorado, were Pete Doyle, John Doyle, O.R. Abrahamsen, John Curran, Adam Houck, andThomas Daviney.

Born in New York City, February 1, 1872, he came to Colorado when he was about twelveyears of age. After settling for a time in the San Luis valley, he later moved toLeadville when the town was in its boom.

He engaged as a miner here for several years.

He was married in Leadville when he was about twenty-one, to Catherine Barlow andtwenty-three years ago he and his family moved to Gilman, Colorado, where he followed hisoccupation as a miner and shaft foreman.

During the influenza epidemic in 1918 he lost his wife and two sons, who were buried inLeadville within a period of ten days.

While he made his home at Gilman, he gained many friends as was evidenced by the numberof floral tributes and the attendance at the funeral services. Numbered among the floraltributes were many large set pieces and a broken wheel from the Gilman community.

He died in a Salida hospital last Friday morning from injuries incurred the previousmorning, when he fell from a pipe line at the tailings pond of the Empire Zinc company,where he had been employed for the past four or five years. Following the accident he wastaken to the hospital at Salida via ambulance, and the death resulted from a puncturedlung, caused by a fractured rib. For several years he had been employed as a shaft foremanbut, recently, because of failing health, had been transferred to outdoor work; and it waswhile working on the pipe line that he fell to the ground, Thursday morning. He was rushedto the Gilman hospital and sent from there to Salida.

The only surviving member of his family, a married daughter, Mrs. Leo Jones of Oakland,California, arrived here after being notified of her father's death. He is also survivedby a son-in-law, Leo Jones and three grandchildren, Patricia, Barbara and Milford Jones. Asister-in-law, Mrs. Nellie Nolan of Lake City, Colorado and a niece Mrs. Hazel Williams ofVictor, Colorado together with Mr. Nolan and Mr. Williams were here for the funeralservices. (A Leadville Paper-dated July 2, 1931)

FLANNERY

Thomas-Thomas FLANNERY met his death Thursday, June 25, when he fell from a flumescaffolding at Rex and sustained fatal injuries when he survived but a few hours. TomFLANNERY was one of the old-time residents of Gilman were he had followed mining for manyyears. For the past several yeas he has been an underground shift boss for the Empire Zinccompany, but this spring he suffered a severe attack of pneumonia and when he wasdismissed from the hospital recently, was given outside employment by the company, untilhe had fully recovered. At the time of his death he was acting as inspector of the longpipe line which conveys the refuse matter from the zinc mill three miles to the settlingpond on the old BOLT ranch. His duties were to patrol the line each day. The pipe passesover a high trestle near Rex and it was at this point he met with mishap which broughtabout his death. The injured man was placed on Train No. 16 and taken to Salida, but diedenroute to the hospital. We were unable to get any information of the funeral or burial.Mr. FLANNERY is survived by several children, his wife having preceded him in death.(Eagle Valley Enterprise, p1 Dated:3 July 1931) NOTE:Thomas FLANNERY died on Friday the26th. Milford JONES' name was changed to Leo Thomas JONES-Leo after his father and Thomasafter his maternal grandfather.

TERRY FITZSIMMONS

"Terrance J. Fitzsimmons, 69, Evergreen.  Husband of Barbara;father of
Michael, Patrick, Tim Wind, Charles Robert, Peter and Kathleen; and
brother Charles; grandfather of eleven; preceded in death by a son, Terry.
Mass of the Resurrection at 10:00 a.m. Monday, Christ the King Catholic
Church, 4291 Evergreen Parkway.  Interment at Evergreen Memorial Park.
Memorials to Mount Evans Hospice, P.O. Box 2770, Evergreen, CO
80439-5770."

Terry was a graduate of Leadville High School and was in Public Relations
for Climax/Amax.  His mother was the one who gave piano lessons in
Leadville and his dad was the postmaster.

Jackson, [Alexander] Freeman

Freeman Jackson - Leadville Carbonate Chronicle - December 28, 1914 - From
Monday's Daily - Death of Freeman Jackson - Freeman Jackson, for twenty
years a miner in the Leadville district, died at Pueblo early yesterday
morning, it was announced in a telegram received by his wife, who lives at
109 North Toledo avenue.  He was 39 years old.  Jackson died at thePueblo
sanatorium where he had been under medical care for two and (a) half years,
following a mental derangement at the beginning of that time which resulted
from cranial injuries.  He was born at Prince Edward's Island 39 years ago,
and came to Leadville while he was a youth.  He had been a miner and leaser
in the district for twenty years, and was widely known here.  For a number
of years he had been a member of the Miners' union, Cloud City local No. 33,
and the Fraternal Union.  Surviving him here are his wife, one son and one
daughter.  His mother, one brother and four sisters, live at PrinceEdward's
Island.  Mrs. Jackson telegraphed to Pueblo last night regarding
arrangements for the funeral services, which will be announced later.
Leadville Carbonate Chronicle - December 28, 1914 - Attended Funeral of
Freeman Jackson - Mrs. Maggie Jackson, of 109 North Toledo avenue, and Mrs.
Frank Wilson returned yesterday from Pueblo, where they attended the funeral
of the formers husband, Freeman Jackson, a well known leaser and miner in
the Leadville district.  The funeral services were held at the Presbyterian
church, the Rev. J. L. Lewis officiating, assisted by the church choir which
sang the two sacred selections of the services, "Face to Face" and"I Am
Going Home."

Added article:

Carbonate Chronicle 5-27-1912 - Freeman Jackson, who wasconfined in the
county jail last week and later taken to a hospital on account of his
irrational conduct, was tried yesterday in the county court for insanity.
The jury returned a verdict finding him insane.  A number of witnesses were
examined by County Attorney Bouck and by Attorney Pendery, for the
defendant.  Among these were two friends, William Vice and Sam Haskell;
Undersheriff Harlan and County Physician Jeannotte, who attended Jackson
during his illness.  Both of the friends said that he had been acting as
though his mind was distracted for the past week and had on a number of
occasions made threats of violence against them.  Haskell stated that
Jackson had taken a dislike to him because he insisted on his not going out
of the house.  When asked if he knew of anything such as an accident or an
inherited tendency for insanity in Jackson's recond, he replied that some
years ago the demented man had been struck on the head with a pistol while
he was engaged in a fight.  Other persons who remember the affair say that
it was a piece of scantling with which the man was struck.  From that time
he never seemed to be right, according to the testimony taken yesterday.
Undersheriff Harlan told of Jackson's actions while he was in jail, saying
that at times he seemed to be rational and then would begin to make threats
of violence against the officers.  Dr. Jeannotte in his testimony strongly
advised that the man be sent to a hospital for the insane where he could be
properly cared for and perhaps cured of his mental derangement.  The doctor
declined to answer the question of Attorney Pendery to show whether insanity
was prevalent in the Jackson family.  "Some things as those arebetween the
patient and me," said Dr. Jeannotte.  The jury was out ten minutes andthen
brought in a verdict that Jackson "is insane or distracted and dangerous to
his own person and to the persons and property of others."  JudgeHarrison
gave judgment to the effect that Jackson be confined in the asylum at Pueblo
until he is in the discretion of the authorities there considered a safe man
to be at large.  Jackson yesterday answered the questions of Attorney Bouck
with intelligence and was able to tell his age, where he was born, his
occupation.  But he could scarcely talk as he said that his stomach was ina
bad condition.  "I didn't give my stomach a square deal," saidJackson in
low muttering tones.  "I drank too much."  All the time thatMr. Bouck was
questioning him, Jackson kept pleading in feeble tones, "Won't you please
ask the judge to let me go home."  The unfortunate man was taken toPueblo
last night by Sheriff Schraeder.  The jurors were: W. G. Parker (foreman),
M. W. Hollister, J. W. Poulson, Frank E. Williams, Jake Murray and George E.
Collar.

Mary Antoinette Martha [Meyer] Freville, 93 passed away quietly in her home in BuenaVista, Colorado on October 14, 2001. She moved to Buena Vista from Twin Lakes, Coloradoover 30 years ago.

Mary was born in Blexan, Jetzt, Nordenham, Germany on August 11, 1908 and immigratedwith her mother and four brothers in July 1909, joining her father in Rockvale Twp, OgleCo., IL. She was the daughter of Thomas Evert and Antonie Wilhelmina Marie Kr?ger Meyer.

She attended schools in Ogle Co., IL and Winnebago Co., IL. She also attended BusinessCollege in Rockford, IL.

She married Auguste Paul Freville on April 4, 1942 in Champaign, IL, a double weddingwith her sister Katie Meyer and Wallace Ignatchuck.

Mary was an avid outdoorswomen. She fished in Wisconsin and when she moved to Coloradoin 1955 she spent time fishing high lakes and fishing the lower lakes. She bowled for theMoose Club in Rockford, IL and bowled with the leagues at the Labor Center and KristiLanes in Leadville. She loved to play Bingo. Mary loved her animals and could always beseen with one or more of her dogs wherever she went. She was a member of The Women of theMoose.

She was preceded in death by her husband, her parents and her brothers; Herman, Thomas,Arthur, Henry, Eberhardt, Herbert, Ernest, Richard and Edward, her sisters, Anna andKatie, two nephews, Donald and Edward Meyer and one great niece, Cynthia Meyer LeLevier.

Three sisters-in-laws, Irma and Rose Meyer, Rockford, IL, Marilyn Meyer, Golden, COsurvive her. Many nieces and nephews also survive her. Herman and Roger Meyer, son’sof Herman, Rockford, IL; Thomas Meyer, Elko, NV and James Meyer, Santee, CA son’s ofThomas; Delores Singley, Rockford, IL and Mary Thillens, Libertyville, IL daughters ofHenry; Fred Meyer, Hagerman, ID son of Eberhardt; Herbert Meyer Jr. and Judith Shelton,Rockford, IL son and daughter of Herbert; Gail Meyer Kilgore, Casa Grande, AZ, MarilynMeyer Diamond, Buena Vista, CO, Richard Meyer, Glendale, AZ and Gerhard Meyer, Lodi, OHchildren of Richard; Barbara Brink, Rhonda Renz, Leadville, CO, Cynthia Brug, Kersey, COand Paula Purdy, Denver, CO daughters of Edward; Ann Marie Brubaker, Rockford, IL, NancySuessmith, Dayton, NV, and Sharon Foster, AR daughters of Katie. She has a niece of herhusband’s, Leona Becker, IN that survives her. She has many great and great-greatnieces and nephews that also survive her and cousins in Germany.

Services will be held at the Bailey Mortuary in Leadville, Colorado on October 17, 2001 at10:00 a.m. Visitation will be one hour before the service. Burial follows the service atMt. Olivet Cemetery in Buena Vista, Colorado. Father Tom Killeen will officiate at theservice with Joan Dawson and Jean Elliott providing the music.

Memorials can be made at the Arkansas Valley Humane Society, 701 Greg Dr., Buena Vista,Colorado 81211

Fulton, Henry J.

Henry J. Fulton - Leadville Carbonate Chronicle - August 26, 1918 - Henry J. Fulton - Members of the Order of Railroad Telegraphers from numerous towns and cities and scores of old Leadville friends paid their last tributes yesterday afternoon to the late Henry J. Fulton, general chairman of the O. R. T. on the D. and R. G. railroad and telegrapher for that system for twenty-four years, who died at Chicago last Tuesday while on his way to Washington to attend a conference of chairmen of his order.  These tributes were evidenced at funeral services held at 2 o'clock at the First M. E. church.  Many friends who were unable to be present at the church also called at the family home before this hour and extended their condolences to Mrs. Fulton and Miss Lucille Fulton, who are next of kin here bereaved by Mr. Fulton's untimely death.  Floral tokens came from nearly all of them including large designs or bouquets from the O. R. T. at Chicago, Salida, Grand Junction and Denver, as well as Leadville telegraphers.  The Rev. Clarence M. Fish officiated at the church and vocalists sang several beautiful hymns.  These selections were a trio, "Beyond the Bar,"sung by Miss Grace Briel, Miss Marion Kingsbury and E. R. Jennings; a bass solo,"Lead, Kindly Light," sung by Mr. Jennings; and a soprano solo,"O Dry Those Tears," sung by Miss Kingsbury.  Miss Anna McLeod played the piano accompaniment for the first two, and for the third, she and Miss Mary McDonald played piano and violin accompaniment respectively.  

As the friends and family passed from the church, Miss McLeod played "Nearer, My God, To Thee."  Mr. Fulton, who had often expressed a desire to be buried in Leadville, was laid at rest in the family plot in Evergreen cemetery.  The six pall bearers were Leadville men who have been friends of the family for a number of years.  They were N. T. Schedin, F. E. Kendrick, Loutrel N. Briggs, Peter Mulock, F. E. Brown, and T. E. Fennell.  Among the members of the O. R. T. and other friends from out of town in attendance at theservices were J. C. Brannan (?) of Pueblo, H. W. Martin of Malta, T. H. Holton of Gunnison, F. A. Devin, Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Compton of Denver, (and)J. J. Rose of Chicago.  Mr. and Mrs. Compton and Mr. Rose accompanied Mrs. Fulton on her sad mission home last week after Mr. Fulton died at the Lakeside hospital shortly after noon Tuesday before she arrived from Leadville, from which she started Sunday night last on receiving word of the sudden attack of acute indigestion which seized Mr. Fulton while on his way east.  Mr. Rose is chairman for the O. R. T. of the Rock Island and is acting as chairman also for several other western roads while their respective officers are at the Washington conference.  Mr. Fulton was 58 years old, had lived in Leadville 24 years and had been employed on the RioGrande railroad for 29 years.  He was born in Madison, Wis., on October 25, 1860.  Leaving his birthplace and starting out in life for himself, he was employed for some time on the Northwestern railroad and then came west to Colorado, first settling in Denver.  Later he took up employment in Pueblo and then, 24 years ago in March, he came to Leadville.  He and Mrs. Fulton were married on September 19, 1887.  

During the last nine years of his long and faithful service with the Rio Grande, Mr. Fulton was the general chairman of the Order of Railroad Telegraphers on this railroad, and it was as such that he started east this month to attend the conference of chairmen
at Washington.  His duties in this office, as well as in his railroad position proper, called for considerable traveling about the country, and he
possessed friends in scores of towns and cities besides his "hometown." Surviving him are his wife and two daughters, two brothers and two sisters. The latter are Sam Fulton of Pomona, Calif., Mrs. Margaret Starr of Azuza, Calif., Mrs. Anna Richmond of Omaha, George William Fulton and Catherine Fulton, who live at Pacific Junction, Iowa, all of them older than Mr. Fulton.