Holyoke Enterprise, Holyoke, CO, 11 May 1939
AGED AMHERST MAN
IS CALLED BY DEATH
Edward Gamewell Had Been Resident Of County
Since 1907; Buried At Holyoke
After a lingering illness of about
one year from heart trouble, Edward D. Gamewell passed away in the early
hours of Friday morning, May 5, at the home of his son, Sam Gamewell,
near Amherst. He had reached the age of almost 75 years.
Funeral
services were conducted on Sunday afternoon from the Colver Funeral
Home, Rev. T.R. Layton of the Baptist Church of Holyoke officiating. His
body was laid to rest in the new addition of the Holyoke Cemetery.
Mr. Gamewell was born September 9, 1865,* near Springfield, Missouri,
and grew to manhood in Callaway County, Missouri, in the vicinity of
Jefferson City. While a young man, he and his brother-in-law, George
Gholson, went to Texas, where they contracted to fence the right of way
of the Texas Pacific railway. After finishing this contract he again
came north and located in Holt County, Missouri, where he met and
married Miss Elizabeth Freeman on September 4, 1892. The early part of
their married life was spent on a farm near Bigelow, Missouri.
In 1906 he left there with his family and came to Colorado, and on March
13, 1907, they settled on their homestead five miles southeast of
Amherst, where he continued to live until a few months before his death,
when, because of his illness, it was necessary for him to be taken to
his son's home.
Surviving are his widow, Mrs. Elizabeth
Gamewell, a son, Sam, of Amherst, two daughters, Mrs. Herman Senstock of
Eugene, Oregon, and Mrs. Ralph Banks of Venango, Nebraska, and one
sister, Mrs. George Gholson, of Fort Worth, Texas. All of the relatives
attended the funeral with the exception of his sister and one daughter,
Mrs. Herman Senstock, of Oregon, who was here to visit him several weeks
ago. Although he was failing fast in health in the last six months, he
was able almost every day to be up and around. He also leaves to mourn
six grandchildren and many friends and neighbors.
*NOTE: Parents
were Thomas Gamewell and Catherine Carnahan
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Edward Gamewell
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