Yuma County, Colorado
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Yuma County Pioneer Photographs:
Celia (Ward) (Kelley) Blue, Vernon
John Ward timber-claimed a quarter in section 8, 1N 48W in 1895. Because Nathan and Bathaniel were in Yuma County during census years, this John is the most likely.
May 21, 1915 Yuma "Dr. Cavey reports the arrival of
a baby girl at the home of Mr. and Mrs. John Ward,
eight miles south of town, last Sunday."
In 1860 Wayne County, North Carolina,
Wm. Ward is 45, farming, Oma Ward is 34,
Mary E. Ward 15,
Aaron T. Ward
13,
Wm. R. Ward
10,
Dallas H. Ward
8,
John C. Ward 7,
Nathan F. Ward
4,
Dr. Bathaniel Ward
9/12,
Epsaline Artis
18,
Percy Strickling
16,
Smithy Ward
8,
Stephen Howell
21, and
Polly Hooks
19.
William H. Ward
BIRTH 11 Apr 1816
DEATH 31 Aug 1868
BURIAL
Old Union Cemetery
Lawson, Ray County, Missouri,
PLOT Row 13, Sec C
MEMORIAL ID 15437317.
In 1880 Ray County, Missouri,
Naomi Ward is widowed, 54,
Bathaniel Ward
19 Son,
Celia Ward
17 Daughter,
George Ward
15 Son, and
Graham Ward
13 Son.
Naomi Perkins Ward
BIRTH 15 Aug 1825
Wayne County, North Carolina,
DEATH 15 Dec 1880
Ray County, Missouri,
BURIAL
Old Union Cemetery
Lawson, Ray County, Missouri,
PLOT Row 13, Sec C
MEMORIAL ID 15437343.
CELIA AND JAMES KELLEY
Miss Celia Ward and James F. Kelley married on
24 Nov 1894 in Hickory County, Missouri.
James F. Kelley, Sr.,
BIRTH 1866 Missouri,
DEATH 10 OCT 1897.
In 1900 Atchison, Kansas,
Celia Kelly is
34, Edith M. Kelly
4 Daughter,
James F. Kelly
2 Son, and
Nathan Ward 42 Brother, a farm laborer.
CELIA AND SAMUEL BLUE
Samuel Blue and Celia Kelley married 3 May 1903 in Cameron, Clinton County, Missouri.
In 1910 Vernon precinct,
Samuel Blue is 50,
Celia Blue
42 Wife,
Mary K. Blue
14 Daughter, and
* K Blue
13 Son.
February 1912 Wray "Through the good services of Town Marshal Henry Isreal of Ridgeway, what is claimed by the Denver police to be one of the
largest gangs of “white slavers' in the country will probably he caught and punished. Two girls who had been spirited away from Denver and put into houses of ill-repute in Telluride. They escaped and had returned as far as Ridgeway on their way home when they
were threatened by a white slave procurer who had followed them from Telluride. They appealed to Marshal Isreal.
The members of the gang who have been operating between Denver and the mining camps have been watched for some time and now complaints will be filed in the United States court charging several parties with
“white slaving'. A deputy Sheriff of the Denver county jail was implicated by the two girls rescued by Marshal Isreal. Henry Isreal is well known
in this county having been an early settler in the Vernon neighborhood. He homesteaded the place now owned by Frank Akey and occupied by Sam Blue."
May 9, 1918 "Samuel Blue, a well-known farmer whose place is some fifteen miles south of Yuma, died Saturday night. He was in Yuma Saturday, apparently in the best of hoalth. On the way home he complained of not feeling well. He retired earlier that evening than the rest of the family. In the morninpr Mrs. Blue, when breakfast was ready, sent the little grandson to call Mr. Blue. The boy said he could not wake him up. When the older members of the family saw him they at once knew that life was extinct.
He was lying on his left side, evidently in the same posture as when he went to sleep.
The funeral was held at the home of the deceased Tuesday and the interment was at tho Vernon cemetery."
Samuel Blue
Glendale Cemetery
Vernon, Yuma County, Colorado,
MEMORIAL ID 80213374.
November 29, 1918 "Mrs. Grace M. Getchell, the mother of R.E. Getchell, died at the son's home this week.
The deceased had come to nurse her grandchildren and was stricken herself.
Two of Mr. Getchell's children died.
The body of the grandmother was taken to Franklin, Nebraska for burial."
August 1919 "Mrs. Sam BLue and N. F. Ward, of south of Yuma, were called to Topeka, Kanss yesterday by a
message announcing the death of a brother. J. F. Kelly, the son of Mrs. Blue, accompanied them."
May 1924 "Nate Ward and Mrs. Sam Blue came down from Denver Saturday afternoon to visit relatives. Mrs. Blue
is the mother of Mrs. R.E. Getchell and Mr. Ward is the father of Mrs. Austin Clark, both of whom reside south of Yuma."
In 1930 Elbert County, Colorado,
Bernard E. Getchell is 35,
Edith A. Getchell 34 Wife,
Leo E. Getchell
13 Son,
James O. Getchell
10 Son,
Myra N. Getchell
6 Daughter, and
Norma G. Getchell
4 Daughter.
In 1940 Umatilla, Oregon,
Bernard A. Getchell is 45,
Edith M. Getchell 45 Wife,
Myra N. Getchell
16 Daughter,
Norma G. Getchell
14 Daughter, and
Celia Blue
80 Mother-in-law.
1947 
Celia N. Ward Blue
BIRTH 1859
DEATH 1945
Hermiston, Umatilla County, Oregon,
BURIAL
Hermiston Cemetery
Hermiston, Umatilla County, Oregon,
PLOT A - 61 - 7
MEMORIAL ID 29274179.
"Mrs. Sam Blue, 81, died September 3, 1945, at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Mae Getchell, at Hermiston, Oregon, and funeral services were held there, according to word received by her niece,
Mrs. Prank Huffman. The deceased is widely know here. She resided in the Vernon neighborhood for a
number of years, and left here about five years ago to make her home in Oregon.
She is a sister of the late D. B. Ward. Her niece at one time made her home with Mrs. Blue."
1914 
March 1916 "Mr. and Mrs. B.E. Getchell left for Lincoln, Nebr., Monday evening, and expect to make their home there."
Edith Mae Kelly Getchell
BIRTH 1895
DEATH 1979
BURIAL
Hermiston Cemetery
Hermiston, Umatilla County, Oregon,
PLOT A - 61 - 5
MEMORIAL ID 29274136.
James Kelly
Birth Date: 16 Sep 1897
Claim Date: 8 Dec 1958
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