Yuma County, Colorado Photographs

Yuma County Pioneer Photographs:

Ida B. (Kizzier) Sturgeon, Wray
In 1880 Decatur County, Iowa, Ida B. is 2, born in Iowa. Ivinis 33, farming, born in Iowa, with Eliza 24 in Iowa. Rachel E. 9 was born in Missouri, Charles 5, in Iowa, Ida 2, and Stella eleven months.

Frank Ivin Kizzier 1890-1967 is buried in Lewis County, Iowa # 124094307, with Golda Rose (Lockridge) Kizier 1886-1969, marrying in Denver in 1919.

In 1905 Decatur County, Mrs. E.A. Kizzire is with Ivan and Frank Kizzier.

In 1920 Payette County, Iowa, Irwin "Kiziar" is 74, Eliza 66, with grand-daughter Loraine 8 born in Oklahoma.
Blanche Kizzire, 21, daughter of Evan Kizzire and E.A. Goble, married J. "Sturgen" on July 21, 1898 in Leon, Decatur County, Iowa.

John H. Sturgeon, 53, died February 5, 1910, buried in Decatur County.
Hamilton Cemetery, Decatur County # 6364873.

February 10, 1910




Charlotte Sturgeon age 43 is also buried there "Mrs. Jno H."
In 1910 Decatur County, Ida Sturgeon is widowed, 32, with May 10, Leroy 6, and Marie 4, all four born in Iowa.

March 7, 1912 Wray "Mrs. Blanche Sturgeon came in from Bridgeport, Nebraska, Monday with her sister. They went out to their father's, Mr. Kizzire, who lives in the sand hills."

June 1913 " I have a nice line of Millinery goods that I am closing out at cost at my home in Wray, Colorado. One block east of the Presbyterian church. Ladies are cordially invited to call on me. Mrs. Blanche Sturgeon."

July 1913 Wray "Repairing of the Mrs. Blanche Sturgeon residence, which was damaged by lightning last week, is in progress."

September 1913 "Mrs. Blanch Sturgeon and three children came down from Denver Thursday to their home in Wray. Mrs. Sturgeon has been employed in a wholesale millinery establishment for the past several weeks but was compelled to return on account of the serious Illness of her nine year-old son, Leroy. The child is much improved in the last few days."

December 1913 Wray "Born, to Mr. and Mrs. O. C. Cheney, Monday, December 2, a boy baby. Mr. and Mrs. Cheney moved into Wray two weeks ago from their ranch twenty miles north and will spend the winter in town. They are occupying the Mrs. Blanche Sturgeon residence in the east part of town."


Ida cash-claimed a quarter in section 15, 2N 43W - about seven miles north of Wray - in 1915.

Ida Blanche Sturgeon married I.W. Brooks in Golden Colorado on July 29, 1915.
In 1920 on Elm Street in Pine Bluffs, Wyoming, Isaac W. Brooks is a doctor, 46, born in Tennessee, with Ida B. 41 a milliner. John Leroy is 15, Alice Marie 14.

Isaac and Blanche are alone in 1930 Glendo, Platte County, Wyoming.

Ida is in Jefferson County, Colorado in 1940, divorced, 63, living with son John Leroy Brooks, a carpenter, 36. John is married to Doris A. 30 born in Arkansas, and all three were in Glendo, Wyoming in 1935. John A. is 5, born in Wyoming, and James Lee nine months old in Colorado.

She was Ida Blanche Brooks in Torrington, Wyoming in 1942, saying that John LeRoy Sturgeon was born July 26, 1903 in Pleasanton, Decatur County, Iowa to John Henry Sturgeon of Kentucky.

Ida is buried in Torrington 1877-1961 # 10882978.
So is Dr. Isaac W. Brooks 1874-1954 # 10882974.

MAE

July 1913 Wray "Mrs. Blanche Sturgeon returned Saturday from a two days business stay in Denver. Mrs. Sturgeon will probably enter the wholesale millinery house in that city in a few weeks, which move will give her employment and will enable her to be with her older daughter who will take treatment in Denver."

She might be the Mae Sturgeon marrying Henry S. Dilcher on December 28, 1922 in Denver.

LEROY

John Leroy Sturgeon 1903-1975 is buried in Torrington # 10892102.

ALICE MARIE

Alice Marie Sturgeon was born September 23, 1905 in Pleasanton, Iowa.

Marie Sturgeon Barbee died in Los Angeles County on February 4, 1986, born September 23, 1905 in Iowa.

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October 1914 Wray "Mrs. Henry Sturgeon spent Saturday night with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Richards, on the South Divide."

Charles Henry Sturgeon of Vernon registered for WWI.

In 1923 William J. Sturgeon of Alvin, Colorado was a witness for the claim of Joseph H. Lenertz for land in 4N 43W.

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