Yuma County, Colorado
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Yuma County Pioneer Photographs:
Richard and Thomas P. Beistline, Eliza (Beistline) and William S. Pershing, Bryant
In 1880 Washington County, Nebraska, John R. "Beistlin" is
farming, 59, with Susan 57, Thomas 24, all three born in Pennsylvania,
Mary 18, RICHARD 17, and Elpha Wales 15, all three born in Iowa.
John is buried in Blair, Nebraska 1821-1904 # 80461111, with Susan dying 1885 at age 64, # 80461203.
Elpha married Alfred Thorndike and died in 1900 in Cedar County, Nebraska # 106027767.
Catharine Beistline married Klita Potter in Iowa, and in 1900 they're in Frontier COunty, Nebraska, Klita 66, Catharine 51, and nine kids.
Klita is buried in Furnas County, Nebraska 1833-1920 # 183218247.
So is Catharine 1850-1928 # 183218421.
Sarah Beistline Hunt 1846-1889 is buried in Blair, # 80462409, with spouse Samuel Hunt 1832-1923.
Richard cash-claimed a quarter in section 4, 5N 48W in 1890.
Thomas had a register of a timber culture application in 5N 48W, but it wasn't completed.
Richard is a carpenter in 1893 Denver, living at 3516 Gilpin.
He was appointed postmaster of Limon Station, Colorado on July 27, 1897.
December 1897 "Dick Beistline, the accommodating Limon
postmaster, was in Hugo for a few hours Saturday afternoon."
1898 "Postmaster Dick Beistline of Limon attended the St.
Patrick's dance in Hugo last Thursday night."
In 1900 Richard is a dry good clerk in Limon, Colorado, born August 1864 in Iowa, single.
He was paid $292.33 for operating the Limon Station post office, Lincoln County, Colorado in 1901.
Richard Beistline and Frances Molleson married in Denver
on April 28, 1901.
She was probably the "Fannie" Molleson in 1880 Crawford County,
Ohio, ae 12, with James Molleson 40 a doctor and Hattie 32.
John is 7, "D." 4, Leon 2, and Daisy seven months.
" On Thursday morning at the residence of Mr. R. B. Millikin, in Tippecanoe, by Rev. L. E. Jones, Mr. James T. Molleson, to Miss Hattie McFarland, youngest daughter of the late John Q. McFarland, of Lockington, Shelby county. For their kind remembrance of us we tender the parties our cordial and sincere congratulations, with our heart-felt wishes for their future prosperity and happiness, trusting that their ways may be "ways of pleasantness and all their paths be peace." December 22, 1866 "
James T. Molleson 1840-1881 is buried in Crawford County
# 105198019, with Hattie E. (McFarland) Molleson 1847-1898 # 121287275.
1904 Hugo, Colorado 
In 1910 Scotts Bluff County, Nebraska, Richard is operating
a clothing store, 47, with Frances 41 born in Ohio.
In 1920 Portland, Oregon, Richard is a carpenter in a lumber mill, 57, with Frances L. 51.
They're still in Portland in 1930, Richard working in a box factory.
Richard is buried in Portland, Oregon 1862-1938 # 53024809,
with Frances 1868-1936 # 53024747 and Thomas 1854-1925 # 53024770.
THOMAS
In 1918, Tom Beistlin was a pallbearer for the funeral in Blair, Nebraska of W.D. Haller.
Thomas is widowed in 1920 Washington County, Nebraska, 62, operating a truck farm.
ELIZA
Eliza Jane Beistline, 17, born in Camberland, Pennsylvania
to John E. Beistline and Anna King, married William S. Pershing
on April 10, 1873 in Blair, Nebraska.
In 1885 Blair, Nebraska, W.S. is farming, 38, with Eliza 32, Albert 12, Susie 10, Ed. 8, Stella , James 4, Gracy 3, and John six months.
In 1900 Hugo, Lincoln County, Colorado, William is a land agent 48, with Eliza J. 44, and ten kids.
Wililam S. Pershing timber-claimed a quarter in section 5, 3N 46W in 1903.
(This was a mile from the claims of my grandmother
Cynthia Woodward Monk and her brother Frank M. Woodward.)
Eliza is buried in the Pershing Cemetery,
Lincoln County, Colorado 1856-1934 # 54422550, with William S. Pershing 1852-1942.
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