Yuma County, Colorado
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Yuma County Pioneer Photographs:
William T. and Matilda Opal "Tillie" (Griffiths) Murrain, Shields.
sister Nellie (Murrain) Rutledge, Yuma
sister Bessie Lee (Murrain) Doyle, Vernon
sister Ollie (Murrain) Adams, Yuma
WILLIAM
William was born Sept 14, 1889 at Maywood, Nebraska.
Matilda O. Griffiths is in North Platte Nebraska in 1900, with parents
William, a blacksmith born in Wales, and Frances- she had ten siblings,
per the Ancestry tree.
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February 12, 1915 North Platte, Nebraska
February 19, 1915 North Platte |
In 1900 Frontier County, Nebraska, Willie is 11, with parents Thomas Aug 1848
and Kate June 1857. Bessie Oct 1882 born in Missouri, Ethel January 1885
Missouri, Nellie January 1887 Missouri, Theodore Oct 1892 Nebraska, and Arthur
October 1895 Nebraska.
September 1907 Box Elder, Nebraska "Mrs. Murrain of Maywood visited her
daughters, Mrs. D.B. Doyle and Mrs. T.J. Chamberlain a few days last week on her
way home from Colo. where she had been visiting another daughter."
April 1908 Box Elder Nebraska - Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Murrain of Maywood are
visiting their daughters Mrs. E. Rutledge and Mrs. D.B. Doyle, Jr."
One tree said William married Matilda Okell Griffiths - born March 3, 1896 in
Nebraska, in Frontier County in 1914. (her father John O'Kell, a major per
the tree, lived and died in Barrow, England)
Frontier County records have William marrying Matilda Griffiths March 4,
1914.
William homesteaded two quarters in 23, 3S 45W in 1916 - about a mile
northwest of the Shields site.
He registered with a Vernon address, farming, with a wife and children.
In 1925 Wilma, Gladys, and Velma are attending the Blach school northeast of
Yuma.
In 1930 Weld precinct, Yuma County (north of Eckley) William T. and Matilda
O. have Gladys 15, Velma N. 12, Wilma O . 10, and Helen L. 8.
In 1940, still in Weld precinct, they have Velma M. 22 and Leora 18.
Gladys R. Swan, 25, married to Eugene E. Swan, 41, are in Yuma County in
1940. They have Janie Leora, 1, born in Colorado.
Eugene E. Swan was in Yuma County in 1930, farming, 31, born in Iowa, married
to Ruth A. 19, born in Nebraska. (Ruth Swan is in Hastings, Nebraska in
1940, divorced, living in Yuma Colorado in 1935. She has Howard, 3, born
in Colorado. Eugene Swan married Ruth Cadwalader June 1, 1924, recorded in
Yuma County). Ruth A. Swan and Emory E. Swan divorced in Yuma County in
1937.
Emory Eugene Swan 1898-1965 and Gladys Rachel (Murrain) (Swan) Frink -1979
are buried in Yuma
Matilda O. Murrain - March 3, 1896 -July 25, 1988 and William 1889-1973 are
buried in Yuma. So is Velma Mae Murrain 1917-1973, who never married
Wilma Opal Murrain married George Ivan Barker December 21, 1938, recorded in
Kit Carson County. George, Wilma, and youngest son Joseph are buried in
Wray.
NELLIE and EVERETT RUTLEDGE
Dec 26. 1902 McCook "Miss Nellie Morrain, a sister of Mrs. Daniel Doyle Jr.,
had the misfortune to have her thumb badly injured by the accidental discharge
of a gun."
January 1, 1904 McCook, Nebraska
In 1910 Lincoln County, Nebraska, Everet H. 32 and Nellie B. 23 have Stanley
H. 6, William O. 4, and Doris M. ten months.
1914 Wray Rattler "Mr. and Mrs. Dan Doyle, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Murrain and Mrs.
E. Rutledge motored to McCook and Maywood, Neb., on Wednesday."
February 1914
Nancy Catherine (Olenger) Rutledge 1845-1914 and Nelson
Rutledge 1840-1923 are buried in the Glendale Cemetery, Vernon, Colorado.
1914 "Mrs. Myrtle Chamberlain and daughter of Maywood, Neb., arrived
yesterday morning and will visit for two weeks with Mrs. Camberlain's (sic) sisters,
Mesdames Dan Doyle and Everette Rutledge."
Everett H. Rutledge claimed two quarters in 22, 23, 26, and 27, 3S 45W in
1916, and Everrette H. Rutledge claimed 240 acres "stock raising" in 27 and 34,
3S 45W in 1920.
1917 the Rattler "Your correspondent was in Palisade ....We met Dan Doyle and
family our former neighbors, and B.C. Cope, of the old Robbers' Roost Ranch.
They are doing well and both have fine homes."
Daniel Boone Doyle registered in Palisade, born Dec 4, 1877, a mechanic,
nearest relative Bessie Lee Doyle.
In 1920 Mildred precinct, Yuma County, Colorado, Evert H. 42 and Nellie B. 32
have Howard S. 15, William O. 14, Doris 10, and Dean W. 3.
In 1930 Magee precinct, Yuma County (the same precinct as brother William
Murrain) Evert H. and Nellie have Doris 20 - teaching - and Dean W. 14.
Doris Rutledge married Robert "Eyestrom" June 14, 1931, recorded in Yuma.
Doris M. 1909-1972 and Robert H. Eyestone 19080-1990 are buried in Fort
Collins.
Everett Hale Rutledge registered with a Vernon address, born July 17, 1877,
farming with Nellie B..
Nellie 1887-1978 is buried in Yuma - so is Everett H. Rutledge 1877-1970.
BESSIE and DAN BOYLE
Dan Doyle Dies - Daniel Doyle, Sr. one of the early settlers
of this county died in this city June 1, 1915 and was buried in the cemetery at
Box Elder, Nebraska, Thursday afternoon of last week. Rev. M.S. Satchell
officiated at the funeral services. The deceased was well known and highly
respected by all who knew him. The following obituary was read at the services.
Daniel B. Doyle, Sr. was born in Missouri, July 16, 1840 died in McCook,
Nebraska, June 1, 1915. He came to Nebraska in 1876, was united in marriage with
Mrs. Emiline Levington, December, 1886. He settled in Box Elder and lived there
until his death. He became a member of United Brethren church in 1889. He is
survived by the wife, thirteen children, three brothers, four sisters and a host
of friends who mourn his loss. Friday 11 June 1915.
In September 1910 McCook, Nebraska, Daniel B. Doyle and Emma
Doyle adopted Francis Ora Wray, child of Gertie Bortner. - maybe adopted a
daughter's child?
James Ora / Francis Ora Wray Doyle 1907-1973 is buried in
Roseburg, Oregon.
Gertrude Susan (Doyle) Bortner 1888-1973 is buried in North
Platte # 59677584.
Daniel Doyle claimed 320 acres in 18, and 19, 3S 44W and 24,
3S 45W in 1914.
1928 "Pensions allowed Spanish-American veterans, one of
which is Daniel B. Doyle who served in Company G 34th U.S. Volunteer Infantry,
now living in Pinedale, Wyoming."
Bessie Lee (Murrain) Doyle 1883-1945 # 132479640 and Daniel Boone Doyle
1877-1963 are buried in Pinedale, Sublette County, Wyoming.
In 1948 "Discovery of a 50,000-ton deposit of Jade in Wyoming - worth
millions of dollars - was reported yesterday by Robert M. Hawk, a manufacturing
jeweler. Hawk said that he and two companions, Dan Doyle of Pinedale, Wyo.,
and Walt Alexander of Lander, Wyo., made the discovery two years ago on a
fishing trip between Lander and Rawlins."
| MRS. D. B. DOYLE PASSED AWAY AT JACKSON HOSPITAL Death came Saturday
morning, December 15, 1945, at St. John's Hospital at Jackson to relieve
the suffering of Mrs. D. B. Doyle, who had been a patient there the past
two weeks. Mrs. Doyle became ill during September and in October was
taken to Denver and then to a cancer specialist in Colorado Springs. Her
condition became gradually critical until she became bedfast. Funeral
services will be held in Pinedale Tuesday afternoon at two o'clock at
the Community Church. Bessie Lee Murrain was born October 22, 1883 at
Trenton, Missouri. At the age of five years she moved with her parents,
Thomas E. and Catherine Murrain to Maywood, Nebraska where she grew to
young womanhood. On September , 1901 she was united in marriage to
Daniel B. Doyle at North Platte. Nebraska. He had just returned from
overseas where he fought in the Spanish-American war. Most of the
couple's early married life was spent in Nebraska and Colorado. In the
spring of 1919 they moved to Pinedale where they owned and operated
Pinedale Inn for eighteen years. After sale of the Pinedale Inn they
opened the Curio shop in Pinedale. Mrs. Doyle numbered her friends by
her acquaintances and was dearly loved by all who knew her. She was a
member of the Pinedale Community Church. She is survived by her husband
and three of their four children: Mrs. Hazel Carlson, Thurston Doyle,
and Mrs. Bill Bloom, all of Pinedale. Dudley, the eldest, preceded his
mother in death when a small child. Besides her immediate family she
leaves three sisters: Mrs. Fred Adams, Yuma. Colorado; Mrs. Everett
Rutledge, Yuma, Colorado; and Mrs. Edna Klein. Pinedale; and three
brothers, Wm. Murrain, Yuma, Colorado; Theo. J. Murrain. Curtis
Nebraska; and Edgar Murrain Cheyenne, Wyoming. She also leaves six
grandchildren and numerous nieces and nephews. All of the family, with
the exception of her brother T. J. Murrain. are expected to arrive for
the services, Tuesday. |
Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Jun 30, 1959 Blanche Doyle Of Pinedale
Dies Sunday
Blanche Mamie Doyle, 74, of Pinedale, died Sunday afternoon in the
Sweetwater memorial Hospital where she had been a patient for the past
four weeks.
Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. today at Vase Funeral Home.
Rev. John R. Northrup, of the Pinedale Congregationalist church, will
officiate. After the service the body will be sent to Englewood, Calif.,
for services and burial there.
A native of Wayne County, Ill., Mrs. Doyle had been a resident of
Pinedale for 14 years.
She is survived by her husband, Daniel B. Doyle; two daughters, Rev.
Cecilia Nixon of Pinedale and Mrs. Dorsey L. (Hazel) Cloud of Lindsay,
Calif.; two step-daughters, Mrs. Robert (Hazel) Carlson and Mrs. Bill (Magdaline)
Bloom of Pinedale; one step-son, Thurston Doyle of Pinedale; eight
grandchildren; nine great-grandchildren; two sisters, Mrs. Hope Hoffman
of St. Louis, Mo. And Mrs. Chloe Lowry of Phoenix, N.M., and several
nieces and nephews.
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PINEDALE—Services for Thurston Richard Doyle were at 10 a.m.
Tuesday, Dec. 27, 1994 at the Hudson’s Funeral Home Chapel of the Pines.
Burial was in the Pinedale Cemetery.
Doyle, 86, Pinedale, died Thursday, Dec. 22, 1994 in Pinedale.
He was born May 13, 1908 in McCook, Neb., a son of Daniel and Bessie
Murrain Doyle. He married Leita Bloom Feb. 12, 1929 at Daniel.
Survivors include his wife of Pinedale; a son, Jack Doyle, Pinedale; a
sister, Toots Magdalene, Pinedale; four grandchildren; nine
great-grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by his parents, a son and a sister. |
Bob and Miriam Carlson are both
Wyoming natives. Born in Laramie,
Bob moved to Pinedale before he was
a year old. Miriam was born in
Buffalo & came here when she was
two. Bob lived at the Pinedale Inn
which his grandparents, Dan & Bessie
Doyle owned. He was a ‘town kid’.
His parents were ‘Bob’ and Hazel
Carlson. He said, “My nickname’s
Swede. Harold Faler’s was Red”. Bob
would run off to play, so his mother
put a bell on him and tied him to
the clothesline. One day the bell
was silent. When she looked out, he
was taking off his pants to get
free. He was a pal to Tom, who was
also restrained, being tied to the
hot water heater. One day Bob took
out his knife, cut Tom free and they
took off on top of the trash truck
to the old dump.
Another time Bob and the Carson
boys rode bikes 14 miles to Steele
Hot Springs in Boulder. They
neglected to inform their parents.
There were three boys and only two
bikes so when one of them had a
flat, they were stuck. Their parents
finally found them. At the Pinedale
Inn one of the guests, Claudie
(Meyer) got locked in the bathroom.
Bob had to climb through the transom
to let her out. Bob remember playing
stick horses with the Wenz and Faler
boys in Cooley’s Field. He said, “We
used to peel our sticks so we had
‘Paint’ horses.” Another time he was
playing baseball when a robin landed
right on his head. In spring it was
a big event to jump into Pine Creek
as soon as the ice went out. Bob
said, “We’d just all take off our
clothes and jump in – boys and
girls. We were probably in 6th or
7th grade. It was the days of
innocence”. Sometimes Bob and his
friend Tom would help unload the
freight truck at Mollring’s store.
Bob said, “If we dropped a
watermelon, we could eat it, so we
did.” Bob remembers being in the
first Rendezvous reenactment of
1936. Bob recalls that when he was
little, he was full of energy & his
mother gave him a jigger of wine
each night to put him to sleep!
Bob’s dad was a carpenter, the
3rd sheriff of Sublette County, a
Deputy Sheriff and the City
Marshall. Once a year they had to
clean out the water storage tank
(still sitting on Orcutt Hill). It
was the Deputy Sheriff’s job to
clean the courthouse too. Pinedale
had a unique system to notify a
policeman that he was needed. There
was a light at the intersection of
Tyler and Pine. If it went on, they
were hunting for a law officer. One
time, Bob recalls, “Dad was at
Mollring Store when a car came in.
Realizing that the men inside were
escaped convicts from Rawlins, Dad
jumped on the running board and
pulled out his gas gun (a pencil
shaped object that stuns people). He
got them to jail, locked them up and
then realized that he had captured
them with his pen.”
Bob spent a lot of time with his
Uncle Art Doyle on his ranch. He
said, “Uncle Art was one-legged.
He’d roped a buffalo once and the
rope had gotten around his leg and
pulled. Gangrene set in and he lost
the leg.” With his one leg and a
cane made out of a shovel handle,
Uncle Art broke horses and herded
cattle. One time he had been out on
Old Smokey when an eagle spooked the
horse. Uncle Art fell off, busted
his cane and couldn’t get back on.
He crawled until he found a rock
from which he could mount.
He and Uncle Art went up to see
Snook Moore and they got an elk. “We
hid the elk in the shed when the
game warden, came. We had the meat
in flour sacks and blood was coming
out. He asked, “Whatcha got there?”
and I said it was a calf. He said,
“You butchered that calf two years
ago!” But he didn’t say anymore.”
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OLLIE ETHEL and FRED ADAMS
In 1885 Guthrie County, Iowa, Frederick C. is 9, with parents James 40, a
carpenter, and Eva 34. Siblings are Earnest L. 7 James A. 5 and Frank E.
3. Eva Force was born 1850, and married James K. Adams 1868.
James is a carpenter in 1900 Lincoln County, Nebraska. He and Eva have
Frederick November 1875, Earnest Nov 1877, James De 1879, Frank May 1882, Carrie
Sep 1886, and Ray Aug 1890- Nebraska
James, Eva, and Ray are in Loveland, Larimer County in 1910. All three
are in Anaheim, California in 1920. (Ella Carrie (Adams) Berry born 1886
in Marion County, Iowa, died Nov 1, 1959 in Anaheim, buried in Loma Vista #
43883363) James K. Adams -1845-1927 is buried in Loma Vista
43884689, as is Eva -1850-1924 # 43884955.
Ollie E. Murrain married Fred C. Adams August 8, 1906, recorded in Larimer
County.
In 1910 Estes Park, Larimer County, Colorado, Fred C. 33 and "Allie" E.
Adams, 25 have Lillian A. 1.
In 1920 Magee precinct, Yuma County - township 4N 47W. Fred C. is 44, born in
Iowa, Ollie 34 Missouri, Lillian 12, Marjorie W. 10 James E. 4 and Loyd E.
1, all kids born in Colorado.
October 1929 Chillicothe Missouri "Sixty-two relatives gathered at the home
of Mr. and Mrs. William Davis at Wheeling Tuesday to enjoy a family reunion. The
guests arrived during the morning and at the noon hour enjoyed a fine dinner.
The afternoon was spent in
conversation, music, singing and taking pictures. Late in the afternoon a
luncheon of fruit was served after which the guests departed for their homes.
Those present were: Mrs. Kate Murraine, Maywood, Neb., Mrs. Ollie Adams, Mr. and
Mrs. Everett Rutledge and son, Stanley, Yuma, Colo."
Still in Magee precinct in 1930, they have James E. 14 and Lloyd E. 11.
Still in Magee in 1940, they have only Lloyd.
James E. was killed on
Okinawa September 23, 1945.
Ollie E. 1885-1969 # 48353941 and Fred C Adams -1875-1957 are buried in Yuma
Holyoke Enterprise, Holyoke, CO, April 6, 2000
Marjorie Aileen Adams Fryrear was born May 14, 1910, in Estes Park to
Fred and Ollie [Murrain] Adams. She died Tuesday, March 28, 2000, at the
Heritage Living Center in Haxtun, at the age of 89.
Marjorie was the second of four children. Her father was a carpenter on
the famous Stanley Hotel in Estes Park at the time of her birth. Upon
the completion of the hotel, the family moved to Conifer where Marjorie
and her older sister Lillian welcomed a brother, Jim. The family moved
by covered wagon to the Yuma area where they lived with relatives until
their home became available. Her brother Lloyd was born in the new
family home.
The Adams children attended Waverly School. Marjorie met Willie Fryrear
at a Sunday School party at Wages Methodist Church. They continued to
see each other at area barn dances, and when Marjorie was a senior in
high school, she ended her schooling to become Mrs. Willie Fryrear. They
were united in marriage February 12, 1930, at the home of Marjorie's
parents in Yuma County. To this union were born four children, Gloria
Jean, Donna May, Joyce Aileen and Donald William.
The first few years of marriage - during the Great Depression and dust
bowl times - were very difficult for Marjorie and her husband, so Willie
took a job. He helped to build the road from Holyoke to Wray, and
Marjorie was left in charge of the farm and family during the week.
Marjorie and Willie helped all their children to excel in school and in
their 4-H projects. They guided their children through many county,
state and national steer shows as well as sporting events and other
school activities. As grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Fryrear continued to
attend school and sporting activities.
The Fryrears moved to Holyoke in 1990. Marjorie was a devoted wife and
mother. She and her husband celebrated their 70th anniversary earlier
this year.
She was preceded in death by her parents; sister Lillian; brothers Jim
and Lloyd; son-in-law Charles Toyne; brothers-in-law Melvin, Merle and
Charles Fryrear and Byron Mitchell; and sister-in-law Mary Fryrear.
Survivors include her husband Willie of Holyoke; three daughters, Gloria
Toyne of Sedgwick, Donna Oliver and husband William of Holyoke, and
Joyce Zwirn and husband Don of Otis; son Donald [Billie] Fryrear and
wife Sherry of Big Springs, Texas; seven grandchildren, Lynda Firme and
husband Randall of Haxtun, Randal Oliver and wife Becky of Holyoke,
Kathy Bornhoft and husband Tim of Kapolei, Hawaii, Russell Zwirn and
wife Debbie of Yuma, Richard Zwirn and wife Angie of Yuma, Debbie Farr
and husband Richard of San Angelo, Texas, and Kenneth Fryrear and wife
Cindy of Midland, Texas; 13 great-grandchildren, William Ryan and Gentry
Leigh Oliver, Jeffery Dean and Carly Jo Firme, Drew Foster and Tate
Matthew Bornhoft, Levi Keller, Brody Matthew and Tylyn Elizabeth Zwirn,
Andrea Denice and Bradley William Fryrear, and Jake Ryan and Jilian
Leigh Farr; three sisters-in-law, Betty Adams of Akron, Cleo Fryrear of
Haxtun and Joe Fryrear of Holyoke.
Funeral services for Marjorie Aileen Adams Fryrear were held Friday,
March 31, 2000, at the First United Methodist Church in Holyoke.
Interment followed at Holyoke Memorial Park. Rev. Darrell Dennis
officiated. |
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