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Longmont Ledger (Longmont, Boulder County)
May 27, 1904
CARR--In Longmont, Saturday, May 21, 1904, of pneumonia, complicated with Bright's
disease, Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Carr, wife of S. H. Carr, aged 65 years.
It was quite a remarkable fact that this couple, after forty-five years of life's
journey together, should be called away the same day. The latter we are informed was
taken with pneumonia soon after she was told that her husband would not live.
They were old timers in the west, and have seen many exciting scenes, connected with life
on the border, or better, beyond the border, for that was the case when they came to
Colorado.
In a brief sketch of this kind we are necessarily obliged to omit much taht would be
interesting, especially as they were so well known, for they have been active in doing
their part in building up this great west and making it what it is today. They have lived
courageous and honorable libed, much thought of by those who have nown them best. As
their lives are necessarily one story to a great extent, we must consider them together.
Stephen Hadley Carr was born in Belknap Co., N. H., Jan 23, 1825, his father also being a
New Hampshire man. Was educated in South Berwick, Me. As a business man has life has been
a varied one. At seventeen he wen to into the hardware business and then into that of
furniture and auction. In 1856 he went to Council Bluffs to investigate, and year later
moved to that place after selling his property in New York and Boston.
He was married in 1859 to Miss Lizzie Ohphant, a native of Pennsylvania, and the same year
they came across the great plains with three yoke of oxen, reaching Denver October 10th.
Of course there were but a few scattering houses there at that time. Going from there to
the divide with a lot of other men he got out logs for a house, but soon after sold the
logs and rented a hotel on Tenth street, two block down from Larimer street, thus becoming
the proprietor of the Jefferson House, which kept for two years, when he traded some Iowa
property for forty acres on the north side of Denver near the Larimer street bridge. In
the spring of 1862 he sold out and spent the summer. In the fall he traded this ranch for
property four miles from Blackhawk where he followed teaming, furnishing a mill with logs.
In the fall of 1864 he again sold out and removed to the foot of Guy hill on a timbered
ranch where he spent the winter. IN the spring of 1865 he brought what has been known for
!
many years as the Carr House, on Fifteenth street, Denver, it being a feed and sale
stable and hotel, which he kept for seven years, and where the writer stopped for three
days in 1877, five years after he gad given it up, for he sold out in 1872, or rather
traded it for his present family property southeast of Longmont, at Idaho Creek, which he
possess at the time of his death.
Mr. and Mrs Carr have seen many of the vicissitues of life. Once when living in Denver in
the days of the vigilantes, when Mr. Carr was away in the mountains for wood, this
committee hung a man just of their house, and Mrs. Carr found his body dangling from a
tree in the morning.
Mr. and Mrs. Carr have had three children, besides Orpha Stults, whom they adopted. One
died in infancy, another at the age of fourteen and the other lived to marry B.F. Hersey
and have two sons, Abraham Scott and Stephen Carl, but has since passed to the other
side.
A double funeral service was held Monday morning, conducted by the Rev. Jas. McLaughlin.
It was a peculiarly solemn service. Mr Shaw got an extra hearse from Boulder and the two
hearses conducted the remains of husband and wife to their last resting place on earth.
Find-a-grave 53226250
The owner of this memorial will not add info unless the request comes from a family
member, which I am not.
It would nice if this obit was added and the death date updated.
tie to husband Stephen 53226192....add his birth info Jan 23, 1825 Belknap Co., New Hamp.
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