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Longmont Ledger (Longmont, Boulder County)
Jan 3, 1908
CLAWSON--At his home in Longmont, Tuesday, December 31, 1907, of jaundice, Garrett Clawson, aged 73 years, 10 months and 25 days.
Mr. Clawson's death has come as a shock, for it was only a few days ago he was on the street. It is another reminder that the years are going by and men and women are passing with them. Mr. Clawson had lived past the three score and ten, and few men were better know in the old days of Boulder county.
On June 28th, 1907 we published the account of Garrett Clawson's life and with some slight changes we cannot do better than repeat the story, for we received it from his own lips.
Mr. Clawson was born in Tippecanoe county, Indiana, Feb 6, 1834. His mother lived to see 67 year of life and his father 88.
Garrett went to school in Indiana at the district school until he was thirteen years of age, until he was thirteen years of age, then to the state of Wisconsin, to a log school house, where he learned the common branches. After school life he worked on his father's farm till he was 21, when worked by the month for other men. He was hard working boy.
The part of his life most interesting to us is after his coming to Colorado. He followed the ox team to this state, or territory as it was then, in 1859. His impression of Colorado was that it was a humbug; almost everybody thought so too, and he went back. But he came again the next year better satisfied to stay. This time he went to California Gulch was a familiar place to him, for in these places he did gulch of placer mining. After two years, having hurt his spine the mines, he again returned to "the states". After this he freighted over the plains, up the Platte river to the several stations for the government about six or eight months, then came to the district which we now call Longmont.
Mr. Clawson has seen bigger herds of buffalo than he ever did of cattle. One herd of buffalo which he saw cross the Platte river, was moving all the time and it took three days to pass. This was near Cottonwood Springs. There were also plenty of antelope around Longmont and cast on the plains as late as the spring of 1864.
As singing teacher he was evidently quite a success in Wisconsin and Illinois, and his reputation was widespread in this part of Colorado. He had good tenor voice and a knowledge of the old fashioned singing school methods, which after all if the foundation of the teaching of vocal music today. Hi district led him from Boulder to the Big Thompson and he has received as high as $8 a night in Boulder. He had as many as fifty classes in music altogether, sometimes having five or six at once in various places. He had also led church choirs for years.
When the war broke out he was in California Gulch, and he joined the First Colorado Mounted Militia in 1865. His business to guard the mails on the Platter river from Valley Station to Denver. He was second lieutenant, and this was about all the actual service he saw.
When William Brush, brother of Judson Brush, was killed by the Indians, near where Evans is now, Garrett Clawson, Enoch Coffman, M. H. Coffin, W. H. Dickens, Silas Robinson, Jesse Coffman and other early settler went down to punish the Indians, but they had disappeared.
Much of his life was afterward spent on the farm northeast of Longmont, which is still known by his name. Infirmities of age coming on he sought the conveniences of the city life and he resided in Longmont the last few years.
He was married in Colorado in 1878 to Miss Marta Eastwood, who came from about twenty miles from Buffalo. They had had no children.
He had the misfortune to lose the sight of one eye and as other was not very good was was compelled to withdraw from the activity of life, before the natural time for so doing.
Mr. Clawson has alwasy been loved for this equable temperment and kindly way. If we could be pleasant toward each other as Garrett Clawson has been, much of the bitterness of life would not be known.
Owing to the severe illness of Mrs. Clawson, the remains were taken to M. G. Rice's undertaking rooms and funeral services held in the Congregational Church Thursday afternoon, Rev. W. A. Williams officiating, after which McPherson Post took charge of the remains and held their own services at the grave. Mrs. Clawson was an honored member of the order.
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Longmont Ledger (Longmont, Boulder County)
Jan 6, 1922
CLAWSON--At the home of Mrs. Sadie Metcalf, in Denver, Wednesday afternoon, January 4, 1922, Mrs. Martha Clawson, aged 82 years.
Mrs. Clawson was the widow of the later Garrett Clawson. They had no children.
Mrs. Clawson was born near Colesville, N. Y., and came to Colorado in the seventies, and was married in Longmont to Mr. Clawson about 1882.
She moved to Denver a little over two years ago, after spending a year in the home of her nephew, F. J. Bishopp. Mrs. Metcalf, at whose home she lived was a niece.
Her remains were brought to Longmont Wednesday afternoon, and funeral services will be held at Weeden's parlor, Saturday afternoon at 3 o'clock.
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