{"id":6468,"date":"2017-07-15T16:13:44","date_gmt":"2017-07-15T20:13:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogygals.com\/blog\/?p=6468"},"modified":"2017-07-15T16:13:44","modified_gmt":"2017-07-15T20:13:44","slug":"a-pioneer-story-pioneer-days-part-9-the-rest-of-the-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogygals.com\/blog\/a-pioneer-story-pioneer-days-part-9-the-rest-of-the-story\/","title":{"rendered":"A Pioneer Story: Pioneer Days. Part 9, the Rest of the Story"},"content":{"rendered":"

At this point in her memoir Laura seems to have been ready to be done with the writing project, and much of the rest of her story was condensed (relative to the amount of detail in earlier pages).\u00a0 She dealt with her year and a half stay in Ohio, and with the Civil War in parts of a few brief paragraphs (her younger brothers\u2019 participation as well as J.W.\u2019s) and then the assassination of Lincoln all in less than two pages. \u00a0[While she dealt with the Civil War so briefly, there are several interesting tales that she alluded to. \u00a0I suspect I will come back to this period of time once or twice and write more fully of these times and the Denman and Booth families.] \u00a0She wrote about one page on the family\u2019s return trip to Golden from Ohio, which was faster and somewhat easier than the first trip West behind the oxen.\u00a0 She brushed by the next 4 years in Golden spent gardening (one daughter – unnamed but it was Laura Dell – was born) and wrote of J.W.\u2019s committing \u00a0them to an enterprise in southern Colorado, taking care of a herd of cows for absentee owners at Turkey Creek ranch.\u00a0 Of that ten years Laura wrote: \u201cI will draw a veil over the ten years of existence at the Turkey Creek ranch as nothing of importance occurred except the advent of another daughter, Carrie May, whose coming was truly a blessing to us in our lonely retreat.\u201d \u00a0It sounded as if Laura was not happy about pulling up stakes and moving away from the amenities of Golden.<\/p>\n

Following that relatively unsuccessful venture, the Booth family\"\"<\/a> moved to Pueblo for a time and then to a ranch outside Pueblo where \u201cmy husband engaged in gardening for a few years.\u201d \u00a0Meanwhile the children were growing up, being educated, and marrying. \u00a0 The gardening lasted until the infirmities of age brought J.W. to the point of not being able to carry on the business and they turned it over to a son-in-law, M.H. Claypool, and moved into town.\u00a0 Laura writes that \u201cwe spent two years of happiness in freedom from care and anxiety, when alas! my dear husband received the summons to go hence and departed this life on the tenth of May, 1904, leaving me to pursue life\u2019s journey alone.\u00a0 Together we had traveled forty-nine years and seven months.\u201d<\/p>\n

For the next 8-9 years Laura stayed in Pueblo, having grown children in the area. \u00a0She had increasingly bad health, however, particularly in the winter.\u00a0 So when daughter Nettie Myers told her of their plans to go to California for the winter of 1912-1913, Laura decided to join them. \u00a0They spent that first California winter in Pasadena, and the climate did allow much better health for Laura.\u00a0 She and the Myers liked it so well that they decided to make it a permanent move and Laura went back to Colorado to settle up her business there and then returned.\u00a0 Over the next couple of years they tried several locations for winter and summer, finally settling in Claremont.\u00a0 They liked the advantages of a college town (Pomona College where granddaughter Elsie graduated in\u00a0 June 1919) and Laura and her now-widowed daughter Nellie planned to stay.\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

And so Laura ended her tales, \u201chaving been led by an unseen hand thru these varying, shifting scenes of life, and having reached the age of ninety-one years, I await the call of the Master to enter into that rest prepared for those who love and serve Him here.\u201d \u00a0One of the two typescript copies of this memoir is signed by Laura and dated September 6, 1919. \u00a0She died in February 1920.<\/p>\n

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At this point in her memoir Laura seems to have been ready to be done with the writing project, and much of the rest of her story was condensed (relative to the amount of detail in earlier pages).\u00a0 She dealt …<\/p>\n

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