BERIAH "Red" AMBERSON
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Eagle Valley Enterprise page 1 - May 29, 1936
Pioneer Minturn Railroad Engineer Answers Last Call
No longer will the gossip of the "switch shanty" interest "Red" AMBERSON, one of the oldest pioneer engineers of the Denver & Rio Grande railroad, for he has answered the last call of the "call boy," and passed on to his reward. Mr. AMBERSON passed away at a hospital in Glenwood Springs Tuesday evening, May 26, 1936 after having suffered a paralytic stroke a few days previously, from which he never fully regained consciousness.
The deceased was born in Mercer, Mercer County, Pennsylvania, August 25, 1848, lacking less than three months of 88 years when he died. Mr. AMBERSON joined the Union Army, at the age of 15 years, in 1863, and served during the remainder of the Civil War. He was one of the two or three veterans of that war left living in Eagle County.
We do not know when he first came to Colorado, but he was driving a locomotive through the mountains for the Denver & Rio Grande railroad in 1881, and continued in that service - working out of Minturn in the early railroad days of that town - until he retired several years ago.
He was known to all his friends and fellow workmen as "Red" and was highly thought of and respected by those who knew him. He was a good sportsman throughout his life in all matters, and a truer friend than "Red" AMBERSON never lived.
The remains were transported to Denver Wednesday by Mortician O.W. MEYER of Red Cliff, and burial made Thursday in Crown Hill cemetery in that city. He is survived by a niece living in Denver. We do not know of any other near relatives living in Colorado.
