Ben L. Cress
Burial Details
Obituaries
Eagle Valley Enterprise page 1 - October 22, 1937
Ben L. Cress, one of the earliest settlers and Eagle county's first mining and civil engineer, died at the Gilman hospital at 2:00 o'clock p.m., Wednesday, October 20, 1937. While in failing health for several years, Mr. Cress had been in the hospital but two days when he died. Mr. Cress would have been 87 years of age soon.
Mortician Oscar W. Meyer wired a brother of the deceased in California oaf the death and funeral arrangements are being delayed pending word from the brother.
Eagle Valley Enterprise page 1 - October 29, 1937
Ben L. Cress passed away in the Empire Zinc hospital on Wednesday, October 20, 1937, after a brief illness.
He was born in Hillsborough, Ill., December 10, 1850, and came to Colorado in 1879, to help make the survey over Marshall Pass for a railroad into Grand Junction. In 1880 he helped survey the narrow-gauge railroad from Salida to Belden in the Eagle river canon. Since that time Ben Cress had made his home in Red Cliff with the exception of eight years spent at Mitchell, Colo.
Until very recently Mr. Cress took an active part in all local and county affairs, and will be missed by his many friends and associates.
He was laid to rest in Evergreen [sic.] cemetery in Red Cliff.
He is survived by a brother, R. B. Cress, who is 92 years old, and a nephew, R. B. Cress, both living in Diunba, Calif., a nephew, H. J. Cress of Portland, Ore., and a nephew, Cress Blackman, Compton, Calif.
