Orens C. "Ora" Evans
Burial Details
Obituaries
Eagle Valley Enterprise page 8 - November 11, 1938
Another old timer of Eagle county has crossed the Great Divide
- O. C. EVANS, well known in the McCoy district, passed away at the Porter
hospital in Glenwood Springs on Saturday, November 5, 1938.
Mr. EVANS was born on December 24, 1852, in Fulton, Calloway County, Missouri.
When still a youth he crossed the plans by ox-cart with his parents Dr. and Mrs. T.
N. EVANS, coming to Denver, and later moving to Monument, Colo. In 1878, he
came with the family to Red Cliff and has since made his home continuously in
Eagle county. He took up a homestead in the McCoy district in later years, and for the past nine years has made his home at
the Clyde SCHLEGEL ranch on Castle creek, near McCoy.
Ora was an outdoor man, and spent many of his active years as a trapper, and for
several years in the eighties lived in a cabin on Eby creek near Eagle and trapped
for a living. The Piney creek country was a favorite stomping ground of Mr.
EVANS, and until a very few years ago there remained a good cabin near the mouth
of Bear gulch built by him nearly fifty years ago. The editor of the Enterprise has
spent many a day on the tail with Ora with both rod and gun, and never a better
camp companion lived than he.
Of robust health until about two years ago, when a foot injury crippled him, and has
caused him a great deal of suffering. Five weeks ago he was taken to the hospital at
Glenwood for treatment, but his advanced age made his recovery slow. Last week a
turn for the worse indicated the amputation which the doctors had thought could
possibly prolong and save his life, could not be performed, and he passed away on
Saturday morning.
His sister, Mrs. Fannie COLLINS, and niece, Mrs. Ethel BAYER, were with him at
the end.
Funeral services were in charge of the Farnum Mortuary, from its chapel in
Glenwood. Interment was made at the Rosebud cemetery in Glenwood Springs. Rev.
Mr. MASON of the Presbyterian Church read the service.
