John Nelson "Nels" Yost
Marriages
Lillly Cook Yost - October 1888
at Leadville, Colorado.
Burial Details
Obituaries
Eagle Valley Enterprise page 1 - March 18, 1938
Nelson YOST is Laid to Rest at Eagle
With the death of Nels YOST at his house in Dotsero on March 8, Eagle County lost another of its earliest settlers and pioneers, another of the hardy men who helped carve from what was once called a mountainous waste, a woundrous empire.
Born in Quincy, Ill. December 13, 1853, John Nelson YOST came to Colorado in 1877, when 24 years of age. He went into the mining camps soon after coming to the state, and at Leadville he was married to Lilly Cook, in October, 1888. He came to Eagle County ahead of the railroad, and for a number of years drove stage and a freighting outfit between Leadville and Glenwood Springs. With the advent of the railroad into this section he located on the land he owned and lived at the time of his death, at Dotsero. Here is six children were born, all of whom are now living. His wife died thirty-three years ago, while the children were yet mere babes, the eldest being but fifteen at that time.
Deprived of his helpmeet and a mother for his children, Nels struggled with the task of rearing a family while provding a living, but he never faltered.
Funeral services for this departed pioneer were held from the Methodist church in Eagle, March 10, with Rev. Claude Copley delivering the discourse before a congregation which filled the church to overflowing of old friends, neighbors and relatives of the deceased who gathered to pay their last respects sorrowfully to a man whom they all repsected most highly. In charge of Mortician Paul Andre, the body was laid in its last resting place in Valley View (sic) cemetery at Eagle.
Children surviving the deceased are Mrs. W.J. Randall, Eagle; Mrs. E.H. Baer, Riland; Mrs. Lulu McClement, Dotsero; Earl Yost, Dotsero, Mrs. Earl Trump, Minturn; Mrs. Leona Ross, Eagle. There were 25 grandchildren and 11 great grandchildren, and one brother, George Yost, also of Dotsero.
