Ira G. Mitchell
Burial Details
Obituaries
Eagle Valley Enterprise page 1 - April 27, 1928
I. G. MITCHELL DEAD.
I. G. MITCHELL, Eagle lumber merchant and builder, died in a hospital at Glenwood Springs, Colo., Saturday night, April 21.
Ira MITCHELL has not been in rugged health for many years,and for the past three months had been confined to his bed most of the time, and for several weeks past himself had given up hopes of recovery. One day last week he was removed to the hospital, but there was nothing that could be done for him, and he passed away within a few days.
But little is known of Mr. MITCHELL's past life,except in a general way. He was a millwright by trade, and spent many years of his life in parts of South America following his trade. He was one of the early day residents in Rio Blanco county, where he lived at Meeker. As a contractor he erected the principal hotel in that city. He came to Eagle some twelve or fifteen years ago, following the carpenter's trade here, and two or three years ago started a lumber business here, which he owned at the time of his death.
In the early bandit days of the old west, Mr. MITCHELL was employed as a Wells Fargo guard on treasure trains,and his experiences during those days were exciting and hazardous. His body carried the marks of bullet wounds received in many an encounter with outlaws.
He had been married earlier in life, but both his wife and their one child, a daughter died many years ago. He has some distant relatives living, and possibly a brother, who was living and a merchant somewhere in the Northwest a number of years ago. But as he was a man of reticent personal habits, who had but little contact with members of his family, there is nothing in his effects that will lead to the identity or whereabouts of relatives.
The remains were laid to rest in Glenwood Springs Tuesday afternoon, the funeral being conducted from the Farnum mortuary. Quite a number of citizens of Eagle went down to attend the funeral.
