Robert Vosburg "Voss" Dismant
Marriages
Rosa Belle "Rose" Stouffer Dismant - December 25, 1901
Burial Details
Obituaries
Eagle Valley Enterprise page 1 - June 27, 1933
R. V. DISMANT DIES AT HOME IN RED CLIFF MONDAY.
WAS ONE OF PIONEER MINING MEN OF BATTLE MOUNTAIN--HAD BEEN ACTIVE IN MINING AFFAIRS THERE FOR MORE THAN THIRTY YEARS--WAS SICK FOR SEVERAL WEEKS.
A large concourse of sorrowing friends of the late Voss DISMANT filled the Presbyterian church at Red Cliff Wednesday afternoon to pay their last respects to the deceased man.
Mr. DISMANT had been seriously ill since about the first of the month, being afflicted with influenza, which developed into pneumonia. Monday morning, January 23, 1933, at 9:30 o'clock the end came and a devoted husband and father and a staunch friend, and good citizen, passed to his reward in that land of unknown.
Robert Vosburg DISMANT was born January 7, 1878, at Council Bluffs, Iowa. When only nine years of age his family moved to Colorado, bringing him with them. Here Voss grew to manhood and spent the greater part of his life in Red Cliff, although he lived two years in Indian Territory and a short time at Victor, Colo. He mined at Victor a short time, but the lure of the wealth in the mountains of his boyhood always called him back to further development in their depths, and his efforts at times were crowned with considerable success. On Christmas day,1901, he was united in marriage to Rose Stoffer [sic Stouffer]. The young couple first made their home at Bells Camp and then at Red Cliff. To this union was born three daughters, Mrs. Ethel MILLER, now living at Hotckhiss, Colo.; Lucille and Margaret, living at home.Other than the daughters, those left to mourn his passing are his widow, Rose DISMANT; two grand daughters and one grandson; his twin brother, Merritt, and several nephews of Red Cliff; three sisters, Mrs. Grace WALTON of Red Cliff; Mrs. Irene BRYANT of Ardmore, Okla., and Mrs. Elizabeth GULICK, of Phoenixville, Pa.; and a brother, William, living in California.
Mortician O. W. MEYER conducted the funeral services at the church, and Rev. M. Lee Smith, pastor of the local Presbyterian church, delivered a splendid discourse at the church. Mrs. NORLANDER and Mrs. Jas. CLEARY sang three vocal duets at the church, during the services, "Sometime We'll Understand," "Love Divine," "Lead Kindly Light"--with Mrs. Ollie MEYER accompanying them at the piano. Following the church services the body was borne to Evergreen cemetery [sic Greenwood] and laid to rest, with the rites of the Masonic order, the deceased having been a member of the Minturn lodge of that order. Pal bearers were Thos. COLLINS, William BRADY, Ira McILLNAY, M. H. McLEOD, Wm. HEATH, and James ROSE.
Voss DISMANT was recognized as one of the best and most competent mining men of the Battle Mountain district. Associated with his brother, Merritt, he had managed some of the most successful operations of that region of the past thirty years. While he had, over the course of these years, taken wealth in gold and silver from the mountains which would amount to a considerable fortune, his venturesome nature also impelled him to return his gains in further development, so that his life was full of the ups and downs natural to the instinct of a miner.
With his death has passed another of the pioneers of the Battle Mountain mining district, one whom will be sadly missed, and as the years go by, and his deeds of development are recounted by those who knew him at the heighth of his successful career, his usefulness to the community will be more and more recognized.
The Enterprise family joins many other friends in extending sympathy to the sorrowing family.
