Henry Herbert Elliott
Marriages
Pauline Ruder - December 8, 1912
Burial Details
Obituaries
Eagle Valley Enterprise page page 1 - January 19, 1950
HENRY HERBERT ELLIOTT
Funeral services were held in Minturn Sunday afternoon, January. 15 for the late Henry. ‘Hank". Efliott of Gore Creek, who died in the Gilman Hospial January 9, followa cerrebral hemmorhage at the age of 64. His death came as a great shock to his family and friends, as Mr. Elliott had been in the best of health. A great sports enthusiast, Mr. Elliott centered his interest about boxing and baseball, and at the time of his death was working on a boxing card for the youth of Minturn. His career as a sportsman started when he was a young man, when he first played baseball with the Cotton State League in Tennessee. He played ball with many teams in differ ent states, lastly with the Minturn team, when he was nearly fifty years old. Henry, through his love of sports, promoted boxing, both amatuer and professional, in the county and sections of Colorado and is remembered by sportsmen all over Colorado. To Henry, politics were at the same time a recreation and a serious business, and a true old-line Demo crat, he took a keen interest in the county politics as well as state and national. Reverend Chamberlain of Leadville held services at the Presbyterian Church in Minturn, and interment was in. the Minturn c»"’-‘-Bowman Funeral Chapel of Eagle had charge of the arrangements. Music was by a trio. Mrs. Lydia Bryant, Mrs. Howard Downing and Howard Bayer, who sang “ God Be With You,” and “Some Day We V ill Understand," accompanied by Mrs. Bayer. Pallbearers were George Bryant, W. M. Wilson, Herman Billow, Mickey Walsh, Harold Wister. Jimmy Mr Breen and honorary pall bearers were William Luby, Charles Hemberger, O. A. Gustafson and J. D. Allen. Henry Herbert Elliott was born to Virginia and Carl Elliott on October 11, 1885 in Coronth, Mississippi. At the age of eight Henry was left an orphan, when his father, then"'' sheriff of Alpine county. Miss., died. The family of three boys and six girls moved to Memphis. Term., and there Henry grew to manhood under the guidance of his sister, Clara. He was employed by the Western Union Telegraph Company and also served with the National Guard for the State of ‘Tennessee, before he left to come west at the age of 17. He first went to Texas, where he worked on the XIT Ranch, then the largest cattle ranch in that state. In 1903, Henry came to Colorado, where he entered the employment of the D. & R. G. railroad at Saldda, where he worked for a number of years. December 8, 1912 he was married to Pauline Ruder of Minturn, and to this union were born six children, all of whom survive. Two years later, Henry left the railroad as a locomotive engineer, to go into the timber business above Gilman, supplying the mine, that is now the Empire Zinc mine, with timbers. He started as a farmer and rancher, when he homesteaded on the Piney. He sold that property and bought on Gore Creek, living there at the time of his death. There he operated a dairy supplying Minturn, Gilman, Red Cliff and Camy Hale. Throughout the war years, while working his dairy, he was an active member of the Pinkerton Detective Agency. He is survived by his wife, Pauline of Minturn; four sons, Douglas of Saudi, Arabia; Herbert of Boise, Idaho; Clare and Richard of Minturn; and three daughters: Maxine Daley of Minturn; Eula Evans of Minturn and Arline Swanson of Olympia, Washington. Two sisters, . also survive, Mrs. Martha Paxson of Denver and Mrs. Carle Munley of Memphis Tenn.; and nine grandchildren and nieces and nephews.
