Ole Peterson
Marriages
Hattie Fulford Kleckner - June 20, 1896
Burial Details
Obituaries
Eagle Valley Enterpirse page 1 - September 13, 1929
OLE PETERSON .
Followed by a large concourse of sorowing friends the . body of Ole Peterson was laid to rest in the cemetery at Eagle Saturday afternoon . Ole Peterson was born in Wisby , Gotland Island Sweden August 25 , 1861 , and passed away September G , 1929 , at a hospital in Glenwood , aged 68 years and 22 days . At the age b [ 17 years the deceased came to America , and spent several years In the timber camps of Wisconsin and Canada . Coming to Leadville in thb eighties , he followed mining for a time and then moved to the Eagle valley and took up farming on Brush creek . June 20 , 1 S 9 G , he fas united In marriage to Hattie Fulford Kleckner , in Salt Lake City , Utah . To y hls union were born two children , Claude E . of Rifle , Colo ., and Mrs . E . A . Cook , of Pueblo , Colo . Ole Peterson was a splendid citizen of his adopted country , a neighbor in every sense of the word , whoso passed pledge was as good as his bond . Every man was his friend , and his demise is regretted by the whole
community . He had not been in good healht for some months , and recently he was advised that only an operation could relieve him . Mr . Peterson finally consented to the operation , but on the operating table it was discovered that he was afflicted with a cancer and that there was no hope for his recovery . ( He realized that the end was approaching and before his death arrange *! hs worldly affairs in order and bid his loved ones good-bye . Relatives who mourn the loss of a loving hurband . father and friend in his death are the widow . Mrs . Hattie Peterson ; a son , Claude E ., of Rifle ; a daughter , Mrs . E . A . Cook of Puehla ; a Lister , MfS . Emma Jacohson , Twa Harbors . Minn . ; and two foster children , Mrs . Bernic . e Boies of Rifle , and \\ r m . F . Keckner of Eagle . Rev Get . W . P-ok of Brush creek , n former p-stor o ft lie Eagle M . E . church , preached a splendid sermon at the servers held at the Motho- ¦ • i church in E , igle Saturday at 2 o clock p . m . wh ;< h were laurclv attended hv forme .- neighbors of . the doc i ;• ¦ •< ( I I in o
