Sterling Price Sloss
Marriages
Edith Arevilda Bogue - February 5, 1889
Nebraska
Amanda Henderson - March 1926
Burial Details
Obituaries
Eagle Valley Enterprise page 1 - January 30, 1931
S. P. SLOSS PASSES AWAY IN DENVER FOLLOWING SURGICAL OPERATION—WAS ONE OF COLORADOS MOST SUBSTANTIAL CITIZENS—FUNERAL LARGELY ATTENDED AT BASALT WEDNESDAY.
One of Eagle county's most beloved citizens passed away in Denver at 12:15 o'clock Sunday morning, January 25, when Sterling Price Sloss succumbed to death's call, following a surgical operation performed at St. Luke's hospital last Friday.
Mr. Sloss was born in St. Clair county, Missouri, October 25, 1862. At the age of four years he moved with his parents to Arkansas, where he lived until as a young man he came to Colorado and settled in the Wet Mountain valley, near Westcliff where he worked as a cow hand for A. J. Bates. In 1885 he moved to Aspen and was a citizen of Pitkin county for more than seventeen years, becoming one of that counties most influential citizens during his residence there. He formed a partnership with Geo. W. King for the operation of a dairy at what later became known as Ashcroft. During the time he settled and improved a ranch on Sopris creek. In 1888 he was elected a commissioner of Pitkin county and served in that capacity for four years, and later he was a member of the state board of live stock inspection.
In 1902 he purchased a ranch on the Frying Pan river, nine miles east of Basalt in Eagle county, and the postoffice of Sloss, Colo. was named after him. Here he established the beginning of what has grown into one of the biggest, most prosperous and finest cattle ranches in western Colorado.
February 5, 1889, he was united in marriage to Edith A. Bogue of Cherokee county, Iowa, and to this union were born in 1890, twin sons, Alfred M. and Alvin J. These sons were the only issue of this marriage, and they have grown into robust manhood, and have been the closest companions of their father during his lifetime. Growing into the cattle business as they reached manhood, they are now the sons of S. P. Sloss & Sons, a firm name to conjure with among cattle men all over the western cattle country.
The mother of Mr. Sloss's sons passed away March 6, 1922, at Glenwood Springs, and in March, 1926, he was again married to Mrs. Amanda Henderson, an old friend of the Sloss family.
The deceased is survived by his two sons, County Commissioner Alfred M., and Alvin J., both living on the ranch on the Frying Pan; the widow, Mrs. Amanda Sloss; a sister, Mrs. Ellen Bates, Bentonville, Ark.; a brother, J. F. Sloss, Basalt, Colo.; and a number of grandchildren and nephews and nieces.
Funeral services were held at Basalt, Colo., Wednesday afternoon, and it was one of the largest in point of attendance ever held in the county. Friends of the deceased from every part of the county from as far away as Red Cliff were in attendance, and personal friends and business associates from Glenwood Springs and Garfled county; and nearly all of Aspen turned out to pay their last respects to a departed friend and beloved neighbor. While flowers were received from distant parts of the state in great profusion sent by friends of the departed man who were too far away to attend the services.
Mr. Sloss was a member of the Masonic, Elks and Odd Fellows lodges.
Funeral services were conducted by the Rev. Mr. Kennedy, pastor of the Presbyterian church at Glenwood Springs, and the little church in Basalt would not nearly accommodate the hundreds of friends who desired to listen to the last sad rites over the departed soul of Price Sloss.
