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Beam Burtcher was the local colorful character. A local historian wrote: No one here seems to know where he came from. He came to town wearing matching pearl handled revolvers. Not sure whether he homesteaded right away, but eventually he did. He never married while he lived here, but once phones came in, he developed a reputation of sorts for calling the single women/girls of the area and playing the violin for them over the phone ...... sometimes for very long periods. He had a cabin in the middle of a meadow which is more or less a park surrounded by evergreen and aspen forests.
Beam's cabin wasn't far from there, perhaps a mile as the crow flies. The nearest town is actually Parshall. Hot Sulphur is the county seat. The area where he lived is called the Williams Fork, and it's a high valley created by the Williams Fork River and its tributaries. Not sure there would have been many sheep here in those days; you know, the typical sheep vs. cattle rancher, and the cattle were here first .... ..after the Indians, that is.
Beam never married.
Colorado Death Certificate #8174
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Beam Burtcher was the local colorful character. A local historian wrote: No one here seems to know where he came from. He came to town wearing matching pearl handled revolvers. Not sure whether he homesteaded right away, but eventually he did. He never married while he lived here, but once phones came in, he developed a reputation of sorts for calling the single women/girls of the area and playing the violin for them over the phone ...... sometimes for very long periods. He had a cabin in the middle of a meadow which is more or less a park surrounded by evergreen and aspen forests.
Beam's cabin wasn't far from there, perhaps a mile as the crow flies. The nearest town is actually Parshall. Hot Sulphur is the county seat. The area where he lived is called the Williams Fork, and it's a high valley created by the Williams Fork River and its tributaries. Not sure there would have been many sheep here in those days; you know, the typical sheep vs. cattle rancher, and the cattle were here first .... ..after the Indians, that is.
Beam never married.
Colorado Death Certificate #8174
Bio by: Lucille Adams Smith
Family Members
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Michael Bolemus Burtcher
1846–1864
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Edward Washington Burtcher
1849–1919
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Lydia Ann Burtcher Pearon
1854–1926
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Mary Ellen Burtcher Hill
1856–1935
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Charlotte Percilla Burtcher Hughes
1858–1929
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Amanda Hannah Burtcher Moss
1864–1890
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Oliver H Burtcher
1866–1931
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Letha Jane Burtcher Nichols
1867–1930
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Phillip Sheridan "Sherd" Burtcher
1868–1950
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