DIED AT 20 YEARS OLD
FATHER: JESSE b. 1854 ILLINOIS
STEP MOTHER: ELIZABETH J. DOBY b. 1871 MISSOURI
SIBLINGS: GEORGE E. 1883, ROBERT H. 1888, ABRAM D. 1891, JOSEPH W. 1892, AND NORA M. 1896
*GEORGE AND ROBERT WERE BORN IN "INDIAN TERRITORY". ABRAM, JOSEPH, AND NORA WERE ALL BORN IN COLORADO WITH ELLA M. BORN IN MISSOURI. THIS MEANS THAT JESSE D. AND LIZZIE CAME WEST SOMETIME BETWEEN ELLA'S BIRTH IN APRIL 1882 AND GEORGE E., BIRTH IN "INDIAN TERRITORY" IN NOVEMBER 1883. ARRIVING COLORADO SOMETIME BETWEEN ROBERT H. BIRTH IN DECEMBER 1888 AND ABRAMS BIRTH IN MARCH 1891. *(U.S. CENSUS DATA 1900 dated June 3, 1900)
*JESSE KERLEE WAS A "FARMER" IN THE PARACHUTE PRECINCT, GARFIELD COUNTY, COLORADO IN 1900.
THE 1920 U.S. CENSUS SHOWS JESSE KERLEE AND LIZZIE WITH ADDITIONAL CHILDREN: BESSIE, NELLIE, NANCY, IVA AND DEAN, GARFIELD COUNTY, COLORADO.
THE "KERLEE" FAMILY MEMBERS ARE BURIED IN BATTLEMENT CEMETERY, COLORADO.
LEST WE FORGET
A short history of early Grand Valley, Colorado, originally called Parachute, Colorado.
Grand Junction, Colorado U.S.A.
"Along in the 1890's the Jess Kerlee family arrived from Missouri. Mr. Kerlee's first wife had died of tuberculosis, an uncontrolled disease in those early days, and he later married a Doby girl and came west to a healthier climate for his family. Mr. Kerlee was an expert woodsman and several early log homes in the area were a product of his time, patience and skill.
George Kerlee, one of the sons, recalled how as a child he admired and loved the wild horses in the Battlement Mesa Area. And in one of the terrible winters in the '90's when the snow was so deep it covered the fences so the children walked to school over the top of those barriers, the poor horses could not find food and many literally starved to death. The emaciated bodies of these beautiful, proud, free creatures dotting the mesa the next spring was a memory George could never quite erase from his mind."
Erlene Durrant Murray
First Edition
Sketches by Connie Ann Murray
Copyright 1973
All rights reserved
Printed by Quahada, Inc.
FATHER: JESSE b. 1854 ILLINOIS
STEP MOTHER: ELIZABETH J. DOBY b. 1871 MISSOURI
SIBLINGS: GEORGE E. 1883, ROBERT H. 1888, ABRAM D. 1891, JOSEPH W. 1892, AND NORA M. 1896
*GEORGE AND ROBERT WERE BORN IN "INDIAN TERRITORY". ABRAM, JOSEPH, AND NORA WERE ALL BORN IN COLORADO WITH ELLA M. BORN IN MISSOURI. THIS MEANS THAT JESSE D. AND LIZZIE CAME WEST SOMETIME BETWEEN ELLA'S BIRTH IN APRIL 1882 AND GEORGE E., BIRTH IN "INDIAN TERRITORY" IN NOVEMBER 1883. ARRIVING COLORADO SOMETIME BETWEEN ROBERT H. BIRTH IN DECEMBER 1888 AND ABRAMS BIRTH IN MARCH 1891. *(U.S. CENSUS DATA 1900 dated June 3, 1900)
*JESSE KERLEE WAS A "FARMER" IN THE PARACHUTE PRECINCT, GARFIELD COUNTY, COLORADO IN 1900.
THE 1920 U.S. CENSUS SHOWS JESSE KERLEE AND LIZZIE WITH ADDITIONAL CHILDREN: BESSIE, NELLIE, NANCY, IVA AND DEAN, GARFIELD COUNTY, COLORADO.
THE "KERLEE" FAMILY MEMBERS ARE BURIED IN BATTLEMENT CEMETERY, COLORADO.
LEST WE FORGET
A short history of early Grand Valley, Colorado, originally called Parachute, Colorado.
Grand Junction, Colorado U.S.A.
"Along in the 1890's the Jess Kerlee family arrived from Missouri. Mr. Kerlee's first wife had died of tuberculosis, an uncontrolled disease in those early days, and he later married a Doby girl and came west to a healthier climate for his family. Mr. Kerlee was an expert woodsman and several early log homes in the area were a product of his time, patience and skill.
George Kerlee, one of the sons, recalled how as a child he admired and loved the wild horses in the Battlement Mesa Area. And in one of the terrible winters in the '90's when the snow was so deep it covered the fences so the children walked to school over the top of those barriers, the poor horses could not find food and many literally starved to death. The emaciated bodies of these beautiful, proud, free creatures dotting the mesa the next spring was a memory George could never quite erase from his mind."
Erlene Durrant Murray
First Edition
Sketches by Connie Ann Murray
Copyright 1973
All rights reserved
Printed by Quahada, Inc.
DIED AT 20 YEARS OLD
FATHER: JESSE b. 1854 ILLINOIS
STEP MOTHER: ELIZABETH J. DOBY b. 1871 MISSOURI
SIBLINGS: GEORGE E. 1883, ROBERT H. 1888, ABRAM D. 1891, JOSEPH W. 1892, AND NORA M. 1896
*GEORGE AND ROBERT WERE BORN IN "INDIAN TERRITORY". ABRAM, JOSEPH, AND NORA WERE ALL BORN IN COLORADO WITH ELLA M. BORN IN MISSOURI. THIS MEANS THAT JESSE D. AND LIZZIE CAME WEST SOMETIME BETWEEN ELLA'S BIRTH IN APRIL 1882 AND GEORGE E., BIRTH IN "INDIAN TERRITORY" IN NOVEMBER 1883. ARRIVING COLORADO SOMETIME BETWEEN ROBERT H. BIRTH IN DECEMBER 1888 AND ABRAMS BIRTH IN MARCH 1891. *(U.S. CENSUS DATA 1900 dated June 3, 1900)
*JESSE KERLEE WAS A "FARMER" IN THE PARACHUTE PRECINCT, GARFIELD COUNTY, COLORADO IN 1900.
THE 1920 U.S. CENSUS SHOWS JESSE KERLEE AND LIZZIE WITH ADDITIONAL CHILDREN: BESSIE, NELLIE, NANCY, IVA AND DEAN, GARFIELD COUNTY, COLORADO.
THE "KERLEE" FAMILY MEMBERS ARE BURIED IN BATTLEMENT CEMETERY, COLORADO.
LEST WE FORGET
A short history of early Grand Valley, Colorado, originally called Parachute, Colorado.
Grand Junction, Colorado U.S.A.
"Along in the 1890's the Jess Kerlee family arrived from Missouri. Mr. Kerlee's first wife had died of tuberculosis, an uncontrolled disease in those early days, and he later married a Doby girl and came west to a healthier climate for his family. Mr. Kerlee was an expert woodsman and several early log homes in the area were a product of his time, patience and skill.
George Kerlee, one of the sons, recalled how as a child he admired and loved the wild horses in the Battlement Mesa Area. And in one of the terrible winters in the '90's when the snow was so deep it covered the fences so the children walked to school over the top of those barriers, the poor horses could not find food and many literally starved to death. The emaciated bodies of these beautiful, proud, free creatures dotting the mesa the next spring was a memory George could never quite erase from his mind."
Erlene Durrant Murray
First Edition
Sketches by Connie Ann Murray
Copyright 1973
All rights reserved
Printed by Quahada, Inc.
FATHER: JESSE b. 1854 ILLINOIS
STEP MOTHER: ELIZABETH J. DOBY b. 1871 MISSOURI
SIBLINGS: GEORGE E. 1883, ROBERT H. 1888, ABRAM D. 1891, JOSEPH W. 1892, AND NORA M. 1896
*GEORGE AND ROBERT WERE BORN IN "INDIAN TERRITORY". ABRAM, JOSEPH, AND NORA WERE ALL BORN IN COLORADO WITH ELLA M. BORN IN MISSOURI. THIS MEANS THAT JESSE D. AND LIZZIE CAME WEST SOMETIME BETWEEN ELLA'S BIRTH IN APRIL 1882 AND GEORGE E., BIRTH IN "INDIAN TERRITORY" IN NOVEMBER 1883. ARRIVING COLORADO SOMETIME BETWEEN ROBERT H. BIRTH IN DECEMBER 1888 AND ABRAMS BIRTH IN MARCH 1891. *(U.S. CENSUS DATA 1900 dated June 3, 1900)
*JESSE KERLEE WAS A "FARMER" IN THE PARACHUTE PRECINCT, GARFIELD COUNTY, COLORADO IN 1900.
THE 1920 U.S. CENSUS SHOWS JESSE KERLEE AND LIZZIE WITH ADDITIONAL CHILDREN: BESSIE, NELLIE, NANCY, IVA AND DEAN, GARFIELD COUNTY, COLORADO.
THE "KERLEE" FAMILY MEMBERS ARE BURIED IN BATTLEMENT CEMETERY, COLORADO.
LEST WE FORGET
A short history of early Grand Valley, Colorado, originally called Parachute, Colorado.
Grand Junction, Colorado U.S.A.
"Along in the 1890's the Jess Kerlee family arrived from Missouri. Mr. Kerlee's first wife had died of tuberculosis, an uncontrolled disease in those early days, and he later married a Doby girl and came west to a healthier climate for his family. Mr. Kerlee was an expert woodsman and several early log homes in the area were a product of his time, patience and skill.
George Kerlee, one of the sons, recalled how as a child he admired and loved the wild horses in the Battlement Mesa Area. And in one of the terrible winters in the '90's when the snow was so deep it covered the fences so the children walked to school over the top of those barriers, the poor horses could not find food and many literally starved to death. The emaciated bodies of these beautiful, proud, free creatures dotting the mesa the next spring was a memory George could never quite erase from his mind."
Erlene Durrant Murray
First Edition
Sketches by Connie Ann Murray
Copyright 1973
All rights reserved
Printed by Quahada, Inc.
Gravesite Details
There was another Ella Kerlee, born 1882 in "Indian Territory" that is listed in the 1900 U.S. Census as living in West Glenwood, Colorado. She is listed as a "Housekeeper" at 300/337 Pitkin Avenue at the residence of Frank and Francis Hemmingway.
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