San Juan Prospector dated Jan. 23, 1920
Philo Egan, former resident of Del Norte, died at the home of his son, Clayton Egan, at Monte Vista, Thursday, Jan. 15, 1920. Rev. White conducted graveside services and burial was in the Del Norte cemetery.
Philo was 87 years old, having been born in Ohio in 1833. When a child he went to Illinois and when a young man was married in that state to Miss Louisa Jones. Four children, two girls and two boys, were born. He acquired a farm in Illinois but later moved to Kansas, then to Del Norte in 1874, on July 4. He took up mining and prospecting, making two trips to California by way of the Isthmus of Panama, looking for gold. On one of these trips, he was on a boat carrying pay for some of the U.S. troops when the ship was captured by a Confederate ship and the gold of the soldiers taken. The passengers were not disturbed, but they were greatly frightened. Federal ships later sunk the Confederate ship.
Left to mourn are his sons, Clayton of Monte Vista, and Clarence of Alamosa, and a grandson, B.L. Shafer of Del Norte.
~Courtesy of Rosalind Weaver
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Other researchers list the other daughter as Neytee Egan, born ca. 1863 in Illinois. pwc
Philo Egan, former resident of Del Norte, died at the home of his son, Clayton Egan, at Monte Vista, Thursday, Jan. 15, 1920. Rev. White conducted graveside services and burial was in the Del Norte cemetery.
Philo was 87 years old, having been born in Ohio in 1833. When a child he went to Illinois and when a young man was married in that state to Miss Louisa Jones. Four children, two girls and two boys, were born. He acquired a farm in Illinois but later moved to Kansas, then to Del Norte in 1874, on July 4. He took up mining and prospecting, making two trips to California by way of the Isthmus of Panama, looking for gold. On one of these trips, he was on a boat carrying pay for some of the U.S. troops when the ship was captured by a Confederate ship and the gold of the soldiers taken. The passengers were not disturbed, but they were greatly frightened. Federal ships later sunk the Confederate ship.
Left to mourn are his sons, Clayton of Monte Vista, and Clarence of Alamosa, and a grandson, B.L. Shafer of Del Norte.
~Courtesy of Rosalind Weaver
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Other researchers list the other daughter as Neytee Egan, born ca. 1863 in Illinois. pwc
San Juan Prospector dated Jan. 23, 1920
Philo Egan, former resident of Del Norte, died at the home of his son, Clayton Egan, at Monte Vista, Thursday, Jan. 15, 1920. Rev. White conducted graveside services and burial was in the Del Norte cemetery.
Philo was 87 years old, having been born in Ohio in 1833. When a child he went to Illinois and when a young man was married in that state to Miss Louisa Jones. Four children, two girls and two boys, were born. He acquired a farm in Illinois but later moved to Kansas, then to Del Norte in 1874, on July 4. He took up mining and prospecting, making two trips to California by way of the Isthmus of Panama, looking for gold. On one of these trips, he was on a boat carrying pay for some of the U.S. troops when the ship was captured by a Confederate ship and the gold of the soldiers taken. The passengers were not disturbed, but they were greatly frightened. Federal ships later sunk the Confederate ship.
Left to mourn are his sons, Clayton of Monte Vista, and Clarence of Alamosa, and a grandson, B.L. Shafer of Del Norte.
~Courtesy of Rosalind Weaver
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Other researchers list the other daughter as Neytee Egan, born ca. 1863 in Illinois. pwc
Philo Egan, former resident of Del Norte, died at the home of his son, Clayton Egan, at Monte Vista, Thursday, Jan. 15, 1920. Rev. White conducted graveside services and burial was in the Del Norte cemetery.
Philo was 87 years old, having been born in Ohio in 1833. When a child he went to Illinois and when a young man was married in that state to Miss Louisa Jones. Four children, two girls and two boys, were born. He acquired a farm in Illinois but later moved to Kansas, then to Del Norte in 1874, on July 4. He took up mining and prospecting, making two trips to California by way of the Isthmus of Panama, looking for gold. On one of these trips, he was on a boat carrying pay for some of the U.S. troops when the ship was captured by a Confederate ship and the gold of the soldiers taken. The passengers were not disturbed, but they were greatly frightened. Federal ships later sunk the Confederate ship.
Left to mourn are his sons, Clayton of Monte Vista, and Clarence of Alamosa, and a grandson, B.L. Shafer of Del Norte.
~Courtesy of Rosalind Weaver
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Other researchers list the other daughter as Neytee Egan, born ca. 1863 in Illinois. pwc
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