This first news item is from the “Crescent”, dated Dec. 1, 1898.
 

Birthday Party: Miss Nora Jaques entertained a number of her young friends on Tues. night at dancing. The occasion was Miss Nora’s twentieth birthday. Oscar Jacques and Mrs. Ben Timney came over from Bonanza to attend. Those present from town were: Misses Minnie and Blanch O’Neil, Delpha Moon, Annie Fullerton, Myrtle Phillips, Elsie Hamm, Florence Fleming and Cora Townsend. Messrs. H. Fullerton, Lewis Townsend, Len Townsend, Herbert Ellis, Will Hamm, Franz and Carl Marold. (I  remember the “birthday girl’ and several of the other people listed in this news item. Nora Jaques later became Mrs. Henry Clark. Henry and Nora were the parents of Roy, Bessie (Mrs Bert Waycoff) and Tressie (Mrs Herb Mansker). Tressie lives at Montrose, CO and is 88 years young.

One more is numbered among the lost from the old settlers, William M.  Ellis, who at the age of 67 years passed away , Monday morning, Sept. 4, 1922 at his little cottage home in Saguache. 

Mr. Ellis was born in Webster County, Iowa, Aug. 1855. He came to Colo. in the fall of 1872, with his parents and five sisters taking up a homestead, the property known as the Mat Hayes’ property near Hickory bridge. Here the children were raised until the marriageable age. The five sisters, Mrs. J. L. Jaques, Mrs. Roseanne Townsend, Mrs John O’Neil of Saguache, Mrs. Helen Adams, and Mrs. Alva Smith of Denver survive, also cousins and nieces.  Their only brother, William, remained single and lived a very quiet life. The burial took place at the Hillside Cemetery Tues. afternoon where Rev. W. Hanford Miller gave a very pathetic memorial address on the life of the deceased.