Obituary: The Peabody [Kansas] Gazette-Herald; Thursday, July 3, 1952; Page 6
Parents: John S. & Jane (Morrison) Welsh
Married: James Barret May 7, 1884 in Bent County, Colorado (very little proof of this marriage or reason for dissolution has been found)
Married: Louis Romulus King December 2, 1890 in Leadville, Lake County, Colorado
She came to Marion County in 1871 with her parents and siblings. She grew to womanhood on the Welsh farm seven miles north of Peabody.
In the 1880 census she is enumerated twice; once with her parents and again with the John & Ettie Kline family of Peabody, Kansas. She is listed as their servant.
She served as a Fred Harvey "Harvey Girl" first in the Florence, Kansas then in LaJunta, Colorado. The Harvey Houses were usually affiliated with stations on the Santa Fe Railroad.
She became a journalist and went to Leadville to cover a story. That is where she met Louis. They stayed in Leadville for five years after they were married before moving to the Wetmore, Colorado area. She lived with Louis on their Colorado ranch for many years after that. After Louis' death she moved back to Kansas first living with her sister, Anna Ewert, and family in their home a couple miles west of Peabody, then living in Wichita at a couple of facilities there for the elderly.
She was a member of the Methodist Church.
Parents: John S. & Jane (Morrison) Welsh
Married: James Barret May 7, 1884 in Bent County, Colorado (very little proof of this marriage or reason for dissolution has been found)
Married: Louis Romulus King December 2, 1890 in Leadville, Lake County, Colorado
She came to Marion County in 1871 with her parents and siblings. She grew to womanhood on the Welsh farm seven miles north of Peabody.
In the 1880 census she is enumerated twice; once with her parents and again with the John & Ettie Kline family of Peabody, Kansas. She is listed as their servant.
She served as a Fred Harvey "Harvey Girl" first in the Florence, Kansas then in LaJunta, Colorado. The Harvey Houses were usually affiliated with stations on the Santa Fe Railroad.
She became a journalist and went to Leadville to cover a story. That is where she met Louis. They stayed in Leadville for five years after they were married before moving to the Wetmore, Colorado area. She lived with Louis on their Colorado ranch for many years after that. After Louis' death she moved back to Kansas first living with her sister, Anna Ewert, and family in their home a couple miles west of Peabody, then living in Wichita at a couple of facilities there for the elderly.
She was a member of the Methodist Church.
Obituary: The Peabody [Kansas] Gazette-Herald; Thursday, July 3, 1952; Page 6
Parents: John S. & Jane (Morrison) Welsh
Married: James Barret May 7, 1884 in Bent County, Colorado (very little proof of this marriage or reason for dissolution has been found)
Married: Louis Romulus King December 2, 1890 in Leadville, Lake County, Colorado
She came to Marion County in 1871 with her parents and siblings. She grew to womanhood on the Welsh farm seven miles north of Peabody.
In the 1880 census she is enumerated twice; once with her parents and again with the John & Ettie Kline family of Peabody, Kansas. She is listed as their servant.
She served as a Fred Harvey "Harvey Girl" first in the Florence, Kansas then in LaJunta, Colorado. The Harvey Houses were usually affiliated with stations on the Santa Fe Railroad.
She became a journalist and went to Leadville to cover a story. That is where she met Louis. They stayed in Leadville for five years after they were married before moving to the Wetmore, Colorado area. She lived with Louis on their Colorado ranch for many years after that. After Louis' death she moved back to Kansas first living with her sister, Anna Ewert, and family in their home a couple miles west of Peabody, then living in Wichita at a couple of facilities there for the elderly.
She was a member of the Methodist Church.
Parents: John S. & Jane (Morrison) Welsh
Married: James Barret May 7, 1884 in Bent County, Colorado (very little proof of this marriage or reason for dissolution has been found)
Married: Louis Romulus King December 2, 1890 in Leadville, Lake County, Colorado
She came to Marion County in 1871 with her parents and siblings. She grew to womanhood on the Welsh farm seven miles north of Peabody.
In the 1880 census she is enumerated twice; once with her parents and again with the John & Ettie Kline family of Peabody, Kansas. She is listed as their servant.
She served as a Fred Harvey "Harvey Girl" first in the Florence, Kansas then in LaJunta, Colorado. The Harvey Houses were usually affiliated with stations on the Santa Fe Railroad.
She became a journalist and went to Leadville to cover a story. That is where she met Louis. They stayed in Leadville for five years after they were married before moving to the Wetmore, Colorado area. She lived with Louis on their Colorado ranch for many years after that. After Louis' death she moved back to Kansas first living with her sister, Anna Ewert, and family in their home a couple miles west of Peabody, then living in Wichita at a couple of facilities there for the elderly.
She was a member of the Methodist Church.
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