Rose Mary Echo Silver Dollar Tabor was the second daughter of United States Senator Horace A. W. Tabor of Colorado ("The Silver King") and his controversial second wife, Elizabeth McCourt "Baby Doe" Tabor. She received the additional name of "Silver Dollar" shortly after her birth, when William Jennings Bryan visited the family mansion in Denver and commented about the young baby, "her voice has the ring of a silver dollar." Silver was barely a teen when Mr. Tabor's wealth vanished and the family's silver and gold literally turned to ashes. Upon Horace's death, Mrs. Tabor took her two daughters and lived in a shack on the Matchless Mine property in Leadville, Colorado, where she remained a recluse until her body was found frozen on the floor in the shape of a cross, 1935. Silver was an astounding beauty, and restless for a better life she left home but always kept in touch with her mother via letters. She wrote a song, "Our President Roosevelt's Colorado Hunt" in honor of Theodore; a photograph of the President meeting Silver was carried on the front page of newspapers. She wrote a novel, "Star of Blood" which was obscurely published. By the time she was 30 it was rumored Silver was living in flop houses in various parts of the country, taking up with different men; it was also rumored she was an alcoholic, prostitute, and drug addict, which upon her untimely death the coroner confirmed as far as alcohol and narcotics. At her age of 36, newspapers carried an account of her death under "mysterious circumstances" on September 18, 1925. A picture was found among her belongings at Apartment 23, 3802 Ellis Avenue in Chicago where she had registered as "Ruth Norman." On the back of the photo Silver had written "in case I am killed arrest this man for he will be directly or indirectly responsible for my death." Police found the man and questioned him, then released him for "lack of evidence." To the day of her own death, Baby Doe Tabor denied her daughter was dead, offering when questioned "my dear daughter has forsaken the world and entered a convent as a nun." Some forty years after Silver's death, a group of historians and researchers affiliated with the Colorado Historical Society found her unmarked grave and paid for the simple grave marker.∼Full name Rose Mary Echo Silver Dollar Tabor. Youngest child and second daughter of Colorado's Silver King Horace A. W. Tabor and his second wife Elizabeth Bonduel McCourt, better known as "Baby Doe" (Doe being the surname of her first husband). The scandalous marriage and lavish lifestyle of the flamboyant Horace Tabor and beautiful Baby Doe, both once-divorced, alienated 'polite society' from Washington DC to Denver in 1883. At first given little chance of success, the marriage endured the riches-to-rags collapse of Tabor's fortune in 1893 and in fact seems to have been a touchingly happy one. Youngest daughter Silver was just 4 when the family was reduced to near-poverty, and 9 when her father died in 1899. Afterward she lived in Denver and Leadville with her mother who devoted her life to raising funds to restore to its former glory the Matchless Mine, the one asset Tabor had managed to hang onto. As beautiful as her mother, Silver's various aspirations included poet, novelist (she wrote a novella entitled 'Star of Blood'), actress, and nun. Her at times wanton behavior led to conflict with her mother. Silver lived the last decade or so of her life in Chicago, working as a chorus girl, et al. She was found scalded to death in 1925 under suspicious circumstances that would never be explained. Baby Doe refused to acknowledge that this was Silver, and maintained for the remainder of her life that her youngest daughter was in a convent. Silver's uncle, Peter McCourt, identified the body and paid for the burial. The Tabor story was immortalized on screen in "Silver Dollar" and in the opera "Baby Doe".