Lake County

LANCASTER/SHANNON

FAMILIES COLLECTION

SILVER DOLLAR TABOR

Daughter of Senator H.A.W. Tabor being presented to President Roosevelt by Sheriff Alexander Nisset and Senator Irby, President of the Press Club at the chuck dinner given by the press club August 29, 1910

In an article in the Rocky Mountain Memories by Frances Melrose it said:

"In Leadville the hero of San Juan Hill was given a glorious welcome, and hundreds marched ahead of his carriage as he rode from the depot to the speakers' platform erected at the corner of Fifth and Harrison streets."

In another article it reads:

"When President Theodore Roosevelt visited Leadville in 1908, Silver Dollar rode into town to see him and later wrote a poem, Our President Roosevelt's Colorado Hunt, which was set to marching music by A.S. Lohmann of Denver.

Two years later, Silver Dollar, by then working on the Denver Times, pressed close to the platform when Roosevelt made an appearance in Denver and handed him a copy of the song. They were photographed together, and Denver newspapers carried the picture. "

The picture I have also has the signature of Silver Dollar Tabor on it.

The Denver Hotel somewhere in Colorado and probably up in Leadville as you can see the mountains in the background and the area looks a lot like the Leadville area. The elevation is high as it appears to be above timberline as there is not a tree in site! I have given a copy of this picture to the Denver Public Library also but nobody has yet identified where or when the picture was taken. It was in my Grandma's things and since she lived in Leadville I presume that is was taken there but not sure.

 

This is a letter of Resolutions of Sympathy. It was written by someone in the GAR which my great grandmother Jennie Lancaster was a member. It was sent to her in 1891 when her daughter Iva (or Ivy) died. Iva was eleven years old at the time. I do not know what she died of but would love to find out. Iva (or Ivy) is buried in the GAR section of Evergreen Cemetery in Leadville.
Ivy Lancaster is buried in Block 5, Lot 141. There is a marker.

 

 

Donated by Helen Lucero
Lakewood, Colorado

 

 

 

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