Logan County, Colorado

Charles F. and Beulah (Armour) Huntsman, Montrose



BEULAH'S FAMILY


She had been in Logan County in 1900, Dickson Armour 64, farming, Maggie D. Armour 49 Wife, both born in Tennessee, Hugh D. Armour 25 Son, Bessie Armour 22 Daughter, Mary D. Armour 19 Daughter, Maggie L. Armour 17 Daughter, and Willie D. Armour 16 Son.

CHARLES' FAMILY

March 22, 1917 Montrose " Local friends will learn with deep regret of the death of Mrs. Lucinda A. Fallor, sister of David J. Huntsman of this city, who died Wednesday, March 7, at Cedarview, Utah, at the home of her brother, Edward C. Huntsman, with whom she has made her home for a number of years. Mrs. Fallor, who was a former local resident, lived to a ripe old age, being nearly eighty-seven years old. She was a pioneer of Montrose, coming here in 1887, and she resided here until June 15, 1910, when she moved to Cedarview.
Lucinda Huntsman was born Sept. 21, 1880 in Ohio, her parents being Jesse and Lucy J. Huntsman. When she was a year old, her family moved tc Indiana, and the daughter resided there until 1871, when she went to Independance, Kansas. From there she went to Lamar, Mo., and in 1885 she went back to Bushy Prairie, La Grange county, Ind., living there until she came to Montrose twelve years later.
She was married to Joseph M. Fallor in Bushy Prairie in 1880, and he died several years ago at an advanced age.
Mrs. Fallor is survived by three brothers, Phlneas T. Huntsman of La Grange, Ind., David J. Huntsman of Montrose, and Edward C. Huntsman of Cedarview, Utah, besides several nieces and nephews.
The funeral services were held in Cedarview Meeting House, Friday, March 9. 1917, at 1 P.M., by the Rev. i George S. Sloan of Myton, Utah. The pall bearers were six young ladies dressed i n white who were personal friends of Mrs. Fallor. The infer-) ment took place at the Cedarview cemetery."

" David J. Huntsman, one of the pioneer residents of Montrose, died on Wednesday morning (February 26, 1919) at 11:45 of cancer of the face, after eight years' battle against the disease. He was 83 years past and had been in this city since 1886. Born in 1837, on January 6th, he had passed his 82nd birthday a little when death came. He was a native of Indiana. He was the father of Mrs. James Foster of this city, and two sons survive also, Guy Huntsman, who lived with him, and Charles Huntsman, until recently connected with the Bargain house here. The elderly gentleman had been a familiar figure in this city for years, and was well liked by a wide circle of old-timers and newcomers who had met him. He was an unobtrusive, quiet sort of man and had lived more or leas in seclusion since his disease became a distress to him, and he suffered more from dread of the trouble than from pain. His passing marks the stilling of hands that were once busy in making her a good home, that had been ....and the memory will be good to all who were intimate with him. i memory will be good to all who were intimate with him. His aged wife survives and is in very poor health.
The funeral will be held from the Hawley chapel Friday morning at 10 o'clock, with Rev. J. Sheridan Bunch officiating. Burial will be made in Grand View cemetery."

Montrose " Mr. Frederick R. Huntsman and Miss Bertha Bloom were joined in wedlock Christmas day 1912."

October 18, 1918 Montrose "The body of the late Fred R. Huntsman, accompanied by the widow, arrived on Friday afternoon from Mussel Shoals, Ala., where the young man died last week, and the funeral services will be conducted Sunday afternoon by Undertaker W. L. White, of White, Young & Fliniau. The procession will leave their chapel at two o'clock, and the funeral services held at Grand View cemetery, Rev. R. K. Shoemaker of the Congregational church officiating.
Mr. Huntsman, who is the second son of Mr. and Mrs. D. J. Huntsman of this city, is a former Montrose boy. and grew from childhood to splendid young man amongst Montrose young folks. He was an electrician and was employed by the government in the radio plant at Mussel Shoals, when stricken with influenza, which caused his death. He is survived by his wife and aged parents, a sister, Mrs. J. M. Foster and two brothers, Charles F. Huntsman and family, and Guy Huntsman."

CHARLES AND BEULAH

C. F. Huntsman and Buelah Armour married on 21 Jun 1908 in Sterling, Colorado.
"Charles F. Huntsman, member of the firm of Hart & Huntsman, was married in Sterling at the home of the bride’s mother on Sunday at 10 o’clock to Miss Beulah Armour, a charming young lady whom he had known for years, who has for some time been stenographer for the Burlington road. No one in Montrose had any suspicions that Charlie had it in his heart to commit matrimony, and were surprised when he reached home with his bride Wednesday. The Press welcomes Mrs. Huntsman to Montrose and wishes them much happiness."


November 1909 Montrose "Mrs. C. F. Huntsman and little son left today for Denver and Sterling to visit home folks for a month."

In 1910 Montrose, Charles F. Huntsman is 41, born in Kansas, foreman at a general store, Beulah Huntsman 26 Wife, and Arman J. Huntsman 0 Son.

November 1914 " Miss Edith Welles of Paonia is the guest of her cousin, Mrs. C. F. Huntsman. She is here to take in the football and basketball games."

June 1915 "Miss Mary Armour of Sterling, arrived Saturday and Is the guest of her sister. Mrs. Charles F. Huntsman, of 3}4 South Fourth street. She will be here a fortnight."

September 1918 Sterling " Mrs. C. F. Huntsman and little daughter, Dixie, left for their home at Montrose Thursday morning, after an extended visit here at the home of Mrs. Huntsman's mother, Mrs. Margaret D. Armour."

April 1919 " C. F. Huntsman and their small son and daughter, Armour and Dixie, are ill with influenza this week. None of the patients is seriously ill, and all are on the road to recovery now."

July 1919 describing a trip, " At Cimarron I ran across Billy Blair. He had come down there to get a square. He said Lake City was in the throes of mining excitement, Walter Mendenhall haring apparently found the ore in place in the Buckeye mine, near town. Proepectore have hunted for the vein for 80 years. The ore is fabulously rich, carrying values of $40,000 and $60,000. C. F. Huntsman, the Montrose merchant, owns the extension to the Buckeye."

August 1919 "Mrs C. F. Huntsman and three children, have gone to Lake City to spend a week enjoying their annual vacation with Mr. Huntsman, who is there looking after his mining interests. They anticipated their trip with pleasure."

September 1920 "Armour and Shirley Huntsman, who have been visiting at Lake City with their grandmother and uncle, Mrs. D. J. Huntsman and son Guy, were returning passengers Thursday. The little boya have had a wonderful vacation."

July 1922 Montrose " Mrs. Chas. F. Huntsman, son Armour and little daughter Dixie, came in from Denver Thursday. Mrs. Huntsman and Armour went over to Denver with the Earl Rule family by auto. She visited in Denver and later went to Sterling, where she visited Mrs. Huntsman's mother, Mrs. M. D. Armour. The little girl has been staying with her grandmother for nearly two years and accampanied her mother home."
July 1928 " Mrs. Charles F. Huntsman and Shirley left by car Monday for San Francisco, where the Huntsmans wlil make their home. Mr. Huntsman is selling out his second hand store and household goods, and will join them there as soon as possible. "

August 1928 Montrose "Mrs. C. F. Huntsman and Shirley have returned from San Francisco where they went to look over a business- pro-position that had been presented. The same was not as represented and they returned home without making any investment..

Beulah A. Huntsman BIRTH 27 Jun 1882 DEATH 8 Mar 1942 BURIAL Grand View Cemetery Montrose, Montrose County, Colorado, MEMORIAL ID 104960566.
March 7, 1942 Montrose "Death came last night to Mrs. Baulah Huntsman at her home on Park avenue, following an illness of three yeara with asthma and complication. While she had been a partial invalid during those yeara, and apparently had been worse for the past few daya, her death came unexpectedly, as it was not called her condition was serious.
Beulah Armour was born at Memphis, Tn., in 1882, and as a child moved to Sterling, with her parents. 8he completed her schooling in that city and in college in this atate. June 11, 1911, she became the bride of Charles F. Huntsman, coming to Montrose as a bride following the ceremony. The family has continued to reside in thin city. Mrs. Huntsman is survived by her hueband and three children, Armour Huntsman of Los Angeles, Mrs. Dixie Wallace, Detroit, and Shirley Huntsman, who is employed in Grand Junction. There are also nurvlvlng two grandchildren; brother, William Armour of Sterling, and two sisters, Miss Mary and Miaa Betty Armour, also of Sterling. Mrs. Huntsman was active in the work of the Congregational church and also active in buslnesi life in Montrose for many years.
For years she was Montrose repreaentatlva for tbe Denver Post, in charge of tbe local agency. After she was stricken with asthma she was taken to Arizona and other climates in the hope of finding relief, but when this was found impossible ahe preferred to return to her home in Montroae. Arrangements for the funeral service will await word from the children. Shirley Huntsman is here from Grand Junction and it is probable the others will attend tbe burial nervlcea."


April 4, 1947

November 1948 Telluride, Colorado "Mr. and Mrs. Louis Balliger and Marie, Mr. and Mrs. Shirley Huntsman and daughter, and Mr. and Mrs. Robert Bray, all of Grand Junction, and Miss Freda Brandigcr spent Thanksgiving at the home of Mr. and Mrs. R. M. O’Rourke."

September 1957 Grand Junction "Mr. Paul Yetter, Division Operation Manager of the Public Service Company of Colorado, was on hand Thursday for the starting of the Cameo Plant. The plant is now running at about half capacity. It will be another two weeks before it is in full production. The Cameo plant began generating electricity on Thursday evening, Accompanying Mr, Yetter was Mr. Shirley Huntsman, Assistant Commercial Manager from Denver and Mrs. Yetter. The group also attended the Jubilee celebration in Grand Junction."


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