Descendants Clement Corbin » Lewis Frederick Orvis Sr. (1855-1929)

Persönliche Daten Lewis Frederick Orvis Sr. 

• Er wurde geboren am 12. Mai 1855 in Belleville, Green, Wisconsin, USA.Quelle 2
• Beruf: im Jahr 1880 Milkman.Quelle 5
• Volkszählung im Jahr 1860.Quelle 1
• Volkszählung im Jahr 1880, Ouray, Colorado, USA.Quelle 5
• Volkszählung im Jahr 1910, Denver, Denver County, Colorado, USA.Quelle 4
• (Removed) im Jahr 1858 in Nebraska, Verenigde Staten: with the family.Quelle 6
• (Medical (Facts Pg)) : Black lung disease; (aka Pulmonery Tuberculosis) signed by B. B. Slick.Quelle 6
• (Removed) im Jahr 1905 in Pueblo, Pueblo, Colorado, USA.Quelle 6
• (Removed) im Jahr 1908 in Denver, Denver County, Colorado, USA.Quelle 6
• (Removed) im Jahr 1915 in Ouray, Ouray, Colorado, USA.Quelle 6
• Er ist verstorben am 23. März 1929, er war 73 Jahre alt.Quelle 2

  (Died on a train from Seattle to Colroado. d. 74 years, 0 months, 11 d

• Er wurde beerdigt am 29. März 1929 in Ouray, Colorado, USA.Quelle 2

  Lewis Frederick Orvis, Sr
  Birth: 12 May 1855 Wisconsin, USA
  Death: 25 Mar 1929 (aged 73) Ridgway, Ouray County, Colorado, USA
  Burial: Cedar Hill Cemetery, Ouray, Ouray County, Colorado, USA
  Memorial #: 68200078
  Bio: Husband of Sarah Eloisa Randall. Son of Harrison Fletcher Orvis and Joanna C. CORBIN.OBITUARYTHE MONTROSE DAILY PRESSMontrose, ColoradoWednesday, March 27, 1929L.F. ORVIS, ONE OF RIDGWAYS FIRST SETTLERS PASSES AWAY AT HOME OF HIS SON AFTER TRIP FROM SEATTLE.Lewis F. Orvis, Sr., of Ridgway passed away Monday evening at the home of his son, L. F. Orvis, Jr., at the age of 74 years.He was born in Wisconsin May 12, 1855. His parents moved to Nebraska while he was still a small boy, and he lived there until he came to Colorado in 1875. He first settled at Central City and in 1877 came to this valley where he engaged in trading and mining, the latter occupation causing miner's consumption, the cause of his death.In June, 1882, he was married to Mrs. B. (Billy) Jarvis at Ouray, and the couple made their home a short time at the hot springs near Ouray, and later moved to the ranch at Ridgway, now occupied by their son, and where they made their home until a few years ago when they moved to Seattle, Washington.From the Ridgway ranch they witnessed and took part in some of the most stirring of the incidents of the Uncompahgre valley history, as the vicinity of the ranch was a popular camping spot both for Indian and white man.Mr. Orvis is survived by his son, three daughters, Mrs. S. B. Hurst of Seattle, Mrs. J. J. Burns of Price, Utah, and Mrs. W. H. Pruter of Mullan, Utah, and his wife, whom he left in Seattle a short time ago when he came to Colorado to be with his son. There is also a step-daughter, Mrs. Lucy Bond of Long Beach, Calif., and three brothers living in Oklahoma. There are 13 grandchildren.Funeral services will be held Friday at one o'clock from the Community church of Ridgway.Mr. Orvis was a man of sterling worth; sober, industrious and unafraid. Of him, it was truthfully said, "Lew Orvis never knowingly wronged any man."What fortitude and courage it required of him, after four years of decline from incurable illness, his doctors giving him but a few days to live, to rise from his sick bed, leave loved ones to whom he had said farewell, and travel half way across the continent to be with his son at the end, and in the valley he loved and had helped develop. Of the entire trip he had not a complaint to make, and gave special praise for the treatment he received from the trainmen and traveler's aids along the way of his last journey.Thus ends the life of another pioneer, who did his duty as he saw it, never flinching, never afraid even of death.
  Family Members
  Parents
  Harrison Fletcher Orvis 1835-1920
  Johanna CORBIN Orvis 1834-1865
  Spouse
  Sarah Eloisa Randall Orvis* 1853-1942
  Half Siblings
  Alverda Orvis Redhead* 1881-1953
  Children
  Lewis Frederick Orvis* 1883-1962
  Created by: Skip (46976613)
  Added: 10 Apr 2011
  URL: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/68200078/or
  Citation: Find A Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 24 April 2018), memorial page for Lewis Frederick Orvis, Sr (12 May 1855-25 Mar 1929), Find A Grave Memorial no. 68200078, citing Cedar Hill Cemetery, Ouray, Ouray County, Colorado, USA ; Maintained by Skip (contributor 46976613) .
  

  (Cedar Hill Cemetery)

• Ein Kind von Harrison 'Fletcher' Orvis und Joanna C. Corbin

Familie von Lewis Frederick Orvis Sr.

Er ist verheiratet mit Sarah Eloisa Randall.

Sie haben geheiratet am 27. Juni 1882 in Ouray, Ouray, Colorado, USA, er war 27 Jahre alt.Quelle 7

Kind(er):

1. Edith Angel Orvis  1888-1972 
2. Infant Child Orvis  1886-± 1886
3. Edna Elosia Orvis  1890-1980 
4. Della Hazel Orvis  1884-1967 
5. Lewis Frederick Orvis  1883-1962 
6. Infant Orvis  

Ereignis (Children): Six children; two d. in infancy.Quelle 7

Notizen bei Lewis Frederick Orvis Sr.

Autobiography of L. F. Orvis, Sr. (courtesy of Eugenia Rasmussen)
"Born in Wisconsin, May 12, 1855. The family moved to Nebraska by wagon when I, Lewis Fredrick Orvis, was three years old, and in the spring of 1860, when I was 5 we moved to Colorado, crossing the plains with teams. My mother dies in Central City in December 1865. From that time on I made my own living, working for my board and cloths and went to school what little I could. I could not see my two younger sisters and brother except on visits. At 16, I began mining, prospecting and contracting with more or less success, in partnership with my father until 1878 when I went to southern Colorado known as the San Juan, locating at Ouray, working in the mines in winter and freighting in summer. In 1882, I took a Government Hay Contract making $6000 in that summer, $2000 clear, then going in the cattle business and farming in June 27, 1882 when I married Mrs. Sarah E. Jarvis. We raised five children, Flora Lucy Jarvis, Lewis F. Orvis, Della Hazel, Edith Angel, and Edna Elosia. In 1886 I took a tie contract of $40,000 making some money and at the same time owned and managed two ranches quite extensively, but by lawing over the Hot Springs Ranch and the demonetization of silver financially crushed or embarrassed me and sending my family to Pueblo for Wife's health in 1896 reduced to almost poverty. I again worked in the mines part of the time and anything I could get to do until 1903 when I went in the dairy business with good success. I sold out to my son in 1905 and went to Pueblo and from there to Denver in 1908, starting a store and running it for nearly two years then sold out and began teaming in Denver until 1915 when I went back to Ouray and worked for my son on the home place for two years. In 1917, I went to the Naturial Country and did mine blacksmithing for two years and cleared $3000. Mother's sir name was CORBIN."

After this he and Grandma (Sarah) moved to Seattle, WA, where their daughter Della lived. There they ran a small store, and service station. Grandpa (Lewis) was quite ill with what they called "black lung" in those days, and they thought the low altitude and moist air would make his breathing easier. In March of 1930 Grandpa decided that the air of Colorado was what he needed and he boarded the train in Seattle to go to the ranch in Ouray. He died May 23, 1929, somewhere between Seattle and Ouray. My mother never quite got over the fact that he had gone on that trip alone. I.P.M..
By L. F. Orvis
*****
PROGRESSIVE MEN OF WESTERN COLORADO, p. 848 CHICAGO
A. W. Bowen & Co 1905
"Lewis F. Orvis, of Ouray County, is one of her progressive farmers, stock men and dairy men of this part of the state who has done much to develop its resources and push forward its progress with rapid but wholesome activity. He is also proprietor of the celebrated hot springs of this region which experts claim are equal in curative powers to those in Arkansas. Mr. Orvis was born in Wisconsin in 1855, the son of Harrison F. and Johanna (CORBIN) Orvis, the former a native of Pennsylvania and the latter of Iowa. When he was five years old the family moved to Nebraska and a month or two later came on to Colorado, settling at Central City where the father engaged in mining. A short time afterward they moved to Boulder county, and he carried on a farming and stock industry. Here the mother died in 1865, when her son was ten years old, and here he grew to manhood and received his education. The father now resided in Oklahoma. In 1878, the son came to Ouray County and in the locality of his present residence began mining, and also engaged in farming and raising stock. In 1882 he was united in marriage with Mrs. Sarah E. Jarvis, a native of Illinois, who came to this neighborhood in 1886, and was established on the farm they now occupy when they were married. They have four children, Lewis F. Jr., Della, Edith A., and Edna, and Mrs. Orvis has a daughter by her former marriage, Lucy Jarvis. Their farm comprises eighty acres and is devoted to general farming and raising stock which are carried on vigorously and attentively, and it also supported a flourishing dairy industry to which Mr. Orvis gives his close personal attention. On the land the noted hot spring of this county are found as has been stated, and they seem destined in time to become as celebrated as their prototype in Arkansas, the curative power of the waters being equal in judgment of competent experts to those of the Arkansas product, and the surrounding fully as attractive. No systematic effort to make a resort of the place, but such a movement is under contemplation, and it promises abundant success."

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