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[Information taken from "The Margaret A. Downing Branch of the Lauffer Family," prepared by Blanche Tracy Kyes in June 1989, and provided by John Flynn.]
Ma: Margaret A. Lauffer, married on Sept. 20, 1872, to James Madison Downing in Guthrie County, Iowa.
Pa: James "Jim" Madison Downing, born in Cedar County, Iowa, and died March 21, 1937, in Marble, Colorado. "Jim Downing, considered to be one of the 'most fearless' bear hunters in the Rockies."...
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Gypsum Grade School students lined up for school photograph, prior to 1910. Some of them are identified by number:
[smaller numbers] 1. Art Stremme; 2. Iva Doll Slaughter; 3. Iva Sham Dodo; 4. Fritz Borah
[larger numbers] 1. Ellen McHatten; 2. Elizabeth Quinlan; 3. Viola Hines 4. Mrs. Morrison, teacher;
5. L.J. Borah; 6. Aden Moser; 7. Pearl Chatfield; 8. Julia Steyer; 9. Lottie Schliff; 10. Edith Grundel;
11. Riene Chatfield; 12 Bill Stremme;...
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Bill Heicher telling Jake Borah stories during the Gypsum Cemetery Tour July 16, 2011. The tour was sponsored by the Town of Gypsum in celebration of Gypsum's Centennial, held July 9-17, 2011. The Porchlight Players, a local drama group, portrayed interesting citizens of the town buried in Cedar Hill Cemetery.
Jacob "Jake" Borah was born April 13, 1847, and died July 19, 1929. He came to Gypsum in 1875 with his brother, Al, and became internationally...
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Formal photograph of Myrtle Staup Borah, taken in a parlor with a piano. Myrtle married L. J. Borah (son of Jake Borah) on Dec. 27, 1912. She died in San Bernardino, California, in March 1955.
