DENVER, COLORADO

Also see: Denver

1859

• Lelon Peabody undoubtedly passed through Denver on his way from Michigan to the Colorado gold mines.

1874

• Nov 28: John and Martha Wilson's daughter Mary Alice, born in 1872, died May 23rd while the family was moving from Henry Co., Iowa, to Colorado. She was buried in the Mount Prospect Cemetery which was laid out in 1859. It later became Cheesman Park; at that time many of the occupants were moved to a new location, but the Wilson family decided to leave Mary Alice undisturbed. A contemporary (1859) description of Mount Prospect said: "…as forlorn and desolate as any spot could be - treeless, shrubless, waterless, utterly forsaken and neglected except by prairie dogs. The spot could not be dignified by any name of "Cemetery"; it was merely a burial place of the dreariest kind. [Colorado Heritage, summer, 1996, p 15.]

The Wilson family moved on to the Eastonville area in the NE corner of the Black Forest in El Paso County.

The 1900s

        Denver has been and remains the home of many Gateley family members whose names and relationship to Bill Gateley are shown in the table below (some of the more remote cousins have undoubtedly been overlooked through ignorance, not malice). Dates, being quite uncertain are not given, but the third column (X) indicates if the person resides there in 2000.

    Abbreviations: "c" = cousin; "r" = removed.