George K Babcock

Received from Patricia Major Miller

Newspaper:

Mr. and Mrs. George Babcock are in from the sheep camp on the Weminuche for a few days. George reports the range very dry but stock doing well. He says it has not rained a sufficient amount at any time this season where his camp is located to even properly lay the dust. While here Mr. Babcock is finishing his residence, building flues, etc.

Bayfield, Colorado

George Babcock, who returned to the sheep business last fall, figures it this way; His ewes cost him $8.00 per head; the wool will bring $3.00 per head and the lambs $7.00; total income $10.00 per head; cost of feeding $1.00 per head. Net profit in the years $1.00 per head and the original cost of the ewe. In other words, the ewes more than pay for themselves the first year.

DEATH: Buried in the Bayfield Cemetery, Bayfield, Colorado.

Publication: Bayfield Blade (Bayfield, La Plata County); Date; Oct 15, 1915;

Section: Front page:

EVA Patton Babcock

Again it becomes our painful duty to record the death of a noble woman and a pioneer of the Pine River valley.

Eva, the beloved wife of George Babcock, also a pioneer, died at the noon hour on Wednesday, October 13, 1915, at the home of her sister, Mrs. William J. Bates, near Bayfield. Her ailment, which began a year or more ago, was pronounced a tumorous growth in the head. A few weeks ago she was brought down from the summer home on the Weminuche, suffering intense pain. Several physicians had charge of her case at different times but only temporary relief was afforded. For the past week her condition has been critical and on Saturday all hope of her recovery had vanished. The husband was summoned and he arrived on Sunday. She was unconscious for nearly thirty hours before death came.

Mrs. Babcock was one of the seven daughters that were born to the now aged Mr. and Mrs. George Patton, pioneers of this section; two of the daughters had passed away before Eva was called; the surviving sisters are Mrs. Jewett Palmer, Mrs. Pitt Palmer, Mrs. W. J. Bates and Mrs. Weiser: the last named resides at Mancos and the others here.

Deceased was born at Fairplay, Colorado, in June, 1870, and was past 45 years of age; came to Pine river with her parents 37 years ago and has resided here since. She was married to George Babcock, also a pioneer, in the year 1902; no children were born to this union.

Funeral services, which were largely attended, were conducted in the Presbyterian Church by Rev. C.B. Campbell yesterday afternoon, and interment in the Bayfield cemetery followed.

A host of friends grieve with the bereaved ones.