Individual Details

Boyington "Boyd" SKELTON

(Abt 1850 - 18 Nov 1920)

Events

BirthAbt 1850Pennsylvania, United States
Marriage1897Caroline OLIVER
Death18 Nov 1920Pneumonia - Died at a friend's home, Littleton, Arapahoe, Colorado, United States
Burial20 Nov 1920Denver, Denver, Colorado, United States
Biofile2015Skelton, Boyington (Boyd) & Caroline (Oliver)
OccupationOwned a cement business, laying sidewalks in Denver. - Denver, Denver, Colorado, United States

Families

SpouseCaroline OLIVER (1879 - )
FatherW. B. O. SKELTON (1818 - 1889)
MotherCatherine ( - 1906)
SiblingJames SKELTON (1859 - )
SiblingLida Swift SKELTON ( - 1920)

Notes

Birth

Obituaries indicate Boyd was 76 when he died, making his birth year about 1844.

Marriage

Boyd's mortgaged part of the home ranch to pay for musical education for his wife, and she went on to become a prima donna in Paris under the stage name Mme. Marguerite Starelle and refused to return to ranch life. Boyd divorced her and faced litigation from J.W. Bowles who tried to claim trhe ranch as trhe debt was not satisfied.

Death

Obit in the Rocky Mountain News indicates age was 76, making his birth date in 1844.

Endnotes

1. 1880 U.S. Federal Census (Population Schedule), jpeg image, (Online: The Generations Network, Inc., 2009) [Digital scan of original records in the National Archives, Washington, DC], subscription database, ., Arapahoe, Colorado; Roll: 88; Page: 382B.

2. article, The Denver Post, Denver, Colorado, 23 Nov 1920, p. 5.

3. article, The Denver Post, Denver, Colorado, 19 Nov 1920, p. 20.

4. Rocky Mountain News, Denver, Colorado., 19 Nov 1920, p. 2.

5. article, The Denver Post, Denver, Colorado, 19 Nov 1920, p. 20.

6. Rocky Mountain News, Denver, Colorado., 23 Nov 1920, p. 12.

7. "," (2015); folder: "Skelton, Boyington (Boyd) & Caroline (Oliver)," Biography Files; Douglas County History Research Center, Castle Rock, Colorado.

8. Rocky Mountain News, Denver, Colorado., 19 Nov 1920, p. 2.

9. article, The Denver Post, Denver, Colorado, 19 Nov 1920, p. 20.