Boulder , Montana February 12, 1902                        No newspaper listed.
 
Death of Wm. V. Myers

 donated and transcribed by Alice Horner
 
There is great sorrow in the town in the death of one of Jefferson county’s foremost and highly respected citizens. Mr. Myers has been a resident of Montana many years, and good citizenship, high purpose and sterling integrity have ever been connected wit his name. He came originally from Ohio , and a young man started west to seek his fortune in 1858 or ’59 coming to Colorado where he engaged in mining, working there with Senator W. A. Clark, and in company with Mr. Clark came to Montana in the early ‘60s. He was in several of the early placer mining camps, and in 1869 engaged in merchandizing at old St. Louis gulch, now known as Hassel, and also in Radersburg. Later he engaged in ranching near Radersburg and while there was elected to the office of county commissioner, that having been a portion of Jefferson county. This office he filled with general satisfaction and in 1894 he was elected on the republican ticket to the office of county treasurer which he held to the limit of the law, two terms of two years each. 
 
On completing this term of office he rented his ranch in Broadwater Co. and made Boulder his home, and about five years ago was married to Mrs. Rilla P. Elder. Of late as an appointee of Gov, Smith and then again by Gov. Toole, Mr. Myers has been a member of the local board of trustees for the school for the deaf and blind and has ever had the interests of that institution at heart.
 
On Sunday with the neighborly thoughtfulness for which he was noted, Mr. Myers went to call on an old friend, Mr. Poore, and in doing so he caught cold; Tuesday he became much worse from a stomach trouble and sank rapidly until death came at 12:45 today.
 
Besides his sorrowing wife the only other relatives of Mr. Myers are two brothers who live in Greenfield , Iowa , who have been notified of his death and the funeral will probably await their arrival. Deceased would have reached his 63rd year in a few days. (Transcriber’s note: I show his date of birth as March 24, 1839.) 
 
His character is made known in the designation “Honest Bill Myers” as he has been known in Jefferson county, and his death is a sorrow and a loss to Jefferson county, and to the state of which he was a pioneer and well known citizen.
 
Transcriber's Note: Refer to my Rootsweb.com family tree, "The Downing, Bickelhaupt, And Preston Families of Carroll County, Illinois" for more information on this family.

 

 

Death of Judge Elder
 
 Transcribed by Alice Horner         
 
Note: I am transcribing this obituary from a Xeroxed copy of a Boulder , Montana newspaper, but I don’t know which one. Was there a paper there called the Boulder Age? The page of the paper I have is not dated, but one of the articles on the page is dated November 7. Alexander James Elder was born January 19, 1830 and died November 1, 1888.
 
 Sudden Demise of One of Jefferson County ’s Most Respected and Enterprising Citizens
 
Age: Boulder people were much shocked the middle of last week to hear that Judge A. J. Elder was very sick and hardly expected to recover, and this unlooked for news was further confirmed by the report of his death, that sad event taking place Thursday evening about 7 o’clock. The judge’s illness was very brief, and much of the time he was delirious, though he would occasionally recover his usual brightness of mind. As soon as his serious illness was known his residence was visited by numbers of his old friends and everything possible done for his comfort and for the encouragement and assistance of Mrs. Elder, who was stricken with grief at the untoward event.
 
The funeral services were held Saturday morning, conducted by Rev. H. W. Currin, and the remains interred in the Boulder cemetery. The attendance at the funeral was large and many citizens of the county would have been added to the number had the fact of Judge Elder’s death been more generally known.
 
Judge Alex J. Elder has been a resident of Boulder for the past sixteen years and in that period has grown to be one of the leading citizens of the county whose counsel and advice in all public affairs was a necessity and whose influence was equaled by few if any in the county. He has served the county as Justice of the Peace, Superintendent of Common Schools, and in other official positions, giving excellent satisfaction in all. His public service outside of official position has been even greater and will have its effect on the interests of Jefferson county for years to come.
 
Judge Elder was born in Harrisburg , Pennsylvania January 19, 1830 and moved to Indianapolis with his parents at an early age. He was educated in the latter city, graduating from a college located there, and acquiring a literary habit which he retained all through life, and which made him an interesting and forcible writer. President Lincoln sent him as consul to Uruguay , South America , and he remained in that section of the world for a number of years. Later he went to California and for four years he was in charge of the state printing office at Sacramento . He came to Montana as secretary of a mining company of which Mr. Noah Armstrong, of Glendale , was president.
 
Some nine years ago Mr. Elder was married in Boulder to Miss Rilla Preston and the succeeding years of married life have been very happy, there being such mutual tastes and feelings as aid in making house life perfect. That death has come to separate the two will bring to Mrs. Elder the heartfelt sympathy of her many friends.
 
Judge Elder left a will by which all of his property, real, personal, mining claims, etc. goes to Mrs. Elder. The estate will probably amount to a considerable sum.
 
Transcriber’s Note: Refer to my Rootsweb.com family tree, “The Downing, Bickelhaupt, And Preston Families of Carroll County, Illinois” for more information on Alexander James Elder and his family.
 
 

 AURILLA (PRESTON) MYERS
Funeral services were held Sunday at the Christian Funeral Home for Mrs. Aurilla Preston Myers, 89, who died at 8 a.m. Friday at her home here. (Date of death was July 5, 1940.) The Rev. R. H. Seitner officiated. Burial was in Oak Hill Cemetery.

Mrs. Myers was born January 6, 1851 near Mt. Carroll, the daughter of Samuel and Sarah (Garrett) Preston. Her father was the first settler at Preston Prairie in 1836, coming to this vicinity from Massachusetts. Surviving is one sister, Mrs. Ellen Downing, of Mt. Carroll, with whom she lived.
 
Photo of family graves may be seen at this link.
 

 

 

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