Adams County CO Archives Obituaries.....Hanscome, Leander  October 27, 1911
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Rocky Mountain News October 28, 1911
TABOR CORNER GOES FOR PITTANCE SWAPPED FOR SACK OF FLOUR 

Death of Leander Hanscome Yesterday Recalls Value of Ground in 1859.

The Tabor corner for a sack of flour!
There is no joker in this. Leander Hanscome, whose death at his Brighton farm 
Thursday, removed another of the very few remaining '59ers, made the trade a 
half century ago. He was hungry, for it had been a hard season, and then he 
didn't want the ground very badly, anyway. The two-bushel bag of flour was a 
luxury, so he swapped.

Prices may climb in these high cost of living times, but it is hardly within 
the realm of fabulous dreams for a two-bushel bag of flour to again pull the 
scales to a balance against the Tabor corner, Sixteenth and Curtis Streets, 
where gold pieces one deep cannot cover land values.

The Tabor corner did not go so cheaply as appears at first blush. Four was then 
commanding the handsome figure of $100 a sack. Making bread of the yellow stuff 
was only a trifle more extravagant. But even so, it is a long jump between a 
sack of flour at $100 and at $500,000, which must be the price of two bushels 
of ground wheat if the nine lots covered by the Tabor Grand building again are 
swapped.

THE BATTLE OF SAND CREEK 

Hanscome, served in the Indian wars of the '60s, the most bloody of which ended 
with the slaughter at Sand Creek, near Fort Lyons, in the southeastern part of 
the state. This battle occurred in November, 1864. Hostilities continued more 
than a year, being preceded by frequent massacres of settlers by warlike tribes.
At Sand Creek the power of the Kiowa and Cheyenne tribes under the leadership 
of Black Kettle, was annihilated. Hanscome took part in other battles in the 
campaign against the Indians in those years.
Reminiscently he told before his death of the destruction of an Indian village 
in the campaign which ended at Sand Creek.

FUNERAL SERVICES TODAY 

Hanscome's death was preceded by an illness of two years. He suffered from 
heart disease. He is survived by his widow, who was Caroline Brown of Denver, 
and two daughters, Mrs. Emma Bayne, who lives at the family home at Brighton, 
and Mrs. Georgie M. Ebel of Queens Manor, Queens, L. I. A brother, 80 years 
old, Angevine Hanscome, of Lawrence, Kas., and a sister, Miss Anna Hanscome, of 
Portsmouth, N. H., also survive.

Hanscome was 78 years of age. He was born at Portsmouth, N. H. January 6, 1833.
The funeral services will be held at the Hofmann Undertaking Parlors, 1734 
Lawrence Street [Denver], at 11 this morning. Burial will be at Fairmount 
Cemetery [Denver].

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