Arapahoe-Denver County CO Archives Obituaries.....Rhoads, Alonzo G September 1906
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Eagle County Blade, Sept. 13, 1906
Eagle County Blade, Red Cliff, Eagle Co., Colorado
Sept. 13, 1906 
page 4

ANOTHER PIONEER GONE
A.G. Rhoads Dies at Denver, Aged Seventy.
Denver, Colo. - The ranks of Colorado's pioneers were thinned once more by the 
death Tuesday night of Alonzo G. Rhoads, one of the oldest men who have helped 
make the history of the state.

Mr. Rhoades was fishing a few days ago on the Laramie river at Glen Davy, 
sixty-five miles west of Fort Collins, in company with his cousin, H.A. Hixer, 
who had come from Ashtabula, O., especially to go with him on the excursion.  
While in the midst of the sport the veteran pioneer was suddenly taken with a 
violent recurrence of a chronic intestinal trouble and came very close to 
death on the wagon trip to the railroad.  He survived long enough to reach his 
home Tuesday in this city, but passed away Tuesday night at 10:30, surrounded 
by all the relatives he has with the exception of one sister.

Alonzo G. Rhoads was born in Pierpont, Ashtabula county, Ohio, December 10, 
1836.  He came to Colorado in 1860 and worked at his trade of blacksmith in 
Russell Gulch until 1869.  In that year he went to Black Hawk, where he opened 
up a bakery and cracker business, which enlarged to such proportions that in 
October of 1879 he came to Denver and continued in that business.

During the civil war he enlisted in Co. M. Third Colorado cavalry and since 
was a member of Lincoln Post, G.A.R., in Denver.

He served two terms as president of the Pioneer Association and one term on 
the Denver school board.

He was a member of Union lodge No. 7, A.F. and A.M., Denver chapter, No. 2, 
R.A.M., Colorado commandery, No. 1, Knights Templar, and El Jebel temple, 
Order of the Mystic Shrine.

He married Miss Thalia A. Palmer at Elkader, Ia., in December, 1865, and the 
two crossed the plains with a team the following spring.

During the last years of life he devoted a greater part of his time to 
philanthropy.  At the time of his death he was treasurer of the Colorado 
Humane society and a director of the Associated Charities.

His widow survives him, there being no children, and he is also survived by 
his three brothers, J.M. Halsey, M. and Ralph W., his sister, Mrs. L.A. Berry, 
all of Denver, and another sister, Mrs. M.E. Anson, of Monte Vista.


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