Montrose-Mesa-San Miguel County CO Archives Obituaries.....Lindsay, William Edwin  December 4, 1954
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W. E. Lindsay, Early Day Resident on San Miguel River, Dies at age 90

  Following a one day illness, W. E. Lindsay, 90, of the Shavano community died 
Saturday, Dec. 4, at Long's Rest Home. A resident of Colorado since March 17, 
1894, he had made his home in the Montrose vicinity for the past 34 years.
  William Edwin Lindsay was born Oct. 20, 1863 at Chicago, Ill., the son of 
David and Catherine Duff Lindsay, both natives of Dundee, Scotland. His early 
years were spent in Wisconsin, in the communities of Bailey's Harbor, Green Bay 
and Portage City. He attended school at Bailey's Harbor.
  As a young man, he was engaged as a railway telegrapher, being employed with 
the Chicago Northwestern and other lines in the Chicago area. After moving to 
Colorado, he spent three years placer mining for gold on the San Miguel river 
at Cottonwood. He was residing there when the first wagon train came through 
over the present highway 90 to work on the Colorado Co-operative Colony at 
Nucla.  He did not join the Colony, however, but returned to Chicago in 1898.
  On June 14, 1898 Mr. Lindsay was married at New Castle, Wisc., to Mary Ann 
Murphy. After the couple located in Colorado in 1900, he engaged in sheep 
raising, then in 1909 they homesteaded on Iron Spring Mesa, west of Leonard, 
where the family resided for the next 11 years. After moving to the Montrose 
area, Mr. Lindsay was engaged in the bee keeping business prior to his 
retirement in 1938.
  Four children wer born to the Lindsays: Mrs. O. L. (Alice) Hermanns, Grand 
Junction; Frank Lindsay, Montrose; Paul F. Lindsay, Englewood, Colo., and Mrs. 
Katherine J. Caldwell, who died Sept. 3, 1953. There are 11 grandchildren.
  A brother, David J. Lindsay resides in Salt Lake City. Preceding him in 
death, in addition to his parents, wife and daughter were a brother, Frank L. 
Lindsay, and two sisters, Mrs. Sarah G. Bump and Mrs. Julia J. Calkins.
  Mr. Lindsay was a member of St. Mary's Catholic church, Knights of Columbus, 
the Railway Telegraphers Union and for all 11 years served as secretary of a 
San Miguel county school board.
  Funeral services will be conducted Thursday morning at 9:00 o'clock from St. 
Mary's Catholic church by Rev. Aloysius Bertrand. Interment in Grand View 
cemetery will be directed by Ormsbee Mortuary. Rosary services will be observed 
Wednesday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock at Ormsbee chapel.

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