Teller County CO Archives Obituaries.....Davenport, Ruth January 20, 1896
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Cripple Creek, Morning Times
Morning Times (Cripple Creek, El Paso County); Date: 1896 Jan 21, page 1.

HER END
    Death of Ruth Davenport Over a Dance Hall, Where She Made Her living – 
Pneumonia the Cause.
One of the saddest scenes that has occurred in the camp for some time was 
witnessed last night in a little room over Mernie’s dance hall.  It was a death 
bed scene and the surroundings were what made it so affecting.
    On a bed in a little dingy room lay a woman, an unfortunate woman.  Around 
her bed stood other unfortunate women, who shed a few tears and administered to 
the sick woman’s wants as well as their untrained hands and minds could do.  
The sick woman was young – only 19 – exceedingly handsome, but the dreaded 
disease, pneumonia, had driven her to her bed and was slowly, but surely 
closing her lungs and making each breath more difficult.  Only a week ago this 
same woman had been on the floor below, as merry as anyone there, laughing, 
drinking and joking.  On the same floor, while her life was slowly ebbing, was 
a “set,” the caller was yelling out I his usual loud manner the different 
figures, and the shuffle of the feet of the dancers was heard.  The dance was 
the “Monterey,” and is particularly noisy.  The music seemed loud and the talk 
in the bar-room was more boisterous than usual. The sick woman realized that 
she was about to die and asked for a drink of water.  Just as her attendant 
reached the pitcher of water the caller on the floor below, called 
out “promenade to the bar.”  The sick woman’s muscles relaxed, her head lay 
motionless on the pillow and she was dead.
    The music in the dance hall below was dismissed, the lights were turned out 
and the undertaker’s wagon bore the remains of Ruth Davenport to the cooling 
room.
    Ruth Davenport had come to camp from Central City about three months ago 
and had worked in the dance halls since her arrival.  It is said she comes from 
an excellent family in Denver, but on account of her wild ways had been driven 
from home.  The arrangements for the funeral have not yet been made.	


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