Yuma-Kit Carson County CO Archives Biographies.....BODEN, Edward September 9, 1887 - April 1979
************************************************
Copyright.  All rights reserved.
http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm
http://www.usgwarchives.net/co/cofiles.htm
************************************************

File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by:
Deb Schorzman debschorz@CenturyTel.net September 5, 2007, 4:39 pm

Published in "A History of East Yuma County", ©1978 East Yuma County HS
Author: Ed Boden

Edward Boden was born in western Germany in 1887.  The first child of Nanne 
and Gretcha Boden.  Approximately a year later the little family set sail for 
the United States.  The ocean voyage lasted more than two weeks and terminated 
in Baltimore, Maryland.  From there they made their way by train and freight 
wagon to an area about twelve miles north of Goodland, Kansas where Nanne had 
a brother, Wils.  They stayed in this location for about 3 years during which 
time they acquired U. S. citizenship.  At the end of this period they moved to 
Yuma County, where Nanne established a homestead near the South Fork of the 
Republican River.  Edward was educated in the Newton School, as were most of 
the children of his family.  When he achieved his majority he homesteaded the 
NW1/4 of Section 20, Township 5 South, Range 44 West.  On February 10, 1916 
Edward married Harriet Dena Jackson, who lived on her parents farm to the 
northeast of Ed's land.  To this union one child, Evelyn Marie was born on 
October 9, 1917.  Ed and Dena continued to work the farmstead and to expand 
it.  Additonal land was acquired by purchase and a home and other outbuildings 
were constructed on the edge of the South Fork valley.  At that time a school 
existed about 1/2 mile east of the Boden home and it came to be known as 
the "Boden School".  For many years most of the teachers of the school found 
board and room at Ed and Dena's home.  Ed raised wheat, corn and milo as well 
as cattle and hogs.  He distinctly remembers how his cattle herd was thinned 
out by the disastrous flood of the Republican River on May 30, 1935.  The 
water level at the time came up to the yard line in front of the house but 
spared the buildings.  In 1945 Ed and Dena elected to give up farming and 
moved to Burlington, Colorado, to spend their remaining days.  The farm was 
sold to Chester Davis, who still farms it.  Dena passed away in 1974.  Ed now 
resides at Grace Manor Nursing Home in Burlington and celebrated his 90th 
birthday on September 9, 1977. 

File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/co/yuma/bios/boden492gbs.txt

This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/cofiles/

File size: 2.6 Kb