Carbon County WY Archives Biographies.....Calvert, Lycurgus August 25, 1846 - June 13, 1915 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/wy/wyfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Deidre Badker berniebadker@iowatelecom.net December 17, 2011, 11:01 am Source: Research notes of contributor/ "Descendants of Virginia Calverts" Book, author unknown Author: Contributor's research and "Descendants of Virginia Calverts" book writers Lycurgus Calvert was born August 25, 1846 at St Joseph, Buchanan, Missouri to James Madison Calvert and Mary Hughes Bagley. As an adult, he moved west to settle in Wyoming. He married Viola Lydia Davidson on March 26, 1876 at Rawlins, Carbon, Wyoming. They had eight children: 1. Ada (Edna) Calvert born December 2, 1877, married Charles B Boyce, married Fred W Teter, married Fayette Piper. 2. Lycurgus Calvert Jr, born November 24, 1879, married Agnes M Jebens March 4, 1903 Baggs, WY, died July 22, 1955 Lander, WY, buried at Mount Hope Cemetery Lander, WY. 3. Lydia Calvert born December 17, 1881 Wyoming, married Joseph Keeler, married Lee McKeal, died 1918 Baggs, Carbon, WY, buried at Baggs Cemetery. 4. Walter Calvert born March 12, 1884 WY, died June 5, 1900 Baggs, Carbon, WY, buried Baggs Cemetery. 5. Mary Calvert born July 22, 1887 WY, married Elsa (William Ellsworth) Lay who was a (reformed) member of Butch Cassidy's gang. 6. Charles Frederick Calvert, born October 2 (or 3), 1889 Baggs, Carbon, WY, died June 27, 1903 Baggs, Carbon, WY, buried Baggs Cemetery. 7. Roscoe C Calvert born July 29, 1893 Colorado, died March 26, 1908 Baggs, WY, buried Baggs Cemetery. 8. Lloyd Calvert born June 14, 1896 WY, married Margaret Esther Mills. Lycurgus Calvert owned and operated a large cattle ranch as shown in some of the censuses, his children and spouses living also on the ranch and helping him operate it. He also owned a general store at Baggs, WY and built a home in the town of Baggs, WY that is still standing as of 2003. Excerpt from the book "Descendants of Virginia Calverts" - Book 1, Part II (written by Calvert Descendants): "Lycurgus Calvert was the child of James Madison Calvert (1814-1896) and his first wife, Mary Hughes Bagley (born December 20, 1820/25 Campbell, Kentucky,died May 23, 1858/60 Ft Leavenworth, Kansas); married December 20, 1843/44 Kentucky. Kirk's mother died when he was thirteen and his father, with his family of young children, (the youngest being a little more than a year old), married soon a distant cousin, Marian Herndon Calvert of Kentucky (abt Jan. 1860. Lycurgus grew up to be first a farmer, then a stockman and merchant. As a stockman, he owned and loved fine horses. At one time, he took the first prize for roping cattle. He worked for his country and state, a fearless man who never belonged to lawless gangs or associations which at one time overran Wyoming where he had settled. He died at the age of 68, leaving his family well provided for "but", as a daughter wrote, "we had to see what it was all made for, so we are now all poor and growing old." Lycurgus Calvert was a true pioneer, being the seventh man to arrive in that part of Wyoming through which the Union Pacific Railroad passed. He went through with the Railroad Surveyors. Was in Salt Lake City, when Brigham Young was monarch and helped Brigham's men ferry the stock which had been taken from people killed in a massacre, across Salt Lake. The stock were put onto an island. Lycurgus took food and supplies from Rawlins, Wyoming to Meeker, Colorado and made regular 180 mile trips between the two points. He unloaded some of these supplies the night before Meeker, the Indian agent, was killed. The Ute Indians had gone mad and caused trouble with plenty of folk being killed. Lycurgus Calvert was the Deputy that captured Big Nose George Parrott, a train robber and bad man generally and secured a reward of $5,000 in cash and a Pass from the Union Pacific Rail Road, as long as Mr Dickerson, their head manager, lived. Mr. Calvert married Viola A (Lydia) Davidson (born July 1859, died May 19, 1934 Pomona, California), a beautiful young woman, a native of San Bernadino, California. Sometime after her husband's death, she married a second man, Joseph Brown, of San Bernadino, a childhood friend. She was a widow, he was a widower. What more suitable than in the eventide of life, they two should traverse together the end of the path that leads to the glowing summer - to which we all, one day, must come?" Found Lycurgus Calvert in the 1850 census living at Fort Osage, Jackson, Missouri: Charlotte Bagby 43, John H Bagby 16, George T Bagby 14, Augustus Bagby 9, James M Calvert 34, Mary H Calvert 22, Lycurgus Calvert 4, Emma Calvert 2, Jos B Bayley 19. Found in the 1860 census at Kickapoo, Leavenworth, Kansas: James M Calvert 40, James Calvert 10, Lycurgus Calvert 14, James Calvert 21. Found in the 1880 census at Snake River, Carbon, Wyoming: Lycurgus Calvert 33, Viola Calvert 21, Edna Calvert 2, Kirk Calvert 6m, Emma Jensen 12, Ferguson Trotter 44. Found in the 1900 census at Election District # 15, Carbon, Wyoming: Lyconeus Calvert 53 (born August 1846 in Missouri), Viola D Calvert 40 (born July 1859 California), Kirk Calvert 20 (born November 1879 WY, range rider), Lydia O'Keeler 17 (daughter, born December 1881 WY with 1 child that is 1 year old), Walter Calvert 16 (son born March 1884 at WY, at school), Mary Calvert 11 (daughter born July 1888 at WY, at school), Charles F Calvert 10 (born October 1889 in Wyoming, at school), Roscoe C Calvert 6 (born July 1893 at Colorado), Lloyd Calvert 3 (born June 1896 at WY), Frank L Keeler 1 (born March 1899 Utah, grandson, Lydia's son), Charles B Boyce 30 (son-in-law, born September 1869 California, married 4 years, farmer), Ada Boyce 22 (daughter born December 1877 WY), Joseph S Clarke 30 (employee, mechanical engineer, born August 1869 Ohio). Says Lycurgus' parents from Kentucky. Working as a general merchant. Viola listed as born in California July 1859, her father born in Ohio and mother born in Missouri. Found in the 1910 census at Snake River, Carbon, Wyoming: Lycurgus Calvert 64, Viola T Calvert 50, Lloyd Calvert 13. Lycurgus Calvert died June 13 (or 15?) 1915 at Los Angeles, California (some records say June 15, gravestone says June 13). He was buried at the Baggs Cemetery, Baggs, Carbon, Wyoming. Additional Comments: Censuses were transcribed as found, obvious census errors not corrected. Photos of his and some children's graves (those buried at Baggs Cemetery, Baggs, Carbon, Wyoming) can be found/viewed at "Find a Grave". File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/wy/carbon/bios/calvert60gbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/wyfiles/ File size: 7.0 Kb