Carbon County WY Archives Biographies.....Calvert, Lycurgus August 25, 1846 - June 13, 1913 ************************************************ 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 May 31, 2012, 10:21 am Source: Research notes as of May 2012 Author: Excerpts by Calvert family; Deidre Badker research notes Lycurgus "Kirk" Calvert was born August 25, 1846 at St Joseph, Buchanan, Missouri to James Madison Calvert and Mary Hughes Bagley. 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. Next found in the 1860 census living at Kickapoo, Leavenworth, Kansas: James M Calvert 40, James Calvert 10, Lycurgus Calvert 14, James Calvert 21. Cannot find the family in the 1870 census but they apparently moved west and settled in Wyoming. Lycurgus married Viola Lydia Davidson on March 26, 1876 at Rawlins, Carbon, Wyoming. (Viola Lydia Davidson was born July 14, 1859 at San Bernardino, California to James Jackson Davidson of Ohio and Lydia Shepard of Missouri and died May 19, 1934 at Pomona, Los Angeles, California). 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 running it. He also owned and operated a general store at Baggs, WY and built a home that is still standing and occupied as of 2003. Lycurgus and Viola had at least eight children, they were: 1. Ada Calvert was born December 2, 1877 at Baggs, WY and married 3 times, first to Charles Benjamin Boyce (1869-1928) on August 25, 1895, they divorced; second marriage to Fred Walter Teter (born 1876 Kansas) about 1904 and third marriage to Emory LaFayette Piper (born April 30, 1881) on February 14, 1914. Ada Piper died January 19, 1970 at Lander, Fremont, WY and is buried at the Mount Hope Cemetery there. Ada had three children. 2. Lycurgus Calvert Jr was born November 24, 1879 at Rawlins, Carbon, Wyoming, married Agnes Margarite Dora Jebens (born May 27, 1885 Schleiswig-Holstein, Germany, died July 14, 1959 Evanston, Uinta, WY) on March 4, 1903 at Baggs, WY, died July 22, 1955 at Lander, Fremont, WY. Couple had six children. 3. Lydia Orilla Calvert was born December 17, 1881 at Baggs, Carbon, Wyoming, married twice, first to Solomon Joseph Keeler (March 15, 1867 Utah - February 26, 1907 Utah) on April 14, 1898 at Baggs, WY; the second marriage to Charles Lee McKeal (born October 27, 1881 Missouri, died November 1976 Kansas City, Missouri) about 1907; Lydia died November 6, 1918 at Baggs, Carbon, WY and was buried at the Baggs Cemetery. Lydia had five children. 4. Walter Calvert was born March 12, 1884 at Carbon, WY and died June 5, 1900 at Baggs, Carbon, WY, buried at Baggs Cemetery. 5. Mary Calvert was born July 22, 1887 at Carbon, WY, married William Ellsworth (Elsa, Elzy) Lay (November 25, 1868 Ohio - November 10, 1934 Los Angeles, California) who was a (reformed) member of Butch Cassidy's gang on March 27, 1909 at Thermopolis, Hot Springs, Wyoming, cannot find her death date or place although it could possibly be in California. Mary and Elzy had two children. 6. Charles Frederick Calvert was born October 2 (or 3), 1889 at Baggs, Carbon, WY, died June 27, 1903 at Baggs, Carbon, WY, buried at Baggs Cemetery. 7. Roscoe C Calvert born July 29, 1893 at Colorado, died March 26, 1908 at Baggs, WY, buried Baggs Cemetery. 8. Lloyd Calvert was born June 14, 1896 at Baggs, Carbon, WY, married Margaret Esther Mills on August 28, 1921 at Fremont, Wyoming, died June 1, 1963 at Lander, Fremont, WY and is buried at Mount Hope Cemetery, Lander, Wyoming. Lloyd and Margaret had six children, 5 sons, 1 daughter. Family can be found in the 1880 census living at Snake River, Carbon, Wyoming: Lycurgus Calvert 33, Viola Calvert 21, Edna Calvert 2, Kirk Calvert 6m, Emma Jensen 12, Ferguson Trotter 44. Next found in the 1900 census living 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. Family found in the 1910 census living at Snake River, Carbon, Wyoming: Lycurgus Calvert 64, Viola T Calvert 50, Lloyd Calvert 13. Lycurgus "Kirk" Calvert died June 13 (or 15), 1915 at Los Angeles, California where he had went to seek treatment for poor health. He is buried at the Baggs Cemetery, Baggs, Carbon, Wyoming. Excerpt from a book entitled "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 paased. 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, taken from people killed in a massacre, across Salt Lake and put the stock on an island. He 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 Daivdson, 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? Additional Comments: Censuses transcribed as found without fixing spelling errors. There are quite a few trees on Ancestry.com with photos of Lycurgus, his obituary, his gravestone and information about his 8 children. His grave can also be found at "Find a Grave". File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/wy/carbon/bios/calvert61gbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/wyfiles/ File size: 8.5 Kb