33 i. Lula Myrtle5 Baxter (Martha4, Levi3, George2, John1) was bom 19 September 1867 in Van Wert County, Ohio.20 As mentioned in the beginning of this chapter, the first years of her life were spent in the household of her grandfather, Levi Tope, a farmer in Willshire Township, Van Wert County, Ohio.21 . She died from cardiac dilatation on 23 December 1910 in St. Louis Hospital, Denver, Denver County, Colorado.22
Lula married James W. Logic on 12 May 1887 in Longmont, Colorado. James had the farm that adjoined the Baxter homestead.23 The marriage ended when James died 25 April 1894, only a few days short of seven years of marriage.
A little more than one year after James7 death, Lula married John Buttler Davis on 13 November 1895 in Greeley, Weld County, Colorado. John, the son of John Alexander, a Confederate soldier, and Margaret (Arrowood) Davis, from North Carolina, was born in Wildersville, Henderson County, Tennessee 29 November 1871. John was stricken with a heart attack while playing golf on the afternoon of 12 October 1945, and he died that day.24
John came with his parents to Longmont in 1877. John finished the eighth grade, and then went to Greeley for a business course.25 The unsettled conditions in west Tennessee gave them the incentive to move west with four small children, to their destination, Longmont. When they arrived at the Burlington Depot, John Alexander only had a few dollars left in his pocket. The man who had offered shelter and work did pot appear. Finally, a farmer be-friended them, loaded them into his wagon and took them to the Pella District, west of Longmont. (Pella disappeared and was replaced by Hygiene.) The 1880 Census lists J. A. Davis next door to Will Montgomery, who had a
Homestead
After John and Lula married, they lived on the Logic farm, which he later purchased. After Lula's death, John married Blanche E. Wright on 29 November 1911. John and Blanche moved into town, where he was Justice of the Peace and Trustee for the Town of Berthoud from 1924 to 1944. He belonged to the Knights of Pithiest and Berthoud Masonic Lodge No. 83. His favorite pastime was the game of Pitch.26
Notes:
20
Certificate of Death, Denver, Denver County, Colorado, No. 1021.
21 Ohio
Census, 1880, Van Wert County and DuCharme.
22
Certificate of death. No. 1021.
23 Denver
land Office Records, 1862-1908, Township 4/Direction North, Range
68/Direction
West, homestead Act Application #:
132006.00.
24 Lois
DuCharme, ob sit.
25 Lois
DuCharme, ibid.
26 Lois DuCharme, ibid.
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