Sarah Elizabeth Shively Waugh Who Died In Colorado Springs, El Paso County, Colorado

Sarah Elizabeth Shively was born on 3-Aug-1846 in Ohio and died 29-Feb-1936 in Colorado Springs, El Paso County, CO. Sarah is buried in the Evergreen Cemetery, Colorado Springs, CO. She was the daughter of Daniel and Elizabeth Shively.  She was a sister to Alexander Potter Shively (see Shively blog article written on 5-Sep-2021) and William Beaser Shively (see Shively blog article written on 23-Jul-2011).  Sarah Elizabeth Shively married Robert Waugh on 31-Oct-1866. Robert was born on 3-Mar-1838 in Brook County, WV and died on 10-May-1929.

Listed on the 1870 Center Township, Henry County, IA census is the household of Robert Waugh age 31, wife Lizzie age 24, son Robert E age 2, father D.B. Waugh age 69, House worker Hannah Howe age 15 and farm worker Edmund Chenaur age 18.  Listed on the 1880 Center Township, Henry County, IA census are Robert Waugh age 43, wife Elizabeth age 31, son Earnest age 11, son David C. age 8, daughter Ethel M. age 2, daughter Clara E. age 2, father David B. Waugh age 79, father-in-law Daniel Shively age 83 and mother-in-law Elizabeth Shively age 76.  On the 1900 Precint 27, Colorado Springs, El Paso County, CO are Robert Waugh born Mar-1838 age 62 mining man, wife Sarah E. born Aug-1846 age 53 married 33 years, son Clyde D. born Feb-1879 age 21, daughter Clara E. born Sep-1877 age 22, son-in-law Joseph F. Lilly born Feb-1869 age 31, daughter Ethel born Sep-1877 age 22 married 1 year, roomer Dr. Frank Crane born Jan-1840 age 59, roomer Anna Crane born Jun-1844 age 55, roomer Lyman Hamlin born Aug-1877 age 22, roomer Harry C. Converse born Feb-1875 age 24, roomer Zoe D. Underhill born Mar-1848 age 52 and maid Mary Murkog born Jan-1867 age 33. Robert and Elizabeth Waugh are listed on the 1910 and 1920 Colorado Springs, El Paso County, CO census records.

The following newspaper obituary was found in The Duchesne Courier, Duchesne, Utah, Friday, May 17, 1929, Page 1, Column 6:

        Maj. Robert Waugh Died At Colo. Springs

Former Indian Agent at Whiterocks Passes Away After Short Illness

Major Robert Waugh, 91, one of the oldest Civil war veterans in the state of Colorado and well known in the Ulntah basin, having been Indian agent here from 1890 to 1893, and the father of R. E. Waugh of Myton, died at the family residence at Colorado Springs the latter part of last week following a short illness.  Major Waugh, who was regarded as one of the grand old men of the Grand Army of the Republic, celebrated his ninty-first birthday, March 3, this year.

Major Waugh was born in Brook county, West Virginia, March 3, 1838.  His father's farm was partly in West Virginia and partly in Virginia. He was educated in the district normal school there and at Alexander academy.

He voted for Abraham Lincoln for president and, then the latter declared a state of war existed between the United States and the Confederate States of America, enlisted in the Union army. He saw service with the First West Virginia volunteer Infantry, Company B.  He served with the Union force for three and a half years, receiving a commission.

Following the Civil war he entered the Indian service of the government. He was United States agent at Whiterocks from 1890 to 1892 inclusive. He moved to Colorado Springs in 1894 and has resided there ever since.

Major Waugh was prominent in the affairs of the G. A. R.  He has been commander of the past and wrote much valuable history in a great 27 pound book which was presented to the post by the late Winfield Scott Stratton and which is to preserve the biographies of the members of the post.

He is survived by his widow, Sarah Elizabeth Shively Waugh, whom he married October 31, 1866. Besides the widow two sons, Robert Ernest Waugh of Myton, and David Clyde Waugh of Colorado Springs and two daughters, Miss Clara Elizabeth Waugh of Colorado Springs and Mrs. J. F. Lilly of Glendale, Calif., survive.

Many thanks go to Toni Miller, Library Associate in the Special Collections, at the Penrose Library in Colorado Springs for locating the newspaper obituary for Sarah Elizabeth Shively Waugh.  Extracted from the Colorado Springs Gazette, Sunday, March 1, 1936, Page 1, Column 4:

Mrs. Sarah E. Waugh Expires At Her Home

Widow of Maj. Robt. Waugh  

Came To City in 1895; No Funeral Plans Yet

Mrs. Sarah Elizabeth Waugh, widow of Major Robert Waugh, died at 6 o'clock yesterday afternoon at her residence, 6 Boulder Crescent.  Mrs. Waugh, who came to Colorado Springs 41 years ago, was born August 3, 1846, at Steubenville, O.

She was married to Major Waugh in 1866. He died here May 10, 1929.

Mrs. Waugh was a member of the First Presbyterian church and also of the Women's Bible class of that church.

She is survived by two sons, Robert Ernest Waugh of Myton, U., and D. Clyde Waugh of Colorado Springs, and two daughters, Clara Elizabeth Waugh and Mrs. J. F. Lilly of Glendale, Calif.

Funeral arrangements are being made by the Decker mortuary.