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.

Alexander Potter Shively And Elizabeth Cline (Klein) Who Lived In Utah, Nevada And Oregon

Alexander Potter Shively was born in May-1839 in Steubenville, Jefferson County, OH and died 23-Oct-1912 in Malhuer County, OR. He was the son of Daniel and Elizabeth Shively. For information on WIlliam Beaser Shively who was a brother to Alexander Potter Shively see the Shively blog article written on 23-Jul-2011.  Alexander married Elizabeth "Lizzie" Cline (Klein). Elizabeth was born on 23-Aug-1845 and died 10-Apr-1900 in Ogden, Weber County, UT. 

Listed on the 1870 Curlew Valley, Box Elder County, Territory of Utah census are James Shively age 25, wife Sarah A age 23, daughter Ida age 6, daughter Lotta age 1, and farm laborer John B. Howel age 12.  The next entry is Alexander Shively age 30 and wife Elizabeth age 24.  Located on the 1880 White Pine County, NV census are Alex P. Shively age 41 occupation miner, wife Lizzie age 33, daughter Jessie M. age 8, son Delbert F. age 6 and daughter Mable L. age 3. On the 1800 Bryan Precinct, Elko County, NV census is the household of Delbert Shively born May-1874 age 26 occupation miner placer, wife Inez V. born Mar-1880 age 20, daughter Winnifred born Sep-1899 age 8 month, father Alexander P. born May-1839 age 61 widowed, and partner Pinkard P. Prunty born Aug-1881 age 18. 

Children of Alexander and Elizabeth Shively included at least Jessie Marzetta Shively born 4-Feb-1872 in Corrine, Box Elder County, UT, died 12-Sep-1954 Salem, Marion County OR and  married on 22-Oct-1893 to Alexander D. Penrod; Delbert Frank Shively born 9-May-1874 and died on 27-Jul-1950 in Placer County, CA, married on 25-Oct-1898 in Elko, Elko County, NV to Inez Prunty (she married 2nd E. H. Mackley); Mable Shively who died in 1880 in a wagon accident.

The following article was extracted from The Pioche Record, Pioche, NV, Saturday, July 24, 1880, Page 3, Column 3:  FATAL RUNAWAY ACCIDENT. -- From Wash Woodbury, who arrived in Ward this morning, me learn of a runaway accident in Spring Valley Tuesday last, resulting in the death of Mable Shively, daughter of A. P. Shively, a former resident of this place. Mrs. Shively left Silver Canyon Tuesday for Spring Valley in a wagon with her three children. While going down the steep bank of a creek in the valley she attempted to put on the brake, but missing it, fell out and was run over. This frightened the team, which ran away. The oldest children jumped out at different times and were separated. Mable, who is about three years old, it is thought, was thrown out. Search was immediately made for the children and all found, except the last named, on the day of the accident. The search was renewed Wednesday, and Mr. Odgers, who secured the services of a numb22er of Indians, succeeded in finding her dead body fifteen miles from where the horses started. Her injuries being slight, it is thought she died from fright or exhaustion. Mrs. Shively was seriously injured by being run over. --Ward Reflex.

The newspaper obituary for Elizabeth Cline (Klein) Shively was found in the Weekly Independent, Elko, Nevada, Friday, April 27, 1900, Page 3, Column 3:

Mrs. Elizabeth Shiveley, at Ogden, Utah, Tuesday, April 10, 1900 at 1:30 in the morning.

Her funeral took place from the home of her sister, Mrs. Pierce, in Ogden, Thursday the 12th.

She leaves a husband and two children---Jessie, (Mrs. Alexander Penrod of Ogden) and Delbert, now living in Bruneau Valley, Nevada. She had been a sufferer for years and her death resulted from cancer. SInce October last she has been in Ogden for treatment, though since 1887 the family lived in Nevada, mostly in Elko. On Christmas Day of '87 she and her husband united with the Elko Presbyterian Church. She died in its communion after years of hard and faithful service for the Master, whom she devotedly loved, and whose work she never tired of doing. The church and society have missed her faithful and cheerful help from the first, but she united in service for the Master wherever her lot was cast.

Her family and many friends feel keenly their loss in her going. But when they realize that her sorrows and sufferings are past, and that she lives where all tears are wiped away, they would not recall her tired and afflicted body back to earth, even if they could. Her husband was for years a faithful and honored elder in the session of the Elko church, and in everything she was his trusted helpmate. Her faith in God was firm and constant, enabling her to set a good example to her children, who have felt safe in following here steps, as she walked near the Christ, and now, that she is gone, her children rise up and call her blessed, as so often they did in her lifetime.

With a host of other friends, the present Pastor of the Elko church, desires to offer to the family all christian sympathy and every Christly help. May the Lord bless thee and keep thee and give thee peace.       J. A. M.

The following was found in the Daily Independent, Elko, Nevada, Friday, November 1, 1912, Page 3, Column 4:

Mr. A. P. Shively

A letter from Alex Penrod, dated at Malheur, Oregon, October 26th, brings the news of the death of Mr. A. P. Shively, a former resident of Elko, on the 23d of this month from cancer of the throat after suffering nearly three years from that terrible disease. During that time he tried physicians in California and other states, but received no aid. His wife died at Ogden May 10, 1900, of cancer.

Mr. Shively was born in Steubenville, Ohio, May 4, 1839. He came west residing in Nevada most of the time until five years ago. He died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. A. D. Penrod. A son, Bert Shively, of Winnemucca  and Mrs. Penrod of Malheur, Oregon, survive him.

Most of the old timers of Elko will remember, Mr. Shively. He lived here several years and was highly respected by everybody. His children, Bert and Jessie, now Mrs. Penrod, attended school here. In his death, Oregon, has lost a good citizen and the surviving children a loving father. TO them, we tender the sincere sympathy of their Elko friends.