Collection M 028, Series 14.10.1:
La Plata County (Colo.) Government register of the poor, 1891-1942
Part 7: By cause of poverty
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Collection M 028, Series 14.10.1: |
1 volume
Arranged and described by Cindy Beam and Todd Ellison
©1998, 2000 by
Fort Lewis College Foundation, Center of Southwest Studies
account
Introduction/ Scope and Contents
Note: The full data table (more than fifty pages if printed out) contains all of the data from the poor register and also serves as an index, sorted by name of the person assisted and then by the dates that person was aided. The following index refers to that name, which can then be looked up in the name index to see the full information given about that individual.
La
Plata County (Colorado) Register of the Poor
Index Sorted by Cause of Poverty
|
Cause
of Poverty |
Name |
|
accident |
Romero,
Manuel |
|
amputation
of leg |
Shaw,
Mike |
|
asthma |
Silvernail,
Mike |
|
asthma
and old age |
Silverneal,
Mike |
|
bad
leg |
Rapp,
Charles W. |
|
bladder
trouble |
Ruggles,
Nathaniel E. |
|
blindness |
Baca,
Cosma |
|
blindness |
Kaltenbach,
Lewis |
|
blindness |
Kattenbach,
Lewis |
|
blindness |
Kattenbach,
Louis |
|
blindness |
Koltenback,
Louis |
|
blindness |
Miller,
John |
|
blindness |
Peele,
Sam |
|
blindness |
Pitts,
Jasper |
|
blindness |
Williams,
Cathreen |
|
blindness
and infirmity |
Feely,
Sara |
|
blindness
and sickness |
O'Neil,
John |
|
blindness
and staggering |
Bryant,
Charles |
|
broken
arm |
Kennedy,
Eva |
|
broken
leg |
Sauther,
Y. H. |
|
cancer |
Silver,
William |
|
crippled |
Carrol, |
|
crippled |
Huenermund,
Kate |
|
crippled
by burns |
Akers,
W. J. |
|
deafness
and inability |
Lumn,
Nettie |
|
deafness
and inability |
Quinn,
Nettie |
|
death
of husband |
Darby,
Helen |
|
desertion
by husband |
Nesby,
M. J. |
|
desertion
by parents |
Weise,
Myrtle |
|
destitute |
Alpolaca,
Joe |
|
died
date unknown |
Smith,
Fred |
|
disability
in general |
Doughty,
George |
|
disabled
in Civil War |
Roberts,
M. K. |
|
dropsy |
|
|
dropsy |
|
|
drunkenness |
Brennan,
Michael |
|
drunkenness |
Espan,
Fred |
|
drunkenness |
McCaleb,
John |
|
eyesight |
Wurtz,
John |
|
fever
sore on legs |
Manning,
Timothy |
|
fractured
arm |
Clulin,
Edward |
|
general
debility |
Dawson,
C. C. |
|
heart
trouble |
Caber,
Henry |
|
heart
trouble |
Kaber,
Henry |
|
heart
trouble |
Kober,
Henry |
|
husband
in jail |
Denham,
Maggie, Mrs. |
|
ill
health |
Shoop,
I. |
|
ill
health and unemployment |
Johnson,
Christina |
|
inability |
Wurtz,
Maggie |
|
indolence |
Kennode,
Tom |
|
indolence
of father |
Hadley,
Edith |
|
indolence
of father |
Hadley,
Emma |
|
indolence
of father |
Hadley,
Hannah |
|
indolence
of father |
Hadley,
John |
|
indolence
of father |
Hadley,
Sata |
|
infirmity |
Anderson,
B. |
|
infirmity |
Anderson,
B., Mrs. |
|
infirmity |
Klepper,
William |
|
infirmity |
Trimble,
Arabella |
|
infirmity |
Webb,
Frank |
|
insanity |
Berkner,
Louis |
|
insanity |
Cowan,
Polly |
|
insanity |
McFarland,
Ester |
|
insanity |
Miller,
Jennie |
|
insanity |
Moore,
William C. |
|
insanity |
Ogle,
W. L. |
|
insanity |
Stemphey,
Hugo |
|
insanity |
Thompson,
Frank |
|
insanity |
Tichon,
John |
|
insanity |
Weatherbee,
Mr. |
|
insanity |
Von
Wetchel, H. |
|
insanity/incapable
of own |
Gilbert,
Benjamin Sauer |
|
insanity;
not able to work |
Buttner,
Richard |
|
lameness |
Smieg,
Andrew |
|
leaded
in smelter |
Wetherbee,
John |
|
loss
of sight and sickness |
O'Neil,
John |
|
maimed |
Peak,
Henry |
|
miner's
consumption |
Franko,
Steve |
|
miner's
consumption |
Gandran
(Gandrou), Joe |
|
miner's
consumption |
Kloda,
Frank |
|
miner's
consumption |
McKee,
James |
|
old
age |
Apodaca,
Joe Lewis |
|
old
age |
Baker,
Nelson |
|
old
age |
Benger,
Henry |
|
old
age |
Bergan,
F. E. |
|
old
age |
Bergou,
E. A. |
|
old
age |
Blodgett,
Idah |
|
old
age |
Brown,
A. L. |
|
old
age |
Campbell,
Alfred |
|
old
age |
Campbell,
Alfred |
|
old
age |
Cochran,
Joe, Mr. and Mrs. |
|
old
age |
Comer,
Isabele |
|
old
age |
Costley,
Edward |
|
old
age |
Curtis,
Frank |
|
old
age |
Cussins,
J. L. |
|
old
age |
Doughty,
George |
|
old
age |
Flack,
William C. |
|
old
age |
Glasgow,
Dick |
|
old
age |
Goeglein,
Annie |
|
old
age |
Gray,
Gerarg H. |
|
old
age |
Hahn,
Henry |
|
old
age |
Harrison,
L. A. |
|
old
age |
Hartman,
Joe |
|
old
age |
Haworth,
Martha E. |
|
old
age |
Hefte,
John B. |
|
old
age |
Hefti,
John B. |
|
old
age |
Holladay,
C. M. |
|
old
age |
Hughes,
Samuel |
|
old
age |
Hughes,
Sara |
|
old
age |
Lante,
Charles Henry |
|
old
age |
Lopas,
Emanuel |
|
old
age |
Lucero,
Jose |
|
old
age |
McAlheny,
Darby |
|
old
age |
McCoach,
T. A. |
|
old
age |
Miller,
Martha |
|
old
age |
Mitchell,
Sam W. W. |
|
old
age |
Moreland,
John O. |
|
old
age |
Morris,
Fields J. |
|
old
age |
Nipp,
Henry |
|
old
age |
Nowlan,
John |
|
old
age |
Perry,
Charley D. |
|
old
age |
Riddle,
Thomas |
|
old
age |
Rollins,
Jack |
|
old
age |
Romero,
Emanual |
|
old
age |
Smalley,
Ralph C. |
|
old
age |
Smith,
David W. |
|
old
age |
Smith,
Frank D. |
|
old
age |
Smith,
Silas W. |
|
old
age |
Spear,
Joe |
|
old
age |
Stine,
Charles W. |
|
old
age |
Thomas,
Henry |
|
old
age |
Trimble,
Arbell |
|
old
age |
Trujillo,
Jose |
|
old
age and cancer |
Boucherett,
Virginia |
|
old
age and general debility |
Doran,
Myles |
|
old
age and illness |
McEntire,
A. J. |
|
old
age and inability |
Montieth,
Andrew |
|
old
age and insanity |
Allan,
James |
|
old
age and rheumatism |
Young,
J. R. |
|
old
age, deafness and inability |
Trujillo,
Jose |
|
old
age; unable to work |
Quinn,
Nettie, Miss |
|
old
age; unable to work |
Roboertson,
Elva June |
|
old
age; unable to work |
Roboertson,
W. J. |
|
old
age; unable to work |
Tremble,
Arbell |
|
old
sores |
Gilmore,
Thomas |
|
paralysis |
Barnes,
George |
|
paralysis |
Beckman,
William |
|
paralysis |
Garnes,
George |
|
pneumonia |
Sterling,
R. M. |
|
pneumonia
(bronchial) |
Dotson,
J. C. |
|
rheumatism |
Devine,
C. A. |
|
rheumatism |
Garcia,
Veda M. |
|
rheumatism |
Garrett,
Edward |
|
rheumatism |
Garrett,
Joe |
|
rheumatism |
Hartie,
Charles |
|
rheumatism |
Henion,
Leo, Mrs. |
|
rheumatism |
Hodge,
Richard |
|
rheumatism |
Klein,
Jacob |
|
rheumatism |
Leonard,
James |
|
rheumatism |
Mathews,
Karney |
|
rheumatism |
Pennington,
Thomas H. |
|
rheumatism |
Peterson,
P. O. |
|
rheumatism |
Watson,
Joseph |
|
rheumatism |
Wooten,
Sam |
|
rheumatism
and asthma |
Klein,
Jacob |
|
scrofula
and old age |
Holenworth,
Dan |
|
short
of wind and old age |
Bradley,
James |
|
sickness |
Apalaca,
Joe |
|
sickness |
Baca,
Cosma |
|
sickness |
Bachman,
Goldie |
|
sickness |
Bain,
Pleasant |
|
sickness |
Baker,
Nelson |
|
sickness |
Ball,
M., Mrs. |
|
sickness |
Barela,
Paz |
|
sickness |
Brown,
Al |
|
sickness |
Clausen,
H. |
|
sickness |
Conrad,
Joseph J. |
|
sickness |
Coulson,
Herman |
|
sickness |
Cousins,
J. T. |
|
sickness |
Crammer,
Eugene F. |
|
sickness |
Davie,
Nelie |
|
sickness |
Devine,
C. A. |
|
sickness |
Dunbar,
Elizabeth |
|
sickness |
Flook,
Mrs. |
|
sickness |
Frisca,
Charley |
|
sickness |
Garcia,
Abel |
|
sickness |
Glasgow,
Dick |
|
sickness |
Goeglein,
Annie |
|
sickness |
Hamilton,
Ruth |
|
sickness |
Henion,
Leo |
|
sickness |
Hernandez,
Joe |
|
sickness |
Hobson,
Irvin |
|
sickness |
Johnson,
Christina |
|
sickness |
Kendall,
John |
|
sickness |
Kennedy,
Eva |
|
sickness |
Kloda,
Frank |
|
sickness |
Lance,
Charles |
|
sickness |
Lautz,
Charles H. |
|
sickness |
Lenord,
James |
|
sickness |
Leonard,
James |
|
sickness |
Lopas,
Amanual |
|
sickness |
McAlhaney,
Darby |
|
sickness |
McCoach,
Tom |
|
sickness |
McCollum,
A. |
|
sickness |
Meek,
J. E. |
|
sickness |
Meek,
Joe |
|
sickness |
Mewborn,
Robert |
|
sickness |
Mitchell,
Sam |
|
sickness |
Morgan,
John |
|
sickness |
Morris,
Daisy |
|
sickness |
Nowlan,
John |
|
sickness |
Oastley,
Ed |
|
sickness |
Phillips,
A. |
|
sickness |
Quinn,
Miss |
|
sickness |
Ray,
John F. |
|
sickness |
Reinhart,
G. W. |
|
sickness |
Riddle,
Tom |
|
sickness |
Robison,
Henry |
|
sickness |
Roucheret,
Virginia |
|
sickness |
Ruggles,
Nat |
|
sickness |
Savage,
Mike |
|
sickness |
Schaller,
Leo |
|
sickness |
Scott,
John |
|
sickness |
Scurlock,
J. A. |
|
sickness |
Smith,
Merrial |
|
sickness |
Star,
F. A., Mrs. |
|
sickness |
Stuckman,
Warren |
|
sickness |
Sturm,
Georgie |
|
sickness |
Sturn,
Georgia |
|
sickness |
Thomas,
Henry |
|
sickness |
Ulibarri,
Criotilde |
|
sickness |
Unes,
Ragy |
|
sickness |
Varia,
Edith |
|
sickness |
Walters,
Thomas |
|
sickness |
Wright,
William McClure |
|
sickness |
Young,
George |
|
sickness |
Owens,
Sidney |
|
sickness |
Dierks,
Albert |
|
sore
back |
Tucker,
R. E. |
|
sprained
arm |
Halloran,
Dan |
|
stranded |
Bland,
Hettie and baby |
|
stranded |
Cernuigel,
Daniel |
|
stranded |
Cernuigel,
Kate |
|
transient |
Bolinger,
Charles J. |
|
transient |
Bolinger,
Mary Ann |
|
transient |
Farmer,
Roy |
|
transient |
Gahn,
Virgil Edward |
|
transient |
Harper,
Clara and son |
|
transient |
Harper,
Larry |
|
transient |
Iser,
Helen |
|
transient |
Iser,
Wilbert and child |
|
transient |
Pease,
Joseph |
|
transient |
Pease,
June |
|
transient |
Pool,
Lewis |
|
transient |
Randall,
Louis |
|
transient |
Watters,
Clara |
|
transient |
Watters,
John |
|
tuberculosis |
Campbell,
E. O. |
|
tuberculosis |
German,
Matt |
|
tuberculosis |
Jacobs,
Illa |
|
unemployment |
Malbrough,
Matilda |
|
unemployment
and sickness |
Riddle,
Thomas M. |
|
unsound
mind |
Cowan,
Polly |
|
waywardness |
Hughs,
Lulu |
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