The Story of The Newluns Book

Story of The Newluns

By Danny Croft in DannyCroft.com

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Newlun, Robert, 1924-1994

Birth 1924 March 9, in Fort Collins, Laramie, Colorado
Death 1994 March 27, in Abingdon, Washington, Virginia


"Bob" Newlun and Ray Asher, c. 1944

Bob and Anne Newlun had a large family, two sets of twins. Freddie lived with them when he started school, 3rd grade, in Ft. Collins. Bob was a Marine. He also went to college in New Jersey and got his teaching degree.
[Lindquist, L. & F. July, 2011]

Bob (Robert) had a gas station and his wife was a school teacher.
[Hoeft, C. July, 2011]


Bob Newlun's family

Back row of photo: left to right
Bob, Tom, Dad, Mom, Danny, Kenny (deceased)
Middle row:
Joyce (Bob's wife), Kevin, Dennis (with mustache), John Wayne
Front Row:
Jane, Anne, Patrick

Although my mom was a teacher, she became a Social Worker. She retired from the State of New Jersey. There are no family members living in NJ at this time.

Funny, I just learned from this site that Aunt Lucille and I share a birthday.
[Newlun, J. June, 2012]

Dennis Eugene Newlun.
Dennis had the town pump bar for years, in Fort Collins.
[Hoeft, C. July, 2011]

Newlun-Asher, Elizabeth Lorraine 1921-1988

Birth 1921 August 8, in Eaton, CO
Death 1988 July, in Oregon City, OR

Married
1939 Dec 3, Howard W. Godfrey
b. 1917 October, in Colorado Springs, CO

c.1942 Arthur Wiggin

1944 Aug 5, Raymond H. Asher
b. 1922 October 21, in Miami, OK
d. 2003 August 30

Children
Maryalice Godfrey
Born 1940 December 8 in Denver, CO at St. Anthony’s Hospital
Married
1964 Patrick M. O’Grady
1975 to Donald Heavilin
1995 to Raymond Springer


Elizabeth, Bertha & Howard Godfrey


Elizabeth and Howard Godfrey, c.1939

Elizabeth’s first marriage was to Howard Godfrey when she was 18 years old. At the time of my birth, Howard was 23 years old and he worked as an apprentice sheeter in a machine company. I have photos during that time and greeting cards from my father; otherwise, I was too young to remember him.


Elizabeth with daughter Maryalice

Her second marriage was to Arthur Wiggin around 1942. He could play the trumpet and composed a song for her to be played on the piano. It was called “Make Our Dreams Come True.” He was in the military and while stationed in Salt Lake City got a medical discharge.


Elizabeth and Raymond Wiggin

We moved to New Hampshire and were surrounded with lots of love from his family. I luckily captured the heart of Raymond Wiggin (Arthur’s father). I was only three years old the last time we saw each other. He sent me greeting cards with written messages until I was a young woman. Such messages as: “Miss you so much. The trip to the park, playing baseball, the swings and teeters, throwing rocks in the pool, our fire in the fireplace where Maryalice worked hard picking up leaves and sticks to keep it going,” “We surely had fun together and you were always such a jolly and friendly young companion.” I called him Pocketbook because of all the books he gave me. I’m glad my mother continued to write him telling about my life as I was growing up because it is fun to go back now and read them. After her divorce from Arthur, she moved to New Jersey to live with her brother, Bob Newlun.


Maryalice Godfrey with Howard Wiggin "Pocketbook"


Elizabeth with daughter Maryalice

Mom met Raymond Asher through her brother, Bob Newlun. They served in the military together. She married Raymond in 1944. We lived in parts of California and Oregon.


Elizabeth and Raymond Asher, 1944

Raymond worked as a logger while in Oregon and when we moved to Gould, Colorado in the late '40s, he worked with his brother-in-law, Fred Lindquist in a saw mill. We lived in a small cabin with no running water or inside toilet. We had a coal burning stove that Mom used to heat water and do her cooking. Refrigeration was by an icebox on the front porch. The winters were cold with lots of snow. We lived near the Lindquist and Stout families. We were there for a few years and later moved back to Oregon.


Fred Lindquist saw mill with Ray Asher, Gould


Elizabeth in front of cabin in Gould, CO

Raymond never wanted Mom to work and most of the time she did stay home. She provided a clean and comfortable home with her love, good cooking, decorating for the holidays, making my clothes for school, and much more. In her spare time, she liked to do handicrafts and was very good at it. She did embroidery and crocheting better than anybody I knew. Mom and Raymond divorced in 1971.

Later, she traveled with a long-time-friend, Wes Sheldrew. They traveled to San Carlos Bay, Mexico and parts of the US as well. Not too long before Wes died; they
stayed closer to home. During the times she was home, she made pretty flowers by using the sea shells that she collected from the beaches in Mexico or she would order them from the shell catalogs. She sold or gave them away to whomever would like to have them.


Wes Sheldrew and "Bess"

Her life changed drastically when she was diagnosed with lung cancer in 1987. Her sister, Lucille Lindquist, came out from CO to be with her. I was still working and couldn’t be with her full time. I appreciated Lucille being there for Mom. Elizabeth spent her last years in the Oregon City area.

Going back to my childhood days; Mom was so loving and loyal to me. These were all good qualities. I could not have had anybody more dependable and loyal than she was. She is greatly missed.

Newlun-Liva, Hazel Maragret 1919-1979

Birth 1919 March 8, in Fort Collins, Colorado
Death 1979 November in San Diego, California

Spouse
Married 1940 August 30
Stephen Michael Liva
Birth 1913 July 12 in Buffalo, NY
Died 1991 February 23 in Greeley, CO

Stephen Michael Liva (Hliva) was 100% Hungarian.
In Hungary, his last name Hliva was like the name Smith here, very common.
Grandfather could not speak English, so they spelled his name Levi.
[Hoeft, C. July, 2011]

Children
Carole Lucille
Birth 1942 December 16 in Denver, at St. Anthony
married in October, 1961 to
(Nyle) Glenn Brannon
Birth 1935 March 5 in Jamestown, TN
Daughter: Catherine Marie married Jeff in October, 1985
Birth 1962 August 25
Her Daughter: Elizabeth Ritchie 1985 October 20
Son: Stephan Michael "Mike" married Oki in 1986
Birth 1964 October 23
His Daughter: Julia adopted in 1998
Sons: Peter Glenn 1967 June 16
twin brother Paul, died at birth
His Daughters: Stephanie by his wife Tonia,
and Valerie

Catherine "Kay" Marie
married Tom Hoeft
Son:Greg

When my parents met, my Mom, Hazel, was working at the Denver General Store as a sales person. My Dad, Steve, learned to be a Machinist in the CC Camps. That was during the great depression.

We lived in the 1940's on 1641 Ratan, in Denver.


Liva family, c. 1950

Moved to San Diego in 1951.


Carole Liva communion


Kay Liva communion

My folks paid $10,500 when we moved to Linda Vista after staying with my other grandma and Uncle Johnny. The government had low income federal housing, so my folks were starting over from leaving Colorado and my dad just started a new job at North Island as a machinist. After my mother started working a few years later at a dry cleaners, she saved the money for a down payment. Oh, she also did mending. I think she put $500 down.

The first house that Glenn and I bought in 1967, we paid $16,500. My parents thought we were crazy.


Carol and Glenn, Thanksgiving 197?

I really didn't want to move (from Lakeside). I was working as an LVN making $9.45 hour and moved to Greeley and started as a Business Associate (old work clerk) in ICU and CCU for $4.65 hour. What a shock.

An article was in the magazine, the title was "Enough is Just Enough." When Glenn and I were interviewed, I was asked what more did I want. I looked out at almost four acres of land and no neighbors. National forest all around us.
I remember a bear on our porch eating the donuts, I forgot to burn them because you don't leave any food around. Looking at the blue jays, saw a coyote off a ways. A dirt road, was well maintained. We paved our road. Our property was called "Carole's Place" until a drunk ran off the road and up our hill and took it out. It's funny for so many acres of space between homes we had a lot more friends. I cooked almost every weekend and we would watch the football games or play games. Fun, fun. Every one helped each other. Not like the city.
[Brannon, C. July, 2011]


Steve Liva

Steve Lived in Linda Vista until Hazel's death and then moved back to Colorado to be close to family.

Newlun-Lindquist, Lucille Mae 1916-2009

Born 1916 October 18 in Colorado
Death 2009 March 1, in Longmont, Colorado

Married
Fred Lindquist
July 30, 1935
Marriage Certificate signed John F. Wagan
In Ft. Collins, Colo


Fred and Lucille Newlun Lindquist married, in 1935, in Ft. Collins, Colorado.

Jon Fred Lindquist was a young man in Sweden in the late 1920s and decided to emigrate to America.

This all started when his cousin, Fred, had purchased a ticket aboard a ship sailing to New York. Fred decided he was not going to use his ticket to sail to America. Shortly before the departure date of the ship, Jon discovered his girlfriend with another man. So Jon goes to his cousin and asks him if he could use his ticket to sail to America and pay him back when he makes enough money. Fred agrees and gives him the ticket and his passport. There was not enough time for Jon to get his own passport before the ship set sail and they, being cousins, shared the same names, Jon Fred and Fred Jon Lindkvist and looked enough alike in the ID photo to pass upon inspection.

Jon sails to America and settles with other Swedes in St. Paul, Minnesota and gets work in an Armour slaughter house. With the oncoming Depression, layoffs eventually force many men out of work. Jon, now Fred, offers up his position in an attempt so that his manager, with a wife and child, could save his job.
Fred and a friend of his decide to head west in search of work. Upon hearing of a work lead at a timber mill, Fred heads to Wyoming, outside of Laramie, and becomes a lumber jack, up in the hills in Keystone.


Hampton Inn Laramie, WY

Keystone mine
He would later meet and fall in love with red-headed Lucille, who worked in the cook house for the timber mill. She had lived next door to the lumber mill owner with her parents in Colorado. They soon married and had a son, Freddie.

Freddie Lindquist, 1942

A few years later, Lucille gave birth to twin girls, Janet and Joan.

With the outbreak of WWII, the US government is concerned about Swedish migrant workers returning to Sweden, as their skill and labor working for the mill was needed for the war effort. Fred was questioned by the mill manager and asked, what would make him stay? He said he wanted to stay in America and wanted to be a citizen. Without taking classes and studying for the test, as they were too far away, a judge comes up to administer the test and he passes. He is granted full citizenship (with his cousin’s passport) and stays in Wyoming.
In around 1943-44, the lumber camp accepts some Germans as POWs, along with other prisoners of the Germans, who were not enemies of the USA, such as some Eastern-Europeans (Polish, Serbian, Hungarians…). The Germans were detained and worked in the mill with the other POWs, who were allowed to roam free and as they pleased, bunking among the other mill workers already there.
One of these POWs would often come by the Lindquist’s house and sit on the floor with the infant twin girls. Lucille said he would just sit there and cry while gazing at the girls. He talked about how he was told that his whole family had been killed back home in the war, so he had nothing to go back to. He deeply missed his little children and wife he had lost forever.

Janet and Joan Lindquist, 1943

At the end of the war, the POWs are all returned back to Europe. Many of them even returned to work at the lumber camp.
One day, the Lindquist’s get a letter from far away. It’s a letter in an envelope, written in blue-crayon on something that looked like old brown butcher paper. It was from the POW who used to come by the house and sit with Janet and Joan.

Inside, it had written something like:

Dear Lindquist,

Wife alive.

Children alive.

It was difficult to read the writing and his signed name. Janet doesn’t recollect what country in Eastern Europe the letter might have come from.

Freddie said the man was from Germany. Freddie was in Ft. Collins going to school, during this time.

Lucille would remark on how everyone involved in the war, the Germans, the Swedes, the Eastern-Europeans, and the Americans all shared similar cultures and a common fear (an ethno-relative mindset). Nobody knew what would happen, because of the war. “Everybody was scared,” (experiencing the same anxieties), and everybody was happy to be in Wyoming.
Lucille also talked about the German POWs and what “young, scared boys” they were. The Germans were mindful in their situation in being away from the war, yet in a new country not sure how they would be accepted by the people there. They were just kids, like her younger brother, a Marine in the Pacific fighting the Japanese. She also thought that the American Army guards were “assholes” and acted like jerks with their mindless authority over the German POWs.


Children
Frederick Duane, Jr.
Janet Kay Croft
Joan Ann Harding


A Trip Over the Golden Gate
We were heading south from Oregon. Somehow she got on the northbound side. She tried once or twice more but always ended up going the wrong way. Finally, the last time when she realized what she had done she made a u-turn right in the middle of the (Golden Gate) bridge. She had to drive over two concrete islands to do it. When the toll booth guy saw what she did, he about blew a gasket. Told her he would only let her off the bridge if she promised to NEVER come back. This was in the '50s. We hit the toll booth going each way several times. That's why the guy remembered us. We had just paid the toll and could not have had time to go all the way across and come all the way back. Also, you have to remember this was the '50s and highway signs and directions have much improved since then. In addition, paved roads were a luxury to people used to driving on gravel roads. Freeways, were mind boggling.
[Croft, J. June, 2011]

Swedish Visitors
In 1970, Fred went back to Sweden the first time sense he left (41 years).
In 1976, Freddie took relatives on a visit of the southwest USA. Cousin Ketty spoke English.
March 1978, some of them (Swedish relatives) visited us in Arvada, CO and San Diego, CA.
In 1979, Karl Gunner had a second trip to Colorado.

In 1984, Lucille, Fred and Janet went to Sweden.

Newlun-Smith, Alice 1912-1976

Birth 1912 June 7
Death 1976 July 11

Alice and Jim Smith lived on Catalina Island. She died of lung cancer. They had a daughter, Donna who still lived there (died Dec., 2011), also Mickey and Charley. Mickey passed March, 2007.
[Lindquist, L. July, 2011]


Alice, Bertha and sister Lucille, 1940

Donna Francis Smith Piacentini was born on May 4th, 1935, in Ft. Collins, Colorado. The Smith family relocated to Catalina Island from Colorado, in 1944 during WWII, while her father was serving with the US Maritime Services.

Donna was the first child born, followed by her brothers Mickey and Charlie Smith. She attended Avalon School and graduated from Avalon High. She then went to college at Long Beach City College, to be close to her family on the Island. Donna married Michael Angelo Piacentini in 1955. Mike and Donna adopted a son, Gregg in 1961, and a daughter, Suzanne in 1963. Donna passed away peacefully at age 76, on December 16, 2011.
[Vasu, S. Dec., 2011]

Newlun, Wayne 1907-1983

Birth 1907 April 19, in Colorado
Death 1983 July, in Eaton, Weld, Colorado


Wayne & Lorene Newlun's Christmas card, 1945

The pictures of Wayne are of him when he was younger and the older one
was taken in 1969. I sent the clipping. I'm not sure of the date when Uncle Wayne visited with his scouts but I think I was still living at home (late '50s or early '60s).
[Godfrey, M. Feb., 2012]


Wayne Newlun with Explorer Scouts, Portland

Wayne was an Explorer Troop Leader in the Boy Scouts. One year, his troop made a trip to the Northwest and visited with Elizabeth while they came through Oregon.


Wayne Newlun, 1969

Wayne was the oldest. He lived in Long Beach, California, and moved back to the Ft. Collins area in his last years and died of a heart ailment.
[Croft, J. July, 2011]

He had a TURP called a "roto-rooter job," for an enlarged prostrate. Then, he was in ICCU and died. I believe he died of heart failure, or a heart attack.
[Brannon, C. July, 2011]

Steigner-Newlun, Bertha Matilda 1890-1984

Birth 1890 April 5, in St. Joseph, Missouri
Death 1984 Jan 23, in Bellvue, Larimer, Colorado

Spouse
Married 1906 October 12, in Central City
Perley Wayne Newlun

Children
Wayne Newlun
Birth 1907 April 19, in Colorado
Death July 1983, in Eaton, Weld, Colorado
Charles Newlun
Birth abt 1911 in Colorado
Alice Newlun
Birth abt 1913 in Colorado
Death abt 197- Catalina Island, CA
Thomas Jefferson Newlun
Birth 13 Aug 1914 in Missouri
Death 22 Nov 1991 in Los Angeles, California
Lucille Mae Newlun Lindquist
Birth 18 Oct 1916 in Colorado
Death 1 Mar 2009 in Longmont, Colorado
Hazel Newlun Liva
Birth 1920 in Colorado
Death 1986 in San Diego, San Diego, California
Elizabeth "Bessie" Newlan
Birth 1921 in Colorado
Death 1988 in Oregon
Robert Allan Newlun
Birth 09 Mar 1924 in Fort Collins, Laramie, Colorado
Death 27 Mar 1994 in Abingdon, Washington, Virginia
Anna Lee Newlun (Twins)
Birth abt 1928
Mary E Newlan
Birth abt 1928

Colorado State Archives, Marriage Records
Gilpin County Brides' And Groom's Marriage Index 1864-1944
Groom Newlun, Pearl
Bride Stegnier, Bertha
Date 1906 Oct 12
http://www.colorado.gov/dpa/doit/archives/marriage/1gilpin_groom_n.htm#-N-

The Steigner family lived in Missouri. There were so many kids in the family. Pryors, Steigers and then Pryor-Steigers combined. The understanding I have is the older kids from previous marriages moved on and the young ones were left at home with a nanny.

Grandma told me that her father had enrolled the younger children in an exclusive and expensive Catholic school taught only by nuns from Germany. They were very, very strict bordering on the abusive according to Grandma. The children came home scared and crying which enraged their black nanny (the children adored her) and her reaction was that no one was going to hurt HER babies. So she stopped taking them there and enrolled them in a Catholic school in the neighborhood that didn't charge tuition. The Father could not understand why the children couldn't seem to learn German and converse with him when he came home on his breaks. He began to complain that the nuns weren't very good teachers. Don't know when he learned the truth or if he ever did. I suppose he and the nanny hashed that out away from the children if he found out. Anyway, the children never went back to that school.

Her Father traveled and was never home after his wife died. As far as I know, her Father died while working on the railroad (believe he was a cook) and the family never knew when or where he died. Father only returned once a year or so and not much involved. One year, they just never heard from him again. He could have died at anytime in that year or anywhere along the train route. Some effort was made to find him but not much I think and too little too late.

My Grandmother was sent to Colorado to live with a married older sister when she developed 'rheumatism' and the doctor suggested a dryer climate might help. It did. One of the reasons she married so young was that she was not happy living with her sister.

Records may show Grandma was older when she married. She lied. Grandpa never knew her true age.

She came to Denver to work for someone and decided being married was a better idea. Her correct age was unknown at the time. She told me she told [Perley] she was 15, but she was really 13(?). She told that lie for so many years that when she applied for Social Security she was shocked to find out she was 2 years younger than she thought. I remember when that happened.

Grandma's Mother was the second wife (French, according to Grandma). She was sent to Colorado to live with an older sister because of her 'rheumatism,' a condition of puberty? I gather it was not a happy time.

She told me he never knew her real age and she actually forgot her real age after lying about it for so many years.

Grandma never said much about Grandpa, but from what I gathered from random comments from others he was a drinker, a womanizer and had a really bad temper. Mom told me once that he loved babies and toddlers, but when the child reached a certain age they no longer existed in his eyes and were replaced by the new baby.

Central City Opera House

I do remember Grandma saying that she did not want to get married. She wanted to become a nurse and you had to be 16 to go to the school for nursing. She was only 15 and got married then. Her father could no longer keep her because her mother passed away. She also cleaned the opera house at Central City when they were first married. She did clean the Northern Hotel on College (now part of "Old Town") when they moved to Ft. Collins.

Central City, Teller House St view

It's very possible Grandma had a child there in MO. [Charles, 1911] One of the aunts wanted to adopt one or more of the children, Wayne, I think, or maybe the new baby? Wayne spent some time in MO living with one of the aunts. Both of Grandma's parents came into the marriage as widowers with children and then they had children together.
[Croft, J. Dec., 2011]

I remember Grandma telling me that her father could not afford to keep her and she begged him to let her go to school to become a nurse. But she found out you had to be 16 and she was only 13(?). I THINK, that her father set it up to meet and marry our grandfather. She really did not like him and was planning on leaving him when she found out that she was pregnant with Wayne. She also had a miscarriage after Wayne, she fell on the ice in Central City.
[Hoeft, C. April, 2012]

She came to Denver to work for someone and decided being married was a better idea. Her correct age was unknown at the time.

Bertha came to Denver (or was sent to Denver) from St. Joseph, MO to work for someone and decided it would be better to go to the Central City area to work.
She was very young and I have no clue how she managed this.

The boarding house [she worked in] was across the street from the Opera house. Lucille gave me a platter that she said came from that boarding house. I don't know if it was Casandra's or where Grandma Bertha worked.

Grandma did actually leave Grandpa after she had children and went back to Missouri with support of some of her sisters. However, as we know she eventually returned to Colorado.
[Lindquist, L. June, 2011]


Bertha with her Aunt Anna Steigner-Willmot

I found a photo that was taken in 1940 of Bertha, with Alice Smith and Lucille
Lindquist. For sure, that would be the youngest I have of Bertha. I have one with Anna (Steigner) Willmot, but I think she isn't any younger. So hard to tell, she never really looked young to me. Lucille told me, in my younger days that I stayed with her for awhile and also with Bertha. I don't remember that time.


Bertha Newlun in Wellington, CO

When Bertha came to visit my parents, I mostly remember her as very quiet. Dad (Raymond), really thought a lot of Bertha and when he lived in Colorado, he
brought her to his ranch. He told me that Bertha would sit for hours in the same
place. Once he was asked, "if she ever got up, at least, to go to the bathroom?"
(guess you'd have to be there to appreciate the humor).
[Godfrey, M. Feb. 2012]


Grandma Newlun c. 1970

Obituary


Mrs. Newlun was born April 5, 1890, in St. Joseph, Mo. She married Perley Wayne Newlun. [On] Dec. 5, 1946 in Central, Colo, [he] preceded her in death.


Grandma Newlun, c. 1980

Newlun, Perley Wayne 1882-1946

Birth 1882 October 16, in Bald Mountain, Gilpin, CO
Death 1945 December 5, in Fort Collins, Laramie, CO

Perley Newlun

Perley Wayne and his twin brother Perry Newlun, holding flag in front of unknown building.

Spouse
Married 1906 October 12, in Central City
Bertha Matilda Steigner
Birth 19 Apr 1889 in St. Joseph, Missouri
Death 23 Jan 1984 in Bellvue, Larimer, Colorado

Children
Wayne Newlun
Birth 1907 April 19, in Colorado
Death 1983 July, in Eaton, Weld, Colorado
Charles Newlun
Birth abt 1911 in Colorado
Alice Newlun-Smith
Birth 1912 June 7
Death 1976 July 11
Thomas Jefferson Newlun
Birth 1914 13 Aug, in Missouri
Death 1991 22 Nov, in Los Angeles, California
Lucille Mae Newlun-Lindquist
Birth 1916 18 Oct, in Colorado
Death 2009 1 Mar, in Longmont, Colorado
Hazel Newlun-Liva
Birth 1919 March 8, in Fort Collins, Colorado
Death 1979 November, in San Diego, California
Elizabeth "Bessie" Lorraine Newlun-Asher
Birth 1921 8 Aug, in Colorado
Death 1988 18 July, in Oregon
Robert Allan Newlun
Birth 1924 09 March, in Fort Collins, Laramie, Colorado
Death 1994 27 March, in Abingdon, Washington, Virginia
Anna Lee Newlun (Twins)
Birth abt 1928
Mary E. Newlun
Birth abt 1928
Barbara Jean Newlun-Voight
Birth 1931 1 Nov.

Central City, Pittsburg Mine 1890

Central City Silver miners

Bertha married Pearl Newlun in Central City, Colorado on October 12, 1906.

Colorado State Archives, Marriage Records
Gilpin County Brides' And Groom's Marriage Index 1864-1944
Groom Newlun, Pearl
Bride Stegnier, Bertha
Date 1906 Oct 12
Archives/Marriage/Gilpin

Central City-Sleepy Hollow Funeral, 1895

Central City, CO 1912

Teller House

1910 United States Federal Census, Boulder, Colorado

(taken April 21)
Name: Bertha T Newlen
Age in 1910: 21 (she was 20)
Birth Year: 1889 (1890)
Birthplace: Missouri
Home in 1910: Boulder, Colorado
Relation to Head of House: Wife
Marital Status: Married
Spouse's Name: Pearl W Newlen
Father's Birthplace: Germany
Mother's Birthplace: New York
Household Members:
Name, Age
Pearl W Newlen 27
Bertha T Newlen 21
Wayne Newlen 3 (b. 1907)
Charles Newlen 11/12

Hazel was born March 8, 1919 in Fort Collins, CO. Her baptism record
was from St. Joseph's Catholic Church.
[Hoeft, C. July, 2011]

1920 U.S. Federal Census: Fort Collins


In 1920, Perley Newlun lived at 230 White Magnolia and Rented the house. He was Age 34 and was a "Laborer" by Trade. His wife Bertha was 28. They could both read, write and speak English, as did all their neighbors.

Perley Newlun [Perley Newlan] [Burley Newlon]
Age: 34
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1886 (1882)
Birthplace: Colorado
Relation to Head of House: Self (Head)
Spouse's Name: Bertha Newlun
Father's Birth Place: Illinois(?)
Mother's Birth Place: Illinois(?)
Marital Status: Married
Race: White
Sex: Male
Home owned: Rent
Able to read: Yes
Able to Write: Yes

Bertha Newlun [Newlan] [Newlon]
Age: 28 (30)
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1892 (1890)
Birthplace: Missouri
Relation to Head of House: Wife
Spouse's Name: Perley Newlun
Father's Birth Place: Germany
Mother's Birth Place: New York
Marital Status: Married
Race: White
Sex: Female
Able to read: Yes
Able to Write: Yes

1930 United States Federal Census: Fort Collins


In 1930, Perley W. Newlun lived at 317 Smith Street and Rented the house for $15. He was Age 47 and was a "Miner" in a "Quartz Mine."

Bertha, his wife, was Age 42. Their "Ages at first marriage" are listed as being 23 and 16. She was born in Missouri, her father in Germany, her mother in New York.
Their Son, Wayne was 23, Single and born in Colorado. His Profession was a "Station Man" at a "Gas Station."
Alice, their Daughter was 17, Single, and born in Colorado. She had a Profession as an "Operator" at the "Telephone Co."
Their Son, Thomas, was 15, Single and born in Missouri, like his Mother. His Profession was listed as a "Messenger" for the "Telegraph Co."
The other children, Lucille was Age 13; Hazel was 11; Bessie was 9; Robert was 6; the twins Anna Lee and Mary E. were 1 1/2, all born in Colorado.

Many of their neighbors had parents born in Russia, England or Germany. They had Professions such as "Laborers," "Electricians," "Messengers," "Janitors," and "Mechanics."

Perley W Newlan
Home in 1930: Fort Collins, Larimer, Colorado
Wife: Bertha Newlan
Rent: $15
Household Members:
Name, Age
Perley W Newlan, 47
Bertha Newlan, 40
Wayne Newlan, 23
Alice Newlan, 17
Thomas Newlan, 15
Lucile Newlan, 13
Hazel Newlan, 11
Bessie Newlan, 9
Robert Newlan, 6
Mary E Newlan, 1 6/12
Anna Lee Newlun, 1 6/12
[Census of the United States: 1930
Population Schedule: Fort Collins City,
County: Larimer, State: Colorado]

Perley lived in the Wellington area since 1916.
Death was on 5 December 1946 in Fort Collins, Laramie, Colorado.

Certificate of Death


Newlun Expires at Wellington, Colorado
PERLEY Wayne Newlun, 64, for many years an employee of the Great Western Sugar company here, died at his home in Wellington Thursday evening, following an illness of many years. He was born 10-16-1882, at Bald Mountain in Gilpin County, Colorado.
In 1905, he was married to Miss Bertha Steigner at Central City. Prior to coming to Ft. Collins in 1916, he was employed as a quartz miner at Boulder and elsewhere.
Interment: Grandview Cemetery-Ft.Collins
Borne 10-16-1882
Died 12-5-1946
Service 12-9-1946
Father Eugene O'Sullivan
[Lindquist, L. Newspaper Obituary. 1946.]