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Burton Kimball Obituary
Obituary of Burton Kimball (Kimble) from The Weekly Courier, Fort Collins, Colorado, December 2, 1908. See page 5, bottom of 1st column.
DEATH CALLS KIMBALL, A BUCKHORN PIONEER
From Friday's Daily.
Burton Kimball, aged 77 years, one of the pioneers of the Buckhorn, died Wednesday afternoon at 4 o'clock after an illness of nearly two years with dropsy, and a complication of other ailments. The funeral will be held at 3 o'clock Saturday afternoon, with burial in Grandview cemetery. Death occurred at the family home, three miles south of the Stove Prairie school house on Spring creek, where Mr. Kimball first settled when he came to Colorado about 1884. For years he was engaged in running a sawmill and it was while in that business that he received an injury, in lifting, that brought on the ailments that finally caused death. Mr. Kimball was born in Hawkin county, Ohio, in 1830. He served the Union in the civil war, but did not hold membership in the Grand Army of the Republic. He was a lifelong member of the Methodist church and led an upright life, being known as a man of high principles and many good qualities that endeared him to his neighbors and friends. He leaves, besides the sorrowing wife, five sons, J. H., who lives on the home place, H. H. and Dave Kimball of Fort Collins. Irwin, the eldest, whose home Is in Bakersfleld, California, and A. B., who lives In Masonvllle.
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