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William Petrie

28 Oct 1847 – 15 Mar 1938

Birth28 Oct 1847
Death15 Mar 1938
CemeteryYuma Cemetery
Yuma , Yuma County , Colorado , USA
Added byGenealogy Nut on 11 Jun 2013
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WILLIAM PETRIE DIES TUESDAY AT AGE OF 90 YEARS Heart Attack Ends Life of Pioneer Yuma Citizen; Funeral Rites Today William Petrie, a resident of this community for more than a half century, died early Tuesday morning at his home in Yuma after having reached the ripe old age of over four score years and ten. The deceased had enjoyed remarkably good health in spite of his advanced years almost to the time of his passing. He had been downtown Saturday and the day previous to his death he was up and around the house as usual. About 2 o'clock Tuesday morning he called his daughter, Mrs. J.W. Weekly, with whom he had made his home since the passing of his wife several years ago, and an hour later a peaceful end came to a long and full life. Death was attributed to a heart attack. Funeral services will be held from the home this Thursday afternoon, Rev. W.L. Breckenridge officiating, and burial will be in the Yuma cemetery. The deceased was born in Herkimer county, N.Y., October 28, 1847, a son of Jeremiah and Ann (Lamphere) Petrie, who were likewise natives of the Empire state. The father was a shoemaker by trade and worked along that line thruout his entire life, which he passed in New York, his death there occurring about 1902. his widow survived until 1905. William Petrie was reared in New York and received his education in the public schools. He pursued his studies to the age of 14 and then started out to earn a livelihood, securing work as a farm hand. he was thus employed for 18 years in New York and Illinois, having removed to the latter state in 1876. After working there for three years he went to Nebraska, where he began farming on his own account by renting land, which he cultivated for seven years or until April 1887. In that month he arrived in Yuma county and filed on land six miles northeast of yuma. He improved his homestead and later bought additional land, adding to it many improvements in keeping with the progressive spirit of the times until he transformed the rolling prairie into one of the attractive places of Yuma county. He continued its active cultivation until 1914 when he retired and moved to Yuma, where he built the home which he had since occupied. He made the journey to Colorado in a covered wagon and was four weeks on the road, driving 15 head of cows on the trip. During the first 10 months of his residence in this community he lived in a dugout, after which he built a sod house. This he occupied for a decade and then made more modern improvements. He is said to have put up the first windmill in the county. Mr. Petrie was married in January 1870, to Miss Emily Comstock and to them were born seven children. Amy, wife of A.E. Miller of near Wray; Albert of Yuma; Beulah, the wife of Harold Frantz, who died in 1926; Edna, wife of J.W. Weekly, of Yuma; Reid W. of Grand Junction; Hayden, who died in 1908; and Walter, who passed away in 1885. Besides the four children, there are 19 grandchildren, 28 great-grandchildren and nine great-great-grandchildren. Also surviving are two sisters, Mrs. Mina Brookman and Mrs. Mary Mason of Fort Plain, NY.--Yuma Pioneer, Thursday, March 17, 1938, Pg. 1

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