Transcribed by, Leslie Baker

HISTORY OF GOEGLEIN AND SAVAGE

AS COMPILED BY MYRTLE GOEGLEIN

GOEGLEINS

THE EARLIEST KNOWN GOEGLEIN WAS DANIEL GOEGLEIN, HE WAS EITHER BORN IN GERMANY OR BAVARIA, AND WAS RAISED THERE.

DANIEL GOEGLEIN WAS BORN IN THE VILLAGE OR TOWN OF UP. PARI WHICH WAS CLOSE TO THE RHINE RIVER, (FRANKFORT CO.) KINGDOM OF BAVARIA, WHEN A YOUNG MAN HE MET AND MARRIED A MISS MADALINE KLINE* ON MAY 30, 1831.  A SON WHOM THEY NAMED JOHN WAS BORN TO THIS COUPLE, IN 1839, WHEN JOHN WAS EIGHT YEARS OLD THEY CAME TO THIS COUNTRY LANDING IN NEW YORK.    *Magdalena Reuter

THIS FAMILY LATER SETTLED IN POMEROY, OHIO.THE PARENTS, DANIEL AND
MADALINE MOVED TO FORT WAYNE INDIANA ABOUT THE TIME THEIR SON WAS GROWN.  JOHN STAYED IN POMEROY OHIO, AND THERE HE MET A MISS BARBARA RUETER,  THEY WERE MARRIED IN POMEROY.SHE WAS BORN APRIL 30, 1831.LATER ON JOHN AND HIS WIFE MOVED TO FORT WAYNE, INDIANA.THEY HAD 9 CHILDREN:
VALENTINE, JAKE, LENA, JOHN, GEORGE, ANNIE, NICK, MINNIE, AND KATE.  THE SON VALENTINE WAS BORN APRIL 15, 1850 IN MEIGS CO. POMEROY OHIO.  AND MARRIED BARBARA SAVAGE. JAKE MARRIED CARRIE BALL, LENA MARRIED LEE DIXON, JOHN MARRIED MAY HARRIS*, NICK MARRIED HELEN WEILAND, MINNIE MARRIED A CHARLIE WIEHE, AND KATE MARRIED LOUIS ALBERT.  *Emma Splettstoesser

DANIEL AND HIS WIFE PASSED AWAY IN FORT WAYNE INDIANA, AND ARE BURIED THERE.THE WIFE MADALINE WAS 90 YEARS OLD WHEN SHE DIED, DANIEL THE SAME AGE DIED 2 YEARS BEFORE.

WHEN JOHN'S SON VALENTINE GREW TO MANHOOD AND STILL LIVING IN FORT WAYNE INDIANA, HE MET MISS BARBARA SAVAGE, AND THEY WERE MARRIED THERE IN A GERMAN CHURCH, BY A GERMAN PREACHER WHOSE NAME WAS "STUP NATZE".

BARBARA SAVAGE WAS BORN IN POMEROY OHIO, JULY 23, 1849, SHE DIED IN
WINSLOW, ARIZONA IN 1938, AND IS BURIED IN PRESCOTT, ARIZONA.

VALENTINE AND HIS WIFE HAD 9 CHILDREN: WILLIAM JOHN THE OLDEST WAS BORN IN FORT WAYNE, INDIANA AUGUST 13, 1874, MARGARETHA WAS BORN IN FORT WAYNE, INDIANA ALSO ON SEPTEMBER 14, 1875, ROSIE WAS BORN OCTOBER 16, 1876 IN FORT WAYNE INDIANA, AND DIED AT THE AGE OF 9 MONTHS, SHE IS BURIED IN PUEBLO COLORADO.

WHEN THEIR SON WILLIAM WAS 3 YEARS OLD, THE FAMILY MOVED TO "MINNIE GULCH," NEAR SILVERTON COLO.THE FATHER CAME TO MINNIE GULCH IN THE SPRING OF 1876, HIS FATHER JOHN CAME ABOUT A YEAR LATER IN 1877.

IN THE FALL OF 1876, VALENTINE SENT TO FORT WAYNE FOR HIS FAMILY, HE
HAVING LEFT THEM THERE WHEN HE WENT TO COLORADO WITH A FRIEND, DR. BEACON*. *Beaton

VALENTINES WIFE AND 3 LITTLE CHILDREN, WILLIAM, MARGARETHA, (MAGGIE) AS SHE WAS CALLED, AND ROSIE CAME ON THE TRAIN TO PUEBLO, THE BABY ROSIE DIED SOON AFTER ARRIVING, AND THE FATHER CAME TO PUEBLO, THE BABY WAS BURIED THERE.

THE FATHER WAS A FREIGHTER; HE TOOK HIS WIFE AND 2 OTHER CHILDREN ON THE FREIGHT WAGON DRAWN BY 2 MULES FOR HORSES TO LAKE CITY, FROM THERE THEY RODE MULES OVER THE CONTINENTAL DIVIDE.THE TRIP FROM PUEBLO TO MINNIE GULCH TOOK 5 OR 6 DAYS.ANOTHER DAUGHTER WAS BORN TO VALENTINE AND BARBARA, NOVEMBER 30, 1877, IN MINNIE GULCH, SHE WAS CALLED MINNIE OTILIE, THIS MINNIE GULCH IS NAMED AFTER HER*, AS IS MAGGIE GULCH NAMED AFTER HER SISTER MAGGIE* WHO LIVED THERE AT THE AGE OF 2 YEARS.      *Not True

THE FAMILY LIVED IN MINNIE GULCH ALMOST 2 YEARS, BY THIS TIME THE
FATHER OF VALENTINE JOHN HAD COME TO MINNIE GULCH.

VALENTINE MOVED HIS FAMILY TO SILVERTON, WHILE IN SILVERTON A HUGE SNOW SLIDE CAME AND TOOK THEIR CABIN DOWN THE STEEP HILL, AND INTO THE GULCH BELOW, IT WAS A NARROW ESCAPE FOR THIS FAMILY.

VALENTINE THEN TOOK HIS FAMILY FROM SILVERTON TO DURANGO IN A WAGON DRAWN BY 2 MULES NAMED MOLLIE AND JACK, THIS TRIP TOOK 4 DAYS. (THE FAMILY MOVED TO DURANGO IN THE SPRING OF 1880 OR 1881).
SOON AFTER MOVING TO DURANGO, THE CABIN THEY HAD LIVED IN, IN SILVERTON WAS DESTROYED BY ANOTHER BIG SNOW SLIDE.

NICK ONE OF VALENTINES BROTHERS WAS LIVING IN DURANGO ALSO, AND JOHN GOEGLEIN HAD COME FROM MINNIE GULCH TO DURANGO ABOUT THIS TIME, AND HIS FAMILY WITH HIM, HE HAVING LEFT THEM IN FORT WAYNE, INDIANA WHEN HE FIRST CAME TO MINNIE GULCH, HE (JOHN) HOMESTEADED ON THE MESA IN DURANGO, HIS SONS VALENTINE, AND JOHN TOOK UP HOMESTEADS JOINING HIS, (EACH GOEGLEIN HAD 160 ACRES).

NOT TOO LONG AFTER THE FAMILY CAME TO DURANGO ANOTHER BROTHER BY THE NAME OF JAKE GOEGLEIN CAME, VALENTINE FIRST BROUGHT HIS FAMILY TO DURANGO, WHERE THEY LIVED FOR ABOUT 4 YEARS, BEFORE MOVING UP ON THE MESA, WILLIAM AND MAGGIE STARTING SCHOOL THERE, AND VALENTINE WORKING AT THE SMELTER THERE IN DURANGO, VALENTINES CHILDREN AND HIS BROTHER JOHNS CHILDREN HAD TO WALK DOWN A TRAIL FROM THE MESA TO A GERMAN SCHOOL IN DURANGO.

VALENTINE AND HIS WIFE HAD 5 MORE CHILDREN ALL BORN IN DURANGO COLORADO THEY WERE: HELENA, BORN JULY 26, 1881, EDWARD HENRY, BORN SEPT. 3, 1883, WALTER CHARLES BORN FEB. 19 , 1886, ELSIE BORN APRIL 5, 1889,? LENORA BORN FEB. 22, 1890, HELENA DIED AT 1 YEAR, AND ELSIE DIED AT 5 MONTHS WHERE THE FAMILY HAD MOVED UP ON THE MESA AND ARE BURIED THERE, IN WHAT WAS AND STILL IS THE OLD GOEGLEIN CEMETARY.(WHEN VALENTINE AND HIS FAMILY HAD MOVED DOWN TO DURANGO FROM THE MESA, HIS WIFE'S MOTHER AND FATHER CAME, THIS WAS PETER SAVAGE AND MARGARETHA GOEGLEIN SAVAGE, THEY CAME FROM POMEROY, OHIO.THEY WERE NOT LONG IN DURANGO WHEN THE WIFE MARGARETHA PASSED AWAY AND WAS BURIED IN THE GOEGLEIN CEMETARY UP ON THE MESA, SHE DIED IN 1890, SHE WAS 69 YEARS OLD.VALENTINE TOOK PETER SAVAGE, HIS WIFE'S FATHER WITH THE FAMILY TO FLORENCE, COLORADO, HE PASSED THERE IN 1898 AND IS BURIED THERE, HE WAS 85 YEARS OLD.)

VALENTINES MOTHER BARBARA DIED WHEN THE FAMILY WAS LIVING ON THE MESA, AND SHE TOO IS BURIED IN THIS GOEGLEIN CEMETARY, SHE DIED JUNE 1, 1888 AT THE AGE OF 57.

THE GOEGLEINS LOST ALL THEIR LAND AFTER THEY WERE ON IT ABOUT 12 YEARS, OR A LITTLE LONGER, DRILLING FOR ARTISIAN WATER WHICH THEY NEVER FOUND.

THEY MOVED BACK TO DURANGO, IT SEEMS WILLIAM, MAGGIE, AND MINNIE ALL FINISHED HIGH SCHOOL WHILE ON THE RANCH.

JOHN, BEING A CARPENTER, HELPED BUILD THE GERMAN LUTHERAN CHURCH THAT STILL STANDS AND WHERE SERVICES ARE STILL BEING HELD IN DURANGO COLORADO.

JOHN TOO BUILT THE HOUSE NEXT TO THIS CHURCH WHERE HE AND HIS DAUGHTER ANNIE LIVED UNTIL THEY PASSED AWAY, HE WAS IN HIS LATE 80'S, HE AND THIS DAUGHTER ANNIE ARE BOTH BURIED IN THE DURANGO CEMETARY, THE GOEGLEIN CEMETARY NOT BEING USED AFTER ALL THE GOEGLEINS MOVED FROM THE MESA DOWN TO DURANGO.

WHILE VALENTINE GOEGLEIN AND HIS FAMILY WERE STILL LIVING ON THE MESA, THEIR SON WILLIAM, WHEN ABOUT OR 21 WENT UP TO A MIDDLETON NEAR SILVERTON AND STARTED AN ASSAY OFFICE IN A LOG CABIN THAT WAS THERE, IT HAD A ATTIC IN IT AND HIS COUSIN, VAL SAVAGE WHO JUST COME FROM POMEROY OHIO SLEPT IN THIS ATTIC, COOKING THEIR MEALS ON AN OLD COOK STOVE, ON A DIRT FLOOR, THIS WAS IN 1895 OR 1896.

THE NEXT YEAR, 1897 WILLIAM AND HIS FATHER VALENTINE WENT TO THE
CRIPPLE CREEK DISTRICT (IN THE SPRING), IN THE FALL THEY WENT TO
FLORENCE COLORADO TO MEET AND GET THE REST OF THE FAMILY WHO HAD COME FROM DURANGO.

WILLIAM AND HIS FATHER DROVE AN OLD BUCKBOARD WAGON FROM DURANGO, THEY FIRST CAME TO MASCO PASS THEN ON TO SILVER CITY, CANYON CITY, AND THEN TO FLORENCE, IT TOOK THEM 4 TO 5 DAYS TO MAKE THIS TRIP WITH THEIR TEAM OF HORSES.

THEY STAYED IN FLORENCE IN THE FALL OF 1897, WILLIAM AND HIS FATHER
WORKING IN THE EL PASO MILL THERE.

WILLIAM AND HIS FATHER ABOUT THIS TIME DECIDED TO GO BACK TO THE
CRIPPLE CREEK DISTRICT TAKING THE FAMILY WITH THEM IN THE BACK OF THE OLD BUCKBOARD WAGON DRAWN BY 2 HORSES, DOLLY AND TONI, DOLLY BEING HALF THE SIZE OF TONI.

THE FAMILY CONSISTED OF, VALENTINE, HIS WIFE BARBARA, SONS WILLIAM,
EDWARD, AND WALTER.DAUGHTERS, LENORA, AND MINNIE. THE OLDEST GIRL MAGGIE HAVING BEEN MARRIED BEFORE IN DURANGO TO A MORRIS CONRAD, THEY HAD 6 CHILDREN: 
DONALD, ROLLYN, WALTER, GENE, NEIL, AND BARBARA.

THE SECOND DAUGHTER MINNIE MET A MAN BY THE NAME OF ISADORE WILLIAM MEYERS, AND THEY WERE MARRIED IN STRONGS CAMP NEAR VICTOR, MARCH 28, 1900.

THE GOEGLEIN FAMILY HAD SETTLED IN STRONGS CAMP, AFTER MOVING TO
GOLDFIELD, STRONGS CAMP AND GOLDFIELD WERE ALL ONE TOWN.

THEIR 2 SONS EDWARD, AND WALTER, AND DAUGHTER LENORA FINISHED SCHOOL IN VICTOR, NOT FAR FROM STRONGS CAMP.

THE OLDEST SON WILLIAM MET AND MARRIED MISS MYRTLE ANN JOHNSON, NEW YEARS DAY, JANUARY 1, 190? AT 6:00 P.M. AT THE HOME IN VICTOR. WALTER, THEN A YOUNG MAN WENT TO HUMBOLT, ARIZONA, FIRST TO GLOBE, ARIZONA TO MARRY DORA ELSCH.THEY HAD 4 CHILDREN, DORIS, RALPH, LORRAIN, AND BARBARA.WHEN THESE CHILDREN WERE SMALL, WALTERS PARENTS, VALENTINE AND HIS WIFE MOVED TO HUMBOLT FROM GOLDFIELD, THIS WAS ABOUT 1915, THEY LIVED THERE SEVERAL YEARS.

THEIR SECOND DAUGHTER MINNIE OTILIE MARRIED ISADORE WILLIAM MEYERS, MINNIE WAS BORN IN HOWARDSVILLE, SAN JUAN CO. COLORADO, ISADORE WILLIAM WAS BORN, SEPT. 14, 1875 IN DENVER COLO.

MINNIE AND ISADORE HAD 11 CHILDREN: ALVA ISADORE BORN AT TELLURIDE, JULY 25, 1901, ELSIE WINONA BORN AT VICTOR - STRONGS CAMP, DEC. 13, 1902, MYRTLE MINNIE BORN FEB. 15, 1903, HELEN MARTHA BORN JULY 28, 1905, ARTHUR EDWARD BORN MAY 28, 1907, LESLIE LOUIS BORN SEPT. 12, 1909, GLEN LEROY BORN AUG. 12, 1911, GLENORA ROSALIE BORN IN CLYDE COLO. OCT. 14, 1914, KENNETH VALENTINE BORN IN CLYDE COLO. MARCH 26, 1916, BARBARA EDITH BORN IN CLYDE COLOR. MARCH 26, 1918, ROBERT LEROY BORN IN CLYDE COLO. FEB. 4, 19.

MINNIE PASSED AWAY JULY 17, 1926 IN COLORADO SPRINGS, COLO. AGE 48, IS
BURIED IN EVERGREEN CEMETARY.

ISADORE WILLIAM MEYERS PASSED AWAY MAY  , 1961 AGE 85, AT MANITON,
COLO. IS BURIED IN EVERGREEN CEMETARY.ALVA ISADORE PASSED AWAY OCT. 3, 19? AT TUCSON, ARIZ., IS BURIED IN VICTOR CEMETARY, AGE 56, GLEN LEROY PASSED AWAY DEC. ?, 1913, AGE 2 YEARS 4 MONTHS, AT GOLDFIELD COLO. IS BURIED IN VICTOR CEMETARY, BARBARA EDITH PASSED AWAY MARCH 24, 1966, AND IS BURIED IN OREGON, AGE 48.

THE FATHER VALENTINE GOEGLEIN PASSED AWAY WITH PNEUMONIA IN 1923 IN PRESCOTT, ARIZONA AND IS BURIED THERE.

SOME TIME LATER THE SON EDWARD AND HIS MOTHER MOVED TO LOS ANGELES, CALIF. WHERE THE SON WILLIAM AND HIS FAMILY WERE LIVING, WILLIAMS FAMILY CONSISTED OF: 2 BOYS MYRWEDL, AND MELVIN, 2 DAUGHTERS BARBARA AND SHIRLEY DIED WHEN BABIES.

AFTER A NUMBER OF YEARS IN LOS ANGELES THE SON EDWARD MARRIED A WIDOW, A MRS. LOTTIE DILLEY, SHE HAD A SON GLEN AND DAUGHTER ELTHEL WHO BOTH MARRIED WHEN GROWN.

VALENTINES WIFE BARBARA LIVED WITH THE SON ED. AND HIS WIFE FOR AWHILE THEN WITH HER DAUGHTER LENORA IN RENO NEVADA, THEN WHILE LIVING WITH HER SON WALTER AND HIS FAMILY AT FLAGSTAFF, ARIZ. PASSED AWAY IN 1937, 1938.

HER BODY WAS BROUGHT TO PRESCOTT, ARIZ, AND BURIED NEXT TO HER HUSBAND VALENTINE, SHE WAS 89.

WILLIAM GOEGLEIN PASSED AWAY IN WICKENBURG, ARIZONA AND IS BURIED IN PRESCOTT, ARIZ.EDWARD HENRY GOEGLEIN PASSED AWAY AT LOS ANGELES, CALIF.

MAGGIE CONRAD PASSED AWAY AT

THE STORY OF PETER SAVAGE

THE FIRST WE KNEW OF PETER SAVAGE IS THAT HIS GRANDPARENTS LIVED AT
ALSACE-LORRAIN IN FRANCE, AND DURING THE WAR WHEN GERMANY TOOK THIS PART OF FRANCE IT THEN BECAME GERMANY.PETER SAVAGE'S GRANDPARENTS AS WELL AS HIS PARENTS, WERE NOW IN GERMANY EVEN THOUGH THEY ARE FRENCH.

PETERS GRANDPARENTS AND PARENTS PASSED AWAY THERE (NOW GERMANY).

PETER HAD A BROTHER, ALANZO, THESE TWO BOYS LIKE THEIR FATHER AND
GRANDFATHER WORKED IN THE COAL MINES.WHEN PETER WAS 18 YEARS OLD AND THE BROTHER A YEAR YOUNGER, THEY CAME TO THIS COUNTRY LANDING IN NEW YORK.

(PETER SAVAGE WAS BORN IN 1813, COMING TO THIS COUNTRY AT THE AGE OF 18 IN 1831, HE DIED AT THE AGE OF 85 IN 1898 AT FLORENCE COLO.)

PETER AND HIS BROTHER LATER WENT TO PENNSYLVANIA AND WORKED IN THE COAL MINES, IN A FEW YEARS THEY WENT TO POMEROY, OHIO.THERE PETER MET A MISS MARGARETHA GOEGLEIN*, THEY WERE MARRIED AND HAD 11 CHILDREN, THEIR NAMES ARE: 
VAL, BARBARA, GEORGE, CONRAD, LIZZIE, MARY, MAGGIE, TILLIE, PETE, HENRY, AND KATIE. *Peter was on same immigrant ship as the Daniel Goeglein family

THESE CHILDREN WHEN GROWN WERE MARRIED, ALL BUT HENRY, HE NEVER
MARRIED.

LIZZIE AND MARY MARRIED THE SMITH BROTHERS AND LIVED IN ST. LOUIS MO.  THESE TWO SMITH BROTHERS WERE IN BUSINESS IN ST. LOUIS, THEY HAD A BUTCHER SHOP THERE FOR MANY YEARS.

MAGGIE MARRIED A MR. HUBER AND THEY LIVED IN STREATOR, ILL. TILLIE CAME TO DURANGO, COLO. WHERE HER SISTER BARBARA GOEGLEIN LIVED WITH HER FAMILY.TILLIE MET AND MARRIED JIM NICHOLAS, THEY WENT TO BUTTE MONTANA.PETE STAYED IN POMEROY, OHIO, GEORGE AND VAL WENT TO FORT WAYNE, IND.CONRAD LIVED IN MICHIGAN.

ALL OF THE CHILDREN HAD FAMILIES OF THEIR OWN, AND THEY SEEMED TO
SETTLE THROUGHOUT THE EAST.