John Herbert Brosius 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11
General Notes: On the 1900, 1910, 1920, 1930, 1940 and 1950 census Herbert was listed in the community of Austin, Garfield County, Colorado. He was a farmer in the earlier census. In 1950, he was listed as a rancher. In the earlier censuses he was shown as part of his father's household. In 1930, his father was shown as part of his household. By 1940, his father had gone to live in the Winchester Hotel in Rifle, Garfield County, Colorado. Herbert continued to farm. He had completed the 4th year of high school. Herbert was widowed in 1949. In 1950, his youngest son, Herbert Willard, daughter-in-law Gladys, and newborn granddaughter Diana were living with him on the ranch.  During the second world war, Herbert and brother in law Claude George supplied the army with 6 train cars of potatoes from their adjacent farms. They raised a very tender potato called a Double Red McClure---it was delicious to eat and had a lot of flavor. It isn't raised anymore as it had to be harvested by hand because it skinned up so easily. Herbert was well known for the potato and the army heard about it . The big brick house his father John Ellery Brosius had built burned down. This Aug 2010 report is from his son Herbert Willard Brosius: "The house burned down twice--the first time was on my father's birthday--I'm not sure which one-- my mother built a big fire to heat the oven to make him a birthday cake and soot in the chimney caught on fire sending sparks up the chimney and setting a fire on the roof----since it was such a big house we never had a ladder tall enough to get up there to put it out and the house burned down. I must have been 10 or twelve years old as I remember helping J P Richardson rebuild the house. (Note: the 1940 census showed that the house the family lived in was valued at $10. Willard was 11 then. The family was probably living in the log cabin during that time.) The house was burned down again by a guy that had stolen a lot of things out of it. His name was Gerald Lane and I went to school with him. He and his wife were living in the log house at the time and his car was seen by the neighbors as leaving the ranch just before someone saw smoke across the valley and the house was burning. No one was home at the time except him and his wife. The couple had gone to Las Vegas and we never saw them again-- the story is Lane was a gambler and got in trouble there and some one killed him. I think I was working for the oil shale plant and my dad was on a hunting trip down Peance creek when the house was burned down."
Additional Information: • Military Service: as corporal in the US Army Battery "f", 341st Field Artillery Corps, 89th Division, 18 Sep 1917 until 10 Jun 1919, World War I. 15 17  He departed from Boston, Massachusetts on the Laomedon on 22 Jun 1918. He was listed as a corporal with the service number of 2188889. He departed from Brest, France on 16 May 1919 on the Agamemnon. He was listed as a private with the service number of 2188889. He gave his mother Mary L. Brosius as his emergency contact.
John married Clara Margaret George, daughter of Alfred George and Clara Vincent Noble, on 15 Jun 1920 in Rifle, Garfield County, Colorado.1 (Clara Margaret George was born on 15 Feb 1894 in Rifle, Garfield County, Colorado,18 19 died on 7 Nov 1949 in Denver, Denver County, Colorado 10 13 20 and was buried in Rose Hill Cemetery, Rifle, Garfield County, Colorado 10 20 21.) Marriage Notes:  The marriage was performed by H. Ralph Bixel of Rifle, Colorado. The witnesses signing the marriage license were Anis Turner and Jasper George. Fanny Anis Turner was Clara's one-half first cousin. Jasper was her brother.
John next married Elsie Bessie Belle Sherman, daughter of Frederick Samuel Sherman and Mary Isabelle Rogers, on 2 Mar 1952 in Rifle, Garfield County, Colorado. (Elsie Bessie Belle Sherman was born on 14 Mar 1887 in Cuba, Republic County, Kansas,10 22 died on 16 Jun 1971 in Rifle, Garfield County, Colorado 10 22 and was buried in Rose Hill Cemetery, Rifle, Garfield County, Colorado 23.) |