John Leo WHITNEY

                   Obituary notice of her mother.  At the time of her mothers death, she was residing in Cascade, Colorado.B 

E-mail from cousin, Tommie Brett  (tsbrett@aol.com) in Denver, CO 10/17/1999
Hi Ellie,

I have found another of the descendents of Edna and Oliver.  It is a rather  convoluted saga.  I have in my possession a travel journal done in 1930 by my  great grandmother Lena Estelle Beebe Elwell  the daughter of Lucy
Minerva Farnsworth.  She went to Portland to visit Uncle Nathan Farnsworth the brother of Lucy and  the to San Francisco and then to LA  and to Colorado where she visited "  Colorado cousins"  one being Zelpha who collected her at the train depot and  took her to her home through the "beautiful Ute Pass"  I later reread some old postcards and found a series written from 1909 to 1922 between the two  women.  Those written from Colorado were Cascade or Colorado Springs. 
Now postcards have no return addresses and no last names so I was stumped.  I  assumed that Zelpha was a Beebe or and Elwell as I had found  the name in  each of these families,l however, the dates didn't match and so I was
still  stumped.  So I had a file called " Colorado Clues" which I set aside, hoping to fine  out who the "Cousins" were at some time.  I volunteered to do research for  the Colorado Genealogical Society hoping to find the resources to search my  few clues.  Well on my first project I found out who she was although it was  another fortunate  incident which lead me to how we are related to her.  First I reread the postcards and found something which I had totally missed.   In faint pencil on one of the postcards was the name Zelpha Heriot or Hewit.   So, armed with this I checked the 1910 Census and found a Zelpha Hewitt and  husband Albert Hewitt married 9 years and one daughter Mildred Hewitt age 16.   Albert had been married before and Mildred was his daughter.  The 1920
Census had Zelpha Hewitt  Hotel Proprieter, son Whitney age 29 widowed and  daughter Mildred single.  They lived in Cascade CO.  So now I have found her  and I have no ideas how she fits into our family. 
One of the postcards memtions Clifford Beebe died in Cascade CO.  This was  the brother of Lena but doen't explain Zelpha. Another postcard showed a  picture of a rather substantial frame house and Zelpha had written
"This is  my house as it looks now in 1922" 
Last Memorial day week end Ken and I were meeting friends in the Cascade -  Colorado Springs area and had an extra couple of hours and went to Cascade to  see if there was a cemetery and maybe, if so, I could find Cliffords
grave and more clues. Well, we went into one of the tourist shops and I asked about a cemetery.   None there.  People were buried in Colrado Springs or other larger places.  I  was informed that there was a small book published on the history of Cascade  and found the $5.00 book in another shop and in this book was a picture of  the Easthorne Hotel'  we drove past the house and it is now a B & B and I  went in and asked if a Zelpha Hewitt ever lived in the house.  The present  owner said yes from 1913 to 1945 and in the parlor was large very large blow  up of a picture of Zelpha and her son Whitney.  I have a postcard of the same  woman with her step daughter Mildred.  Mildred was probably under 10.  
Ellie we have to leave to meet friends for the football game.  I will hit the  send button and finish this when I get home this evening. 
Love, 
Tommie

Correspondance from Tommie Brett....2/24/01
zerox copy Cold Spring Gazette-Telegraph  July 28, 1947 (Monday)
"Mrs. Zelpha I. Hewitt, Cascad Resident, Dies
Mrs. Zelpha I. Hewitt, Cascade resident for 40 years and former owner of the Easthome Hotel there, died Saturday night in Cascade.
       Mrs. Hewitt was born in Williams County, Ohio
       Following the death of her husband, more than 20 years ago, she continued to operate the Easthome Hotel until two years ago, when she sold it.
       She was a life member of Ruxton chapter, Order of Eastern Star and the Manitou Springs Congregational church.  She is survived by a son, Leo J. Whitney, Arcadia, Calif; a daughter, Mrs. Mildred Canfield, Denver, and two grandchildren.
       Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m, Thursday at the Law drawing room.  The Rev. Owen Kerr officiating.  Burial will be in Evergreen Cemetery."