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John Elmer McMillan

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John Elmer McMillan

Birth
Harrison County, Ohio, USA
Death
14 Aug 1945 (aged 82)
Denver, City and County of Denver, Colorado, USA
Burial
Denver, City and County of Denver, Colorado, USA Add to Map
Plot
Block 30, Lot 5, Grave 9
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At the age of 10, John and seven of his siblings left Ohio via covered wagon with their parents. The family spent three years on a farm near Maysville, Missouri, followed by one year near Hutchinson, Kansas. In 1877 the family made their final stop on a claim 3 miles west of, what would later became, the town of Stafford, Kansas.

He received his education at North Point School and later became a barber in Hutchinson, Kansas, where he married his first wife, Alice Melissa Asher, with whom he had three children--Gladys Corrine, Clyde Harold and Lucile Della.

John joined his brother Addie to help build the Santa Fe Railroad from Sterling, Kansas, to Denver, Colorado. Once the line was completed Addie returned home to Kansas while John and Alice remained in Denver. Alice eventually divorced John. He went on to marry two more times with one of those marriages to Luella L (Lucy) Cruse with whom he had a son, Benjamin (Bennie) Fountain McMillan.

John worked on a horse ranch near Manitou Springs, Colorado, for three years. Death came on V-J Day from a coronary thrombosis following a broken hip.
At the age of 10, John and seven of his siblings left Ohio via covered wagon with their parents. The family spent three years on a farm near Maysville, Missouri, followed by one year near Hutchinson, Kansas. In 1877 the family made their final stop on a claim 3 miles west of, what would later became, the town of Stafford, Kansas.

He received his education at North Point School and later became a barber in Hutchinson, Kansas, where he married his first wife, Alice Melissa Asher, with whom he had three children--Gladys Corrine, Clyde Harold and Lucile Della.

John joined his brother Addie to help build the Santa Fe Railroad from Sterling, Kansas, to Denver, Colorado. Once the line was completed Addie returned home to Kansas while John and Alice remained in Denver. Alice eventually divorced John. He went on to marry two more times with one of those marriages to Luella L (Lucy) Cruse with whom he had a son, Benjamin (Bennie) Fountain McMillan.

John worked on a horse ranch near Manitou Springs, Colorado, for three years. Death came on V-J Day from a coronary thrombosis following a broken hip.

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Unmarked Grave; Listed as John E. McMillen

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