SAMUEL TILDEN STARK

 

Samuel Tilden Stark and Effie Elizabeth Baxter were married 20 May 1903 in El Dorado Springs, Missouri.

 

They moved to Wyoming in the early 1900s. Sam and Effie homesteaded a ranch at Silver Creek east of Boulder, Wyoming. They moved there with their three small daughters. Sam taught school and worked the ranch. Effie was busy raising the children. They had two sons at Silver Creek. About 1918 they moved to Rock Springs so the girls could go to high school in Rock Springs. Sam continued to teach in Rock Springs. He also began to sell insurance and real estate. They kept their ranch at Silver Creek. In January of 1920 their two sons died from the influenza. In February of 1921 they had another son. Sometime in the mid 1930s they bought another ranch outside of Boulder, Wyoming. They moved back to this ranch. Sam continued to ranch and sell real estate. Effie became involved with the social circle of Boulder and Pinedale. Their son Ernest graduated from Pinedale high school in 1939. Sam and Effie continued to live on the Boulder ranch until 1950. They moved to a ranch south of Lander, Wyoming later that year. They later moved to Lander and had a boarding home. Effie died 1959 and Sam died in 1966.

 

If you want to know more about Sam and Effie you can go to Ancestry.com. Pull down the search tab and do a search on Wyoming.  Click on the Wyoming newspaper archives of the Pinedale Roundup. I have found them as early as 1908 through 1959. This was a local paper that was published weekly, so you find them almost every week during this period.

 

I also found Sam on the 1900 US census living in Virgil township in Vernon County with his parents James W. and Amanda M. Stark. This shows that he was a school teacher for the county. If you look at this census page your will see that it was taken June 9, 1900, and Sam was the enumerator.

 

These notes where written by their grandson, Dale H. Stark, dated July 25, 2009

 

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