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MRS. MARTHA HAGAR CHILCOTT
Abstracted from Colorado Pioneers
in Picture and Story,
by Alice Polk Hill, copyright 1915, number 12 of 200 printed,
page 159
Contributed by: Shirley
Flanagan
THE PIONEERS PICNIC
The far-famed Elitch's Garden became
a beauty spot in the pioneer days. Mrs. Martha Hagar, with her
husband & sons, came to Colorado in the early times &
settled at Empire, where they were constantly in dread of Indians.
The town then was a distributing point of rations for the Utes.
They passed through a period of merciless Indian savageries &
butcheries, and finally, after the death of her husband, Mrs Hagar
moved to Denver. Here she married William Chilcott & for many
years the couple made their home on the property now known as
Elitch'Gardens. . . . On the twentieth day of every June, the
men & women of the Colorado Pioneer Society, with ribbons
and badges on their coats and dresses, enjoy a reunion at Eltich's
Gardens.
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