HAZARD, James Glann

Obit taken from the Saguache Crescent 11 SEP 1913: James Glann Hazard was born Aug 24, 1840 at Hazardville* near Great Bend, Susquehanna County, Penn., and died at Saguache, Colo., Sept 6, 1913, being past 73 years of age. The remains were laid to rest beside those of his oldest son in the Saguache cemetery Sunday afternoon, the Masonic order--of which he had been a member since 1879-taking charge of the services, as had been his often expressed wish during his life. Mr. Hazard grew to manhood in Pennsylvania and New York and was united in marriage to Marry L Stottard* Nov. 12, 1865. To this union was born three childrenn, James Henry, George William and Cora Myrtle. Mr. Hazard's early life was spent in the lumber woods and logging camps of the Susquehanna river until 1874, when he came to Denver for his wife's health, but it did not improve and he returned to Binghamton, N.Y., where she died Oct. 4, 1874, the daughter having passed away shortly before. The oldest son died in Saguacche in April, 1877. In the spring of 1875 he returned to Denver and took a government job and drove ox teams across the country to the Los Pinos Indian Agency, where he spent the summer and fall. He then went back east and in the spring of 1876 he came to Saguache, bringing his two sons with him, and engaged in farming and mining until 1889, when he moved to the Montezuma Valley, where he took up a homestead near Cortez and spent about eighteen years of his life. He then sold out and returned to Saguache County, spending the remainder of his days in Saguache and Bonanza. He married Mrs. Moon in 1884, but after a short time they seperated. He was a frontiersman in every sense of the word, being here during the Leadville and bonanza excitements and endured many hardships. Mr. Hazard was stricken with apeplexy the first of last June, while stopping in Bonanza, and was brought to the home of his son, George, where he had the best care which an experienced physician and a trained nurse could give him. he was unconscious for about six weeks, when he began to improve, and it was thought for a while that he was going to get around again, but it was not to be, and he rapidly grew worse from that time until the end, which came about 6:30 o'clock last Saturday evening. He leaves, besides his sone here, one brother and three sisters-John L. Hazard, Mrs. O. A Tuttle, Mrs. E. Egleston and Mrs. P. Green - living near Great Bend, Penn., and another sister-Mrs. J. H. Brenner-living at Sioux City, Iowa. *Notes: The items above marked with * have additional information: Hazardville* was the original name for Blatchley, NY in Broome County; named for the brothers Edward, John B and Hiram Hazard, who settled there about 1817, with their father Edward Sr.; Stottard* is a misspelling for Stoddard. (Obit scanned and available upon request.)