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Myrta Ann Nims Fritz

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Birth	:	7 Jul 1874 Marshalltown, Marshall County, Iowa, USA
Death	:	9 Jan 1928 Fort Collins, Larimer County, Colorado, USA
Burial	:	Grandview Cemetery, Fort Collins, Larimer County, USA
Coordinate	:	40.5875015, -105.1121979
Plot	:	G G 104 4
Description	:	Myrta Ann Nims was born in Marshall Iowa to William Archer Nims and Martha E Smith Nims on July 7 1874. She was the eldest of 8 children. She married Simon Ellsworth Fritz in Dec. 6 of 1891 in Iowa. They began their family and moved with Simon's brothers by train cars to Wellington Colorado where they had purchased what appeared to be a flourishing farm with a dairy and 2 story house. When the family arrived with their 6 young children, all their belongings and animals, they found they had been swindled. The farm was on a dry-land (desert)... Read More	Myrta Ann Nims was born in Marshall Iowa to William Archer Nims and Martha E Smith Nims on July 7 1874. She was the eldest of 8 children. She married Simon Ellsworth Fritz in Dec. 6 of 1891 in Iowa. They began their family and moved with Simon's brothers by train cars to Wellington Colorado where they had purchased what appeared to be a flourishing farm with a dairy and 2 story house. When the family arrived with their 6 young children, all their belongings and animals, they found they had been swindled. The farm was on a dry-land (desert) with no well water and only a 2 room house. Myrta made the best of things and helped Simon make the farm run until they could move closer to Fort Collins to a better place, the "Plummer Farm" next door to a school on the corner of Vine Drive and what is now Timberline Road. Her oldest son and his family built and moved into a house nearby, but when she watched a tornado take that house, Myrta had this son's family (who had been safely hiding in a ditch) move in with hers. This enterprising woman helped work the dairy, kept house, cooked, cleaned and made her family's clothing (including quilts.) She made butter which she sold to restaurants in Fort Collins. Myrta gave birth to 15 children, the last were twins. All but baby Alice lived to adulthood and married. Myrta succombed to complications of breast cancer when her youngest child was 5 years old. (January 8, 1928) She and Simon had 19 grandchildren. Myrta's children (and grandchildren) were very close and gathered together to support each other and celebrate family events until the last child had passed away. "Her children arise and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praises her."

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Myrta Ann Nims Fritz's memorial is located at: Grandview Cemetery, Fort Collins, Larimer County, USA.
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Myrta Ann Nims Fritz death on 9 Jan 1928 in Fort Collins, Larimer County, Colorado, USA
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Latitude: 40.5875015
Longitude: -105.1121979

Family Members:

Parent

William Archer Nims

(1852 - 1931)

Martha E. Smith Nims

(1855 - 1934)

Spouse

Simon Ellsworth Fritz

(1867 - 1953)

Siblings

Laura Elva Nims Hall

(1876 - 1952)

Eli Smiley Nims

(1878 - 1931)

Lena Addie Nims Moore

(1880 - 1958)

Althea Omega Nims Norton

(1884 - 1981)

Arthur W. Nims

(1887 - 1977)

Stella C. Nims Anderson

(1890 - 1972)

Children

Charles De Los “Charley” Fritz

(1892 - 1983)

Ellis Clay Fritz

(1904 - 1981)

Sgt Arlie B Fritz

(1909 - 1983)

Alice Fritz

(1915 - 1915)

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