COLLECTION NAME:
Wyoming State Archives WPA Federal Writers Project Files
Record
Title:
Wyoming WPA Biographical File regarding Dewey Mortimore
Collection Name:
WPA Collection
Collection Number:
WPA Bio 1165
Item Description:
Mortimore, Dewey - Biographical information for Dewey G. "Mote" Mortimore; "Dewey Mortimore Kills Parent for Beating Brother", Western Newspaper Uion News Service, Bridger Valley Enterprise, Mar. 2, 1915
Date:
Undated
Notes:
born: 1898
Notes:
Feb. 18, 1915: father died at a hospital in Casper (Natrona Co., Wyo.)
Notes:
Mortimer, Mrs. Elsie M. (wife, born: 1900 - married: ? - died: 1988 - buried: Altoona Cemetery at Hitchcock, S. D.)
Notes:
died: 1972 (age: 73-74) in Beadle Co. (S. D.)
Notes:
buried: Altoona Cemetery (Memorial ID: 154663880) at Hitchcock (Beadle Co., S. D.)
Notes:
resident, Casper (Natona Co., Wyo.)
Notes:
member of Casper's world record setting wall scaling team (1915)
Notes:
graduate of Casper High School
Notes:
Feb. 16, 1915: Mortimore, A. S., "wealthy rancher", beat subject's oldest brother (Glenrock, Converse Co., Wyo.)
Notes:
when father Silas Mortimore failed to stop, subject put .30-.30 rifle bullet in his head
Type:
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