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Only three ofJoseph Lackner's nine children lived past the age of 21. His third child died <br />at the age of only four months. Next, in a diphtheria epidemic in Louisville in 1892, <br />Lackner's first child and fourth child died within a short time of one another. Boulder's <br />Daily Camera newspaper reported this news and noted that "[t]he parents have the <br />universal sympathy of their community." Others also died at young ages. The three <br />children who lived to be adults were Joseph, Jr., Elfreda, and Marguerite. <br />Using the Boulder County property ownership records together with the Sanborn fire <br />insurance maps for 1893 and 1900, it is clear that Lackner had an earlier saloon that was <br />also by the tracks and near the railroad depot. <br />This detail from the 1893 Sanborn map shows the building behind (to the east of) the <br />Lackner house on Lot 2 of Block C: <br />SJI <br />1 <br />Similarly, the 1900 Sanborn map shows the earlier saloon behind the house, and shows <br />that the tavern at 1006 Pine (which would be built on the east side of Lot 1) had not yet <br />been constructed: <br />