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Resource Number: 5BL8023
<br />Temporary Resource Number: 157508425007
<br />Pine (located less than a block away from the Barker home at 801 Pine). The Miners Trading Company building was
<br />demolished in the early 1900s due to subsidence. Barker was also remembered as having worked in the late 1880s
<br />at the Acme Mine, located not far from the Jefferson Place subdivision at what is now Hutchinson and Roosevelt in
<br />Louisville.
<br />The Barkers are listed in directories for Louisville beginning in 1892. The 1904 directory specifically gives their home
<br />as being at Pine and La Farge, which is the correct description for the location of 801 Pine. In 1916, 1918, 1921,
<br />1923 and 1926, the address for 801 is given as 331 Pine. In 1928 and 1930, the address is given as 209 La Farge. In
<br />1936, the address is given as 339 Pine. By 1943, the address is given as how it is known today, 801 Pine.
<br />The 1920 federal census shows that in addition to John and Emma Barker, John Duffy lived at 801 Pine with his
<br />young daughters, Ethel (age 10) and Katherine (age 5). John Duffy's wife, Rose Dixon, had recently died in 1918,
<br />possibly of influenza. It has been found that Rose Dixon Duffy was the niece of Emma Dixon Barker.
<br />Members of the Duffy family were not the only relatives who lived at 801 Pine with John and Emma Barker. The
<br />Barkers' daughter, Lizzie, had married William Hilton of Louisville's Hilton family in 1904 and moved to be a short
<br />distance away from her parents, to 827 La Farge (no longer extant). Lizzie died in 1918. William Hilton and his sons,
<br />Elmer and Raymon, lived with the Barkers from approximately 1920 to 1930, as shown by census records and
<br />directories. William himself worked as a miner. It can be assumed that Emma Barker helped to raise her grandsons
<br />at 801 Pine.
<br />The Barkers' daughter, Clara, died in 1922. However, their one child (out of five) who survived them, Rose, was to
<br />live nearby starting in 1918, just two houses away at 717 Pine (5BL957) in Louisville. Rose had married George
<br />Albert ("Spot") Hoffmire in 1902. The Hoffmires' children were Albert, Lorene (Pitchford), and Nellie (McGee).
<br />John Barker died in 1936, and Emma died in 1942. In 1942, the house passed on to Rose Barker Hoffmire and it
<br />appears to have been rented out starting at about that time. Residents in the early 1940s were Alec Brown, Jr. and
<br />Mary Brown. In the early 1950s, it was the home of Laverne Thirlaway, who was a cousin to Rose Barker Hoffmire on
<br />the Barker side. In 1956, John and Mary Evenich lived at 801 Pine. Directories from 1958 to 1966 (the last year for
<br />which the Louisville Historical Museum has a directory for Louisville) show that Alvin and Murie Pierce were
<br />residents.
<br />Rose Barker Hoffmire died in 1971. John and Emma Barker's grandchildren, Albert Hoffmire, Lorene Pitchford and
<br />Nellie McGee, conveyed 801 Pine out of the Barker family in 1971.
<br />Sources of Information
<br />Boulder County "Real Estate Appraisal Card — Urban Master," on file at the Carnegie Branch Library for Local History
<br />in Boulder, Colorado.
<br />Boulder County Clerk & Recorder's Office and Assessor's Office public records, accessed through
<br />http://recorder.bouldercounty.org.
<br />Directories of Louisville residents and businesses on file at the Louisville Historical Museum.
<br />Louisville, Colorado building permit files
<br />Census records and other records accessed through www.ancestry.com .
<br />Drumm's Wall Map of Louisville, Colorado, 1909
<br />Sanborn Insurance Maps for Louisville, Colorado, 1893, 1900, and 1908
<br />Louisville, Colorado cemetery records, accessed at http://files.usgwarchives.org/co/boulder/cemeteries/louisville.txt
<br />Louisville Times Centennial Edition, August 17, 1978.
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