Jul 12, 1884: Aspen Weekly Times, Aspen, Pitkin County, Colorado (pg 4):
Misses. Della and Ora Chatfield spent the Fourth and several days of this week visiting friends in Aspen.
Following article may or may not be about this Ora. BUT with an unusual forename and birth years being the same it could! Ora married in 1898 but she was subsequently divorced!
Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser (Grafton, NSW : Tuesday 17 September 1889)
An EXTRAORDINARY ELOPEMENT.-Elopements of persons of opposite sexes are common enough all the world over, but did you ever (asks the New York correspondent of the Melbourne Age) hear of two of a kind that fell in love and ran away? Such a thing has actually happened out in Colorado where two girls, aged respectively 24 and 16 years, have fallen madly in love with each other, and in consequence of parental opposition tb their living together, have taken themselves to parts unknown. They are Miss Ora Chatfield and Miss Clara Dietrich, the latter the older of the twain. Love letters of the most gushing character have passed between them. and. a few days ago, when the two were ruth- lessly separated, the latter had a severe attack of nervous prostration, and neither would be comforted. What makes the case more interesting is that both are women of intelligence, and not at all given to novel-reading or romantic ideas in general. Miss Dietrich was the keeper of the post office in the town where they lived, and the success- ful manager of a general store which she inherited from her father, who died a few years ago. The younger woman's father has been the cruel parent who endeavoured to separate the lovers ; he has caused warrants to be issued for the arrest of both with a view of investigating their sanity, but, up to date, has been unable to find them. It is often enough the case that school girls have a sentimental attachment for each other, but it does not take the shape of the present case, which seems to be out of the ordinary run.
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USA Census, 1900
Name: Ora L Shaw
Event Place: Redbank, Spring Creek, Tensleep, Hyattville, Bonanza Precincts, Big Horn, Wyoming
Gender: Female
Age: 27
Marital Status: Married
Race: White
Race (Original): W
Relationship to Head of Household: Wife
Number of Living Children: 1
Years Married: 2
Birth Date: Jul 1873
Birthplace: Nebraska
Marriage Year (Estimated): 1898
Father's Birthplace: Ohio
Mother's Birthplace: Illinois
Mother of how many children: 1
Household Role Gender Age Birthplace
Charles Shaw Head M 41 Iowa
Ora L Shaw Wife F 27 Nebraska
Charles E Shaw Jr. Son M 1 Wyoming
Ed Lockhard Laborer M 32 Iowa
Albert Keyes Laborer M 31 Maine
Victor Simpson Laborer M 22 Kansas
Tony Dixon Laborer M 24 New York
Sam Lee Laborer M 45 China
District: 69 , Sheet Number and Letter: 6B , Household ID: 113 , Line Number: 59 , Affiliate Name: The U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) , Affiliate Publication Number: T623 , GS Film Number: 1241826 , Digital Folder Number: 004120652 , Image Number: 00307
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USA Census, 1920
Name: Ora C Shaw
Event Place: Los Angeles Assembly District 72, Los Angeles, California
Gender: Female
Age: 39
Marital Status: Married
Race: White
Can Read: Yes
Can Write: Yes
Relationship to Head of Household: Head
Birth Year (Estimated): 1881
Birthplace: Nebraska
Father's Birthplace: Ohio
Mother's Birthplace: Illinois
District: 331 , Sheet Number and Letter: 4B , Household ID: 96 , Line Number: 65 , Affiliate Name: The U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) , Affiliate Publication Number: T625 , GS Film number: 1820112 , Digital Folder Number: 004293712 , Image Number: 00539
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USA Census, 1930
Name: Ora Shaw
Event Place: Los Angeles (Districts 0251-0500), Los Angeles, California,
Gender: Female
Age: 56
Marital Status: Divorced
Race: White
Relationship to Head of Household: Lodger
Birth Year (Estimated): 1874
Birthplace: Nebraska
Father's Birthplace: Illinois
Mother's Birthplace: Ohio
Affiliate Film Number: 146
Household Role Gender Age Birthplace
Seth I Terry Head M 71 Connecticut
Myron W Terry Son M 30 Colorado
Ruth M Terry Daughter-in-law F 26 Utah
Rae W Kunz Lodger F 50 Illinois
Ora Shaw Lodger F 56 Nebraska
Plus many others.
