March 14, 1942 Diary

Saturday, 73rd Day - 292 Days to Follow

Written by Margie Arbuthnot

Regular round of saturday work to day.

Heard of Mr. ? mother's death.

Wallace came out from Boulder with Don. 

The rest of the folks came out this evening & all went to the 

Batchelder program.

Home at 11:30.

Happy Anniversary to William & Mary Arbuthnot

While Margie doesn't mention it, this was the anniversary of Fred's parents on March 14, 1869.  William Carson Arbuthnot (Sr) and Mary Elizabeth Bader lived west of Haystack Mountain.  William had come to the western gold fields that are now apart of Boulder County, arriving on June 20, 1859.  He arrived with his three brothers, a brother-in-law and his father.   Together they mined in the mountains west of Boulder.  After the gold rush, all of the men claimed land around Haystack Mountain, William on the south and southwest side, and the others on the north side and up along Table Mountain.

The Bader family arrived in 1866, after the Civil war when J. George Bader came looking for his brother Nicholas.  He found Nicholas in the Jamestown area where he was mining.  Nicholas settled a year later north west of the town of Niwot, Colorado.

William and Marry were married after they drove to the town of Valmont where the Justice of the Peace lived.  Mr. Allen married the couple and gifted them a piece of cheese that he had made.  I call this the first Haystack Mountain Cheese.  William and Mary made their home along the bank of Left Hand Creek on the south side of Haystack Mountain.  You can get an idea of where they lived by visiting the Haystack Mountain Golf Course, as this is where their first 160 acres was established.  Mary later purchased the mountain.

Mary Elizabeth Bader Arbuthnot
circa 1870
Handp ainted large tintype.

William Carson Arbuthnot, Sr
circa 1870
Hand painted large tin type.

Rocky Mountain News
Marriage announcement of Mary and William Arbuthnot