William Tenbrook Parke (part II)

It helps to look at a putative family tree (as assembled by the Latter-Day Saints, based entirely on census data and perhaps some marriage certificates, so buyer beware) beginning with William Tenbrook Parke's putative father, William Forsyth Parke, to make sense of Colorado newspaper mentions of William Tenbrook Parke.

For example, here is William visiting his nephew Frank in Hot Sulphur in 1908

And here is the sad news of his niece's death back in Valparaiso, Indiana, in 1911

I don't love the fact that she died from tuberculosis, but that was potentially William T. Parke's sister's family's problem, and (potentially) not his.  Given that, at that time, practically everyone with tuberculosis eventually ended up coming west, it neither confirms nor rules out that William left Indiana sometime before 1880 to take up farming in Kansas, and then moved again, sometime around 1890, to take up ranching in Estes Park, in order to slow down TB's progress.  You'll note, or you'll learn to note, that two of W.T. Parke's sister's children, Frank and Agnes, moved out semi-permanently to Hot Sulphur Springs from the Chicago suburbs while still young, and Hot Sulphur was not exactly the hotbed of career advancement. (to be continued)