Katie (Joe’s mother) – The Sharmers

A Night Train to Denver

After Katie died in 1907, the family story goes, her children were spirited away to Denver before anyone could take them, or her money.

The 1898 and 1907 Sidney newspapers on the deaths of Joe’s father, “Uncle Joe” Sharmer, and his mother, Katie O’Connor Sharmer.

As a baby he couldn’t pronounce “Josephine,” so his big sister became Dodie.

All I can think of is you — How we went to Merced, either to the show or for dinner and how we shopped together.

I saw Aunt Lizzie & her children for the first time … She is 72 and a dead ringer for Mama.

All of the cattle commonly referred to as “Sharmer cattle,” are and have been the property of my wife Katie Sharmer.

A little ruby glass pitcher engraved “K. Sharmer” and “Midwinter Fair 1894,” from San Francisco’s first world’s fair.

Twelve months after date we promise to pay to the order of James R. Williams One Hundred and Fifty Dollars.