| Show d r CHARLES GERVIN DOWD dies at age 86 Charles G G. Dowd DoVid Son of Famous Personality Dies By KERRY ROSS BOREN A pioneer of northeastern Utah is dead Charles Gervin Dowd 86 passed away at Barstow California on March 30 1972 of causes due to yellow jaundice Charles was born September 7 1886 on the ranch of Henry Meeks on upper Henrys Henry's Fork Wyoming a son of Cleophas Cleophas Cleo Cleo- J J. J and Eleanor Rophena Colton Dowd His father Cleophas Dowd is a famous local personality having been associated associated as as- with the Wild Bunch and later became a Deputy U U. U S S. S Marshal Cleophas Cleophas Cleo Cleo- Dowd was murdered on his ranch in isolated Sheep Creek Canyon south of what is now Manila Utah ir in 1898 Charley Dowd was the last living witness to his fathers father's murder CHARLEY DOWD spent his entire youth on Canyon Ranch isolated from all aU but outlaws Indians and wild animals Before Before Be Be- fore he he was ten years of age he could outshoot most men and he was constantly constant constant- ly in and out of adventures A great lover of nature and animals Charley captured and tamed wild bears mountain mountain mountain moun moun- tain lion and other animals indifferent to his own safety He lie numbered among his acquaintances both lawmen and outlaws a good friend having been the well known outlaw Butch Cassidy His father Cleophas Dowd who associated men men in early years was the man who gave the nickname The Sundance Kid to the outlaw Harry Longabaugh CHARLEY DOWD was a witness to the cruel murder of his father on April 11 1989 1989 and he carried carrid the incredible secret within his soul until the death of his elder brother several years ago at which time he dictated his memoirs for publication This book dealing with the life of Charleys Charley's father contains the elements clements of that secret and is soon to tobe tobe tobe be published i. i i Charley left Canyon Ranch soon after his fathers father's death and for the first time saw the outside world lie He had never neverseen neversen neverseen seen sen a city or more than twenty people congregated together and he was terrified terrified terri terri- fied fid by his first train But Charley adapted readily He lie was in Prescott Arizona in 1899 when that city burned down CHARLEY DOWD was a brilliant inventor inventor inventor in in- having havin invented a wheel four-wheel brake a chemical fertilizer and a computer computer computer com com- puter monetary system He lie held the only patent ever issued in the United States on paper currency He had also been a deputy sheriff of San Bernardino California California Cali CaU- fornia for more than fifty years But Buthis Buthis Buthis his first fist love was the desert and prospecting prospecting prospecting pro pro- and his life revolved around both The tragedy of his life liCe was that Charley struck it rich shortly before his death and was married to the girl of his dreams Georgia Blackshaw shaw in the hospital hospital hospital hos hos- pital at at Barstow Their Thir honeymoon lasted lasted lasted last last- ed only seventeen days when Charley was c called away He lie was buried April 3 1972 in the Mountain View Cemetery at at nar Barstow tow California Charles Gervin Dowd is survived by bya a sister Claribel 88 88 of California a sister Mrs Mary Wilkins 81 of Arcadia Arcadia Arca Arca- dia California and a brother James S. S bowd Dowd 83 of or Hinkley California a poet pot as well as several living children with whom he had lost contact |
