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Anna Blythe Speas
Anna Blythe Speas (c. 1869 - July 6, 1898) was a young woman whose life story and early death became a subject of legend in the small community of Como in Park County in central Colorado.
==Background==
In 1884, the teenaged Anna Blythe met Sam Speas, a young railroad employee who lived at the boardinghouse in Boulder, Colorado, which was owned by Anna's mother, Mary Jane Blythe, and operated by Anna's sister and brother-in-law, Nellie and Joe McCabe. Sometimes called the "Belle of Boulder", Anna was tall and shapely and had wavy black hair and aquamarine eyes. Many young men in Boulder sought to court her. At seventeen on September 30, 1886, Anna married Sam Speas in Boulder; he was eleven years her senior. After a number of months, the young couple moved to Como, where Speas was promoted to engineer of the Denver, South Park and Pacific Railroad, which was sold at foreclosure proceedings in 1889 to the Denver, Leadville and Gunnison Railway. Speas was often away from home on railroad business. As a housewife, Anna may have had difficulty adjusting to Como and turned to alcohol. The couple had three babies, all of whom died shortly after birth and are interred with a common marker at the Como Cemetery.〔Laura King Van Dusen, "The Short, Tragic Life of Anna Blythe Speas: Belle of Boulder, Suspected Criminal in Como, Dead in Denver at Twenty-eight", ''Historic Tales from Park County: Parked in the Past'' (Charleston, South Carolina: The History Press, 2013), ISBN 978-1-62619-161-7, pp. 113-125.〕
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