Rose Mary Echo Tabor

Abstract

Postcard showing Rose Mary Echo (Silver Dollar), who was born in 1889. She was the daughter of Horace Tabor, a wealthy silver mine owner and community leader in Leadville, and his second wife, Elizabeth McCourt Doe (Baby Doe). As a young child, she lived a life of luxury. Silver Dollar and her sister, Elizabeth Bonduel Lillie, were often dressed in outfits that cost a thousand dollars each. But poor investments and the crash of the silver market in 1893 depleted the Tabors' wealth. After her father's death in 1899, Silver Dollar lived in poverty with her mother, first in rooming houses in Denver and then in a cabin at the Matchless Mine in Leadville. In 1914, Silver Dollar left Leadville to live on her own, but she became a prostitute and was scalded to death in Chicago in 1925.