TRACT #29 (NORTHERN ½) – MRS. IDA B. SYSTER
Mrs. Ida B. Syster was the 24th signer on the 1940 Incorporation Petition for Federal Heights. She had purchased the northern half of Tract #29 from Florence M. Johnson on September 26, 1933 and, as a landowner, was eligible to sign the petition.
Ida Belle McGee was born in 1865 in Saxton, Pennsylvania to Charles and Anna (Heffner) McGee. In 1867, her only sibling, her brother David, was born.
While living in Pennsylvania, Ida had two children, a daughter, Martha Ann Houston, born in 1884, and a son, Harry Benjamin Houston, born in 1889.
On July 5, 1898, Ida married Samuel Syster in Cripple Creek, Colorado. Samuel had worked in mines in Colorado and Pennsylvania for many years. In the 1910 Federal census, Samuel was out of work and living in Pennsylvania with his sister and brother-in-law. In 1914, Samuel died of “Miner’s Asthma” in Bellwood, Pennsylvania. Ida lived with her son and daughter-in-law in Pennsylvania before moving to Wyoming to live with her daughter Martha and her family during the late 1920s and early 1930s.
On the same day in 1933 that Ida purchased the northern half of Tract #29 on North Federal, her son, Harry Houston, and his wife purchased the southern half of the tract.
After the incorporation of Federal Heights in 1940, Ida lived in Denver. She sold her tract on June 18, 1943 to John and Margaret Lukacey. Ida passed away on October 8, 1946. She is buried in Fairmount Cemetery in Denver next to her son, Harry Houston, and his wife.