Officer Down Memorial Page

Rest in Peace, Night Marshal Neese. Your sacrifice is not forgotten.

Officer 11169
January 25, 2012

Night Marshal Neese - Almost 90 years later, your name was read off in the State Assembly chamber last week, in anticipation of next month Police Memorial Week. You are not forgotten. Thanks for your service to the people of Cripple Creek and the state of Colorado. May God grant you eternal rest and may His perpetual light shine upon you.

Chief K. Moreland (Ret. Sgt.)
Palmer Lake, CO PD (Ret. LAPD)
April 29, 2010

Harvey Calvin Neese was my great-uncle. Although I never knew him, I had heard the family legend of the four Neese brothers from Coffee County, TN who went to Cripple Creek, Co during the 1890's in search of gold. Two stayed and two returned to Tennessee. From all accounts, Cal Neese was an honest, decent, hard-working man whose memory was lost to history. Only his family remembered and kept his story alive. Letters, pictures, and other memorabilia came into my possession from my Aunt. These treasures had been in my Grandmother's trunk for almost a hundred years. I am so pleased that Cal's memory did not die that fateful day on Bennett Avenue in Cripple Creek and that he will be remembered as the hero he was. I know that he would be honored to be remembered on this website, along with other heroic peers.

Shirley Farris Jones
Great niece
October 21, 2009

Marshal Neese,
It has taken over 89 years, but you are finally being honored. I would just like to say thank you for your service and sacrifice for the citizens of Cripple Creek.

R.I.P.
USBP

Anonymous
October 20, 2009