Lizzie McCourt Doe Tabor, aka Baby Doe
Silver Dollar grew up under the shadow of her mother's beauty and the scandal of her parents marriage. Her older sister, Lily, was so horrified by this legacy she left Leadville to live with relatives and never looked back. When Silver moved to Denver the Tabor name got her into the Denver Post but kept her in the relatively low level job of reporting on society ladies. This may have been one reason she began living under different names. But it doesn't fullly explain why she moved so often. In her letters, available at the Colorado Historical Society in Denver along with over 12,000 pieces of documentation, it's possible to put together a sad scenario of Silver's adult life. Silver did not return to Leadville but did continue her correspondenc with her mother up until her death in September 1925. Although Baby Doe appeared to most of society by that point as being penniless, she always managed to scrap together some money for her daughter who seemed to continually need help with medical bills of one kind or another, never fully specified in her letters to her mother.
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