The place was Colorado and the mine was called "The Matchless Mine."  The pair had two daughters, Lillie and Silver.  I think it was Silver who became an alcoholic and drug addict and lived with a series of worthless men before dying.  Baby Doe froze to death.  Years earlier she had divorced her first husband, supposedly for visiting a prostitute.  But he had also been a lousy provider and there was some hint she had met Horace Tabor long before her divorce and had followed him to Leadville, possibly attracted by his wealth.  She had also been involved with another man years earlier and some believe a stillborn son had been his.  The fact that she stayed with Horace Tabor though his financial ruin speaks about a deeper character than her earlier history would imply.

Robin

  Pat Hawkins <jhawkins1320@charter.net> wrote:

Baby Doe was the name a rich, older, man gave his young wife after he
divorced his 1st wife to marry miss young stuff. But they must have
been really in love because she stuck with him as his fortunes failed.
He had made his money in mining , I think silver....& when the mines
went bust, so did they . But there was one mine left, maybe he named it
Baby Doe for her, I don't remember...& he pleaded with her to never sell
it & she never did . She live around it ,poorer than a church mouse &
finally died , I think in old age & perhaps by freezing to death , I
don't recall all of the story.
But!! there were a series of restaurants called the Baby Doe
Restaurants, which were' the' places to go when they 1st opened as they
were fashioned as tho you were walking into a mine. There were several
rooms that seated parties to themselves & a few that held a larger crowd
& there was a bar. Each area looked 'old fashioned' with old pictures
& memorabilia bordering on antiques as decorations. Very interesting
place to visit. Ours, unfortunately , didn't have the best of food, it
was merely mediocre, so you went for the atmoshpere not the food , a
death knell for a restaurant, after awhile. Then a woman was kidnapped
from there as she waited for her ride...& women didn't want to go there
at all. Pat Hawkins