I checked Ancestry.com and only one seems to fit for William Abbs

Marriage

07 Jul 1897 • Sterling County, Texas, USA

Residence

1910 • Precinct 23, Routt, Colorado, USA

Marital Status: Married; Relation to Head of House: Head

William M Abbs was born in 1850 in Mississippi. He married Martha Ann Wiley on July 7, 1897, in Sterling, Texas. They had six children during their marriage. He died on November 7, 1925, at the age of 75, and was buried in Rapid City, South Dakota. Seems he was married in Texas and was moving to Colorado while freighting for the railroad…