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A resident of Glade Park, Colorado with a knowledge of local history and archaeological finds.
4) Herman Rowe
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Homesteader in Glade Park, Colorado, who hosted Florence Bryant Walker while she taught at the Glade Park School (1916-17).
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Early farmer and rancher on Glade Park. He was born in Delta, Colorado and moved to Glade Park, Colorado with his parents and siblings to cattle farm and homestead in April 1912.
6) Edna Rowe
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Homesteader in Glade Park, Colorado, who hosted Florence Bryant Walker during her time teaching up in Glade Park (1916-17). According to Walker, Rowe was an excellent homemaker who did much with little.
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Mrs. Floyd Carpenter was a panelist in a Mesa County Historical Society panel on the history of Glade Park in July 1978.
8) Roy George
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Roy George was surveyor for the National Park Service and an acquaintance of Kenneth Thompson of Glade Park, Colorado.
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Sharkey Moore was an old horse trader who tried to work out a deal with Kenneth Thompson of Glade Park, Colorado.
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A member on a Mesa County Historical Society panel that spoke about Glade Park, Colorado history at a program in the 1970’s.
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He was the owner of the Glade Park Store in the early Twentieth century and said by oral history interviewee Glenn McFall to be a benefactor to the land around Glade Park, helping to “carry some men through the Depression.” He married Loda Thirsk, who helped him run the store.
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Elocution teacher at the Sleeper School, a private school in Glade Park that she founded with George Gordon. Mother of Catherine (Saxon) Moore. Wife of John Frank Sleeper.
13) Sarah Eachus
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She moved with her husband and family to a homestead in the Glade Park, Colorado area in the 1890’s, after living in Missouri and Oregon. Born in Ohio.
14) David Eachus
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He moved with his wife and family to a homestead in the Glade Park, Colorado area in the 1890’s, after living in Missouri and Oregon. Born in Ohio in 1865.
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Early longtime resident of Glade Park and wife of George Vernon "Vern" Wood. She was a school teacher who taught at the West End School.
16) [Teresa?] France
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Postmistress of the first Glade Park post office, which was established in 1910. The post office itself was located in what Eva (Wood) Leslie called a "little tar roofed clam shack", which was a little West of where the Glade Park Store currently stands. [Teresa?] lived in a small home next to the post office and eventually sold the post office to the Lawrences, who continued to run it from the same building. She was also the originator of the...
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A schoolteacher born in Ridgeway, Colorado. She moved to Glade Park with her family in the decade of the 1900's. Her father, who had been a miner in Ridgeway, tried his hand at dry farming in Glade Park but did not have success. The family moved several times during Eva's youth, and she attended school in several locations before graduating from Fruitvale High School in 1917. Immediately, she began teaching school in Glade Park and was charged...
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She was born in Oregon to David Eachus and Sarah Eachus. Her father was a farmer and Methodist minister and her mother was a homemaker. When Lilly was two years old, in about 1895, the family moved to the Glade Park area of Mesa County, Colorado. There, David Eachus ministered and the family homesteaded.
The 1910 US Census shows the Eachus family living in Orchard Mesa, when Lilly was 16 years old. Lilly’s occupation is listed as None, with her...
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He was born in Plateau City, Colorado, and moved to the Castle Rock area near Glade Park in 1915, when he was about 4 years old. There, his father homesteaded and dry farmed. The family moved again when they bought land near Coates Creek around 1925. James attended Coates Creek School on Glade Park from 1918 to 1927. He worked as a cowpuncher at a young age, and had many memories of growing up on Glade Park and of social life around the Mesa County...
20) Novie Wells
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A sheep rancher in the Glade Park/Pinon Mesa area in the early Twentieth century. He also worked as a powder man who helped to build Rim Rock Drive over the Monument.
