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Studio photograph of Ella Rose Berger Lewis, posed with her hand on a metal pitcher. Ella married Thomas E. Lewis on March 3, 1907, in Grand Junction and moved to Eagle in 1915.
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Tom and Ella Lewis, standing in front of a house.
Thomas "...was born in Broadtop, Pa., Oct. 12, 1872 and came to Boulder, Colorado as a young man. For a time he managed a store at Erie before coming to Western Colorado and entered the mercantile business at Palisade with the J. W. Hugus Co. There he met Miss Ella Rose Berger, a clerk at the old Fair Store in Grand Junction. The couple was married March 3, 1907 and eight years later came to Eagle."...
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Studio portrait of Rosamond Skiff Coombs and Harvey N. Coombs.
Eagle Valley Enterprise Dec. 3, 1948 p.1: "Mr. Coombes [sic.] was one of the early settlers of Eagle county, coming in with the laying of the railroad following the work from Red Cliff to Gypsum. In Gypsum he met and married Rosamund M. Skiff on Dec. 11, 1895, and the couple spent their married life together in Eagle and Garfield counties."
Mr. Coombs was buried in Fairview Cemebery...
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Photo postcard of "C. J. Kaho & his chicken, 1917."
Eagle Valley Enterprise Dec. 20, 1918, p.1: "Mrs. Marguerite Elizabeth Kaho, daughter of F. B. Cowden, passed away at the Emergency hospital in Grand Junction on the night of December 12. She was born in Osage City, Kan., on August 27, 1900, and came to Eagle when two years of age, residing here or in Gypsum the greater part of her life.
On the 17th of last September, she was united in marriage...
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Left to right, top: Clarine, Leah, and Lola. Bottom: Frances, Blanche and Hazel.
"Frank and Blanche Tracy and six daughters.
Leah Tracy was born on Jan. 25, 1897, in Guthrie Center, Iowa. She was married Sept. 7, 1919, to Raymond Clarence Staley in Gypsum.
Clarine Tracy was born Feb. 12, 1900, in Marble, Colorado. She died Dec. 17, 1915, in Salida, Colorado, and is buried in Cedar Hill Cemetery, Gypsum.
Lola Tracy was born on Oct. Oct. 31, 1901,...
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Studio portrait of Jim and Melior Vigil taken during the Christmas season in 1979. They were still living in Red Cliff and the photo was taken in Grand Junction during a visit with their daughter, Eleanor.
"Their home was adjacent to Our Lady of Mount Carmel Catholic Church, a location that lent itself nicely for maintaining an 'open door' policy for the various priests that served the Red Cliff community. Their faith-life was precious to them as...
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[Information taken from "The Margaret A. Downing Branch of the Lauffer Family," prepared by Blanche Tracy Kyes in June 1989, and provided by John Flynn.]
Ma: Margaret A. Lauffer, married on Sept. 20, 1872, to James Madison Downing in Guthrie County, Iowa.
Pa: James "Jim" Madison Downing, born in Cedar County, Iowa, and died March 21, 1937, in Marble, Colorado. "Jim Downing, considered to be one of the 'most fearless' bear hunters in the Rockies."...
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Rob and Tillie Phillips, dressed up and standing outside. Tillie Phillips taught at Derby Mesa School until it closed.
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Elizabeth Spencer and her husband, with Buddy Spencer at leaft and Martha Fox Spencer at right. Mrs. Spencer taught the upper grades at Burns School District #9 in 1954-55. Her husband drove the school bus. They adopted the Fox girls.
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C.1886: Studio portrait of William Finley Cole and Mary Johnson Cole. Mrs. Cole is standing with her left hand on Mr. Cole's shoulder. He is seated with hands on lap. Both are dressed formally.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
