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She was born in Colorado and lived in the town of Mesa as a girl.
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Evelyn Foster grew up near the town of Mesa, Colorado, attended Mesa College in Grand Junction, then taught school on Georgia Mesa and in the town of Mesa.
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A farmer from Nebraska who lived near the town of Mesa, Colorado. He raised bees and had an apple orchard.
4) Vera Foster
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Vera Foster grew up in the town of Mesa, Colorado and went to Mesa College in Grand Junction. She taught home economics for several years.
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First husband of Dottie Wiley. His parents owned a homestead on the Grand Mesa, which is just above the town of Mesa. The Surrender Tree, where the Ute Indians supposedly tied Arvilla and Josephine Meeker following the Meeker Massacre, was located near the homestead.
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She moved from Missouri to the homestead of her husband Richard Kilburn in the early Twentieth century. They lived in a log cabin just above the town of Mesa on the Grand Mesa. There, she encountered the Surrender Tree, an old cedar tree where the Ute Indians bound the daughter and wife of Nathan Meeker following the Meeker Massacre.
7) Paul Foster
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Paul Foster grew up in the town of Mesa, Colorado, and went to Mesa College in Grand Junction. After he got out of the U.S. Army, he taught agriculture courses in Rifle for nine years before moving to Denver to do the same.
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He came with his wife and family to Colorado from Ohio in 1910, following his son, a photographer, who had settled in the town of Mesa, Colorado. He bought fourteen acres on land two miles west of the Methodist Church in town, and farmed.
9) H.F. Knight
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One of the first ministers of the Mesa Methodist Church, which he helped build in the town of Mesa, Colorado in 1900. He also served the Methodist church in Plateau City in the early Twentieth century. According to oral history interviewee Anna (Barker) Foster, he was much beloved by the people. He wrote poetry as a hobby.
10) John Brown
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A freighter who came from Texas and homesteaded in the Collbran area. According to oral history interviewee Anna (Barker) Foster, John Brown was one of the first settlers in the town of Mesa. He came to the area around 1882 while he was hauling freight between Texas and Montana. On his way from Delta to Collbran, he chanced to see a valley where the town of Mesa is now, and settled there. He donated land for the first school building. He married Elnora...
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She was born to Clarence N. Barker and Frances May Carol (Crowell) Barker in Paola, Kansas. Her father was a farmer. Her mother was a homemaker. The 1900 US Census shows Anna living wither her father, who is listed as a widower, at the age of fifteen.
She taught school for five years in Kansas and then was hired by Dr. A.R. Craig to teach school in Mesa in 1908. She was lured to the area by an increase in pay. Because paper money was scarce, she...
12) Carl Forsman
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He was born to Swedish immigrants in Palisade, Colorado, and moved to near the town of Mesa in 1918. His family lived on a homestead about five miles outside of town. He walked two miles to a school in Plateau Canyon. It was a one room school house with one teacher and 8 children. He worked on his parents’ farm, later as a ranch hand, and then as a shipping clerk.
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She was born to John B. Robinson and Bertha (Brandt) Robinson in the town of Mesa on the Grand Mesa. Her mother died due to complications of the birth. She was raised by Arthur and Mati Johnson. Arthur was a farmer and the son of Swedish and Danish immigrants. Mati was a homemaker. The 1920 US Census shows the family living east of the town of Mesa, when Bertha was eleven. She worked as a clerk in the Lee Prewett Store.
While a teenager, she suffered...
14) A.R. Craig
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Dr. A.R. Craig was president of the Mesa School District 25 in Mesa, Colorado in the early 1900's. According to the article "History rides tall on Lloyd ranch," Craig was a physician who operated a hospital from his home, a frame house on the "old Gasaway place" (Daily Sentinel, May 18, 1975). The Sentinel also states that Craig was the first physician in the Mesa Creek Valley. He hired Anna (Barker) Foster from Kansas for a teaching position in 1908....
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An early 20th century resident of Mesa County's Hunter District and of the Appleton area. She appears to have been born in England as Ana Jane Renwick to parents James Douglass Renwick and Mary Renwick. The 1891 England Census, taken when Nancy was not yet one year old, lists her father’s profession as Fruiterer. Immigration records show that she arrived in Canada with family members in 1906, at the age of sixteen. The family emigrated to the United...
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He was born to Sidney Lloyd and Jessie Irene (Knusen) Lloyd in Palisade, Colorado. His parents came from Overland, Kansas and settled in Palisade in 1887. His father was a fruit farmer and, reputedly, a horse trader. His mother was a homemaker. Dick had two brothers: Merle and Sidney.
His family moved frequently. The 1910 US Census shows the family living in Goshen, Utah on a fruit farm, when Dick was two. According to the article, “History rides...
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Mesa Lakes Resort founder and ski area pioneer. He was born in Colorado to Julian R. Sisac and Amanda Elizabeth (Ross) Sisac. The 1900 Census shows Roy as fourteen years old and living with his parents in the town of Mesa, Colorado, where his dad’s occupation was listed as farmer.
He married Ida Foster on December 29, 1909, and the 1910 Census shows them living and farming in Mesa. By 1920 they had moved to Grand Junction, where they owned a...
18) Ezra D. Stewart
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He was born in Illinois to George W. Stewart and Phebe Ann (Burns) Stewart. His father was a farmer and his mother was a homemaker. US Census records show the family living in Trivoli, Illinois in 1870, when Ezra was seven years old. Phebe Stewart died in 1872. Illinois marriage records show that George Stewart subsequently remarried to Susan Kimsey in 1874.
According to the 1880 US Census, the family was still living in Trivoli when Ezra was 19....
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He was born in Palisade, Colorado to Roy Raymond Sisac and Ida L. (Foster) Sisac. He grew up in Grand Junction, Colorado and in the town of Mesa. The 1920 US Census shows the family living at 719 N. 6th Street, when Russel was 8 years old. At that time, his father and uncle owned and operated a grocery store at 2nd Street and Colorado Avenue. His father also ranched.
He graduated from Grand Junction High School in 1930. While in school her participated...
