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She was born to Chalmer and Mabel Hargis in Ovid, Colorado. The family moved to California shortly after her birth, but missed true winters and so returned to Colorado. Margaret grew up in the Fruitvale area of Mesa County. She attended the Fruitvale School and graduated from the Ross Business College. She became a bookkeeper for Up-To-Date Cleaners, a job she kept for 40 years. U.S. Census records from 1940 show her occupation as housekeeper. She...
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Fruitvale School District 28, originally part of Allen District 13, was founded in 1895. The District constructed a one-room school house in 1897, and a larger school house sometime between then and 1917. In 1911, the District added a high school curriculum, and then a junior high curriculum in 1915. It enlisted the help of the WPA to build a high school in 1936. In 1946, the Fruitvale District consolidated with Clifton District 43 and Pear Park District...
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Husband of Lucy (Ferril) Ela.
Wendell Dennett Ela was born at 640 Rood Avenue in Grand Junction, Colorado to Wendell Phillips Ela and Lucy Abby (Drake) Ela. His first childhood home, adjacent to the Excelsior Laundry, was later sold to the Daily Sentinel and torn down, although the pear tree the family had planted stayed alive for many years.
His father was an early pioneer of the Glade Park area, the mayor of Grand Junction, and a longtime...
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She was born in Nebraska to Frank A. Berg and Mary Berg, Swedish immigrants. They moved to a homestead in the Highpoint area north of Fruita, Colorado in 1894, just after the Panic of 1893. Emma was two years old. Her father planted fruit orchards.
In addition to their fruit orchard, her family had dairy interests and delivered butter to various customers. Nagel also sold butter from a milk-products cart (25¢ per pound of butter or gallon of buttermilk)....
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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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Howard Shults talks about his career as an auctioneer in Mesa County, Colorado. He also discusses the history of people, places and businesses throughout the county, including the Cross Orchard and the Vernon Z. Reed Ranch. Shults’ wife, Helen Shults, gives her occasional insight. The interview was conducted by the Mesa County Oral History Project, a collaboration of Mesa County Libraries, the Museums of Western Colorado and the Mesa County Historical...
29) Howard M. Shults
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Howard M. Shults was born, along with his identical twin Harold, in a log cabin north of Loma in 1905. His parents, James F. Shults and Daisy G. (Hosey) Shults, had come to the Grand Valley in 1902 after graduating from a teacher college in Springfield, Missouri. They married in Clifton, Colorado in 1904. They taught in the Pear Park School before moving west in the Grand Valley. His father eventually became involved in the auctioneering business.
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Ruth Hoffman talks about her teen and young adult years spent packing fruit for Cross Orchards and other farms in Mesa County, Colorado. She describes the work involved in fruit packing, lighting smudge pots, picking fruit, the change in the kinds of jobs women did on the farm over time, and life on the farm. The interview was conducted by the Mesa County Oral History Project, a collaboration of the Mesa County Public Library and the Museum of Western...
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Richard Williams talks about his family’s arrival in Grand Junction, Colorado in 1908. He speaks about his father’s purchase of the Independent Abstract Company and about his own involvement with several abstract and title companies in town. He discusses the formation of the Grand Junction Lions Club, the Grand Junction Lions Club Carnival, and the club’s fundraising for Grand Junction Junior College and other local causes. He speaks about his...
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Thelma West shares stories about her time working as a cook for the men building the railroad line between Denver and Craig with authors Jim Anderson and Pat Keena.
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Leo Coyner describes his life growing up on a homestead in Clark, playing sports for Steamboat Springs High School, and working as a rancher and a coal miner.
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Ann Stokes talks about her father-in-law Walter Stokes and his involvement in Nineteenth century labor strife as a union coal miner in Colorado. She describes his establishment of the Stokes Mine after he moved to Mesa County and describes the mine’s operations. She speaks about early phone service in Palisade. She discusses her mom’s job as a nurse in rural areas, which included tasks like housecleaning, cooking, and sewing baby clothes for new...
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Glenn McFall talks about his various jobs around Mesa County and about witnessing the unveiling of Christo’s Valley Curtain installation in Rifle Gap. He also discusses fishing and battling snow storms on the Grand Mesa, the deer population around Mesa County, his experiences during childhood growing up in Clifton, the old Midland Trail automobile route, drinking and making bootleg whiskey, Italian-Americans making bootleg wine, the Book Cliff Railway,...
