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He was born to William William Jones and Jannie E. (Sluder) Jones in Bucklin, Kansas. His father was a farmer and Welsh immigrant. His mother was a homemaker born in Missouri. He attended the Eagle School in Bucklin from grades 1 to 8. He later received his GED in Sterling, Colorado.
Because of the Dust Bowl, he moved to the Roan Creek area in August 1938, when he was about 21 years old. The 1940 US Census shows him living in Garfield, County....
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Early Grand Junction druggist, pioneer, and businessman who founded the C. D. Smith Drug Company. He was born in Las Animas, Colorado on August 22, 1879 to Burrel and Amelia (Reynolds) Smith, who traveled from Oberlin, Ohio in 1865. His father was listed by the US Census as a stock-grower and also served as postmaster. In 1882, his father sold some 3,000 head of cattle and his ranch located in the San Luis valley and moved to Gunnison.
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He was a Civil War Veteran, physician, and coroner who came to Grand Junction, Colorado in 1883 to enter into the cattle business.
He was born in Canada, but came to Maine in order to join the 2nd Main Cavalry, so that he could fight for the Union in the Civil War. He came to Colorado in 1880, and was a coroner in Fairplay for a few years. Shortly after coming to Grand Junction, he scouted the area, searching for a suitable place for a cattle...
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Armand de Beque was an early Mesa County resident who lived in De Beque, Colorado his entire life. He was the son of Marie Louise de Lavillette and Wallace A.E. de Beque, a Grand Junction pioneer, early doctor, and the founder of the town of De Beque. Armand attended De Beque High School (1931-1932), St. John’s Military School (1928-1930), Herrick Drama School (1935), Mesa College (1949-1951), and Colorado Teachers College (1953-1954). He married...
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She was born in Fulton, Missouri. She was the wife of Armand de Beque. They married in 1933, and they lived together in De Beque, Colorado for the duration of her life.
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He was born in Stratton, Nebraska to Freidrich Wilhelm “William” Flasche and Marie Katherine “Mary” (Vatz) Flasche. Census records indicate that his father was an immigrant from Germany, and that his mother immigrated from a German settlement in Russia. They were farmers. According to Walter, his father had two wives and families, with one in Germany.
The 1900 US Census shows Walter living with his parents and siblings in Burntwood, Kansas...
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He was born in Missouri to Charles Assa Brunk and Minnie Alice (Weaver) Brunk. His father was a farmer and his mother was a homemaker. The family moved to Mesa County, Colorado and settled in Orchard Mesa in 1908, when Glen was six years old. There, the family farmed fruit.
Glen attended Grand Junction High School. He then received education in highway engineering, mathematics, physics, chemistry, and geometrical drawing from his positions with...
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An inventor, early miner, and processor of oil shale in Western Colorado. He was born in Heights Town, New Jersey to George Edward Brown and Sarah Catherine (Stoney) Brown. His father was a blacksmith and his mother was a homemaker. He married Penelope Chase Hamilton on April 18, 1908. They had a daughter, Penelope, and a son, Harry.
The 1910 US Census shows him working as a tobacco salesman. According to his daughter Penelope, he then owned a...
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He was born in Nebraska to Henry and Laura Galyean and came to De Beque, Colorado in 1906, at the age of 3. There, his father managed a farm. Ralph went to school at the Old Rock School House through the 7th Grade. He was 6'4" and played basketball against area teams for his school. He was a farmer.
10) Walt Carmack
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He was a cowboy who worked in the Plateau Valley area of Mesa County. According to oral history interviewee Walter “Dick” Lloyd, who worked with Carmack, he worked primarily running cattle in the area of Sunnyside Road between Collbran and De Beque. Lloyd also states that Carmack was “an awful boozer at times back in bootleg times,” but that he quit drinking.
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He was a veterinarian in Grand Junction and De Beque, Colorado. He was born in Denver, Colorado to Barney L. Whatley, an attorney, and Gertrude (Thielen) Whatley, a homemaker with a college degree. US Census records from 1930 and 1940 show him living there at the ages of 3 and 13. He attended Colorado State University (then Colorado State College of Agriculture) in 1927, where he received his veterinary degree. He practiced as a veterinarian in both...
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He was born in Aurora, Colorado to George Franklin Weaver and Susan Henderson Weaver. He was a farmer. He married Frieda Waver in 1941. They Farmed in Elk Springs. He had to quit farming due to his arthritis, and went to work as a janitor in a uranium mill, a job he kept for eight years. The family came to De Beque in 1960.
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Harry Godby’s wife. They met in Nevada and were married in 1928. They moved to DeBeque, Colorado to live on a little farm after marriage.
14) Pete Lapham
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A De Beque resident who worked in the cattle business. According to oral history interviewee Morgan Goss, Lapham had a feud with a man named Hiram, and Hiram shot him in the jaw at a pool hall on Main Street in Grand Junction, Colorado.
According to rancher Donald “Don” Rogers, Lapham’s beef was actually with a man named Irey Walck. Lapham threatened to kill Walck when they saw each other in the Pastime Café on Main Street in Grand Junction....
15) Dave Knight
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According to oral history interviewee Charles Burg, who broke horses with Knight and camped with him, Knight’s mother was a Cherokee Indian from Oklahoma, and he continued with many traditional ways, including use of the soap weed’s root as a dishrag, and the use of a “stockade” corral constructed from horizontal and vertical poles. He also used Mormon Tea to brew a kind of tea. Burg describes Knight as tall and dark with black hair. He probably...
16) Albert Humeston
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He was born in Humeston, Iowa. He married Ida Van Derley on June 25, 1902, and they moved to Collbran, Colorado in February of 1903. He worked as a merchant with Emerson Collins, where he hired a freighter to bring regular shipments of stock from the DeBeque railroad station to his shop. He also worked as the postmaster of Collbran (a post he held for 28 years -- 1913-1941). He was a member of the Disciples of Christ, and a member of a barbershop...
17) John A. Wilcoxon
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An early Twentieth century Mesa County with a large operation near De Beque. According to oral history interviewee Charles Edward Burg, who worked for him, the bunks Wilcoxon provided for cowboys were infested with bed bugs.
18) Frank Hickman
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He was born in England and immigrated to the United States, living first in Pennsylvania, where he was a coal miner. He worked in coal mines in the Crested Butte, Colorado area, and then moved to Mesa County. He started the first coal mine in the Grand Valley. He ran the Cameo Mine and the Mount Lincoln Mine, the latter being one of the first coal mines in the Grand Valley. He also established the Island Ranch in De Beque Canyon, current location...
19) John Jackson
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He was born in Iowa. Around 1856, he took a job driving a stagecoach between Independence Missouri and Santa Fe, New Mexico. He joined the 1st Colorado Cavalry Regiment in 1861, under the command of Colonel John M. Chivington. During his tenure in the regiment, Jackson took part in the Sand Creek Massacre of Cheyenne and Arapaho people, and also fought in the Battle of Glorieta Pass, where he engaged the Confederates at Apache Canyon. He moved to...
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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...
