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She was born in Crawford County, Missouri to David Eachus and Sarah Eachus. Her father was a farmer and Methodist minister and her mother was a homemaker. In 1895, when she was about 13 years old, the family moved to the Glade Park area of Mesa County, Colorado. There, David Eachus homesteaded and ministered.
She married John George Roehm, a German immigrant, in Grand Junction on September 17, 1906. The 1910 US Census shows them living in Orchard...
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A Mesa County Historical Society panel of early Glade Park, Colorado residents Dorothy Beard, Mrs. Floyd Carpenter, Eva Leslie, and Kenneth Thompson discuss the pioneer history of the area. This recording is made available by the Mesa County Oral History Project, a collaboration of Mesa County Libraries, the Museums of Western Colorado and the Mesa County Historical Society.
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Owner of the Sleeper Ranch in the Pinon Mesa area.
He was born in Rochester, New Hampshire to Charles Wesley Sleeper and Sarah E. (Peavey) Sleeper, both native New Hampshirites. His father was a blacksmith, cattle raiser, and railroad engineer. His mother was a homemaker.
John attended Dartmouth College from 1884 to 1886. It appears from his listing in the Non-Graduates section of the Dartmouth College 1910 catalog that he did not graduate,...
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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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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.
31) [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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He was born in Winfield, Kansas to Jasper Files and Lillian Grace (Thirsk) Files. His father was a farmer and his mother was a homemaker. He had three brothers. He attended Frog Hollow School in Winfield, Kansas. He completed an 8th grade education and took some correspondence courses. He also studied some engineering at a college in Manhattan.
The family moved to Lamar, Colorado in 1914, via covered wagon, when he was fifteen years old. They homesteaded...
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Lilly Lawson recalls her life in the Glade Park area of Mesa County, Colorado. She talks about her father, who was a Methodist minister and homesteader. She describes people and places in the Glade Park area. The interview was conducted by the Mesa County Oral History Project, a collaboration of Mesa County Libraries and the Museums of Western Colorado.
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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.
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James Brouse discusses moving and going to school in Glade Park, Colorado as a young boy in 1915. He tells tales of cowpunching in the canyons near Westwater, homesteading, the difficulties of dry farming, and the methods and difficulties of transportation into town from up on Glade Park. He also talks about local murders, sheep and cattlemen wars, and the history of different schools in the area. His wife Ellen (Morse) Brouse, longtime Mesa County...
