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41) Novie Wells
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A sheep rancher in the Glade Park/Pinon Mesa area in the early Twentieth century. He also worked as a powder man who helped to build Rim Rock Drive over the Monument.
42) Burt Charles
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He was an early resident of Pinon Mesa in Mesa County, Colorado. He helped drill the well near Griffin Place that George Vernon "Vern" Wood utilized as his water source. Burt also acted as postmaster in Glade Park, Colorado.
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Early pioneer of Glade Park area and mayor of Grand Junction, Colorado from 1897-90.
He was born in New Hampshire to Jacob Hart Ela and Abigail Pearson (Kelley) Ela. His mother’s name as listed in birth records is Abigail Pearson Moore, indicating that she may have been married once before her marriage to Jacob Ela. Wendell’s father was a printer and publisher, a depot master, the US Representative for New Hampshire’s First Congressional...
44) Charles Duvall
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He may have been the first homesteader on Glade Park, Colorado. He was a sheep rancher on Glade Park and Pinon Mesa in the early Twentieth century. He was born in North Carolina to Elijah and Rachel Duvall. Census records show them living in Fruita, Colorado with in 1900, when Charles was eighteen years old. He married Stella Jane Cosler that same year. She divorced him in 1923. They had five daugthers.
In the 1920’s, he married Etta Grace (Griffith)...
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She was born in Miami, Ohio to Samuel J. Hamilton and Martha Evelyn (Newberry) Hamilton. Her father was a house painter and wallpaper hanger. Her mother was a homemaker. Cordelia was a sibling to Margaret, Robert, Jeanette, Margaret, Martha, Harvey, Margery, and William Hamilton. Her paternal half-sibling was Edna Hamilton.
The family moved to Fruita, Colorado in 1904, when Cordelia was about four years old. Cordelia’s parents and maternal grandparents...
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He was born in Canon City, Colorado and raised in Grand Junction and Glade Park, Colorado. He was the son of prominent citizen and pioneer Phidelah "P.A." Rice, who owned the county's first lumber mill and a lumberyard in town. P.W. worked in the lumberyard as a young man. He also attended the Leland Power’s School of Elocution and would often practice dramatic readings of Hamlet and other works in the woods by their home in Glade Park, Colorado,...
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George “Vern” Wood discusses homesteading on Glade Park, and early Glade Park schools. The interview was conducted by the Mesa County Oral History Project, a collaboration of the Mesa County Public Library and the Museum of Western Colorado.
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The one-time District Foreman of the Mesa County Road and Bridge Department (circa 1950). He was born to Elwood and Edith Brouse on a farm in Glade Park, Colorado.
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Lily Lawson and Anna “Amy” Roehm discuss the history of their pioneering family in Glade Park, Colorado. 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 Society.
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Early longtime resident of Glade Park and wife of George Vernon "Vern" Wood. She was a school teacher who taught at the West End School.
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Early Twentieth century Glade Park resident. Wife of Wendell Ela. Sister of Denver poet Thomas Hornsby Ferril. She was born to William C. "Will" Ferril and Alice (McHarg) Ferril in New York State. According to US Census records, her father Will was a journalist from Kansas whose own father had been a preacher. According to Lucy, Will was well known as a journalist, was the owner and editor of the Rocky Mountain Herald (the oldest weekly newspaper...
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A member on a Mesa County Historical Society panel that spoke about Glade Park, Colorado history at a program in the 1970’s.
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Cordelia Files talks about the history of her family as early homesteaders in Mesa County, Colorado. She remembers life in Fruita in the early Twentieth century. She recalls working on a ranch near De Beque for her first job at the age of fifteen. She speaks about her life as a teacher instructing all eight grades in a one-room school house, about different episodes from her career in education (including the time a cat came to school), and about...
