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21) John P. Kettle
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He was born in Indiana to Stephen V. Kettle, a farmer and teamster, and Elizabeth Kettle, a homemaker. He grew up there and in Nebraska. He married Osa Nannette Cox on November 8, 1899. They moved to the Pear Park area of Mesa County, Colorado in 1907, where he grew apples and pears.
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She was born in Amazon, Nebraska. She married Edward Martin on October 3rd, 1901 in Toppenish, Washington. She was a teacher in an Indian school in Washington, did the bookkeeping for her husband’s business, managed the family farm, and served as homemaker. She advised her daughter, Dorothy (Martin) Tindall, not to become a teacher.
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She was born in Missouri to French immigrants. She married John W. Cox and together they moved to Canon City, Colorado (US Census records show them living there by 1900), where she worked as a housekeeper. Sometime between 1900 and 1903 they moved to Kannah Creek, Colorado, where they homesteaded and raised cattle. She was a homemaker.
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She was born in Missouri to James and Jennie Overton. She moved with her husband Ernest W. Hicks and their family to Mesa County, Colorado in 1937. She was a homemaker on a farm. She also peeled tomatoes and canned peaches for the Kuner Canning Company in Appleton.
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She was born near Canon City in the Colorado Territory. She moved with her parents to the Whitewater area of Mesa County, presumably in 1880's, after the removal of the Utes. She married John V. Geiger, a homesteader from Pennsylvania, in December 1984. She was a homemaker on a fruit growing farm.
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Born in Colorado in 1899 and attended the Lowell, Hawthorne and Franklin Schools in Grand Junction. She went to college at the University of Colorado. She taught piano for two years and after marriage, she was a homemaker for thirty-nine years. Her mother was a German immigrant from Canada, and her father's parents were from Ireland.
27) Raffaela Guerrie
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She married Phillip Guerrie sometime after the passing of his first wife in 1904. They immigrated from Italy to the United States in 1907. She was a homemaker who made Italian cuisine, cookies and bread for the family, and who oversaw their celebration of an Italian Christmas.
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She was born in Buena Vista, Colorado to Bishop Brown and Emma (Yount) Brown. She was a homemaker. She was the wife of Albert Turner (Sr.), who established the Cisco Ranch. At the age of fifty-one, she was killed in a flash flood on Diamond Creek after refusing to climb the hill due to her fear of lightning.
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She was born to Peter K. Bonebreak and Carrie F. (Craddick) Bonebreak in Guthrie Center, Iowa. Her father was a farmer and county clerk who apparently died when Edna was young. Her mother was a homemaker and school teacher. She worked as the first full-time music teacher in the state of Iowa. She married Orlo David Williams in 1905 and the two moved to Grand Junction, Colorado shortly after. They purchased a home at 1148 Ouray Avenue, which was the...
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She was born in Albia, Iowa to Thomas E. Johnson and Margaret M. (Hartsuck) Johnson. Her father was a coal miner and her mother was a homemaker. Her father suffered from asthma, and the family moved to Palisade, Colorado in an attempt to improve his health. They arrived in 1917, when Ruth was 15 years old. She graduated from Palisade High School. She married Marion Julian Echternach in Palisade on September 20, 1920. He was born in Oklahoma and grew...
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She was born in Colorado to Charles Carlson and Bertha (Davis) Carlson. Her father was a farmer and her mother was a homemaker. She grew up in Loveland, Colorado and attended the University of Northern Colorado in Greeley. There, she met William Fredrick Hartman Jr. They married in 1937, when she was 24 years old.
She and William moved to Grand Junction in 1938, where William taught journalism at Mesa College and Lucy worked as a substitute teacher...
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She was born in Illinois to Phillip Steinbach Jr. and Laura (Grimm) Steinbach. Her father was a bricklayer and her mother was a homemaker. She Married Charles Rump in 1908. Bu 1910, US Census records show that they had moved to Denver, Colorado, following her husband’s work as an irrigation and real estate developer. She was a homemaker.
They moved to the Redlands area of Mesa County in 1919. There, she became one of the organizers of the Redlands’...
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She was born in Brighton, Colorado to Thomas Wayne Beede and Marguerite Elizabeth (Miller) Beede. Her father was a farmer and her mother was a homemaker. The family moved to the town of Loma in Mesa County sometime between 1930 and 1940. The 1940 US Census shows them farming in Loma when Margaret was twelve years old.
She attended a country school near Loma with 28 students. Margaret attended Fruita Union High School. After graduation, she attended...
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An early settler of Mesa County, fruit farmer, and ranch homemaker. Marie was born in Central City, Colorado, and moved to the Western slope when her father decided to raise fruit in the area. The family moved to Orchard Mesa in 1903 when Marie was nine years old. Her father was a German immigrant, and Marie and her family were subjected to discrimination during the period from World I to World War II. She was married in Moab, Utah, to Lew Young,...
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She was born in Roseland, Nebraska to Bert Whelan and Bertha (Hohlfeld) Whelan. Her father was a farmer. Her mother was a homemaker and the daughter of German immigrants. Ruby attended grade school in Roseland and Kenesaw, Nebraska, and then attended Hastings College in Hastings, Nebraska, where she received a Bachelor’s of Science degree. She married Roy Oliver Gaither in Nebraska on August 20, 1924. The 1930 census shows them living with three...
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He was one of three children born to Italian immigrants John Colosimo, a coal cutter for the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad, and Angelina Letizia Colosimo, a homemaker. He was born and grew up on Hale Avenue in Grand Junction, Colorado’s Riverside neighborhood. As a young man he worked in Grand Junction’s movie theaters. He married Mary Louise Chiaro in 1934. After a brief time in Fruita, where Mary was a homemaker and he managed a theater, they...
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She was born in Pueblo, Colorado to Italian immigrants. Her father, Domenico Lanza, was a farmhand. Her mother Carmella Lanza was a homemaker. She learned a great deal about farming and homemaking from her parents. At the age of 16, she was married to Eugene Mendicelli, an Italian immigrant, in an arranged marriage. She moved to Grand Junction, Colorado when she was seventeen, on April 29, 1917. At home, she made sausage, bacon, ham, cheese, and many...
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She was born in Grainfield, Kansas to Jessie E. Terrell and Mabel F. (Embree) Terrell. Her father was a farmer and trucker. Her mother was a homemaker who had attended Nebraska Wesleyan University. US Census records show that the family was living in Hugo, Colorado by 1930, when Lorene was 13 years old. She married Kermit C. Brubaker on April 1, 1936 in Pueblo. The 1940 and 1950 US Censuses show them living in El Paso County, where she was a homemaker.
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She was born to John Frank Sleeper and Louise Amelia (Sieber) Sleeper in the Glade Park area of Mesa County, Colorado. Her father was a cattle rancher and surveyor. Her mother was a homemaker. Her ancestors were Glade Park pioneers on both sides of the family. Her father’s family owned the 2-V Ranch with the Elas, and her mother’s family, the Siebers, owned the S-Cross Cattle Company.
She went to Grand Junction High School. She married John...
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She was born in Tate Springs, Tennessee to Robert F. Winkle and Cora Elizabeth (Harris) Winkle. Her father was a farmer and her mother a homemaker. US Census records show that the family had moved to Prowers in Bent County, Colorado by 1910, when Grace was eleven years old.
She moved with her family to the Mack area of Mesa County on May 20, 1920, when she was 21 years old. She married Ralph Aubrey Inskeep, who had traveled with her from Bent County,...
