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Laird Smith talks about his grandfather Frank Smith’s severe case of Tuberculosis that caused the doctor to move with his family to Grand Junction, Colorado. He describes the apartment next to a saloon where the family lived on Main Street, where drunken men would sometimes crawl in through the windows by mistake. He discusses his father Silmon Smith’s “spartan” upbringing, his camping alone on the Grand Mesa for long stretches when he was...
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A History of Chaffee County Schools, 1860-1986, was researched and organized by the Chaffee County Extension Homemaker Council. The history includes schools in Lake County, which encompassed what is now Chaffee County, prior to 1880.
It includes the school districts of Granite, Centerville, Poncha Springs, Maysville, Adobe Park, Free Gold, Salida, Alpine, Buena Vista, Garfield, Riverside, St. Elmo, Nathrop, Pinion Grove, Vicksburg, Pine Creek, Hancock,...
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Ann Stokes talks about homesteading on East Orchard Mesa after her family moved to Mesa County, Colorado in 1904. She remembers her father working on the “fancy” masonry for the Grand Junction train station. She recalls living in a one-room log cabin and sharing that cabin with a horse for an evening. She speaks about the development of irrigation on East Orchard Mesa and her father’s peach orchard. She describes walking with her siblings four...
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In a three-part interview conducted over three days, Luisa Landini describes her childhood in Montale, Italy and her life after immigrating to the United States. In part one, she talks about life in Italy, working on a farm and in the fields, and her immigration to the United States via ship at the age of twenty-two. She talks about coming to America to marry Pete Landini and her homesickness for Italy when she arrived. She speaks about the family’s...
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She was born in Ohio to Edward Proctor, a farmer, and Mary I. Proctor, a homemaker. The family lived for a time in Missouri, and then came west to Meeker, Colorado in a covered wagon in 1886, when Flora was thirteen years old. She married Ulysses Grant Purcell in 1892. She was a homemaker on a truck farm.
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Born in Kankakee, IL. Arrived in Colorado in October, 1970 and Vail in April, 1982. Occupation: Homemaker. Special Interests: Sewing, cooking, traveling.
67) Elli Zakrzewski
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Place of Birth: Essen, Germany. Date Arrived: Salt Lake City - 1962; Vail - 1969. Occupation: Homemaker. Special Interests: Swimming, sewing, outdoor activities.
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She was born in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She was a homemaker. Died of gallstones in 1929. She was a native Spanish speaker who spoke no English.
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She was born in Illinois. She married Archie R. Craig in Kansas in 1880. She was later a homemaker on a homestead in Mesa, Colorado with her husband and family.
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She was born in Colorado, and was a Mesa County, Colorado pioneer. Apart from being an innkeeper in Whitewater, Colorado, she was also a homemaker at the family ranch in Pinon Mesa. Wife of Frederick Burford and mother of Darwin Burford.
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A farm wife and homemaker from Iowa. She married Henry M. Phillips and had seven children. The family moved to Colorado in 1909, where they worked a 10-acre peach orchard in Palisade, Colorado.
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She was born in Arkansas, and went from there to Roan Creek, Colorado in 1887, where she homesteaded with her husband and children. She was a homemaker on a farm, and kept chickens and other animals on her own.
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She was born in Wisconsin. She married William Penberthy on February 8, 1887. Together they lived in South Dakota and then moved to Grand Junction, Colorado around 1902. She worked as a homemaker and assisted a great deal with family care.
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She was born in Illinois. She lived with her husband in Ovid, Colorado and California before they settled in the Fruitvale area of Mesa County, Colorado. She was a homemaker on a fruit farm and had two daughters.
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She was born in Texas to John and Elizabeth Heskett of Tennessee. Her father was a farmer. She came by train to Mesa County, Colorado with her husband and children in 1909. She was a homemaker.
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She was born in Texas. Together with her husband, Isaac Nathaniel Hollett, she came West in a covered wagon, living for a time in Colorado Springs, Colorado, in Sawpit, and then settling on a homestead near Norwood. She was a homemaker.
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She was born in Pennsylvania and raised a family in Palisade, Colorado. She occasionally visited her parents in Washington and she collected many recipes. She was a homemaker on a farm for her husband and two children.
78) Emily Hunter
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Homemaker on the Hunter Ranch, which she settled with her husband, James "J.B." Baker Hunter. The Hunter Ranch was on an area east of Fruita that later became known as the Hunter District.
79) Edna Rowe
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Homesteader in Glade Park, Colorado, who hosted Florence Bryant Walker during her time teaching up in Glade Park (1916-17). According to Walker, Rowe was an excellent homemaker who did much with little.
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A native of Palisade, Colorado and a homemaker. She cooked for workers on the fruit farm she owned with Virgil Hickman and helped oversee the fruit packing operation.
*Photograph courtesy of the Palisade Historical Society.
