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Mesa County pioneer. Early Loma, Colorado resident. Mother of John Long and Florence Giles.
2) Hiriam Long
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Mesa County Pioneer. Early Loma, Colorado area rancher. Father of John Long and Florence Giles.
3) John Brach
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He was born in Aguilar, Colorado to Italian immigrants Antonio L. “Tony” Brach and Domenica “Minnie” (Chiado) Brach. The 1920 US Census shows that his father was a track layer in a coal mine. His mother was a homemaker.
The family moved to the Loma area of Mesa County on March 7, 1924, when John was about 20. His uncle Frank Columbus, his mother’s brother, had moved to Loma in 1914 upon the opening of the Highline Canal. Domenica wanted...
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An Italian immigrant and farmer who settled in the Loma and Fruita areas in the early Twentieth century. He came in 1885 as a railroad worker for D&RG, replacing the narrow gauge line with a broader one. He then purchased land, built homes, and returned to Italy to meet and marry Angelina Pepe, a woman from the village of Vailo, in an arranged marriage. He returned with her to Mesa County in 1904.
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He was born in Barre, Vermont to Orin Judson and Carrie Amelia (Smith) Judson. His father worked as a stone polisher in Vermont. His mother was a homemaker. The family lived briefly in Iowa and then, due to hopes that the climate might improve his mother’s help, moved to Mesa County, Colorado in 1904, when Verne was about five years old.
They settled in the Pomona area, where they farmed and he attended school. He began irrigating at the age...
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He was born in Iowa to William A. Judson and Phoeby Judson. His father was a farmer and his mother a homemaker. William Judson died in a granite stone processing accident in 1922
Orin married Carrie Amelia Smith in Barre City, Vermont on June 24, 1896, when he was 26 years old. The US Census record shows them and their son Verle living there in 1900, with Orin working as a stone polisher. Due to Carrie’s poor health, the family moved to Mesa...
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She was born in Colorado to Calvin F. Kelly and Ida (Lasater) Kelly. Her father was a farmer. Her mother was a homemaker. US Census records from 1910 and 1920 indicate that she grew up on the Rhone Plateau in Mesa County, and in Missouri. She married Sterling Price Bittle in Grand Junction, Colorado on December 25, 1925. By 1930, the US Census shows them living in Loma, Colorado. They had two children. She was a homemaker and an active member of the...
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He was born to Swedish immigrants Gus Swanson and Mathilde Swanson in Denver, Colorado. The family came to Mesa County in 1919, when Carl was seven years old. There, they had purchased forty acres south of Loma.
They settled into a modern home built in 1902, a house that he lived in for much of his life. His parents farmed there until 1960. He attended the Loma School through the 8th grade. He then went to Fruita High School, graduating in 1928.
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He was born in Ashe County, North Carolina to William J. Goss and Amanda V. (Graybeal) Goss. US Census records show that the family had moved to the Loma area of Mesa County, Colorado by at least 1900, when he was fifteen years old. There, the family ran a farm. Jake was one of at least nine siblings.
He married Ruth Mary Kilby on December 23, 1917 in Fruita, Colorado. They farmed in Loma. He also worked as a ditch rider for the Fruita Land and...
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She was born in Kannah Creek, Colorado and attended the Pride School near Whitewater. The Tabeguache band of Utes often camped near her home on their journey from the San Juans to Eastern Utah. She spent a good deal of time among them and claimed to have known Chipeta as a child.
Gertrude became a schoolteacher at age 19 in 1919, and taught grades 1-5 in the Whitewater School, Loma Elementary School, the Hunter School, and in the Roan School. ...
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She was born in Kansas to Roger Henry “Rog” Long and Lora (Shigley) Long. Her parents farmed. Lois states in her oral history interview that her father came to the Loma area of Mesa County, Colorado in 1917, to homestead.
The 1920 Census shows the family living in Loma, when Lois was 4 years old. She attended the Valley View School.
She married Leland Jacob Buniger on July 2, 1935. They farmed potatoes, beans, and hay in Loma. The 1950 Census...
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She was born in Mustang, Oklahoma to Friedrich “Fritz” Walther and Martha (Exner) Walther. Her father was a farmer and Swiss immigrant. Her mother was a homemaker and German immigrant. She attended the Red Hill Grade School, Mustang High School, Cameron Junior College, and Central State College in Oklahoma. She worked in a school in Oklahoma prior to World War II.
During the war, she worked in a bomber factory in San Diego. She married Joseph...
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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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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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Joe Peep (born Joseph Pepe to Italian immigrant parents) was an early Fruita farmer, cowboy, rodeo rider, and horse enthusiast. With his brothers, he competed in several of the rodeo competitions at Fruita's Cowpuncher's Reunion and won the bronc riding competition. He rode as a cowboy for Albert Turner on his Grand County ranch. He then farmed in Glade Park, and briefly on a failed homestead on Pinon Mesa before he bought land in Loma, where he...
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He was born in Missouri to James Bittle and Rosa Lee (Beets) Bittle. His father was a farmer. His mother was a homemaker. Because of his mother’s illness, the family moved to Loma, Colorado in 1920, when Price was 17. They farmed north of Loma and then four miles northwest of town. They raised beans, hay, and wheat for five years. Price then became the ranch foreman for doctor Everett Munro in Kannah Creek, a position he held for three years. He...
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He was a Mesa County real estate developer and landowner who built Grand Junction's Reed Building. He owned land in the Loma area and elsewhere. Census and city directory records would seem to indicate that he was an absentee landlord who lived in Colorado Springs, though he may have lived in Grand Junction at one time.
According to Howard Shults, whose father worked as the auctioneer that sold off Reed’s land holdings, Reed was an Englishman...
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He was born in Salem, Missouri to Francis Marion Shults and Levina (Wempler) Shults. His father was a farmer and his mother was a homemaker. He grew up in Salem and Springfield, where he attended a teacher's college.
He took a teaching position at the Loma School in Mesa County, Colorado in 1902. He worked as a schoolteacher in Pear Park from 1903-1904. He married fellow Pear Park teacher Daisy De Genira Hosey, also from Missouri, on February...
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She was born to William C. McGarvey and Elizabeth “Lizzie” (Kuhnle) McGarvey in Colorado. The 1910 US Census shows the family living in Fort Collins, when Leola was four, with her father working as a chauffer for the sugar factory. Her mother was a homemaker. By 1920, the family lived in Greeley, where William worked as an auto mechanic in a garage.
She married Lea Allen Wiswell in Greeley, Colorado on June 16, 1926, when she was twenty-one...
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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,...
