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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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Husband of Lucy (Ferril) Ela.
Wendell Dennett Ela was born at 640 Rood Avenue in Grand Junction, Colorado to Wendell Phillips Ela and Lucy Abby (Drake) Ela. His first childhood home, adjacent to the Excelsior Laundry, was later sold to the Daily Sentinel and torn down, although the pear tree the family had planted stayed alive for many years.
His father was an early pioneer of the Glade Park area, the mayor of Grand Junction, and a longtime...
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He was born to Wendell Dennett Ela and Lucy Brainerd (Ferril) Ela in Grand Junction, Colorado. His father was a bank vice president and the son of Mesa County pioneer Wendell Phillips Ela, early Pinon Mesa rancher and Grand Junction mayor. His mother was a homemaker, the sister of Colorado poet William Hornsby Ferril, a member of the Grand Junction School Board and Colorado State School Board, and active in many other community organizations. His...
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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...
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She was born in Italy as Cecilia Cardamone to Santo “Samuel” Cardamone and Maria Angela “Mary” (Mendocino) Cardamone. Records of US Passenger ships show that she arrived with her family in the United States aboard the ship Finland in 1915, when she was nine years old. The family moved first to Minneapolis, Minnesota, where she attended grade school and learned English at the age of ten.
The US Census indicates that by 1920, the family lived...
