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A rancher near Kannah Creek in Mesa County, Colorado who owned the Cross-Bar-Cross Ranch. He made his money digging the grade for a Denver & Rio Grande rail line. The line was located near Mack, and never used. After digging the grade in the late 1910’s, he had enough money to purchase the Cross-Bar-Cross.
He partnered with Charley Hollenbeck. They owned a “dredger” on the headwaters of the Arkansas River that was used to mine for gold. He...
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She was born in Nebraska. Her mother died when she was young, and her father left her and her brother with their grandparents in Oklahoma. She married Joel Brewster on June 11, 1927, while she was working at the Harvey House in Flagstaff, Arizona. They moved to Mesa County, Colorado in 1931, and bought a small farm in Mack, Colorado. In 1946, they bought a turkey ranch, where they raised turkeys by the thousands. She would take the turkeys for a walk...
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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,...
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She was born in Montrose County, Colorado. By 1896, when she was six years old, she and her family were living on the Brink place in Fruita. They moved to what became known as Snooks Bottom around 1900, named for the homestead founded there by her parents William Tunis Snook and Clara Zillah (Park) Snook. The family lived there until 1910, when a reservoir constructed by resident families burst. They moved back to Fruita, where William purchased and...
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He was born in Ophir, Colorado to father James Gilligan Brewster and his mother David Ann (Kelley) Brewster. The 1900 US Census shows him living with his parents in San Juan County, Utah, when he was five. The family was living in Fruita, Colorado by 1910, when he was 15 years old. His father was a farmer and Joel was an only child. He married Jenny Ellen Menter on June 11, 1927, while he was working as a bridge inspector for the Santa Fe Railroad...
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He was born to Freeman Snook and Lydia (Soule) Snook in Clay, New York, near Syracuse. US Census Records from 1870 list his name as Judge Snook (The nickname "Judge" would seem to be derived from Judson, which was his given name according to his daughter Della (Snook) Mack). According to the 1875 New York State Census, he was married to Jane Snook, but the 1880 US Census shows Jane and their four children living by themselves in New York (though the...
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He was born in La Junta, Colorado to John C. Inskeep and Mamie (Cox) Inskeep. US Census records show that his father was a farmer and his mother was a homemaker. He attended the Hasty and Cloverleaf Schools. He played baseball, boxed, and wrestled.
He moved with the family of Grace Winkle to Mack in Mesa County on May 20, 1920, when he was 21 years old. He and Grace were married in Grand Junction May 28, 1920. They had ten children, 38 grandchildren...
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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 Utah to William Asbury and Priscilla Park. She married William Tunis Snook, and by 1885, the Colorado State Census shows them living together in Mesa County. They moved subsequently to Montrose County, where their son Guy was born. According to their daughter Della (Snook) Mack (as related in her letter read by Della's niece and oral history interviewee Ida Mae (Snook) Waggoner), the Snooks were back living on the Brink place in Fruita...
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She was born in Utah to William E. and Isabel (Luts) Roberson. The 1900 US Census record shows her living in La Sal, Utah at the age of one. By 1910 the family was living in Moab, where her father was a sheep rancher. Sometime in her teens or twenties, the family moved east to Mack, Colorado, where her parents owned the general store. The family lived together in a home directly behind the store and Veda worked as a sales person. The 1920 US Census...
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She was born in Sweden on November 26, 1885 and left for the United States in 1910. She settled with her aunt and uncle in Kansas, where she was confirmed in the Lutheran faith. She moved to the Mack, Colorado area with her husband Albert Alstatt, where they homesteaded. She was a homemaker who raised five children on the farm.
12) M.W. Cooley
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He was born in New York. He was the general manager of the Uintah Railway in the 1920’s and perhaps earlier. He lived in Mack, Colorado, where 1920 US Census records show him rooming in a boarding house at the age of fifty-nine. According to Elizabeth (Dow) Angus, he lived in the Mack Hotel with his wife.
He was also an amateur ornithologist whose bird collection was gifted to the Museums of Western Colorado. He was known colloquially as Captain...
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He was born in Utah to Melvin O. and Ann McBeth. 1900 US Census records show him living with his parents in Payson, Utah at the age of two. He grew up on a farm in Payson. He served in the Utah National Guard during World War I, and was stationed in Europe from June 1918 to May 1919, when he was honorably discharged. He married Veda Roberson in Grand Junction, Colorado in 1921. Together they homesteaded in Westwater Canyon, about forty miles from...
14) Albert Alstatt
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He grew up in Kansas and moved to the New Liberty area of Mesa County, Colorado with his wife, Anna (Nilsson) Alstatt, where they homesteaded. According to New Liberty resident Marjorie (Morrow) Thomas, her father, John Burnell Morrow, traveled on the same train as Albert Alstatt, and the two ended up choosing homesteads side-by-side.
15) Mack Aspinall
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He was born in Ohio to William Aspinall and Amanda J. Aspinall. His father was a farmer and his mother was a homemaker. He married Jessie E. Norviel in Logan, Ohio in 1895. US Census records show them living with their children and farming in Zane, Ohio in 1900. The family purchased land on first street in Palisade, Colorado in 1904, where they farmed peaches. In one of his Oral History interviews, Wayne Aspinall once related a story where he convinced...
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She was an early resident of Fruita, Colorado, and later lived in Loma and Mack, where she met her husband Rowland Fowler “Roe” Saunders. They had a small farm near Mack.
