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She was born in Georgia and died of old age in Whitewater, Colorado. U.S. Census records show she was living with her husband and children in La Veta, Colorado by 1880. Both she and her husband Archa J. Dodgion were pioneers of Mesa County, and was the grandmother of Mesa County Oral History Project interviewee Darwin Burford. Mother of Mary (Dodgion) Burford.
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Born in Whitewater, Colorado. Her parents, August and Olga Johnson, were Swedish immigrants who farmed there. Upon first attending Whitewater School as a child, she did not speak English. She was able to finish high school, and had one year of business college. She worked as an agricultural worker, as domestic help, and in various other positions. She trained as a nurse in 1917 at St. Mary's Hospital on Colorado Avenue in Grand Junction, but...
3) Anna Peugh
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Early resident of Whitewater, Colorado. Her husband, George Peugh, owned the general store in Whitewater.
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Miner in Unaweep Canyon. Upon moving with his wife, Orpha Shugar Hall, to Whitewater, he had a contract to construct Whitewater's first telephone line.
5) Olga Johnson
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Swedish immigrant and settler of Whitewater, Colorado. Mother of Effie (Johnson) Silzell and Ida May (Johnson) Smith. Also the wife of August Johnson.
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Father of Walter Anderson. Settler of Whitewater area. Friend of John Otto.
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His family settled the Whitewater area in the late Nineteenth century. Son of William Silzell, brother of William "Will" Silzell, and husband of Effie (Johnson) Silzell.
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Minister of the Congregational Church in early day Whitewater, Colorado.
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Owner of the Whitewater general store in the early Twentieth century. He also maintained a telephone switchboard operated by Effie (Johnson) Silzell and others. He was later the office manager for the Colorado Telephone Company in Grand Junction, Colorado.
10) August Johnson
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A Swedish immigrant who bought a homestead from a previous settler, and farmed the Whitewater area in the late Nineteenth century. Father of Effie (Johnson) Silzell and Ida May (Johnson) Smith. Also the husband of Olga Johnson.
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Early newcomer to Mesa County. As a child, she came to Grand Junction in a covered wagon and camped for a year there. Her family also lived for a time in Unaweep Canyon. She lived with her husband, James Edward Hall, in Whitewater, Colorado for many years.
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Husband of Elizabeth Anderson. Early 20th Century Mesa County, Colorado rancher who lived in the Whitewater, Kannah Creek area.
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He was born to Roland "Tank" Burford and Caroline (Newton) Burford in Fresno, California. His father was an attorney and his mother was a homemaker. He became a Mesa County, Colorado pioneer. In the early 1880's, he arrived in Fruita, Colorado on the narrow gauge railroad. He took a job with the Thompson brothers, who had a cattle ranching outfit on Pinon Mesa. According to Lawrence Aubert, a longtime sheep rancher, the Burford family was also involved...
