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Monica Barnes holding baby Boyd in the sunshine.
"The homestead cabin was built on a hill. ... Water for the cabin came from a spring located up a hill from the cabin. Water for drinking, household use, baths and doing laundry was carried by bucket from the spring. Clothes were washed on a wash board. Water for doing laundry was heated on the wood burning stove and then carried to the tubs used for washing as needed. There was no electircity...
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Monica Heeren Barnes holding son, Boyd Barnes, born July 5, 1920. They are in the cabin door on Castle, the original homestead.
She was born in 1899 in Whiting, Iowa. She was helping her cousin on a ranch in South Dakota when she met Guy T. Barnes, working as a herdsman. They married and moved to Eagle, Colorado, where Mr. Barnes was employed by Andrew Christiansen.
"While living in a cabin owned by Mr. Christainsen, Guy and Monica Barnes began...
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Tom (seated on porch) and Ella Lewis with John, Harry and Imogene in front; in back are Herman and Mrs. Kluge.
Kluge was a partner with Thomas E. Lewis in the Lewis & Kluge mercantile at Eagle. Together with Mr. Lewis and Robert McHatton, Kluge also owned the Gypsum Mercantile Co. store at Gypsum. Lewis bought out Kluge's interest in the Eagle store.
8. Imogene Dice
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Ida Herwick and her children, Thanksgiving 1894, at church services in Wolcott.
Back row, L to R: Paul, age 10; Frederick, age 13; WIlliam C., age 15
Front, L to R: Tina, age 3; Ida, Age 33; Mary, age 18 mos.; Oren age 5; Birdellah, age 17; Guy, age 6
"For several months she had been putting a little money away for a special occasion, and she intended that having a family portrait done would be it. Of all the things she could think of, having...
11. Catherine Miller
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A photo montage of Vic and Zella Lindersmith in celebration of their 34th wedding anniversary. They were married on May 28, 1939. "Lindersmith lived in Hotchkiss for 35 years, where he worked as a fruit rancher and a carpenter. Vic and Zella moved to Eagle in 1965, where he worked at the Conoco station, and as an equipment operator for the Kaibab lumber mill." -- Eagle Valley Enterprise, Aug. 5, 1993.
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Tom Pearch and Barbara Gleason standing on a church lawn on Sept. 16, 1947. They were married November 9, 1947 in Eagle. [Her obituary says Nov. 9, her oral history says Sept. 16] Tom was raised on Squaw Creek. He worked as a heavy equipment operator at Camp Hale and Climax but was probably most known for his work as an auctioneer.
In 1950, Tom and Barbara bought the Bert Billings house on Brush Creek so that they could have horses and live out...
18. Lloyd Mayer
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Lloyd Mayer sitting on a couch, surrounded by toy trucks and equipment. The photo was taken several months before his death in February 1953, of a cerebral hemorrhage.
"Lloyd was born at Glenwood Springs June 9, 1941, the second son of Chester and Ruth Mayer.He lived his short life on the ranch established on lower Brush creek by his grandfather, the late Wm. P. Mayer, and attended the Eagle Public School where he was not only a model student, but...
19. Morton White
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Three people standing in front of a log building, probably on Brush Creek. The man on the right is Morton White. The man on the left may be Ben White. The women in the appliqued apron is unidentified. The White family were major landholders in the Brush Creek area. The photo was developed by Ping on September 21, 1940.
20. Buchholz Family
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Nicholas and Mary Owen Buchholz at center, surrounded by five of their children. In 1882, Mr. Buchholz and his famly came to the Eagle River valley, ranching on what was later the Sherman Brothers Ranch at Eagle. This ranch was sold to Z. T. Hollingsworth and the Buchholz family relocated to the Buchholz Mesa. This ranch was sold to E. M. Tabor, and Nick Buchholz and his son, John, opened a livery stable in Eagle. In 1890, Nick opened a butcher...