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Emma Newby Edwards and Alta Edwards [Bush Holland], Emma's sister-in-law, waiting for a race to start. Both women are on horseback, Emma on Lady, Alta on Pinto.
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Emma Mae Newby, Esther Edwards Rogers' mother, on horseback, Bellyache Mountain. Emma Newby was Joseph T. (Tera aka Terry) Miller's stepdaughter. Her father died when she was 5.
Caption: "She was sure going high and crooked."
"I am not sure of the dates my family came to Eagle, but checking online homestead and census records, I found the Edwards family in the 1910 census in Colorado Springs and in 1919 to 1922 in Eagle County homestead records.
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Emma Mae Newby on horseback. Snow on Bellyache Mountain. Emma taught school at the little log school house on Bellache.
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Emma Newby Edwards holding a deer head in front of the homestead cabin on Bellyache.
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Emma Mae Newby in riding clothes, standing in front of an outbuilding on Bellyache.
"The Millers were 'city folks.' My grandfather [Joseph T. Miller] was the postmaster in the town of Sublette, Kansas. He had a college education and had been a Lutheran minister. (I can't imagine why he would leave all that and take his family to live in a log cabin on a remote Colorado mountain to plant lettuce and potatoes! I never learned what his motivation was.)...
