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A portrait photograph of (Georgia) Maude Mitchell, taken at the Mountain View Nursing Home in Glenwood in December 1974 when Maude was 90. Maude was a committed gardener. From her obituary Eagle Valley Enterprise, June 14, 1979: "She was born May 12, 1884 at Rockwood, Tenn., and had lived in Stillwell, Okla. She moved to Denver in 1905 and had been a resident of Eagle County since 1910. She was a member of the Methodist Church, Rebekahs, and was...

Annabelle Neff, Shirley and Pauline (Rogers) Frazier posing for a photograph in front of an automobile, June, 1940. The Neff family moved to Eagle county, Colorado, to the Red canyon ranch in 1911. Marcus P. Neff owned the ranch for 21 years and then moved to Red Cliff with his wife, Annabelle, and family. Mr. Neff owned and operated the Battle Mountain Transportation Company. The Rogers family lived on High St. Son, Garland, lived in Rifle,...

Dessie Beck and dog standing in the yard, probably in Salida.

Blanche Wyatt Kavanaugh in a long evening dress standing in front of highway signs in Minturn, Colorado. Under a sign for Colorado-U.S. 40 south: Eagle 29 , Glenwood 63, Grand Junction 15?. There is a barber shop in the shadows at the left, a hotel behind the U.S. 40 sign, and a restaurant in the right background. To Blanche's left is a bridge with the notice: load limit 3 tons including vehicle, stock limit 10 head of cattle 20 sheep, speed...

Woman walking along right-hand of snowy highway, dog ahead of her. Two figures also walking along the road in the distance. [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]

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. I...

Margaraette Walters Allen was born in Wales on December 13, 1844. She was married to Alexander Allen and the couple emigrated to the United States, eventually to Colorado. She died in Olive Springs, TN on January 25, 1937

Sadie Figgins and Bessie Green standing by a house in Eagle, Colorado, 1918. Sadie married Alexander Macdonell.

Fannie Jane Powers, age 87, taken on June 4, 1944. Fannie died on March 27, 1945, in Eagle. She was born Fannie Jane Brock in Excello, Mo., on Nov. 29, 1856, residing for 65 years of her life in Eagle county, most of that time near Wolcott. She was married to John Ridgeway with whom she had seven children, all of whom preceded her in death. John died and, in 1923, she married Charles Powers. who died in 1930. She is buried in Sunset View Cemetery....

Robin C.[?] pulls Olive Gabelman in an old buggy at Fulford. The photograph is viewing southeast and may be reversed. Photo is dated July 1948.