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The Brooks water wheel on the Colorado River, near McCoy. Yarmony Mountain is in the background.
Earl and Elsie Brooks sold the McCoy Hotel in 1919 to "Edith Stifel and purchased the former Charles Nelson place on the Colorado River. The place was badly rundown when Earl bought it and there were no improvements to speak of. So beginning from scratch they started the big undertaking of making it a modern ranch. Almost the first things which had to...
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1910: Five people seated on step of the U.S. Post Office, Edwards, Colorado. Log building was situated on site now occupied by the Edwards I-70 off-ramp. Screen door and double-hung window visible. Two dogs in foreground.
From left to right: Lucia Wellington, Esther Moore, Lydia Nelson, Nelse Nelson, Esther Wellington (Klatt). Esther Moore is wearing a bonnet, Nelse Nelson wearing overalls and hat, Esther Wellington wearing straw hat.
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Jim Henderson (facing camera) and Nelse Nelson with his back to the camera.
"Early spring 1920, Squaw Creek, I was ten years old, many times I fed and milked these cows. No idea who took the picture, it could have been my mother. Nelse Nelson with back to camere [sic.], what a guy. Always good to me. He was the mine foreman at East Lake Creek, when my father worked there in 1905-6-7. Life a wee bit different those days, my mother sold our homestead...
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Marker for: "Nellie Y., wife of J. Nelson, born Nov. 6, 1882, died May 12,1904, aged 21 ys. 6 ms. 6 ds., Greenwood Cemetery. Inscription below reads: "We miss thee from our home, dear, we miss thee from thy place, Our home is dark without thee, We miss thee everywhere.
Erected by the Women of Woodcraft." The Women of Woodcraft symbol is engraved at the top of the marker; ivy is sculpted along the sides. There is an iron fence around the plot.