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C.1910: Head of Lake Creek at the East Lake Mines. W. H. Wellington packed this company of doctors from Toledo, Ohio, in to the mines. The East Lake Milling and Mining Company was formed by doctors from Toledo, Ohio. The mine was worked several years, but very little ore was ever shippped. W. H. Wellington is at the extreme left of the group of 17 men, who have removed their hats for the photo. There is one horse visible on the left and two...
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"Butch Wellington driving old farm team. Only picture of D&RG Section House at Edwards." -- Esther Klatt
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C.1930: Dad Wellington and grandson, John Wellington, seated in buckboard. Buggy is being pulled by a mule. Both wear hats and Dad Wellington wears overalls.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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From left, Nels Nelson, Jack Wellington and A. Y. Stubbings, standing next to a log building.
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"Poker game in storeroom back of old Edwards Post Office."
"My mother, Thelma Ding owned & operated the Edwards Store & Post Office from 1957 to 1966 on what, eventually, was the Kemp building on west side of Gashouse restaurant. From L to R in the photo are Wallace Hill (drove the little kids' school bus), Champ Scott (lived on Berry Rd.), Clifford Dunmire (drove the bus after Wallace retired), Cullie Jacobs (owned Edwards Store and built nearby...
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Annie Fuller and B. [Bernard "Butch"] Wellington, at the Eagle high school in 1919.
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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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Wellington family plot, enclosed with chain link fencing, at the Edwards Cemetery in the fall of 1996.
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Friends posing for a photo at Gypsum, Colorado. From left: Esther Wellington [Klatt],Harriett Nelson, A. Anderson, and Helen Wells.
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c.1932: W. H. "Dad" Wellington shown in mail wagon, with his donkey, "Jack" standing next to the railroad crossing sign at Edwards. Lettuce shed is on the far left, with stacks of crates. Wellington hauled mail from the railroad to the Edwards Post Office twice a day for over 42 yrs.
"He has driven this route, carrying the mail for forty-four years, since May 13, 1895, without missing a single trip. He makes three each day. He calls his mule...
11. Hunting party
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Circa 1880s, hunting group including members of the Wellington Family, possibly in Kansas. Grandmother Wellington is the first woman on the left, Grandfather Wellington is on the far right. Gentleman in the center of the photo is holding a flintlock rifle.
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Marker for Horace Mason Wellington,1894--1895, Edwards Cemetery.
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Marker for C.A. "Jack" Wellington, 1886--1951, in the Edwards Cemetery.
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Marker for William H. Wellington, 1852--1945, Edwards Cemetery.
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Marker for William L. "Bill" Wellington, 1884--1966, Edwards Cemetery.
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Marker for Martha L. Wellington, 1858--1935, Edwards Cemetery.
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Marker for B.A. "Butch" Wellington, 1902--1982, at the Edwards Cemetery.
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Wellington family plot, enclosed with chain link fencing, at the Edwards Cemetery in the fall of 1996.
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1902, Grandmother Wellington, Lucia, Huldah, Dad Wellington, Grandfather Wellington. The two smaller girls in front are Esther and Edna Wellington. Dad's mother and father had come from Parsons, Kansas. Butch Wellington was born that November, 1902.
20. W. H. Wellington
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"The old mail carrier at Edwards, W. H. Wellington." -- Esther Klatt
"Dad" Wellington began carrying the mail between the post office in Edwards, Colorado, and the Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad station in Edwards on May 13, 1895. He was scheduled for 14 trips per week at a distance of 2,264 feet per trip, using his buckboard pulled by "Faithful Jack." Wellington claimed it was the only mule mail route in the United States."