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Jessica Kline of the Porchlight Players, portraying Anna Norgaard during the Gypsum Cemetery Tour July 16, 2011. The tour was sponsored by the Town of Gypsum in celebration of Gypsum's Centennial, held July 9-17, 2011. The Porchlight Players, a local drama group, portrayed interesting citizens of the town buried in Cedar Hill Cemetery.
Anna Helen Schmidt Norgaard was born January 21, 1847, in Osterlendidt, Denmark. She died January 28, 1937. SHe...
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Friends and family gathered to celebrate Edna and Sam Lemon's 50th wedding anniversary. Edna (in dark dress) and Sam are seated on the left couch; Edna's brother, Carl Stewart, and his wife Doris are seated on the righ couch.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Wedding portrait of Mr. and Mrs. Hans P. Oleson (Grace A. Wolverton) November 29, 1905.
"Hans P. Olesen [Oleson] was one of the pioneer citizens of the Eagle River valley. With his brothers, he settled in the county in the eighties, as a young man. For many years, he has been one of the foremost cattle raisers and ranchers in the county. He owns one of the largest irrigated areas of farm land under one head in the valley, located on the Eagle River,...
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1904 Formal portrait of Mr. and Mrs. Julius P. Oleson. Julius Peter Oleson was born Feb. 16, 1876, Schleswig-Holstein, Denmakr, and came to the United States in 1889. In 1902, he entered the mercantile business in Gypsum, Colorado, until the time of his death in 1958. In 1904, he married Iva Beck, and they had three children, Harry A., Christine and Mabel. --Eagle Valley Enterprise, Obituary, June 1958
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Formal photograph of Myrtle Staup Borah, taken in a parlor with a piano. Myrtle married L. J. Borah (son of Jake Borah) on Dec. 27, 1912. She died in San Bernardino, California, in March 1955.
26) Orgish home
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"After Paul and Frieda Orgish sold their McCoy ranch (Stifel place) they moved to Gypsum where they bought a tract of ground near the Cottonwood road junction, and built this house on it, themselves." -- McCoy Memoirs p.167
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Studio portrait of Rosa (Rosamond) and Myrtle Skiff. Myrtle is seated and Rosa is standing next to her sister. The girls are wearing lace collars.
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Studio portrait of Rosamond Skiff Coombs and Harvey N. Coombs.
Eagle Valley Enterprise Dec. 3, 1948 p.1: "Mr. Coombes [sic.] was one of the early settlers of Eagle county, coming in with the laying of the railroad following the work from Red Cliff to Gypsum. In Gypsum he met and married Rosamund M. Skiff on Dec. 11, 1895, and the couple spent their married life together in Eagle and Garfield counties."
Mr. Coombs was buried in Fairview Cemebery...
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Sam Lemon and his brother-in-law, Carl Stewart, seated on rocks. Outbuilding in background.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
30) Skiff Family
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Francis M. and Mary Elizabeth Edson Skiff and their children.
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Edna Stewart Lemon on horseback at left, Madeline Winifred Lemon on horseback at right (probably 4-6 years old). In between them is Laura Josephine Lemon, Madeline's grandmother. They are riding on the Stewart family homestead land at Sweetwater, Colorado.
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The Bobson family standing next to the Colorado River in Glenwood Canyon. Parents, Anna Ryden Bobson and Sigurd Bobson are standing behind Edmund Bobson and Alvin (left to right).
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[Information taken from "The Margaret A. Downing Branch of the Lauffer Family," prepared by Blanche Tracy Kyes in June 1989, and provided by John Flynn.]
Ma: Margaret A. Lauffer, married on Sept. 20, 1872, to James Madison Downing in Guthrie County, Iowa.
Pa: James "Jim" Madison Downing, born in Cedar County, Iowa, and died March 21, 1937, in Marble, Colorado. "Jim Downing, considered to be one of the 'most fearless' bear hunters in the Rockies."...
