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Mamie and Tera Miller, posing for a photograph at their Bellyache homestead.
82) The Automobile
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Caption: "Joseph Washington Edwards with Joe, Esther, and Lois."
"I was the middle child. My brother, Joseph K. Edwards was born on Bellyache in 1924. He was killed in WW II. My sister, Lois Elaine Edwards, was born on Bellyache in 1927. She died in 1985. Lois married Robert W. Kirk in Colorado Springs in 1945. I had a brother, Richard ("Dickey") born after they left Bellyache. He died in 1936 in LaJunta, Colorado, at age 5." -- Esther Rogers,...
83) The Layton Home
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The home of Jack & Ella Layton in Eagle, Colorado. The Laytons arrived in the Eagle Valley around 1890.
84) The Laytons
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The Laytons, Jack and Ella, in front of their home in Eagle, Colorado. Appears to on Capital Street, next to Ping (Nogal) Hotel. The Laytons were early homesteaders in the Eagle Valley and were active in mining and ranching.
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Caption: "Tera Miller and his father and mother at our home on Bellyache Mtn., Eagle County, Colorado."
86) Thomas Family
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The Thomas Family standing in front of the upper homestead.
Mabel, Charlie and Cliff in foreground; parents Mary and John behind them. Used on p. 47 of Beaver Creek: the first one hundred years, by June Simonton.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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The original Thomas homestead in Beaver Creek (Upper Neck). Standing in front of the house, from left to right: unknown man, John ThomasMabel and Mary (mother), Thomas (standing) Cliff and Charley Thomas seated in Front, Aunt and Uncle (Tom) Norris.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
88) Threshing oats
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"Threshing oats by a group that moved equipment from farm to farm near Eagle, Colo" - Alda Borah. Dated 1915.
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Topo map of Hernage Creek with the homestead on Hernage Creek marked in red. "I think it would be best to label this as 'homestead on Hernage Creek' rather than 'Hernage Homestead.' I checked the patent records and they do not indicate that Henry Hernage homesteaded this specific parcel. Rather, he homesteaded clser to the mouth of Brush Creek. ... Location: T5S R84W Sec. 21, NW1/4 SW1/4 A patent search indicated the earliest record on this property...
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An unidentified picture from the Michael Family Collection. Several barns and buildings are visible; two men, one on a horse, are at midground. The Michael family owned and operated Eagle Valley Feed Mill in Eagle, Colorado, between 1912 and 1920.
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Leo Daugherty works a horse-drawn hay rake (?) on the Borah farm in Eagle.
