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Fall cutting of alfalfa on the Pearch place using a two-horse team. There is a couple standing to the left of the horses, the woman holding a child on her hip. [Thomas Pearch was born in 1917 so it could be he.] A boy is seated on the seat of the cutter with a woman standing next to him.
Vern (Elmo Levern) Pearch was born in 1878 and came to Leadville in 1881. Several years later, he located a homestead on Squaw creek. "He was always interested...
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Barbara Gleason (Pearch) holding a doll in front of an automobile.
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Barbara Gleason (Pearch) grooming her horse.
"Louise: Did you do a lot of horseback riding?" Barbara: "I did when I could. I was spoiled rotten. I was twelve years old when they let me have a horse. Billy Tucker brought it down and gave it to me. It was a black mare and her colt that was old enough to wean, so I got the colt. ... My mare, when she grew up, had this beautiful gold colt. It was the first Palomino." -- Barbara Gleason Pearch: an Interview...
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Barbara Gleason (Pearch) with a friend and two dogs, sitting in a yard. "The home I remember myself was...a block behind the Methodist Church. The parking lot that they have at the Methodist Church was my folk's pasture. They kept a milk cow in there and when I got older, I had a horse [on Second Street right up from Howard]." -- Barbara Gleason Pearch: an Interview Conducted by Louise B. Walker Nov. 10, 1998, p.2
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An undated photo of Barbara and Tom Pearch, possibly a celebration of some sort.
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1900-1920: The Perch [sic.] house is now the oldest standing building on Squaw Creek. The log cabin structure, is shown in the snow.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Marker for Ruby Irene Pearch, November 20, 1899--Apr. 25, 1912, at the Edwards Cemetery. Ivy is engraved at the left top corner of the marker and the inscription on top of the marker: Gone but not forgotten.
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Tom Pearch and Barbara Gleason standing on a church lawn on Sept. 16, 1947. They were married November 9, 1947 in Eagle. [Her obituary says Nov. 9, her oral history says Sept. 16] Tom was raised on Squaw Creek. He worked as a heavy equipment operator at Camp Hale and Climax but was probably most known for his work as an auctioneer.
In 1950, Tom and Barbara bought the Bert Billings house on Brush Creek so that they could have horses and live out...
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Tom and Barbara Pearch in Glenwood Springs, July 1979.
"Barbara kept books for Koonce Chevrolet and sold show tickets in the evening for John Greve at the Eagle Theater. She worked for the Independent Lumber Company from 1941-51. She then went to work for Mr. Hubbard in the Abstract Office until she retired in 1975." -- Eagle Valley Enterprise, Apr. 3, 2007 p.A9
12) Trailride
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Trailride. Photo processed on July 8, 1932. Possibly a ride to Notch Mountain
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Barbara Gleason (Pearch) and friend standing next to an automobile. The west side of Broadwas street in Eagle is visible in the background.
