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School picture of the 3rd and 4th grades, Golden, Colorado, 1903-1904. Agatha Ebert, Florence and Josephine Kayser, Carl Schrupp and John Ambos are in this photo, previous to relocating in the McCoy area. Back row: Viola Nixon, Agatha Ebert, Ida Youngwall, Amy Harris, Mary Eldridge, -----, Laura Morton, Amanda Rue, Stella Reed, Ida Bently, Lena Grass, Florence Kayser, Josephine Kayser, Mabel Mathews, Flossie Couch, Lily Youngwall Middle row: Percy...
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The Conger Mesa Ditch crew, lined up and ready for work in 1922. They are standing in front of their horses holding shovels; a dog is at far right. From Left: Ed Schrupp, Martin Theisen, Warren Henry, Martin Schomers, Joe Tuyls.
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Students and teacher at Conger Mesa School, December 1912. From left, Marie Theisen, Ed Schrupp, Cecil Gray, Emma Theisen, Katherine Ebert, John Ambos, Mary Ebert, Kate Pound (teacher), Ethel Gray, Lena and Emma Schrupp. [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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"About 1916 on the Conger Mesa. Lillian Johannbroer, Mary and Katherine Ebert, Leona White (a school teacher), Lena Schrupp and Minnie Ambos." -- McCoy Memoirs, p. 259 Phot taken by Ferdinand Ambos. [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Two hands are picking up potatoes and throwing them on the sorter, which is pulled by a horse. Ed Schrupp is at the back of the sorter, filling sacks. Other horses and sorters are seen at right background. [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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"These hunters were camped on Black Creek, ten miles north-east of McCoy in 1912. They are: Rudolph Ebert, Carl Schrupp, Ernest Werner and Fritz Arendt. The photo by Martin Schomers. At that date, it's doubtful if any one of the group possessed a hunting license. Note the grouse hanging on the tree, one of the reasons that grouse, once so plentiful in those days, are so scarce now." -- McCoy Memoirs, p.11 Photo postcard. [Title supplied from...
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Five men posing for their photograph in front of parked automobiles at McCoy. "McCoy 1918. Harry Groh, Lee Brown, Martin Schomers, Carl Schrupp and ?" -- McCoy Memoirs p.125 [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Studio portrait of Lena Schrupp Anderson and her son, Melvin, taken in 1921 (from verso of photo). "Lena was first married to Bill Anderson, a son of "shorty" Anderson in 1922, their marriage failed and Lena later married Eric Smith, an Episcopalian minister, in 1927. Rev. Smith died in 1969 and Lena, who is the mother of two children, Melvin and Elizabeth, is presently living in Denver." -- McCoy Memoirs, p. 226 [Title supplied from catalog prepared...
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1920 McCoy baseball team, from left to right: Jack Booco, Gern Booco, Wymer Dixon, Ralph Kayser, Ted Harris, Bill Babcock, Early Brooks, Bill Babcock Jr., Carl Schrupp and Frank McCalister. "The first ball park was just north of the Salt Well where the sage brush had been grubbed out and the ground leveled. ... Later the ball park was moved to the extremem lower end of Conger Mesa on Louise Schrupp's acres and a short distance from the McCoy Depot."...
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A studio portrait of the Schrupp family taken in Golden, Colorado, 1901. Mr. and Mrs. Ed Schrupp and family of six: Carl, Louise, Edward, Lena, Emma and Minnie. "Ed Schrupp,his wife, Philomene and their six children came from Golden where he had been employed by Coors Brewery. He had filed on a homestead on the extreme south end of Conger Mesa.... Mr. Schrupp built a cabin on his own homestead but it wasn't occupied until 1905. The Schrupp children...
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"Built in 1915, this house on the Schrupp ranch replaced the homestead cabin of 1905 which was much too small for a large family. After Mrs. Schrupp's death in 1913, the older children began leaving home one at a time until Mr. Schrupp passed away in 1938. Henry Schrupp then operated the ranch until Charley and Josephine Ray bought it and lived here before selling the ranch to Raymond Horn, many years later. Since then, the house has remained vacant."...
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Equipment and household goods auction on April 17, 1965. Charley and Josephine Ray sold the former Schrupp ranch to Raymond Horn, making him one of the largest land owners in the area. Photo on p. 226 of McCoy Memoirs. [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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"The first school on the Conger Mesa was held in a small cabin on the Schrupp ranch in 1911. The second one was held in this log house built by John Conger in 1892 and abandoned by him a few years later. The building was none too warm and the school furnishings crude but after seven years without a school, no one complained. The building served as a school until a frame building was built in a more central location in 1916. In the fall of 1912...
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"Stacking alfalfa hay with a Mormon stacker on the Conger Mesa Schrupp ranch in 1912. In those days, after hay was cut and raked it was first put in shocks and when ready to be stacked it was loaded on slips or wagons with a fork after hay slings had been placed on the bed of the slip or wagon. Arriving at the stack yard, the stacker, operated by the same horses that brought in the load, picks up the sling load of hay, raises and swings it around...
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"The Conger Mesa School of 1917 was a new frame building located about a half mile north east of the Conger cabin. Some of the earlier settlers of McCoy had never expected this to come about, after their predictions that the Conger Mesa Ditch would go broke and leave. In this school group are, in the back row, Earl Abbett, Martha White (the teacher), Ruth Henry, Katherine Ebert, Florence Henry and Lillian Johannbroer. In front, Roger Butler, Frank...