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61) Booco Ranch
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"Members of the Booco family grouped by their cabins on Alkali Creek near Wolcott about 1920. From left to right: Isaac Booco, Cecil Terrell Playford and daughter, Grandmother Margaret Booco, Margaret Terrell, Mrs. Mary Booco, Jack, Billy, Gordon, Ben and Gern Booco." -- McCoy Memoirs p.185
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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WIlliam Henry "Bill" George was born April 21, 1850, in Cooper County, Missouri. His family moved to Valley View, Cooke County, Texas, to help his arthritis or rheumatism. While he was living in Valley View, Texas, Bill George met and married Charity Elizabeth "Libbie" Forster. They married on October 23, 1873, in Cooke County, Texas. -- The Gates Genealogy
Bill died in 1900 in Breckenridge, Colorado.
63) Pioneer Day 1974
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"Homecoming Day at McCoy, Colo., June 16, 1974." -- F.W. Ambos
Attendees of Pioneer Days are lined up for the potluck.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
64) Virginia Alvord
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Virginia Ann Burk Beam Alvord "made Eagle her home for many years, and operated restaurants in various locations of Eagle from the early days until during the '30s." [Eagle Valley Enterprise, July 31, 1969] She died in Colorado Springs July 28, 1969, just 18 days after her 91st birthday, while living with a daughter.
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The first Doll Brothers' house on the east side of Valley Rd. [Brightwater]. Lucy Doll is standing at the porch and there is a chicken in the yard.
66) Doll cabin
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The log cabin built by Frank and Lucy Doll in Dotsero and which was moved to Gypsum around 1890. Most likely Lucy and Frank on the porch with large crate and antlers.
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Studio photograph of Bird Crawford (Hockett) and her brothers. "Birdie" came to the Gypsum valley as a small girl with her parents. In 1898, she married Addison L. Hockett, member of another pioneer family. They had four daughters: Myrtie Stephens, Mary Margaret Robichaud, Arta Pharo, and Lucy Ronchetti.
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Franklin, Lucy and daughter Gretchen in a carriage at the Doll Brothers' ranch in the Gypsum Valley. The "Big Barn" is at the right in the picture.
69) Gypsum locals
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Inscription reads: "Pearce, Daggett, Jim, Polo, Schliff, Noecker."
[Good example of thumbprint on right side]
70) Elsie Elliott
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A photo of Elsie DaLee Elliott taken on May 15, 1909. Elsie DaLee was born in Red Cliff Sept. 12, 1891, daughter of Elizabeth DaLee and niece of Dora Griener. Elsie was educated in the Red Cliff schools and Mt. St. Scholastica Academy, Canon City. She married Joseph P. Elliott who died in 1928. They had four sons, Lee, Jack, George and Robert, and one daughter, Babe.
71) 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.
72) The Meyer Family
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Ralph and Rosanna Meyer pose with their children, Jake, Oscar, Minnie, and Gus.
73) Brett homestead
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Brett Homestead as it looked in October 1997. (Located near Edwards, Colorado)
74) Doll Children
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The children of Franklin and Lucy Slusser Doll, in a formal portrait photograph taken in Ohio. From left, Gretchen (white dress), Dorothy, Susan and Hiram Frank [Frankie].
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The first Doll Brothers' house on the east side of Valley Rd. [Brightwater]. View taken from the back of the house.
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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.
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"E. Nogal, Sneeve" [verso caption]
Should this caption be correct, we are looking at Edgar or Ernie [Arthur Earnest] Nogal holding the burro's reins. Charles and Rosetta Metheny Nogal, parents of these two, were early pioneers in Eagle in the late 1800s.
"Sneeve" might be Anthony Sneve, born in 1860 in Norway, who was the homesteader on the West Brush Creek ranch that is now Sylvan Lake State Park. Sneve was "fastidious in his manners and his person....
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"Pioneer Day at McCoy, August 18, 1968. [From left] Leilah and Perry Ault, John and Maude Ambos." -- McCoy Memoirs p.334
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Studio photograph of the John F. Brooks family taken in 1904. From left: John F. Brooks, Mrs. Brooks, Earl, Jessie, Hollis, twins Madgel [or Madjel] and Margie. John Jr. is not present in the photo.
"Mr. and Mrs. Earl (Elsie) Brooks, children Ethel and Bud; Earl's sister, Jessie, and brother, Hollis left Minnesota in the spring of 1913 to move to McCoy. Their father, J. F. Brooks, had purchased the famed McCoy Hotel and most of the land and improvements...
