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"Among the last to homestead on the Conger Mesa, Martin Schomers built the back part of this house in 1913, the same year that he and Pauline Johnson were married. They spent a part of their honeymoon here and during the ensuing years their three children were born. Others who lived here for short periods were Leonard and Maude Hudson and their two children; Helen and Darrell Ray; and Art and Helen Hudson and family. For many years, rats have been...
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"The Martin Schomers ranch, as it looked in December of 1919. It was the twenty-fifth of April before this snow was all gone." -- McCoy Memoirs, p. 263 [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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The John Ambos Ranch on Congor Mesa in the foreground with the Martin Schomers Ranch in the background. Martin Schomers was among the last to homestead on the Congor Mesa. "Schomers died of tick fever in May of 1940 after being ill only a short time. The children fell heir to his property but since two were still minors, the estate was not settled until 1944. During the intervening time Darrell Ray, who was married to Helen Schomers in 1939, operated...
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"A revival meeting at the McCoy Hall in 1916. In the back row of the group are: Florence Scrivens (a sister to Elsie Brooks), Reuben Stifel, Ed Robinson, Cora Mulnix, Mrs. Lovett, Gladys Mulnix, Perry Ault, Mr. and Mrs. Ed Bailey, Preacher Tom Smith, Mrs. Kibbler, Mary Walters, Lulu Horn, Elizabeth Ault, Inez Robinson, Hazel Skiff, Pauline Schomers, Frank Panting Jr., Frank Ault. The three young children are: Frank and Edna Mulnix and Leonard Horn. In...