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Thanks to Lois Blacker, added a page on the Pleasant Valley school, which her mother Elsie Wheeler taught in 1923, a photo and information to Vernon's businesses where her parents Max and Elsie Ross had a hardware store in the 1930's, a short page on the Ross and Wheeler families, and 1943 Wray High School photos.
Added a photo to the history on 1930's rural schools , In this page is a description of the Thomas School by Ralph Walchle, who also provided the photograph.
Added a page on the Timberlake family of Weld City. They lived on the Phillips County border, and he was Phillips County school superintendent and later U.S. Congressman. He hosted one of the first Old Settlers Day celebrations.
Added a page on the Parke family of Weld City-
Added a page on the Heinrichs family of Kirk-
Added a page on the Varney family of Weld City and Yuma-
Added a page on the Turney family of Weld City and Yuma-
Added a page on the Baxter family of Kirk-
Added a page on the Nikkel family of Kirk-
Added a page on the Williams family of Ford-
Added a page on the Southards family of Kirk-
Added a page on Elizabeth Keen of Yuma - She wasn't a pioneer, but probably the most travelled of any resident. In 1930's China, she worked one evening as a "taxi dancer" in a Shanghai bar.
Mrs. Lois Blacker donated postcards of Wray Flirtation Point , View from the cliffs , and a 1911-1914 view of Vernon
She also contributed a book with many photos - one of which includes the grade school I attended Pleasant Valley
Added some photos to the Kirk school athletics page, thanks to Dallas Riedesel..
Added a page on the Joslin family of Wages
Added a page on the Schmidt family of Wages
Added a page on the Baker sisters of Wages
Added a page on the Gerstenschlager family of Wages.
Added a page on the Knabe family of Wages.
Added a page on the Hinman family of Wages.
Added a page on the Holland family of Wages.
Added a page on the Yates family of Wages.
Added a page on the Clarkson family of Wages.
Added a page on the Brugh family of Friend /Idalia- They didn't stay for a census. Two sons, at least, went to school at Friend. One, Spangler Brugh, moved back to Nebraska, became a doctor, and his son Arlington Sprngler Brugh moved to Hollywood. You know him as Robert Taylor - yes, the one who married Barbara Stanwyck.
Revised the page on the Silvius family of Heartstrong. Thanks to Don Silvius for the scans of some nice photos
Added a page on the Old Settlers celebrations in Eckley.
Added a page on the Ball family of Yuma- Ended up a prominent banking family in Las Vegas, Nevada
Added a page on the Williams family of Weld City- One of the early cash-claims
Added a page on the Varney family of Weld City-
Added a page on the Turney family of Weld City-
Added a page on the Shockley family of Weld City- where the Pleasant Valley church is now located
Added a page on the Pitt family of Weld City-
Added a page on the Lewis family of Weld City-
Added a page on the Conner family of Weld City-
Added a page on the Bedea family of Weld City-
Added a page on Roudy Cole of Weld City- He got a patent in 1907 for a "Moving Picture Machine"
Added a page on the Ward family of Yuma-
Added a page on the Barnes family of Laird
Added a page on the Werning family of Laird
Added a page on the Scofield family of Kirk-
Added a page on the Heinrichs family of Kirk-
Added a page on the Stevens family of Vernon
Added a page on the Kolk family of Eckley - they came from the Netherlands. A grand-nephew living there sent some photographs.
Added a page on the Beach family of Eckley. As my wife says "Everybody in Yuma County is related."
Added a page on the Silvius family of Eckley.
Added a page on the Higgins family of Happyville and Abarr. Four brothers and one sister came to Yuma County
Added a page on the three Fowler Sisters of Laird.
Added a page on the Mealey family of Laird.
Added a page on the Houtchens family of Laird.
Added a page on Nell Bullard of Wray
Added a page on the James and Mary Lay family of Wray . - Son Elza Lay was the planner for Butch Cassidy's robberies - they rode together for ten years. Elza reformed after a prison term in New Mexico, and ended up in Los Angeles.. He was much closer to Butch than anyone else, but as one descendant said
"Who would go see a movie called 'Butch Cassidy and Elza Lay !'"
Updated the Bowden page of Pleasant Valley. - including photographs of young Chester and his infant son Walter
Added a page on the Castle family of Waverly. - one daughter homesteaded, then she and her sister worked fifty years for the Sinton family and their dairy in Colorado springs.
Added a page on John Y. Eckman of Weld City. - the first Old Settlers Day was held at his ranch in far north Yuma County.
Added a page on John's stepson Raleigh Wilson . - he enlisted in the WWI Army with a Wages address, and had a long career as a circus clown.
Added a page on the Hjelm family of Weld City. - Her husband died soon after their son was born, but she proved-up the claim, and the son became a prominent doctor in Akron, Ohio.
Added a page on William Granville Logsdon and Charles Logsdon of Weld City. - Would like some confirmation that this Charles Logsdon is the one that ended up in Abilene, Texas.
Added a page on the enterprising 'Alf' McNichols of Weld City - He also hosted an Old Settlers Day celebration, and his son Bert was the organizer of the Yuma Cemetery.
Added a page on the Isaac McGee family of Weld City. - most probably the source of the McGee / Magee precinct name.
Added a page on the Benjamin Metz family of Waverly and Weld City . - two sons were fine baseball players for Yuma - and one later played for a company team in Trinidad.
Added a page on the Newell family of Wray . - He built the first business in Wray - the Sod Hotel, and later operated it.
Added a page on Nell Bullard of Wray . - Long-time editor of the Wray Gazette - obituary from the Denver Post
Added a page on the Spelts family of Ford . - early members of the Pleasant Valley church, with many of the family buried in the cemetery.
Added a page of 1899 Wray School History.
Added a page on Leona Kent of Pleasant Valley. - she didn't stay long enough to even appear on a census.
Added a page on Seborn Elliott of Pleasant Valley. Seborn is buried in next-door Phillips County, but none of his descendants remained. His clan included the Herbough / Herbaugh, Hatheway/Hathaway families
Added a page on Abraham Brower and clan of Pleasant Valley.
Abraham was born in 1814 - so might be the oldest recorded burial. According to the newspaper article, he was buried on the farm next to ours, but I never heard of it. And like Seborn Elliott, none of his descendants remained in Yuma County.
Added a page on Commons family of Pleasant Valley. They, too, left -
Added a page on Mary and Paul Routon of Pleasant Valley. Mary, a widow, homesteaded. Her son Paul, settled next to her and died at age 28.
Added a page on the Edman Family of Eckley.
and a page on the Gardner Family of Eckley. Their daughter married Minor Edman.
and a page on the Cowan Family of Eckley. After Minor Edman died, his widow married Jesse Cowan..
and a page on George Weed and Ida Allbert of Yuma. After George Weed died, his widow married the Governor of Kansas.
Added a page on GoldStar Gordon P. Bullock - born in Wray in 1920 - moved to California with parents Guy and Anna BANCROFT Bullock Gunner on a 1943 Pacific flight.
Added a page of a 1901 Birthday party in Wray. One of the young ladies assisting at the party was Ann Bancroft.
Added a page of 1900 Wray students - all grades..
Added a page of the strange story of William Doling and Elizabeth Lovejoy..
Added a page of World War II Rations - from Dallas Riedesel .
Added a page on Daisy Buchanan of Yuma .
Added a page on the Nelson family of Yuma .
Added a page on the Co-operative Creamery Yuma .
And my mother-in-law passed away September 1 - she would have been 100 in November.
Added a page of 1913 Rebekah meeting .
Added a page of 1923 Wray City Council.
Added a short article on the 1902 Vernon Methodist church.
Added a page of 1909 County High School..
Added a page of 1903 teachers from six counties..
Added a page of 1908 County Fair .
Put another version of Yuma Cemetery Listing. this one is in location order, so you can see who's buried next to whom.
Added a page with a few names of Wray people in 1917 who contributed to the Y.M.C.A..
Added some more info to the page on the Condon family..
Put another version of Grandview Cemetery Listing. - Wray - this one is in location order, so you can see who's buried next to whom.
Added a page with a few names of Wray young people in 1922 at a Card Party.
Added some info on Harold Nathan Funk to the Funk family of Wray . Harold was a WWII and Korea pilot - Navy Cross, DFC.
Updated the list of Veterans buried in Yuma County
April 2012 -
Thanks to Charlotte Smith and the East Yuma Cemetery District Grandview Cemetery Listing. - Wray
Started a page on the Funk family of Wray
Added a photo of a crop outside Yuma. with some of the 1910 buildings
March 2012 -
Added a photo of Eckley train depot.
Added photos of Wray in 1954. including two aerial views.
Started a page on Ken and Ethel Powell of Wray.
Added a page on the First National Bank of Yuma about 1920.
Added a page on Albert and Mary Fieber Pagel of Yuma .
February 2012 -
Added a 1912 list of teachers from six counties - those attending a "Normal" training in Wray.
Started a page on the Sullivan family of Wray.
Added a photo of Water standpipe- Yuma .
January 2012 -
Must be January, 'cuz Dallas has sent some more photos
Added a 1928 photo of Kirk High School students
Added a 1928 photo of Kirk Elementary students
Added a 1930's photo (this one is a duplicate, but has the handwritten names) of Kirk students
Added a list of Wray Teachers 1909
December 2011 -
The primary creator of Bugs Bunny, Foghorn Leghorn, and the Tasmanian Devil
lived in both Wray and Yuma - Robert McKimson
Added a 1922 list of School Boards
Added a 1922 list of Eighth Grade graduates
Added a 1917 list of draftees
Added a 1899 list of Wray absences
November 2011 -
Added more photos to the page on 1930 Yuma resident David E. Berkey
Added a 1914 "perfect attendance list" for Yuma elementary students
Just to keep it even, added the Wray graduation of 1899
AND 1900
Even Eckley eighth grade graduation of 1923
Added the Wray graduation of 1906
Added the Yuma graduation of 1912
Added the Laird eighth grade graduation of 1914
Added a 1912 article on Center Precinct
October 2011 -
Updated the list of Veterans buried in Yuma County. - beginning to be more females with WWII nurses and WAC's - removed one from Yuma cemetery - he had the same name as a Logan County WWII veteran.
Added photos of 1920-1930 Yuma resident David E. Berkey
Added an obituary for an adopted granddaughter of Mattie Silks and a rocking horse given to Sam Shafer by Cort Thompson
September 2011 -
Added a page on George Armstrong Custer YES THE LITTLE BIG HORN ONE, and his Yuma County experiences..
Added a page on the storied madam Mattie Silks and her Yuma County experiences..
Added a narrative on 1930's rural schools by Jennie OMAN Monk , . I waited until her death to make it public.
August 2011 -
Added 1929-1939 Kirk basketball photos , thanks to Elva Rainey
Updated the list of Veterans buried in Yuma County. with the death of cousin "Sonny" Josh
Thanks to Janet Ann Newbanks, 1950's photos of Pleasant Valley get-togethers.
Thanks to Janet Ann Newbanks, 1930s photo of Wages Church. HELP with any names !
Added a 1920's ranch photo to the William Romkee page, thanks to Dallas Riedesel
Thanks to Janet Ann Newbanks, added photos to Pleasant Valley Church.
Thanks to Dave Smith, 1902 wedding photo of Thomas and Olive (Stallings) Smith.
Linked to two Yuma Pioneer articles about the Yuma Cemetery beginnings. - reached from On-Line Data page.
July 2011 -
Thanks to the West Yuma Cemetery Board, updated listing of the Yuma Cemetery .
Dallas Riedesel has generously volunteered to look up names in the Kirk Panther high school yearbooks from the late 1930's dallas1056@comcast.net
Added a 1936 teacher photo to the Kirk place page, thanks to Dallas
June 2011 -
Added a photo of Men and Mules working .
Added a photo of B.M Wear Real Estate - Yuma .
Added two photos to Yuma Main Street (Weld Avenue) .
Added three photos of Yuma 1920's-1930's rainwater .
Added a photo of Yuma Lutheran Church .
Added some description to a street scene Wray Kiowa Street .
Updated the list of Veterans buried in Yuma County.
Added Wray 1913 view.
May 2011 -
Added more photos to the Hanson Friend family
Added more articles to the Kirk place page, including a diary of the 1906 trek from Waverly Kansas to Kirk
Added an article about the Idler Cemetery near Kirk
April 2011 -
Added a photo of the farm northwest of Yuma of Frank Ewart.
Added a photo of the farm near Wages of John and Mary Felderman.
Updated the list of Veterans buried in Yuma County.
March 2011 -
Added a photo of a Yuma Methodist Sunday School Class.
Added a link to my grandmother Cynthia Ann WOODWARD Monk of Waverly and Pleasant Valley
Added a photo of the Methodist Ladies Aid Martha Washington tea.
Added a photo of the James Brophy family of Eckley/Waverly
Added a search engine to the main page. It might necessitate some work - we'll see. I suspect it won't index the material in the USGenWeb Archives.
Added an article to the Dr. James Garcia family of Idalia
Added three photos of Yuma garages.
Added a photo of the Yuma flour mill.
February 2011 -
Might well name it "Dallas Riedesel Month" with all the photos he's given us!
Added photo of Ervin Riedesel.standing by Joe Strick's Twin Cities tractor.
Added photos of the Conrad family of Idalia
Added photos of the Elliott family of Wray
Added photos of the Groves family of Wray
Added photos of the Dr. James Garcia family of Idalia
Added photos of three WWI Kirk soldiers
Added photos of William (Wilhelm) Friedhofer of Kirk
Added an unknown "Wray group"
Added some description and better pictures for Albert Graham - Thanks to Robert Guy of Oshkosh, Nebraska
Added photos of Chester and Effie Bowden of Waverly. You might try playing the video clip.
January 2011
Added Wray Sod Hotel 1886.
Lee Zion's mother-in-law passed away mid-January.
And also my mother Jennie Monk - who I'll always contend was the last of the "homestead kids"
Added some pictures for Albert Graham - will add more photos and information when time permits
Added some pictures for Chester Long - after the 1930 snow storm
December 2010
Updated the list of Veterans buried in Yuma County.
Unpleasant discovery that usgenweb has changed the names of almost all its Archive material for Yuma County. If a link doesn't work, please let me know - and in the interim use the usgenweb menu.
November 2010
Updated the list of Veterans buried in Yuma County.
Changed email address for contributor Stephen Schneider stephen1959@windstream.net and added his Davisson pioneers to the Surname Registry.
October 2010
Added a downtown Wray postcard .
Updated the list of Veterans buried in Yuma County.
September 2010
Added a history of the Pleasant Valley Church at its 100th anniversary.
Updated the list of Veterans buried in Yuma County.
Updated the Researchers Surname Registry. with the Shumaker and Donaho names
August 2010
Added two photographs and diploma for Gold Star Howard McCalmont
Updated the list of Veterans buried in Yuma County.
Added a map to Bryant school district. School was a little west of Clarkville
July 2010
Updated Gold Star Bobby Workman
Updated email on the D. B Cumley family
Updated Gold Star Howard McCalmont
June 2010
Updated the list of Veterans buried in Yuma County.
Added list of South Bryant students 1929.
May 2010
Added a surname to the Migrations page.
Added an article on the Yuma livery stables.
Updated the list of Veterans buried in Yuma County.
Added a little information to James Dudgeon of Idalia
May 13 - Roberta "Birdie" MONK Holsclaw passed away. Her father William Woodward Monk was born and grew up north of Eckley. Her mother Arliss was one of the first certified genealogists in Colorado, and they both did research, writing, and lecturing for many years..
April 2010
Added photographs of the Idalia Flour Mill.
Updated the list of Veterans buried in Yuma County.
Updated the Researchers Surname Registry.
March 2010
Added a book on the Ida Hutton family of Kirk
Updated the list of Veterans buried in Yuma County.
Added a photo of James Dudgeon of Idalia
February 2010
Yuma County has digitized old tax rolls - available in Treasurer's office - added that info to Resource page
Updated the list of Veterans buried in Yuma County.
Added more photos to the Hanson Friend family - Thanks, Kimble !
Updated the Researchers Surname Registry.
January 2010
Added photos of the CB&Q train depot in Yuma and a train by the Yuma water tank in 1886
Added photos of downtown Yuma Weld Avenue
Updated the list of Veterans buried in Yuma County. Added some photos and newspaper clippings to GoldStar Dee Friend Martin
Added photos of the Hanson Friend family and house near Clarkville.
Added photos of the Ford Church near Clarkville.
Added photo of Yuma church, residences, and standpipe.
Added a listing of burials in St. John's Cemetery near Idalia.
Changed the link (Geocities closed !) to the Kirk Cemetery at http://reocities.com/Heartland/creek/3120/CO/yuma/kirkcemetery.htm
December 2009
Updated the list of Veterans buried in Yuma County.
November 2009
Revised the description of the memorial marker for the Talley grave.
Corrected some links - needed because of the changes in the ColoradoGenWeb site structure.
October 2009
Moved this site to the Colorado GenWeb server, after a series of hacker disruptions on the previous server.
Updated the list of Veterans buried in Yuma County.
September 2009
Added photos of the Beehler Electrical in Yuma and KGEK Radio - the third station in Colorado
Added a photo and obituary for Edward Olsen a Gold Star Veteran.
Updated the list of Veterans buried in Yuma County.
August 2009
Added photos of the Shaw families (on the Arickaree north of Joes) to our Pioneer photos.
Updated the list of Veterans buried in Yuma County.
July 2009
Added a page for Houston Graves, a Confederate private killed in Arkansas in 1862, and the burial site unknown. A marker is next to his son's grave in the Kirk cemetery.
Added a photo of Sipple Oil of Yuma.
Updated the list of Veterans buried in Yuma County.
June 2009
Updated the list of Veterans buried in Yuma County.
May 2009
Updated the list of Veterans buried in Yuma County.
April 2009
Updated the list of Veterans buried in Yuma County.
One inquiry regarding a photo from the 1920 Landowner directory, with a compliment on the original patent maps.
March 2009
Updated the list of Veterans buried in Yuma County.
February 2009
Added one surname, new email address on another.
Updated the list of Veterans buried in Yuma County.
January 2009
Added a history of the community of Friend courtesy of the Wilcoxen family.
Added photographs of the 1930 Idalia Grade School and High School students.
December 2008
Added one surname, and updated email address on another.
Updated the list of Veterans buried in Yuma County.
November 2008
Agreed to take on Kit Carson County - if you have Kit Carson roots you might consider adopting it.
Changed the Colorado Genweb logo - the designer of the logo has withdrawn permission to use it
Updated the list of Veterans buried in Yuma County.
October 2008
Added a history and photo of the Independence School (between Wray and Eckley) to our School photos.
Updated the list of Veterans buried in Yuma County.
September 2008
Added photos of the Cox family (southeast of Yuma) to our Pioneer photos.
Updated the list of Veterans buried in Yuma County.
August 2008
Added photos of Brownsville (south of Yuma) and Dr. Brown to our Pioneer photos. Updated veterans list.
July 2008
We are saddened by the untimely death of Lee Zion, the creator of the Yuma and Washington County web sites. Lee, with his talent and generosity, built one of the best genealogical and historical resources in the nation.
June 2008
Jun 12 - Updated the Researchers Surname Registry.
Jun 2 - Added a Clarence and Edith Cassens page to our Pioneer photos section.
May 2008
May 26 - Added a class photograph from the Yuma High class of 1925.
May 26 - Updated the list of Veterans buried in Yuma County. Added a photo of CPT Palmrose's military marker to his Gold Star page.
May 23 - Added three photographs of M.J. Wagey elevators to our Unknown Photos. Your help would be appreciated!
May 16 - Added the Beecher Island townsite to the land patent map of T2SR43W.
May 10 - Added a photograph of the 1910 Gummer School north of Yuma.
May 9 - Updated the list of Veterans buried in Yuma County.
May 7 - Added my Beecher Island pages from the defunct YCHS website.
April 2008
Apr 17 - Added a circa 1915 postcard showing the interior of the Yuma Mercantile Co to our photo collection.
Apr 15 - Updated the list of Veterans buried in Yuma County.
March 2008
Mar 20 - Updated the list of Veterans buried in Yuma County.
Mar 14 - Moved these pages to a new home. Still updating links so if you spot any that are broken let me know!
Mar 6 - Updated the list of Veterans buried in Yuma County.
February 2008
Feb 27 - Updated the list of Veterans buried in Yuma County.
Feb 21 - Updated the list of Veterans buried in Yuma County.
Feb 19 - Updated the Researcher's Surname Registry.
Feb 14 - Updated the list of Veterans buried in Yuma County.
Feb 7 - Updated the list of Veterans buried in Yuma County.
January 2008
Jan 14 - Received Obits from Wray and Yuma Vol 31 (1999) from Pat Oestman.
Jan 3 - Updated the list of Veterans buried in Yuma County.
Jan 1 - Updated the Researchers Surname Registry.
December 2007
Dec 27 - Updated the Researcher's Surname Registry.
Dec 21 - Added a postcard photo of an early Yuma school to our Pioneer photos collection.
Dec 13 - Updated the list of Veterans buried in Yuma County.
November 2007
Nov 30 - Updated the list of Veterans buried in Yuma County.
Nov 15 - Updated the list of Veterans buried
in Yuma County.
Added
a photo to Capt.
Clayton Palmrose Gold Star page.
Nov 7 - Updated the list of Veterans buried in Yuma County.
October 2007
Oct 27 - Added photos of the John Riedesel 1898 rock house to the collection.
Oct 24 - Added a new photo to our unknown collection that we need your
help with.
Please
look at: WWI
Soldiers in Vernon.
Oct 16 - Updated the list of Veterans Buried in Yuma County.
September 2007
Sep 29 - Updated the list of Veterans Buried in Yuma County.
Sep 18 - Updated the Researcher's Surname Registry.
Sep 15 - Added a Gold Star memorial page for Capt. Clayton E. Palmrose, US Army.
Sep 13 - Updated the list of Veterans buried in Yuma County.
August 2007
Aug 30 - Updated the list of Veterans buried in Yuma County.
Aug 27 - Added an index to the obits in Marion Knowles (Knowles Morturary) 1918-1932 Scrapbook.
Aug 26 - Screened these pages for broken links and added
my alternate email address 
Aug 6 - Added the Hosea and Ethel (Chase) Cotterell Davis family of Armel to our Pioneers section.
Aug 4 - Added the Leslie and Malinda Chase family of Armel to our Pioneers section.
Aug 2 - Added photos of the Sarah Hicks and Russell Hicks families to our Pioneers section.
Aug 1 - Added two more Eckley photos to our vintage photos section.
July 2007
Jul 28 - Added a Burr and Olive (Stuck) Glenn Family page to our Pioneers section. Updated the list of Veterans buried in Yuma Co.
Jul 19 - Updated the list of Veterans buried in Yuma Co.
Jul 10 - Updated the Researcher's Surname Registry.
Jul 9 - Added a circa 1915 Sam Soper Restaurant, Eckley, photo and added a photo to the 1924 Eureka school, Eckley page.
Jul 5 - Added a circa 1935 Wray Main postcard to our photo collection.
This page was created and copyrighted by Lee Zion.
