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Jasper Johnson

The Jamison Family - IV of V

Wednesday, February 21, 2024

The Children of John and Margaret Ralston Jamison Hannah Rebecca Jamison Johnson Hannah Rebecca Jamison, the youngest child of John and Margaret Ralston Jamison was born in 1847 and traveled with her family from Pennsylvania to Illinois and then onto Colorado.

Elizabeth Jamison Bartlett with children Courtesy Photo

The Jamison Family - III of V

Cheryl Johnson Huban

Wednesday, February 14, 2024

The Children of John and Margaret Ralston Jamison Martha Jamison Pollock Martha was born in 1833 in Pennsylvania and moved to Illinois with her family. Her husband David S. Pollock was born in Canada twenty years before Martha.

Evangaline Eakins Medill Courtesy Photo

The Jamison Family - II of V

Cheryl Johnson Huban

Wednesday, February 7, 2024

After John Jamison’s Death In 1870 Margaret Ralston Jamison signed the petition to form the First Presbyterian Church in Pueblo. By 1872, David and Martha Jamison Pollock had arrived in Pueblo County from Iowa with their children.

John Jamison tombstone Courtesy Photo

The Jamison Family - I of V

Cheryl Johnson Huban

Wednesday, January 31, 2024

One of the earliest families to settle near what became Rye; this family struggled to make a living off the land. The Jamison children grew up and intermarried with other early Rye settlers. The patriarch, John, was the first person to be buried in what became Brookside Cemetery.

Mille Black Higgason Williams Courtesy Photo

William H. ‘ Bill’ Higgason

Cheryl Johnson Huban

Wednesday, January 24, 2024

William H. ‘Bill’ Higgason The Higgason homestead land was along the south side of what is now Colorado Highway 165 on the west end of Colorado City. Bill was born in 1855 in Illinois, the youngest son of John and Martha Hensley Higgason.

Clarissa Mitchell St John Courtesy Photo

The Ezekiel Wesley St. John Family

Cheryl Johnson Huban

Wednesday, January 17, 2024

The Ezekiel Wesley St. John Family Ezekiel brought his family to Rye in 1881 and homestead land north of Colorado City. Ezekiel was born in Hubbardton, Vermont in 1822, the oldest and only son of Ezekiel and Amy Needham St. John. His father was a school teacher and served in the War of 1812.

Martha Cromar at a 1987 Rye Class Reunion Party with her second husband Courtesy Photo

The Cromar Brothers in the Greenhorn Valley

Cheryl Johnson Huban

Wednesday, January 10, 2024

James Shaw Cromar James Shaw and Charles Cooper Cromar were born in Aberdeen, Scotland, two of the six children of Robert Sherrat and Elizabeth Grieve Cromar. They left their parents and siblings to travel on the ‘Celtic’ from England to New York in 1882. James was 24-years-old; Charles, 18.

Dr . Thomas D. Baird, M.D, Courtesy Photo

Dr. Baird in the Greenhorn Valley

Cheryl Johnson Huban

Wednesday, January 3, 2024

In 1884 The Gazetteer Business List shows Dr. T.D. Baird at the Greenhorn Settlement with George Sears’ store and Odd Fellow Hall. During the 1880s the town of Greenhorn included a saloon, drugstore, blacksmith and wagon shop, a lumber yard and a grain-grinding mill. Dr.

1957 Christmas Figures RHC Courtesy Photo

Christmas in the Greenhorn Valley

Cheryl Johnson Huban

Wednesday, December 27, 2023

The indigenous people followed ancient trails one of which traveled just below the eastern foothills of what became known as Greenhorn Mountain into the Greenhorn Valley. Spanish explorers, trappers and traders followed.

Codding Brothers Store Courtesy Photo

Table Mountain Slovic Families-

Cheryl Johnson Huban

Monday, December 18, 2023

Part V of V William Vernon Codding The youngest son of John Sullivan and Harriett Case Codding, William was born in Kansas in 1870 and moved to Kansas as an infant. He grew up on his parents’ ranch eventually purchasing his own farm. He married Matilda Bothe on April 18, 1894 in Kansas.

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