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Courtesy Image John William Billy Goss, 1895

Courtesy Image John William Billy Goss, 1895

The Goss Family - Part II of IV

Cheryl Johnson Huban
Tuesday, April 1, 2025
A Wagon Train to Colorado The John Wesley Fisher and John Thomas Graybeal families from Ashe County North Carolina visited ‘High Blue’ on their way west. “After talking with these friends and having had a taste of the west Calvin also decided to go west.
Calvin William Goss House Courtesy Image

Calvin William Goss House Courtesy Image

The Goss Family - Part I of IV

Cheryl Johnson Huban
Tuesday, March 25, 2025
The second caravan of Union County Georgians headed west in 1870. Led by William Green Russell, the group included two single men: Sam Bates, and John Odom with the families of Anderson Graham, Reverend Asbury H. Quillian and 'another family that did not reach the mountains'.
1910 Patterson Helen Dorothy Bowen Art Patterson step-daughters Courtesy Image

1910 Patterson Helen Dorothy Bowen Art Patterson step-daughters Courtesy Image

Benjamin Patterson Family - Part II of II

Cheryl Johnson Huban
Tuesday, March 18, 2025
The Children of Benjamin Franklin and Martha Sisson Patterson Mary Eugenia Patterson made her way to California where she married Richard Garfield Paranteau in 1909. The couple had no children, but his mother lived with them until her death.
Cattle trail Courtesy Image

Cattle trail Courtesy Image

The James Ellison England Family - Part III of III

Cheryl Johnson Huban
Tuesday, March 4, 2025
Georgia Drucilla Smith Clark James Ellison England’s stepdaughter, Georgia was born in 1868 in Georgia, the daughter of James L. and Sarah Louisa Grady Smith. She traveled to Colorado with her mother and grandmother, who died on the journey. She married John Fredrick Clark in 1883 at Pueblo.
James Ellison England Courtesy Image

James Ellison England Courtesy Image

History of the Valley

Cheryl Johnson Huban
Tuesday, February 18, 2025
LOCAL HISTORICAL LOREThe James Ellison England Family - Part I of IIIThere were five known families that arrived with the 1869 Georgia Colony and settled in Pueblo County: Berry Simpson and Eliza Jane Wiggins Chastain who first settled with his family in Huerfano County and later with her family on...
1881 DRG coach no. 307 Courtesy Image

1881 DRG coach no. 307 Courtesy Image

The Georgia Colony’s Migration West - Part II of II

Cheryl Johnson Huban
Tuesday, January 28, 2025
The 1870 Georgia Colony William Green Russell led a second caravan out of Auraria, Georgia on May 1, 1870. As a much smaller group, they had the luxury of a “leisurely journey”.(This trip was documented by Thomas J. Quillian, who was a young man at the time.
Georgia Land Lotteries Courtesy Image

Georgia Land Lotteries Courtesy Image

Cherokee Homeland - Part II of III

Cheryl Johnson Huban
Wednesday, January 8, 2025
The largest number of southern settlers in Colorado originated in the Ashville, South Carolina area and Union County, Georgia. The Cherokee had traditionally used the area which is now Ashville, for open hunting and meeting grounds.
Cherokee Homeland Courtesy Image

Cherokee Homeland Courtesy Image

Cherokee Homeland - Part I of III

Cheryl Johnson Huban
Monday, December 30, 2024
Many of the early settlers in Pueblo and Huerfano Counties were from what was originally part of the Cherokee Nation homeland. The Cherokee homeland included land in Kentucky, West Virginia, Virginia and Alabama.
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