History

Courtesy Image John William Billy Goss, 1895

Courtesy Image John William Billy Goss, 1895

The Goss Family - Part II of IV

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

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

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.
Cattle trail Courtesy Image

Cattle trail Courtesy Image

The James Ellison England Family - Part III of III

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

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...
Cherokee Homeland Courtesy Image

Cherokee Homeland Courtesy Image

Cherokee Homeland - Part I of III

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.