Christmas in July for Greenhorn Valley Book Club

The Greenhorn Valley Book Club met on Thursday, July 25, to discuss The Wishing Bridge by Viola Shipman. This simply written book celebrates the ideas and traditions of Christmas amid plot substories and twists.

The 1987 Murder of Paul Lawrence Vosika Part II of II

It wasn’t until December of 1989, that Ronald Lee White was interviewed regarding the murder of Paul Vosika. (Ronald White told many accounts of the murder recorded by various investigators and mental health experts. What follows are summaries of what was presented in court.

The 1987 Murder of Paul Lawrence Vosika Part I of II

This story is part of a made-fortelevision series: Homicide Hunter: Devil in the Mountains On March 26, 1988, Pueblo County Sheriff ’s Officer Roger Gomez received a telephone call regarding a decomposed animal or human body found near the intersection of Cedarwood Lane and Abbey Road in southern...

The Charles Kolb Medde Family

Charles Medde served as the Rye Postmaster from 1918 until 1924.Charles was born in Pennsylvania in 1854, the second child of Charles and Mary Graphalus Medde. By 1858, his father had died.

The Gleason Family Part II of II

Alice Mae Gleason Finlay Alice married Grover Cleveland Finlay in 1912. Grover was born at Abbey on his parent’s homestead. He was the tenth of twelve children of William Gibson and Katherine Jean Kerney Finlay. Grover and Alice lived at or near his father’s homestead while he raised stock.

The Olaf and Laura Belle Ballou Larson Family Part I of II

This family settled north of Rye and farmed there for many years. They contributed to the area and have descendents that remain nearby.Olaf Larson was a native of Sweden, born in 1869.

The Walter Family Part V of V

The Youngest Children of Daniel and Mary Beavers WalterSylvester ‘Ves’ Walter Ves was the youngest son, and last Walter child have been born in Kansas. Once his parents had passed, Ves settled in Garfield County, Colorado near Glenwood Springs. He married Clara Belle Crawford there in 1889.

The Walter Family Part IV of V

The Children of John Charles and Viola Cross WalterVera Ann Walter Gleason Vera grew up in Rye. In the 1912 Pueblo Directory, 21-yearold Vera is listed as a domestic.Three years later she married a neighbor from Rye, Bernard Gleason.

The Walter Family Part III of V

Cornelius William ‘Doc’ Walter Doc was the oldest son of Daniel and Mary Walter. He was born in Ohio, lived briefly in Kansas and arrived in the Greenhorn Valley old enough to help his father on the land.

The Walter Family Part II of V

The Children of Mary Agnes Walter Samworth Howard Jones Joseph and Mary Agnes’s oldest child, Jonas Daniel Samworth moved to Idaho and raised seven children before dying of a heart attack in 1913.