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The 1871 Georgia Colony - The Sullivan Children in Colorado - Part II of III

Tuesday, June 24, 2025

The Sullivan children all left Pueblo County. Some left before their homesteads were awarded, which indicates that the land was likely worked communally, if at all. Many of them settled with others from Georgia in the Disappointment Valley area in western Colorado.

The 1871 Georgia Colony - The William Daniel Sullivan Family - Part I of III

Cheryl Johnson Huban

Wednesday, June 18, 2025

-The 1871 Georgia Colony The William Daniel Sullivan Family William, two of his sons and a son-in-law homestead land north of Rye. These two sons married two sisters in Pueblo County that were also from Union County.William Daniel Sullivan was born in 1827 in North Carolina.

The 1871 Georgia Colony - The Dickson/Dixon Family - Part II of II

Cheryl Johnson Huban

Thursday, June 12, 2025

-Jennie Dixon married Andrew Legrand Wilcox in 1906 and her sister, Lucy Alice married his brother Earl Edwin Wilcox in 1907. Tragically, Jennie died in 1910. Earl and Lucy Wilcox eventually operated the Dixon Ranch. Their complete stories are told with their husbands’ Wilcox family.

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The 1871 Georgia Colony - The Solomon Haney Family

Cheryl Johnson Huban

Wednesday, May 21, 2025

Solomon and his wife Avaline Lavada Wiggins were both born in North Carolina. He in 1821, she in 1825. By 1844 they had married and had their first child, Rufus John. Five other children were born on their farm in Cherokee County North Carolina: Samuel, William, Sarah, Mary and Posey Clinton.

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Georgia 1871 The Wiggins Family - Part IV of IV

Cheryl Johnson Huban

Wednesday, May 14, 2025

The 1871 Georgia Colony William Clingman Wiggins William was born in 1857 in North Carolina, moved to Georgia and onto Colorado with his parents and siblings. He was married to Elizabeth Self in 1897 in Pueblo. William and Elizabeth had twin girls born in August of 1898.

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Georgia 1871 The Wiggins Family - Part III of IV

The 1871 Georgia Colony John Bartemeus Wiggins

Tuesday, May 6, 2025

W.A. and Mary Ann’s eldest son, John was born in North Carolina in 1847. He helped his mother with the farm while his father fought in the Civil War and moved to Georgia with his family.

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History of the Valley

Cheryl Johnson Huban

Tuesday, April 29, 2025

LOCAL HISTORICAL LOREGeorgia 1871 The Wiggins Family - Part II of IVThe Georgia Colony of 1871 The Wiggins Family One of the first priorities was the children’s schooling. The youngest Wiggins children attended classes at the log school house east of Boone. W. A.

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Georgia 1871 The Wiggins Family - Part I of IV

Cheryl Johnson Huban

Wednesday, April 23, 2025

The Georgia Colony of 1871 In the fall of 1871, yet another group arrived in Southern Colorado from Union County, Georgia. Of this group, the W.A. and Mary Ann Barnett Wiggins family and John Barnett settled east of Boonesville, now Boone.

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The Goss Family - Part IV of IV

Cheryl Johnson Huban

Wednesday, April 16, 2025

Part IV of IVJohn William ‘Billy’ and Nellie “In February 1894, I married Nellie Victorine Edmundson and did some ranching for myself.” Twin sons were born late in that year, but only one, Lewis William survived.

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The Goss Family - Part III of IV

Cheryl Johnson Huban

Wednesday, April 9, 2025

Part III of IVThe Crow Post Office In 1885, under the first administration of President Cleveland the Crow Post Office was established by Calvin William Goss. The post office was named for Matthew D. Crow, the post master of Pueblo and a good friend of Calvin’s. C.W.

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