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Pantier, Sylvia Pearl, Melissa Wilcox, Harry Orlo, Frances Marion, Orvel Weldon Courtesy Photo

Pantier, Sylvia Pearl, Melissa Wilcox, Harry Orlo, Frances Marion, Orvel Weldon Courtesy Photo

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The Wilcox Family - Part I of IV

Cheryl Johnson Huban
Wednesday, March 20, 2024
Part I of IVThis large family settled in Pueblo, Vineland and Rye, intermarried with the Dixon and other Rye families and contributed to the growth and prosperity of the area. Many descendents remain in Pueblo County.Andrew Jackson Wilcox and Carrie Helen Sarnes were married in Nebraska in 1873.
Clemons B Mary Ann Jamison Eakins Courtesy Photo

Clemons B Mary Ann Jamison Eakins Courtesy Photo

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The Clemens Beniah Eakins Family - Part I of II

Cheryl Johnson Huban
Wednesday, March 6, 2024
Part I of IIThe Eakins family originated in Pennsylvania, moved to Illinois and eventually settled in Rye.Two of their six children also made Rye their home.Clemens was born in 1831 near Westmoreland City, Pennsylvania the second child and oldest son of David and Maria Jane MacGregor Eakins.
John Henry Jamison Courtesy Photo

John Henry Jamison Courtesy Photo

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The Jamison Family - V of V

Cheryl Johnson Huban
Wednesday, February 28, 2024
The Children of John and Margaret Ralston Jamison John A. Jamison After the death of his father, John A. took over responsibility for the care of his mother.
Jasper Johnson

Jasper Johnson

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The Jamison Family - IV of V

Cheryl Johnson Huban
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

Elizabeth Jamison Bartlett with children Courtesy Photo

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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

Evangaline Eakins Medill Courtesy Photo

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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

John Jamison tombstone Courtesy Photo

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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

Mille Black Higgason Williams Courtesy Photo

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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

Clarissa Mitchell St John Courtesy Photo

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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

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

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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.
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