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The Wilburn Boyd Burkett Family -

Cheryl Johnson Huban
Tuesday, January 20, 2026
LOCAL HISTORICAL LOREPart I of IIBessie ‘Edna’ Burkett Snider Bondurant A few weeks after the flood waters took her family, the devastated Edna delivered their daughter, Lois, in their home on Greenhorn Road. Lois grew up on this dairy farm and attended the Rye School.
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The Wilburn Boyd Burkett Family -

Cheryl Johnson Huban
Tuesday, January 13, 2026
Part I of IIOne of the last families to come to Rye from Ashe County, North Carolina, Wilburn’s family grew up near Rye.Wilburn was born in 1862 in Ashe County, the second son of six children of Nathaniel David Jr and Catherine ‘Katie’ Hardin Burkett.
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The Wilbar Family - Texas

Cheryl Johnson Huban
Tuesday, January 6, 2026
LOCAL HISTORICAL LOREPart III of IIIPreston and Mary Jane Wilbar Tuttle’s last child, Romulus Morrison was born in Palo Pinto County, Texas in 1901. By 1910, the family had moved to Dallas where Preston opened a dry goods and notions store.
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The Wilbar Family - Part II of III

Cheryl Johnson Huban
Tuesday, December 30, 2025
Part II of IIIWilliam ‘Peyton’ Wilbar William met Laura Matilda ‘ Tillie’ Sayler while he was in Rye. The couple was married in 1891 and moved to Florence where William opened a grocery business. The couple had two children.The W.P. Wilbar Block at 108110 W.
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The Wilbar Family - Part I of III

Cheryl Johnson Huban
Tuesday, December 23, 2025
One of the many southern families to move west after the Civil War, part of this family settled in southern Colorado with the other part in Texas. Family members from both branches became very successful in their new homes.
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Charles Ellis Howell Family

Cheryl Johnson Huban
Tuesday, December 16, 2025
This family came to Rye in 1884 from Ashe County, North Carolina. They settled near their family and friends who had come before them.Charles was the eighth of nine children born to John Calvin and Louisa McMillan Howell. His father was born in Virginia; his mother in Ashe County.
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The Garrish Family

Cheryl Johnson Huban
Tuesday, December 9, 2025
This family originated from McDowell County, North Carolina which is just east of Asheville. Only one member of the family lived in Pueblo County, but he buried three daughters while a resident.
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The Vannoy Family

Cheryl Johnson Huban
Wednesday, December 3, 2025
As we continue with stories about the many families that settled in our area from the Cherokee Homeland, we have moved into the 1880s. These families followed the Georgia Colony settlers to Colorado 15 years after the beginning of the Civil War.
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Souther Family II - James Part III of IV

Cheryl Johnson Huban
Wednesday, November 12, 2025
The Children of James Logan Souther Matilda ‘Mabel’ Delia ‘Dicie’ Souther Nickell McCready Mabel, the oldest daughter of James Logan and Sarah Wilson Souther married in 1889, the same year her father married for a second time. Perhaps she felt she was freed from her responsibilities to her siblings.
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Souther Family II - James Part II of IV

Cheryl Johnson Huban
Wednesday, November 5, 2025
John W. ‘Rink’ Souther Three of Rink and Nancy Souther’s children remained in Colorado when their father moved to Utah: William Sheridan, Mary Lee ‘Dolly’ and Elizabeth. Elizabeth Souther married Oliver Percy Potter in 1911 at Pueblo and moved to the western slope of Colorado with him.
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