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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.
Courtesy Image John William Billy Goss, 1895

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The Goss Family - Part II of IV

Cheryl Johnson Huban
Tuesday, April 1, 2025
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.
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The Goss Family - Part I of IV

Cheryl Johnson Huban
Tuesday, March 25, 2025
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'.
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Benjamin Patterson Family - Part II of II

Cheryl Johnson Huban
Tuesday, March 18, 2025
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. The couple had no children, but his mother lived with them until her death.
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The James Ellison England Family - Part III of III

Cheryl Johnson Huban
Tuesday, March 4, 2025
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.
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History of the Valley

Cheryl Johnson Huban
Tuesday, February 18, 2025
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...
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The Georgia Colony’s Migration West - Part II of II

Cheryl Johnson Huban
Tuesday, January 28, 2025
The 1870 Georgia Colony William Green Russell led a second caravan out of Auraria, Georgia on May 1, 1870. As a much smaller group, they had the luxury of a “leisurely journey”.(This trip was documented by Thomas J. Quillian, who was a young man at the time.
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