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81. Cousins

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Urdine Bell Messersmith Lea is pictured on the right with an unknown cousin. The photo was taken before moving to Gypsum, Colorado from Indiana.
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Studio portrait of Mayme Stremme Price wearing a lace collared dress and necklace. Accompanying material inscription: "Aunt Mayme" Who's Who in Colorado, 1938, p. 434: B. Gypsum, Colo., Oct. 10, 1887; ed pub sch Gypsum, Eagle Co HS; m Fred A. Price, June 1927 Glenwood Springs; 1905-1935 US Postoffice, Gypsum; 1911 to date (1938) town clerk, Gypsum; Rebekah Lodge Gypsum ch (past noble grand); Luth; Rep; res, Gypsum; office, Theo Stremme Store, Gypsum....
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Hunting party exhibiting the catch. John Condon, Frank Doll's business partner, seated at center, showing his hobnail boots. To the right of Condon, standing and holding a rifle, is Zachariah Doll. It is possible that the man at far left is Jake Borah. Condon was visiting the Doll ranch and probably used Borah as a guide for the hunting trip.
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The J. P. Gates ranch on Derby Mesa, Colorado, about 1898. Left to right, J.P. and wife Katie, Clark Gates, Bert Gates and an unidentified 5th person.
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Fern Homan [Moore] and Kate Flynn, above Wolcott. There is a dog sitting behind Fern.
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A group of men and boys, gathered around an airplane at Cooley Mesa (Gypsum), now Eagle Airport. [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Portrait of William Henry Lea & Urdine Bell Messersmith Lea.
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A lone fisherman in a boat, fishing on Trappers Lake. The hunting camp tent is visible on the point at center of the photograph.
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Eva Minerva Gerard
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Early Gypsum, Colorado, showing Skiff's ranch building, used as a hotel, at the far right. A group of men and dogs are standing in front of the buildings. Barbed wire fence in foreground. [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Front view of Eagle County High School with additional modifications. The original chimneys are gone and the two large spruce trees at the street have been removed. The building was torn down after 1960 in order to build a new school. [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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c.1902: People in costume for the "Grand Masquerade Ball," gathered in a decorated hall. Back of photo has inscription: "To Edna Stewart from Orrie Enos." [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Wedding portrait of Mr. and Mrs. Hans P. Oleson (Grace A. Wolverton) November 29, 1905. "Hans P. Olesen [Oleson] was one of the pioneer citizens of the Eagle River valley. With his brothers, he settled in the county in the eighties, as a young man. For many years, he has been one of the foremost cattle raisers and ranchers in the county. He owns one of the largest irrigated areas of farm land under one head in the valley, located on the Eagle River,...
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Studio photograph (second pose) of Sam Lemon (born in 1880) as a young man, taken while living with his mother, Laura Josephine Lemon, in Fowler, Colorado. "Mr. Lemon ranched for several years, was employed in construction work and later owned and operated the Gypsum Poolhall." --Eagle Valley Enterprise, Apr. 27, 1961 p.1 [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Eagle County High School basketball team, posed outdoors with their coach (1908-1910). Bill Luby is in the center of row 1. [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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As the Doll Brothers ranch grew in size, brothers Frank and Sam built this three-story flour mill, circa 1900. "Considered modern in its time, the mill ground all wheat produced in the area, putting out 80 barrels a day. The mill even imported wheat to grind. After the mill burned, suspicion followed that the fire had been deliberately set by disgruntled businessmen in the area." -- Shirley Welch, The Eagle River Valley, p.114 [Title supplied...
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Rudy Olin portraying Charley Johnson during the Gypsum Cemetery Tour July 16, 2011. The tour was sponsored by the Town of Gypsum in celebration of Gypsum's Centennial, held July 9-17, 2011. The Porchlight Players, a local drama group, portrayed interesting citizens of the town buried in Cedar Hill Cemetery. Charley (Charles H.) Johnson died about July 26, 1901. He was a Dotsero cattleman who was murdered by a gunshot to the back of the head...
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Skiff's Ranch building (behind the Lutheran Church in Gypsum) right after it was finished (1900). A group of people including children and a dog are standing in front of the building. It was used as a hotel, drygoods store, and Oddfellows Hall over the years.
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Edna and Sam Lemon standing on the boardwalk in front of a building. [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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