People

: Charlie Thomas; A member of the Ku Klux Klan who roughed up Walter Walker during an incident in the street for the things he was writing in the Sentinel.

: Charlotte (Jackson) Claar; She was born in Aberdeen, South Dakota to Bruce Edward Jackson and Inez Alma Peterson. Her father was a railroader and her mother was a school teacher. She grew up on a homestead in Cheyenne County, Colorado where her family farmed. In 1920, her family moved to Grand Valley, Colorado (now Parachute). She was thirteen years old. She began teaching around 1927, when she was twenty-one. She taught in rural schools in Garfield County before moving to Clifton, Colorado. There, she taught in the Clifton School and served as a principal. Charlotte worked 37 years total as an educator, 31 of those years in Mesa County. She was married to Lowell Mason Claar, a railroader.

: Charlotte (Wood) Barnes; She was born and raised in Kansas. She had only one sibling, a brother, and grew up having to help her father with the stock on their farm. Her husband William Barnes had a sister in Fruita, and they moved there to be close to her and farm in 1919. There, they attended and put on dances with other people in the Fruita area.

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