People

: Clara Zillah (Park) Snook; She was born in Utah to William Asbury and Priscilla Park. She married William Tunis Snook, and by 1885, the Colorado State Census shows them living together in Mesa County. They moved subsequently to Montrose County, where their son Guy was born. According to their daughter Della (Snook) Mack (as related in her letter read by Della's niece and oral history interviewee Ida Mae (Snook) Waggoner), the Snooks were back living on the Brink place in Fruita by 1896. Around1900, they homesteaded on what became known as Snooks Bottom, just outside of Fruita. After the homestead’s reservoir burst around 1910, the family moved into Fruita, where William bought and operated the livery stable and Clara continued her lifelong occupation as a homemaker. The family moved several times over the years, following Clara’s eldest son Guy and his wife Margaret. They lived in Craig, Axel, on Roan Creek, in Fruitvale, and lastly in Grand Junction.