People

: Ed Young; Early 20th century Mesa County rancher. Brother of Dewey "Lew" Young and Lafe Young.

: Eda May (Baker) Musser; She was born in Montezuma, New York to John Fleming Baker and Alice M. (Gauthier) Baker. Her family moved to Kankakee, Illinois around 1896, when she was 13 months old. There she attended the Notre Dame Academy, an all-girl school run by St. Joseph’s Seminary. She studied French, piano, elocution, and the mandolin. The family moved to Delta County, Colorado in March 1908, joining her uncle Homer Baker, who had moved previously and was ranching on Cedar Mesa. In Colorado, her father raised horses. Her mother was a homemaker. She attended the Le Veta Park School In Delta and later the newly opened Lincoln School. The family moved back and forth between Cedaredge, Grand Junction (where her father raised horses) and Kankakee all through her childhood. While at Delta High School, she took a dance class, where she met her future husband Kelso Musser. After their marriage and honeymoon, they moved to a ranch on Cedar Mesa. As a ranch wife, she had to learn to cook for several cowboys, in addition to her own family. They later moved to the LMJ Ranch, owned by the Musser family, in Escalante Canyon.

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