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- Edith Eliza (Jaynes) Borschell
- Daily Sentinel columnist and early Fruitvale, Colorado farmer. Also a founder of 4H in Colorado, mother of Velma E. (Borschell) Budin and wife of William Henry Borschell.
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- Edith Florine (Turner) (Rood) Weiser
- She was born in Auburn, Illinois. She worked as a school teacher. She married Albert Brown Rood in 1913 in Monterey, California, and together they moved to Grand Junction, Colorado, where he practiced dentistry. She divorced her alcoholic husband in 1917 or ’18. She remarried, in 1922, to William Weiser, and they lived in the Third Fruitridge area.
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- Edith Hope (Trowbridge) Luke
- She was born in Nebraska. U.S. Census records show her working as a servant in Nebraska in 1910. In 1911, she was married to Edward R. Luke in Grand Junction, Colorado. She worked as a baker, presumably in the bakery owned by her husband, Edward R. Luke.
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- Edith Jane (Caddy) Watts
- She was born on a ranch just north of Olathe, Colorado to Harry Caddy and Miranda (Rumery) Caddy. Her father was an immigrant from England and a farmer. Her mother was a homemaker. After meeting and marrying in Chicago, her parents came to Ouray, Colorado in 1888, where Harry worked in a brickyard. The family lived on the first homestead between the towns of Delta and Montrose, two miles south of the Chipeta Switch, where Ute Indians stopped in the spring on their way from the Four Corners. The 1900 US Census shows the family living in Montrose County when Edith was ten years old. She attended the Number 8 School on Ash Mesa. She cared for a woman named Mrs. Carruthers and did household chores for her. Against her father’s wishes, she married William “Will” Watts in Montrose on July 24, 1903. She was eighteen and he was twenty. The 1910 census shows them living in Montrose County, where they farmed and she took care of children in the area. By 1920, they had moved to East Telluride, where he worked as a gold miner and she was a homemaker. They had two children at home and she cared for several other children. She also did sewing and tailoring, and worked at the Camp Bird Mine as a cook. By 1940, they had returned to Montrose County, where Will worked as a trucker. Her children went to high school in Montrose. They took people into their home who needed to be quarantined because of illness. Edith also milked cows on the ranch. In 1950, Edith and William worked together in the grocery business in the town of Orchard. She died at the age of ninety-five.
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- Edith Louise (Strain) Patton
- She was born on a farm in Clifton, Colorado to Robert Louis Strain and Edith (Burns) Strain. She attended Clifton Elementary School, Grand Junction High School, and Mesa College (now Colorado Mesa University). She grew up in the Methodist Church. She worked as the “traveling secretary” for Mesa County School District 51, driving between schools such as Pear Park Elementary, Central High School and others, where she gathered lunch money and prepared it for bank deposit. She married James Kelly Patton, a native of Grand Junction. He was a farmer, worked as a hardware clerk, and later for the Independent lumber company. She learned how to make pies from her mother, who ran a restaurant on F Road. She also helped make and deliver food to agricultural workers on farms, and packed peaches and pears in fruit sheds. They had two children. Edith was a member of the Clifton Rebekah lodge. Outside of a few months in Oregon, she lived in Mesa County for her entire life.
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- Edith M. (Rawlings) Brouse
- She was born in Unaweep Canyon to Joseph Rawlings, a railroad conductor, and Emma Rawlings, a homemaker. The 1900 US Census shows her living at 8 Pitkin Avenue in Grand Junction, Colorado at the age of 12. She married Ellwood Brouse on December 24, 1906. Beginning in 1915, they homesteaded, farmed, and raised children on Glade Park. She was a homemaker.