People

: Eliza Raber; Eliza was a charter member of the Fruita First Baptist Church. She moved from Indiana with her husband, Leonard Larkin Raber, in 1903, and to Fruita in 1906. She was an avid gardener, and won prizes for her garden, flowers, and produce.

: Elizabeth "June" (Eaton) Morse; She was born in Eaton, Colorado and lived there most of her young life. She moved to Grand Junction with husband Levi Morse on April 18, 1924. Though her degree was in English, she taught Latin and history at Fruitvale High School.

: Elizabeth "Lizzy" Catherine (Click) Anderson; She was born in Fort Collins, Colorado to Daniel M. and Susan R. Click and game to the Grand Valley in 1896. She grew up on a farm in the Appleton area of Mesa County, and was one of 10 children (US Census records list her residence as Pomona). Her father was a farmer who bought 40 acres and cleared the land, and constructed a dugout for the family residence until he was able to build a 10 bedroom house sometime later. She married Walter Anderson, a rancher who also grew up in Appleton, in 1914. After their marriage, she and Walter lived on Land's End Road on the last ranch up before the Grand Mesa.

: Elizabeth (Beach) Brumbaugh; She was born to Christian Beach and Mary Jane Beach in Pennsylvania. Her father was a carpenter and her mother was a homemaker. She married David Milroy Brumbaugh and together they had moved to Loma, Colorado by at least 1910. According to their adopted daughter, Cora Elizabeth (Brumbaugh) Henry, the Brumbaughs ran a hotel, grocery store and post office in Loma. The Ute often visited the hotel, and they apparently teased Elizabeth about her burnt pancakes. She also worked in a canning factory and snapped beans for the factory in bed.

: Elizabeth (Dow) Angus; She was born to John Byrd Dow and Elizabeth (Owen) Dow in Cookeville, Tennessee. The 1910 US Census shows her father working as a lumber manufacturer in Tennessee, when Elizabeth was seven years old. Her mother was a homemaker. Her mother died in 1916, and the 1920 census shows Elizabeth living with her father and five siblings in Cookeville, with her father working as the postmaster in the post office and her eldest sister working as a music teacher. She attended the Tennessee Technological University in Cookeville. She moved to Colorado in 1922 so that she could teach in Atchee, a small railroad community in the Bookcliffs above Mack. She married Bruce Angus in Grand Junction, Colorado on February 21, 1924. He was a fireman on the Uintah Railroad. They left Atchee sometime after 1935. By 1940, the US Census shows them living in Grand Junction with their daughter Lois, with Bruce working as a fireman at the post office. The 1950 census indicates that they lived at 1141 White Avenue, with Elizabeth working as a invoice record clerk for a dry goods store. Her husband died in 1967. She died 31 years later at the age of 95.

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