People

: Elizabeth (Schwab) Schlegel; She was born in Dehnhof, Russia. As with many Germans from Russia, she settled in the Great Plains of the United States with her family, and lived for a time in Windsor, Colorado. The family moved around, planting crops that failed in Idaho and Utah before moving to Loma, Colorado, where they raised sugar beets for Holly Sugar. She was a homemaker and made German and Russian foods such as pickled apples, pickled cucumbers, sauerkraut, and borscht and onion bread.

: Elizabeth (Stodan) Kishur; She was born in Cilli, Austria in the late 19th century and grew up there in poverty. She was the fifth of seven children. Her father was a wagon maker. She came to the United States with her husband and they moved to Cleveland, where she worked for Josef & Feiss in manufacturing. He left soon after to fight in World War I, where he died. She had tuberculosis and moved to Colorado for her health. She moved to Paonia, where she had Austrian friends. She also lived in Aspen. In her life she was a housewife, a seamstress, and a housekeeper for others. She was a lifelong Catholic.

: Elizabeth (Williams) McCullah; She was born in Colorado and lived in the state her entire life, outside of a brief time during her husband’s World War II service. She worked in a laundry, and then taught for many years with children at the Colorado State Home (now the Grand Junction Regional Center). According to US Census records, she also taught high school in Yuma, Colorado for a time.

: Elizabeth (Williams) Reese; She was a Welsh immigrant, born in Tonyrefail, Wales, who came to the United States after spending her honeymoon in Scranton, Pennsylvania. She and her husband, Thomas Y. Reese, soon moved to Scranton. Around 1902, her husband was advised to go West as a cure for black lung disease. She joined him on a homestead on East Orchard Mesa in Mesa County, Colorado in 1904. According to her daughter and oral history interviewee Ann (Reese) Stokes, Elizabeth was indignant at the shack where they lived and thought it was a poor replacement, at first, for the nice home where they had lived in Scranton. She was a homemaker who sewed all of the family’s clothes and canned. She also worked as a nurse and would often be gone working with Dr. Roberts of Palisade or with Dr. Leo Lloyd. In addition to her medical duties, she often made baby clothes for mothers, helped with cleaning, and did other chores while they recovered.