People

: Elvin E. Urquhart; He was a World War II veteran who worked at the radio interception station in Pearl Harbor, an operation integral to breaking Japanese Naval Code prior to the Battle of Midway.

: Elvin Thompson; He was born in Iowa to Warden S. “Ward” Thompson and Etta Grace (Griffith) Thompson. His father was a farmer and his mother was a homemaker. The family moved to Clifton, Colorado in 1907, when he was four years old. In Mesa County, the family farmed fruit. His father had a longstanding bout with tuberculosis and, after twenty-three illness-related surgeries, died in 1919. In 1917, when he was fourteen years old, the family homesteaded on Glade Park. He cut logs for a house on Pinon Mesa, and hauled them to Glade Park, where he built a two-room cabin. He and his brother Kenneth removed native vegation so that they could farm. The family lived on the homestead and Elvin’s mother Etta remarried, this time to sheep rancher Charles Duvall. Elvin married Bertha Geraldine Duvall, the daughter of Charles Duvall, on September 24, 1924. The 1930 US Census shows them married and living on Glade Park, with Elvin working as a farmer. In 1933, he was working on the Fruita Pipeline. He returned home on a lunch break to find his wife and daughter gone, along with the horses. He found them in the pasture, where they had met Charles Duvall. According to Kenneth Thompson, no one knows what happened exactly, but Elvin, Bertha, and their child were all shot to death, while Duvall escaped with a shot to the leg. It was speculated that Duvall wanted land owned by Elvin on Pinon Mesa.

: Elvira Wunderlich; Elvira Wunderlich was born on July 4, 1914 to Emmanuel and Ermida Visintin in Telluride, Colorado. Her sister was Irene Visintin. Elvira went to Denver Beauty School in the 1920's and moved back to Telluride to open up a beauty shop. Elvira's son is Gene Wunderlich and she has two grandchildren, Dane and Tara. Elvira lived in Telluride until she went to live with her son, Gene in California. She always returned for the fourth of July celebration in Telluride.

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