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- Emma Samuels
- A private school teacher who moved to teaching special education in the Washington School in 1955. She taught there through 1956, and helped with the establishment of the special education program in Mesa County public schools.
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- Emma Shehigh
- Aunt of Dudley W. Mitchell and reporter who published articles throughout the United States, including one published in the Kansas Republican about the Meeker Massacre.
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- Emma Verena (Jones) Conner
- She was born in Grand Junction, Colorado to William D. Jones and Mattie (Moore) Jones. Her father was a locomotive engineer. Her mother was a homemaker. Her parents were both Mesa County pioneers. She attended the Franklin School as a child. She also worked in her grandmother’s boarding house, which boarded sugar factory workers. She married Walter M. Edwards on October 22, 1911. Mesa County divorce records show that they divorced on October 16, 1917. She then married Rlonzo Dow Ray, a locomotive engineer, on June 5, 1918. It appears from US Census records that they had two children together, and that Ray had children from a previous marriage. Ray died in a railroading accident between Delta and Grand Junction. She always worked to support herself and her children. By 1930, census records show that she had married Clinton O’Conner. According to the 1930 census, she was working as a waitress and O’Conner was a switchman on the railroad. She died in Los Angeles at the age of 100 and is buried in Orchard Mesa Cemetery.
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- Emmett Elizondo
- Basque sheepherder and co-founder of the Fruita State Bank. He ran his own sheep ranching outfit. He was born in Sumbilla, Spain to Basque father and mother Jose Antonio Elizondo and Juana Martina Errandonea Elizondo. Emmett was one of ten children. He came to the United States with two brothers in 1915, when he was about 18 years old. His first sheepherding job in his new country was in Buffalo, Wyoming for $40 a month. He then went to Ogden, Utah, where he worked for two years for a sheep outfit. In 1922, he and two partners leased a flock of sheep from a man in Salt Lake City. They ran the sheep for several years and owned 3,000 sheep of their own by the end of the lease. He moved to Western Colorado, first in Sapinero, where he owned his own sheep ranching outfit. Through honesty, hard work and shrewd dealings, he amassed acreage all around the Uncompahgre Plateau, in both Western Colorado and eastern Utah. By the time he was 80 years old, in 1977, he owned Colorado-Utah Livestock Company, the Emmett Elizondo Company, and the Curecanti Sheep Company, with land holdings totalling 25,400 acres. The companies also leased land. At the height of his operations, he had 30,000 ewes. He helped to organize the Fruita State Bank, served on the board of directors for a bank in Montrose, and assisted with the creation of the Western Colorado Center for the Arts (Art Center). In 1965, he and three other Basque became owners of the Warren Livestock Company, a large and old company in Wyoming (dating from 1874). He had one son and grandchildren.