People

: Grace Smith; She was an English teacher at Grand Junction High School in the early Twentieth century. Oral history interviewee Cecilia Cardman, who had Smith as a teacher in the 1920’s, describes her as terrifying but “topnotch.”

: Grace Tracy; Grace was a student at H Street School in the late 19th century.

: Grace Victoria "Gracie" (Winkle) Inskeep; She was born in Tate Springs, Tennessee to Robert F. Winkle and Cora Elizabeth (Harris) Winkle. Her father was a farmer and her mother a homemaker. US Census records show that the family had moved to Prowers in Bent County, Colorado by 1910, when Grace was eleven years old. She moved with her family to the Mack area of Mesa County on May 20, 1920, when she was 21 years old. She married Ralph Aubrey Inskeep, who had traveled with her from Bent County, on May 28, 1920. She was a homemaker. Her husband worked various jobs, including for the Bureau of Reclamation and the Uintah Railway, before settling on farming. They had ten children, 38 grandchildren and 48 great-grandchildren. She attended the Loma Church of God.

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