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- Jessie "Ernie" Corn
- Appleton pioneer and rancher. Father of Orlin, Esther, Betty, Edith, and Lelia Corn.
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- Jessie B. (Cody Johnson) Brisbin
- She was born to Charlie Cody and Ida (Still) Cody in Oberlin, Kansas. At birth, her family lived in a sod house. Her father was a farmer and her mother was a homemaker. She had five brothers and sisters. She grew up in Decatur County, Kansas. She attended school through the eighth grade. She wanted to become a nurse but her father would not allow her the extra training, because she was needed on the farm. She married Clyde Rodney Johnson, a farmer, on December 25, 1906, when she was eighteen. The 1910 US Census shows them living in Odessa, Nebraska with their two daughters. They moved to Colorado in a covered wagon in 1913. The move was made for her health. They came to Collbran, in Mesa County, in 1913. They briefly moved to Oklahoma, but experienced tragedy when her daughter died there from what may have been polio. They came back to Mesa County in 1917. Her husband worked as a coal miner in the Bookcliffs during this time. They lived in Collbran for ten years and then on small farms around the Grand Valley. In 1930, they moved to Grand Junction. Jessie then worked for the State Home and Training School, and as a nurse at the Fruita Hospital. Her husband died in 1951. They had seven children, with two of those children dying before her. She married Milton S. Brisbin on October 31, 1966. They lived in Cortez until his death in 1971. At that time, she returned to Mesa County, living this time in Fruita. Her hobbies were arts and crafts, including painting, ceramics and doll making. She died at the age of 97 and is buried in the Orchard Mesa Cemetery. *Some of this biography was taken from her obituary (Jessie B. Brisbin, Daily Sentinel, March 8, 1987, p. 7C).
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- Jessie Blackman
- Nurse at Plateau Valley Hospital.
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- Jessie L. Brenton
- He was a Canon City, Colorado native whose family settled in Routt County, Colorado near the homestead of his future wife, Jessie “Edna” (Monson) Brenton. He was a farmer who grew oats, hay, barley, potatoes and vegetables. He was also a part-time machine operator for the county and built the first three ski runs in Steamboat Springs.