People

: Samuel L. Edwards; He was a farmer, originally from South Carolina, who lived in Hotchkiss, Colorado in the early Twentieth century. He married Emily (Young) Scatliff sometime after her divorce in 1914. US Census records show them living together in Hotchkiss in 1920 with her sons Frank Art Johnson and Willard Johnson. According to oral history interviewee and daughter of Emily Young, Helen (Young) Johnson, Samuel pretended to like the children, but was mostly bent on having them work for him on his farm. He made a pass at Helen and tried to rape her. From then on, she gave him no respect. He complained about this to Emily Young, who sent Helen to live with her grandparents in Denver (where she graduated from high school). He became so abusive toward Emily Young that she nearly died. She eventually divorced him.

: Samuel W. Taylor; Along with his brother Raymond Taylor, he was a player in the Western Slope’s uranium boom in the 1950’s. The brothers authored a book called Uranium Fever, published in 1970.

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