People

: Sarah Eachus; She moved with her husband and family to a homestead in the Glade Park, Colorado area in the 1890’s, after living in Missouri and Oregon. Born in Ohio.

: Sarah Ellen (Hickson) Hollett; She was born in Texas. Together with her husband, Isaac Nathaniel Hollett, she came West in a covered wagon, living for a time in Colorado Springs, Colorado, in Sawpit, and then settling on a homestead near Norwood. She was a homemaker.

: Sarah Jane (Holt) Livesay; A longtime resident of Hotchkiss, Colorado. She was born on Turkey Creek in Bourbon County, Kansas, during the Civil War, but grew up predominately on Lightening Creek near Oswego, Kansas. She was one of six children. Her mother died when she was 15, leaving her to care for her siblings. Her father, Jacob H. Holt, was a Civil War Veteran (born about 1830) who had both a “prairie farm” and a “timber farm.” He grew walnuts and hickory nuts. Miss Livesay married in 1881 in Cecil, Kansas, but continued living with her father and caring for her younger siblings. She and her husband then moved to what was then known as Indian Territory, where they farmed for a few years before returning to Kansas. They moved to Delta County, Colorado in 1897. They chartered a train car to Pueblo and took a narrow gauge to Delta. With her husband, Henry Monroe Livesay, she was an early day resident of the North Fork area of Delta County. They had seven children. They lived in a seven bedroom house in Hotchkiss until 1922, when they traded their house for ranch property on Hanson Mesa.