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- Sarah Myrtle (Bissell) Monnahan
- She was born in Aztec, New Mexico. Her young life was filled with instability. Her father left when she was two, and so that her mother Myrtle Josephine Pyeatt could work, she was left to live with her grandparents in Farmington until she was four years old. When she was five years old, her mother married again and Monnahan moved with her mother and stepfather to the San Luis Valley in Colorado. She then went to live in Paiute, Idaho with her great-grandmother, then to Boise where the family’s house burnt down and they lost everything. Things “began to go wrong” then, and Monnahan and her mother moved to Kansas, where her mother boarded her with a family that neither of them knew. After a medical emergency, her mother came back and took her to a convent, where the sisters gave Monnahan medical attention. She was nine at that time, and her mother left her in the convent for a year. The mother married again and was living in Oklahoma, where Monnahan contracted malaria. After she was cured, her mother sent her to live on a ranch near Craig, Colorado with her grandmother and uncle. There, she finally lived something like a normal life. She received schooling and had her own dog. She married Charles Raymond Hamlin on December 20, 1912. She worked for a while cooking for a construction crew near Craig. U.S. Census Records for 1920 show them living in Randlett, Utah, on the Uintah Reservation, with Charles employed as a garage mechanic. Monnahan was also a homemaker, working with livestock on their farm and making and storing butter. They moved to Grand Junction in 1933, where her last child was born. Monnahan and Hamlin divorced and she later remarried, this time to Charley Robert Monnahan, a cowboy and heavy equipment operator. She also embarked on a nursing career. She worked at Community Hospital, then called Mesa General Memorial Hospital, and retired in that career.
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- Sarah Rebeccah "Becky" (Lafone) Franklin
- She was born in Arkansas, and went from there to Roan Creek, Colorado in 1887, where she homesteaded with her husband and children. She was a homemaker on a farm, and kept chickens and other animals on her own.
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- Sarah Savage Brillhart
- Sarah was born on September 21,1882 in England. She traveled with her family from England when she was ten, arriving in Lafayette, CO in 1893. Sarah met her husband, Percy Brillhart, in Lafayette.
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- Sarah Swedberg
- A professor at Colorado Mesa University specializing in early American history. Since coming to CMU, she has also been active in community social justice causes. She recorded a series of oral history interviews with people in the area LGBTQ community, and has recently embarked on a series of interviews documenting the Black Lives Matter movement in Mesa County, to be housed under the Social Justice Archive at Mesa County Libraries.
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- Sarah Whitehurst
- Student at Adams State University.