People

: Anna M. Davis; She was born in Ohio. She moved with her husband and family from Michigan to Mesa County, Colorado in 1904. The parents relocated for the health of their son, who had asthma and lung issues. They bought a home on Orchard Avenue, then bought a piece of land on the north end of 31 Road. There, her husband tried to grow fruit, but his water allotment from the Stubbs Ditch proved insufficient to sustain an orchard. He became a cattle rancher and she was a homemaker, tending her garden and doing other chores. During fruit season, she helped as a picker and in other capacities.

: Anna Mae "Amy" (Eachus) Roehm; She was born in Crawford County, Missouri to David Eachus and Sarah Eachus. Her father was a farmer and Methodist minister and her mother was a homemaker. In 1895, when she was about 13 years old, the family moved to the Glade Park area of Mesa County, Colorado. There, David Eachus homesteaded and ministered. She married John George Roehm, a German immigrant, in Grand Junction on September 17, 1906. The 1910 US Census shows them living in Orchard Mesa with their son Elmer, where they farmed. By 1920, they had returned to Glade Park. The 1930 census shows them living in Glade Park with their four children. There, they farmed for many years. She died at the age of 102 and is buried in the Orchard Mesa Cemetery in Grand Junction.

: Anna Mae (Griffith) Underwood; She was born in Missouri and went to school in Kansas City through the Sixth Grade. She then moved with her family to Trinidad, Colorado, and later to a farm east of town. U.S. Census records show her living in Las Animas County by the age of 10. During her school days in a rural school near Model, she belonged to a literary society, where she put on plays and other events. She married George Underwood, a farmer, in March 1918. They lived on a farm, where she grew flowers that could survive the desert conditions, and picked wildflowers. They moved to a ranch that they purchased between Silt and New Castle. They then moved to land between Glenwood Springs and New Castle, where they ranched sheep.

: Anna McGinley; Her parents, Annie and John McGinley, homesteaded in Fruita in the late Nineteenth century. She attended Fruita High School for three years, and went to Ross Business College for her fourth year. She was an elementary school teacher in Mesa County, Colorado for 43 years. She taught at the rural Hunter School for 24 years, and then in Fruita for her last 13 years. She never married.

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