People

: Thaddeus Stephen Harp; An early Rifle, Colorado pioneer. He was born to William Conn Harp and Hannah M. (Brous) Harp in Red Rock, Iowa. He first came to Colorado in 1888, when he visited his brothers H.S. and Pleasant Harp in Meeker. He married Nettie Ross in Iowa in 1890 and they lived in Otley, Iowa, where Thaddeus owned a mean market. Thaddeus and Nettie moved to meeker in March of 1896. With his brother, Simp, he started a stagecoach business, hauling people and freight to Meeker and father north. He later moved to Rifle so that he could handle their freight business there. People knew him by the white horse that he rode everywhere. He chauffeured doctors to appointments around the country, and was an able medical assistant. He served on the board of the Methodist church, and was important in the construction of a new church in Rifle. He died in Glenwood Springs. *Some information for this biography was taken from the typed notes of Mabel (Harp) Cowden.

: Thatcher Leslie Shaw; He was born in Ypsilanti, Michigan in 1908 to John L. Shaw, a train conductor, farmer, and real estate salesman, and Emma J. Shaw, a homemaker. He was drafted into World War ll as an attorney at the age of 33. He attended officer's school, but not until he had soldiered as a private. He was briefly a foot soldier in France. He was a lawyer during the occupation and was in charge of pardons and parole in Bavaria. He was later made a district judge in Munich, where he presided over cases with German civilians. He was in Germany during the Nuremberg Trails, and attended them as often as he could. He moved to Aspen, Colorado in 1950, and then to Grand Junction in 1954. There, he owned Shaw Thatcher Realtors, and also worked for a time as a uranium broker.

: Thelma Britton; Born in Highgate, Ontario, Canada. Arrived in Vail in 1965, but also lived in Winnetka, Illinois before moving to Vail. Also spent 2 years in Switzerland. Has 2 married sons, one grandson, four granddaughters and one great grandson.

: Thelma Davis; Thelma Davis was married to Horace Davis. They had three children.

: Thelma G. (Kettle) Moore; She was born in Nebraska and brought to the Pear Park area of Mesa County, Colorado by her parents at the age of seven months. She grew up on twenty acres set in pear and apple trees along what was then East Grand Avenue (now D ½ Road) at 31 Road. She attended the Pear Park School from 1912 to 1920, and then Grand Junction High School from 1920 to 1924. She was a member of a local 4-H club, and learned how to sew from her mother, who was a 4-H sewing leader. Thelma later became a leader in 4-H herself. Her first job was as an apprentice in a millenary shop in 1924. She then worked for the Grand Junction Seed Company, popping beans. She had a thirty-year career as a seamstress, much of which involved making drapes for draperies. She also did county extension work with quilters, and participated in craft competitions at the Mesa County Fair. She married John Joseph Moore, a Denver & Rio Grande machinist, on October 20, 1929. They had three children. In addition to her jobs outside the home, she was a homemaker who canned, made soap, made butter, butchered animals, washed and ironed. For entertainment, she took part in literary societies and attended chautauquas.

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