People

: Cora "Mom" (Schoolcraft) Sheets; Cora Sheets was an early Loma, Colorado resident who worked with the 4-H Club and was a chaperone to the Colorado State Fair in Pueblo in 1919. She was born in Nebraska to Albert J. Schoolcraft and B. Minnie Schoolcraft. Her father was a laborerer and her mother was a homemaker. She married Percy Q. Sheets on December 22, 1915. At the time of her marriage, she was a school teacher. The 1920 US Census shows them living in Loma, Colorado, where they farmed. Percy later worked for the Mesa County Highway Department. They had three children. She volunteered for thousands of hours with the Lower Valley Hospital in Fruita. With Sarah Woods, she organized the activity program for the hospital's nursing home, which was added around 1966. She was given the Outstanding Citizen Award by the Fruita Chamber of Commerce. After her death, she was honored with a commendation by President Nixon. She was a member of the Presbyterian Church. She died at the age of seventy-three or seventy-four and is buried in Fruita’s Elmwood Cemetery.

: Cora Amarette (Barber) Baer

: Cora Belle Mayer

: Cora E. Warren

: Cora Elizabeth (Brumbaugh) Henry; She was born in Loma, Colorado to Edmund H. “Ed” Fields, the manager of the Western Sugar & Land Company, and to Cora Pearl (Butler) Fields. Her mother died when she was two weeks old. According to Cora, after her father remarried, her step-mother was so mean to her, that the step-mother’s father warned Ed Fields that Cora must be given up for adoption in order to save her life. She stayed briefly in the care of Mr. and Mrs. M.B. Wolfe before she was adopted by David M. Brumbaugh and his wife Elizabeth (Beach) Brumbaugh. She remained in touch with her father, her mother’s relatives, and her sister for the rest of her life. The Brumbaughs ran a grocery store, hotel and post office in Loma. The Brumbaugh family remained in Loma until 1918, when she was about four years old. At that time, they moved to Lincoln, Nebraska for one year. In 1919, they moved to Fruita, where she went to school. The 1920 and 1930 US Censuses show them living on Aspen Avenue in Fruita, when Cora was five and sixteen years old, respectively. She attended school in Fruita and graduated from Fruita High School in 1934. While in school, she worked in the Brumbaugh Brothers grocery store, a store opened in 1919 by her father David Brumbaugh and his brother William. She married Paul Elden Henry, and employee of her father's, on October 27, 1935. They had two daughters. The 1940 Census shows them working in a grocery store. When her father closed Brumbaugh Brothers in 1940, Paul found work in other grocery related businesses. The 1950 census shows him managing a store. She died at the age of seventy-two and is buried next to Paul in Fruita's Elmwood Cemetery.