People

: Lilly Jane (Eachus) Lawson; She was born in Oregon to David Eachus and Sarah Eachus. Her father was a farmer and Methodist minister and her mother was a homemaker. When Lilly was two years old, in about 1895, the family moved to the Glade Park area of Mesa County, Colorado. There, David Eachus ministered and the family homesteaded. The 1910 US Census shows the Eachus family living in Orchard Mesa, when Lilly was 16 years old. Lilly’s occupation is listed as None, with her employer listed as Home/Farm. She married Leroy Lawson on November 29, 1916. They lived and farmed in Glade Park. She died at the age of 92 and is buried in the Glade Park Cemetery.

: Lily Redden; daughter of Brett and Karen Redden, member 4-H, 2013 Cattlemen's Days Junior Miss (source: http://www.cattlemensdays.com/2013-royalty/)

: Lina (Brunner) Smith; She was born in Tennessee to Joseph K. Brunner and Ida May (Dunn) Brunner. According to her son, Laird, Joseph and Ida lost their plantation when it was taken by the Union Army during the Civil War. They later moved to Colorado from Atlanta. The US Census shows that the family had moved to Colorado Springs, Colorado by at least 1900, when Lina was 14. There, her father was a mine broker and her mother was a homemaker. Joseph died of Tuberculosis in Colorado Springs. Lina quit college after her father’s death in order to teach school and care for her siblings.The 1910 Census shows Lina working as a public school teacher and living with her mother and siblings. Lina married Silmon Smith in Colorado Springs on July 16, 1912, when she was 26. By 1920, they had moved to Silmon’s hometown of Grand Junction. The family lived first in Fruitvale and then at 1030 Chipeta Avenue. She lived on an apple farm with her husband Silmon L. Smith in Fruitvale area of Mesa County, where they raised all of their own food. She even made feather pillows from geese that they raised. They also traveled extensively. According to Laird Smith, her son, Lina once taught Silmon and Laird not to leave their dirty clothes lying around by throwing the clothes out of the window. She belonged to the Daughters of the American Revolution, and, along with her Brunner relatives, was still bitter about the Union Army taking control of Atlanta during the American Civil War.

: Lina Mae (Smith) Biggs; She was born to Silmon Laird Smith and Lina (Brunner) Smith in Grand Junction, Colorado's St. Mary’s Hospital. Her father was one of the foremost water law attorneys in the United States. Her mother and father also ran a family fruit farm. She grew up in Fruitvale, where the family had an apple orchard and raised all of its own food. They had no electricity or plumbing, and so relied on kerosene lamps for light and on a cistern to pump water until they moved to a house at 1030 Chipeta Avenue. She went to Grand Junction High School, where she was active in drama. She attended Grand Junction Junior College for three years and then attended Colorado College, where she majored in English Literature. While in her undergraduate program she was active in Delta Gamma and the Pan-Hellenic Council. She did graduate work at the University of Denver’s Iliff School of Theology. There she met her future husband Clint Biggs, ending her ambitions to be a social worker. Granddaughter of Dr. Franklin R. Smith and Mary Anna "Minnie" (Laird) Smith. *Photograph from the 1934 Colorado College yearbook.

: Lincoln Beachey; He owned a biplane and performed stunts at the Mesa County Fair in Lincoln Park. Around 1910, he raced Barney Oldfield's automobile at the Fair. Beachey won, but not by much.

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