People

: Madge Berry; Madge graduated from Lafayette High School in 1956 and married Vernon Berry on September 19, 1958. She worked as a secretary at Finance Industrial Funds in Denver and then at the Lafayette Elementary School as a clerk-typist.

: Madge E. Davis; She was born in Michigan to Gardner and Anna Davis and attended some school there. Her family came to Colorado in 1904 because her brother had asthma, and it was thought that the region’s drier air would improve his health. When she was a child, her father settled in the area north of 31 ½ Road and F Road in Clifton, Colorado, where he tried to farm fruit, but the Stubb Ditch proved to be an unreliable source of water. She attended the Fruitvale School from 4th through 8th Grade, and then went to Grand Junction High School. Beginning in 1910, she thinned peach trees, picked and packed fruit with her family on the Cross Ranch. She was a teenager at the time, and would work about ten hours a day for $1.50 per day. She attended Western State College in Gunnison, the University of Colorado at Boulder, and later graduated with a Master’s Degree in Education from the University of Northern Colorado in Greeley. US Census records show her working as a public school teacher. She never married.

: Madison Elkins; He moved to Grand Junction, Colorado from Durango in 1900. He built several homes and a church in the Grand Valley. He also owned his own planing mill, Elkins and Stull, that produced all of the woodwork necessary for home construction.

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