People

: Malcolm McLeod

: Malcolm W. Macaulay

: Malcomb Mitchell; Son of Lois and Dudley Mitchell, born January of 1947. A musician who lived in Denver.

: Malene Wright Zanetell; Contributor to "Out Of Many, One: A Gunnison Valley Journal," (source: Out Of Many, One: A Gunnison Valley Journal). Contributor to "Out Of Many, One: A Gunnison Valley Journal," (source: Out Of Many, One: A Gunnison Valley Journal)

: Malessa Addeline "Addie" (Keel Hester) Mudgett; She was born in Harrison, Nebraska to Robert Keel and Birdie Virginia (Coffman) Keel. Her father was a stock grower. The 1900 US Census shows her living with her parents, three siblings, and a servant named Emma at the age of four. She worked as a registered nurse in Omaha, Crawford and Lincoln, Nebraska. She married Cecil Elmer Hester in Nebraska in 1915, when she was nineteen or twenty years old. They had a daughter named Marion [Marian] Frances Hester. Colorado marriage records list her as Addie Hester from her marriage to Clayton Mudgett in Mesa County, Colorado on March 28, 1927, when she was thirty-one years old. They came to Mesa County, Colorado in 1928. The 1930 US Census shows them living in Pomona with Addie’s daughter, who was twelve years old at the time. The 1940 census shows the three of them living on a farm in the same location, possibly at 2196 L Road. In the 1950 census, Clayton is listed as a butcher in a slaughterhouse. In her oral history interview, Addie talks about irrigating, digging ditches and post holes, building fence, and “working like a man” on the ranch for twenty-eight years, possibly during the time that her husband was working as a butcher. They raised cattle and hay, but also sugar beets, beans, and corn. They also kept chickens and grew millet for chicken feed. She nursed neighbors who were sick, but otherwise, was a full-time homemaker and rancher. They sold the farm sometime around 1971. Her husband died in 1982. Addie died a few years later, at the age of 89, and is buried in the Orchard Mesa Cemetery.