People

: Nana (Rose) Jaynes; Grand Junction, Colorado pioneer and aunt of Velma E. (Borschell) Budin.

: Nancy "Nannie" (Blaine) Underhill; Nannie Blaine Underhill was the first teacher in Grand Junction, Colorado. She was born to Eleam and Clarissa Blaine in Illinois, and the 1870 US Census shows her living in Astoria with her family at the age of 7. According to the 1880 US Census, the family had moved to Fremont, Colorado by 1880, when Nannie was 17. In June 1882, she was hired to teach as the first teacher in Grand Junction. Her schoolhouse was a picket house with a dirt roof and a dirt floor on Colorado Avenue. She taught the summer session there and also organized the first Sunday School held in the building. After the building was inadvertently destroyed by a flood, which was caused by an attempt to provide irrigated water to the school, the class finished the school year in the Armory. She quit after the school year and married William Underhill, another early pioneer. Together they left town but later returned with their children. Dorothy Alveretta (Gordon) Mahoney, whose father had Underhill as a teacher, remembers her as an old woman when she visited the Gordon family ranch in Glade Park. She recalls Underhill as a very kind, intelligent old woman who still had all of her mental faculties. *Some information from In the Beginning... A History of the Districts and Schools that became Mesa County Valley School District Number 51 by Albert and Terry LaSalle.

: Nancy (Renwick) Saxton; An early 20th century resident of Mesa County's Hunter District and of the Appleton area. She appears to have been born in England as Ana Jane Renwick to parents James Douglass Renwick and Mary Renwick. The 1891 England Census, taken when Nancy was not yet one year old, lists her father’s profession as Fruiterer. Immigration records show that she arrived in Canada with family members in 1906, at the age of sixteen. The family emigrated to the United States via St. Albans, Vermont that same year. She was living in Montana by 1911, when she married Clement Sylvester Saxton in Custer County. By 1920, they were living with their children in Rhone, Colorado, a small unincorporated town in Mesa County. In 1923, she became a substitute mail carrier for the Highline District. She held this position for thirty-seven years. Her husband grew apples.