People

: Ralph Aspinall; Palisade farmer and younger brother of US Representative Wayne Aspinall. He was born to Mack Aspinall and Jessie E. (Norviel) Aspinall in Ohio. The family moved to Palisade, Colorado in 1904, when he was seven years old. There, they farmed fruit. Like his older brother, he probably attended the Mt. Lincoln School near Palisade. He joined the Army Students Training Corps during World War I, but nearly died from the Spanish Flu and was discharged after the armistice. He returned to Palisade where he married Martha Jane Woodburn in 1919. They ran a successful peach farming operation on East Orchard Mesa. He retired from farming to Grand Junction.

: Ralph Aubrey Inskeep; He was born in La Junta, Colorado to John C. Inskeep and Mamie (Cox) Inskeep. US Census records show that his father was a farmer and his mother was a homemaker. He attended the Hasty and Cloverleaf Schools. He played baseball, boxed, and wrestled. He moved with the family of Grace Winkle to Mack in Mesa County on May 20, 1920, when he was 21 years old. He and Grace were married in Grand Junction May 28, 1920. They had ten children, 38 grandchildren and 48 great-grandchildren. He worked for the Federal Bureau of Reclamation in Camp 7 for 1 ½ years. He then worked for Holly Sugar in La Junta, Delta, and back in Mesa County before leaving to work for the Uintah Railroad as a trackman. He then worked on the farm of Hiram Long. Eventually, he farmed for himself. He owned a combine and contracted out to other farms as far away as Glade Park. He attended the Loma Church of God.

: Ralph Clinton Russell; He was born in Wisconsin. Following his parents, who had relocated previously to the Grand Valley, he moved with his wife and family in the Fruitvale are of Mesa County, Colorado. He was a farmer.

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