Real estate appraisal card. 227 E. Sackett Avenue, lots 7 + 1/2 of 8, block 3, in Salida, Colorado.
This house was built between 1898 and 1904. In 1906, David C. Kern, a carpenter for the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad, lived at this house. He was born in Ohio in 1868. His wife, Eva W. Kern, was born in Missouri in 1869. They were married in 1888. The couple had a daughter, Crystal M. Kern, who was born in Kansas in 1893. By 1910, they had moved to a different house in Salida. David and Eva Kern still lived in Salida by 1930.
John P. and Clara Foley lived at this house by 1920. Clara was born in Kentucky and John was born November 1, 1858, in Lee County, Iowa. Both of his parents were born in Ireland. He worked as a pumpman with the Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad. He was a member of the Brotherhood of Maintenance Ways Employees (B. of M.W.E.), an organization for water employees of the railroad. John still lived here in 1930, but Clara had died at this point and his sister Julia Foley had moved in. Julia was born in Iowa in 1862. Also living with John and his sister was a widow from Maine, 80-year-old Hanna Malay. Julia Foley died in 1945, after which John lived with Mr. and Mrs. Chris Nasious. John died in May 1953 at the age of 94.
