People

: Theresa (O'Neill) McGinley; An immigrant from Canada who came to Mesa County, Colorado with her father in 1882. The family homesteaded between what is now 19 and 19 1/2 Roads on J Road. She married John McGinley in the [St. Malachy?] Catholic Church of Fruita in 1894. She homesteaded with John on J Road between 20 and 20 1/2 Roads.

: Theresa Ann Kupecz-Louden; She was born in Grand Junction, Colorado to Michael Kupecz. She attended Grand Junction High School and Colorado State University. She married Charles Edward Louden on October 2, 1993. She is a third-generation Coloradan. She was the organizer of a Museums of Western Colorado program on Basque traditions and folkways in 1984.

: Thomas "Tom" Horn; Western scout, lawman, and hired gunman. He reputedly worked for cattle ranchers in the Routt County area, where he targeted and killed sheep ranchers.

: Thomas "Tom" Williams; He was born Douneika Amalias Eleias, and moved to Grand Junction, Colorado from Greece in 1914. Thomas worked as a waterboy for the railroad, a coal miner in Thompson, Utah, and ran an operation selling ice cream from a horse-drawn wagon. Then he went on to buy his cousin's grocery store, Eliopulos Grocery Store, in 1932. Later, Thomas owned grocery stores on Colorado Avenue at 801 N. First Street and other locations in town. He married Helen Williams in 1936.

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