People
Collection for person entities.
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- Vernon Pick
- Mining prospector, Mesa County, Colorado.
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- Veronica Berkes
- Contributor to "Out Of Many, One: A Gunnison Valley Journal," (source: Out Of Many, One: A Gunnison Valley Journal)
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- Vesta (Price) Fitzpatrick
- She was born in Buena Vista, Colorado to Thomas Henry Price and Flora (Hill) Price. Her father was a Union veteran of the Civil War, house painter, and wallpaper hanger. Her mother was a homemaker and an accomplished seemstress who made all of the family’s clothes. The family moved to New Castle, Colorado sometime between 1900 and 1903. The family stayed in New Castle for two years, then moved to De Beque, where they lived on a 160 acre homestead. Vesta finished her school years there. The family lived in tent houses, then in a cabin that her father built, and used river water. Vesta attended the church closest to them as a child, which was the Methodist Church in De Beque. She also went to Bible study at the school house. Because her mother was not in good health, Vesta spent much of her time doing the household chores and caring for her siblings. She also babysat the children of other people in the community. The US Census shows Vesta living with her parents at the age of nineteen. She delayed marriage so that she could help her parents, but eventually married John Arthur Fitzpatrick of Canada on June 7, 1910 in Mesa County. They had seven children. The 1920 through 1940 US Censuses show them living in Collbran, where John ran a truck farm and/or worked as a WPA laborer, and Vesta worked as an “office girl” in a doctor’s office. In all, they stayed in Collbran for thirty years. Vesta’s father lived with she and her husband for fifteen years of that time. During World War II, they moved to Uravan, where Vesta worked in the soldier’s barracks. In 1950, they lived in Inyo, California, where John operated a tungsten mill. Her husband later worked for US Vanadium and for Union Carbide.
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- Vevarelle Esty
- Born and raised on the Outcalt homestead north of Gunnison, CO. Oldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John B. Outcalt, sister to Fernzelle Soverein and Delsie Dean. Parade Marshall of the 1976 Cattlemen's Days. (source: 1976 Parade Marshalls document)