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- Zelma (Jones) Parkes
- An interviewer of the Mesa County Oral History Project. She was born in Grand Junction, Colorado in 1913. She married Walter Elwood Parks from DeBeque, Colorado in 1939. She moved with him to a ranch on Clear Creek, a tributary of Roan Creek, and lived there for 31 years.
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- Zenith Marsh
- Cattlemen's Days Parade Marshall 1989 with her husband Ray.
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- Zoe Marshall
- Contributor to "In Our Own Write," (source: In Our Own Write: A Gunnison Valley Journal). Contributor to "2020: The Hammer and The Dance: A Gunnison Valley Journal," (source:2020: The Hammer and The Dance : A Gunnison Valley Journal).
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- [Monroe] "Horsemeat" Lewis
- Early 20th century Grand Junction restaurateur. Oral history interviewees Al Look, Fred Hopkins, and Howard Shults all claim that Lewis sold hamburgers made with horse meat from his restaurant on South Avenue in the early Twentieth century. According to Shults and Look, Lewis came from Montrose and opened a restaurant on South Avenue in Grand Junction. He would apparently purchase dead horses or mules to use for meat, but Look describes him as “the Hamburger King of Grand Junction. That was the best hamburger that we ever had around here.” The 1912 Grand Junction City Directory shows a Monroe Lewis operating a restaurant at 216 S 4th Street, with his residence at 214 S 4th Street. While this puts Lewis at 4th Street and Colorado Avenue, and not on South Avenue, it's possible that Lewis had different locations for his restaurant, or that Look and Shults misremember the location. The 1916 City Directory shows Lewis and his wife Sophronia at the same location, with Sophronia operating a restaurant and Lewis working as a meat cutter. US Census records show that Monroe Lewis was born in Missouri. The Colorado State Census shows him living in Arapahoe County, Colorado with his parents by 1885, when he was seventeen years old. Colorado marriage records show that he married Sophronia Brooks in Buena Vista on December 26, 1893. By 1900 he was living in Glenwood Springs with his wife and child and working as a butcher. The 1920 and 1930 Censuses show him living in Grand Junction at 249 and 247 Ute Avenue, respectively. His occupation was listed as butcher or meat cutter. Lewis died at the age of 80 and is buried in Grand Junction's Orchard Mesa Cemetery.