People
Collection for person entities.
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- Avard Fairbanks
- A renowned sculptor and native Utahan known in part for his art commissioned by the Church of Latter Day Saints. Much of his collection is housed at the Fairbanks Museum of History and Art in Fairbanks, Utah. *Public domain photo by Harold Goff of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (circa 1914)
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- Avery Dobie
- 2008 Cattlemen's Days Attendant, member of Gunnison High School Rodeo Team, Member of 4-H (from 2008 Cattlemen's Days Brochure) 2005 Cattlemen's Days Junior Miss, Member of 4-H, Member of Bad Girls Barrel Racing Club (From 2005 Cattlemen's Days Brochure)
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- Avery Forsythe
- Contributor to "Out of the Blue and Into the Sun," (source: Out of the Blue and Into the Sun: A Gunnison Valley Journal)
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- Avery J Pulley
- Contributor to "In Our Own Write," (source: In Our Own Write: A Gunnison Valley Journal)
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- Avery Newton Burford
- He was born to Roland "Tank" Burford and Caroline (Newton) Burford in Fresno, California. His father was an attorney and his mother was a homemaker. US Census records indicate that he had come to Mesa County, Colorado by at least 1900. In doing so he followed his older brother, Robert "Fred" Burford, who arrived in the 1880's and cattle ranched on Pinon Mesa before moving to Whitewater. Avery Burford is shown living in Whitewater and working on the railroad by the 1900 census. Colorado marriage records show that he married Ruby Dodgion on December 11, 1904. By 1910, he was living with his in-laws, the Dodgions, and working as a stockman in Whitewater. He continued to live in Whitewater and to work as a stockman. He seemed to have also maintained family ranch lands on Pinon Mesa. According to Don Rogers, Burford provided the tracking expertise that led to Rogers when he became lost in the wilderness as a six-year-old boy in 1918.
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- Avis (Turner) Corcoran
- She was born in Colorado and graduated from Fruita High School. Her husband was a rancher, and she spent the summers on the ranch above De Beque and the rest of the year with her children in Grand Junction, Colorado.
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- Avis M. Carlson
- An interviewer.
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- Avon Edson Taylor Jr.
- He was born in Palisade, Colorado to Avon Edson Taylor Sr. and Rena M. (Gramps Burdick) Taylor. His father was the Palisade High School principal and a fruit farmer for whom Taylor Elementary School is named. His mother was a school teacher and Colorado State legislator who championed disabled youth. The 1930 US Census shows the family living at 133 First Street, when Avon Jr. was seven years old. Avon had four older siblings from his parents’ previous marriages. He attended local schools. The 1940 census shows him working as a farm laborer at the age of sixteen. The 1950 census shows him living with his parents at the age of twenty-seven and as unable to work. He died at the age of seventy-seven and is buried in the Palisade Cemetery.
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- Avon Edson Taylor Sr.
- He was born in Missouri to Thomas C. Taylor and Leona Jane (Edson) Taylor. His father was a clergyman and his mother was a homemaker. The 1900 US Census shows the family living in Memphis, Missouri, with Avon, at the age of sixteen, older than his nine brothers and sisters. He attended Missouri Wesleyan College and Baker University. He married Bertha E. Snyder in Cameron, Missouri on July 18, 1906. The 1910 US Census shows them living in Cameron with their two year old son, with Avon working as a public school teacher. According to his son, Avon Jr., Avon Sr. and Bertha moved to the Grand Valley in 1914. The 1920 Census shows that they lived in west Palisade with their two sons. The census lists Avon Taylor as working as a fruit farmer. He was also the principal of the Mt. Lincoln School. Bertha died in 1921. Avon Taylor remarried to Rena M. Burdick in Delta on December 24, 1921. Like Taylor, she had been married with children previously. They had a son named Avon Edson Taylor Jr. Rena was also a schoolteacher, and had taught for many years in Delta prior to moving to Palisade. He worked at the Mount Lincoln School for six years before becoming the principal of Palisade High School, where he retired in 1947. Palisade Elementary School was later named Taylor Elementary School in his honor. When Rena served in the Colorado State House of Representatives and in the State Senate, Avon Sr. took over the household chores, and his son remembers him as a good cook. He died at the age of eighty-one.