People

: Eva (Wood) Leslie; A schoolteacher born in Ridgeway, Colorado. She moved to Glade Park with her family in the decade of the 1900's. Her father, who had been a miner in Ridgeway, tried his hand at dry farming in Glade Park but did not have success. The family moved several times during Eva's youth, and she attended school in several locations before graduating from Fruitvale High School in 1917. Immediately, she began teaching school in Glade Park and was charged with 30 students from grade 1 to 8. Later she married Charles Leslie, who ran a sheep ranching operation on Glade Park. Eva was a homemaker who often cooked and cleaned for the ranch lands. Along with Charles, she lived twenty miles from the Glade Park Store near Enoch's Lake. She later helped her husband run the Lighthouse Hotel in Fruita.

: Eva Lapham; A kindergarten teacher at the first Lowell School in Grand Junction, Colorado.

: Eva Margaret (Nessler) West; She was born in Iowa to William “Will” Nessler and Ella (Moore) Nessler. Her father was harness maker and farmer. Her mother was a homemaker. The 1900 US Census shows her family living in Sioux Rapids, Iowa, when Eva was 15. Along with many other Iowans, the family moved to Palisade, Colorado in 1906. There, they farmed fruit. She married Loren Dwight West in Glenwood Springs on September 14, 1913. He was also from a Palisade fruit farming family. They moved for a time to Castleford, Idaho, and the 1920 US Census shows them running a stock farm there. They returned to Palisade in 1927 and once again farmed fruit.

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