People

: Lillie May (Franklin) Bastien; She was born in Oklahoma Indian Territory to Thomas Franklin, a sharecropper, and Laura (Walden) Franklin, a homemaker. The 1900 US Census shows the family living in the territory of the Choctaw Nation when Lillie was seven years old. Ten years later, the census shows the family living in Kully Chaha when Lillie was fifteen, indicating that there was some confusion about her year of birth. She went to school until the 5th grade. She married George Bastien, the son of French immigrants, sometime before 1920, and the 1920 census shows them living in Kansas with their two children, ages six and four. He was a farmer and truck farmer. She was widowed in 1931. Census records indicate that she continued to live in Kansas for several years. She moved to Colorado around 1955, when she was sixty-one. At the time of her interview with the Mesa County Oral History Project, she was living in the Bethesda Nursing Care Center in Grand Junction. She died at the age of eighty-one and is buried in the Palisade Cemetery.

: Lilly Jane (Eachus) Lawson; She was born in Oregon to David Eachus and Sarah Eachus. Her father was a farmer and Methodist minister and her mother was a homemaker. When Lilly was two years old, in about 1895, the family moved to the Glade Park area of Mesa County, Colorado. There, David Eachus ministered and the family homesteaded. The 1910 US Census shows the Eachus family living in Orchard Mesa, when Lilly was 16 years old. Lilly’s occupation is listed as None, with her employer listed as Home/Farm. She married Leroy Lawson on November 29, 1916. They lived and farmed in Glade Park. She died at the age of 92 and is buried in the Glade Park Cemetery.

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