People

: Mary (Dodgion) Burford; She was born in Colorado, and was a Mesa County, Colorado pioneer. Apart from being an innkeeper in Whitewater, Colorado, she was also a homemaker at the family ranch in Pinon Mesa. Wife of Frederick Burford and mother of Darwin Burford.

: Mary Agnes (Robinson) Cox; She was born in Park City, Utah and came to Mesa County, Colorado in 1906, when she was one. The family lived for a time on a ranch on Salt Creek twenty miles from Collbran, then moved to Grand Junction, Colorado around the time Mary turned six. She graduated from Grand Junction High School in 1923. During her first marriage, she lived in Death Valley with her husband, who was engaged in gold mining there. She later married Edwin A. Cox and together they had three children. She grew up at 542 W. Ute Avenue in the Riverside neighborhood, and later moved to 541 W. Ute. She was a volunteer and transcriber for the Mesa County Oral History Project.

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