People

: Mattie Gilman; With Shake Gilman, one-half of a De Beque area couple who dressed like wild-west characters, raised ponies, and used to come into town and buy ice cream for children. They enjoyed getting drunk and shooting their guns, until Mattie accidentally shot and killed Shake. Mattie then went to prison for a year for her crime.

: Mattie Griffith; She was born in Missouri, and moved with her husband and children to Las Animas, Colorado in the early 1900’s. She was a seamstress who, according to her daughter Anna Underwood, could make anything.

: Mattie V. (Moore) Jones; She was born in Missouri to Andrew J. Moore and Johanna Moore. Colorado State Census records show they were in Mesa County, Colorado by at least 1885. Her father was a carpenter. Her mother was an immigrant from Canada who ran a boarding house for sugar factory workers. Mattie married William D. Jones in 1891. She was a homemaker.

: Maud (Tillery) Trumbo; Mother of Dalton Trumbo. She was an active member of Grand Junction's First Church of Christ, Scientist. With her husband, Orus Trumbo, they raised children at 1124 Gunnison Avenue in Grand Junction, Colorado from 1908-1925, when they left for Los Angeles after Orus lost his job at Benge's shoe store. According to local historian David Sundal, she was an active citizen in the community. She belonged to several community groups and took active leadership roles in those groups. She was a member of the United Daughters of the Confederacy.

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