People

: Nancy (Renwick) Saxton; An early 20th century resident of Mesa County's Hunter District and of the Appleton area. She appears to have been born in England as Ana Jane Renwick to parents James Douglass Renwick and Mary Renwick. The 1891 England Census, taken when Nancy was not yet one year old, lists her father’s profession as Fruiterer. Immigration records show that she arrived in Canada with family members in 1906, at the age of sixteen. The family emigrated to the United States via St. Albans, Vermont that same year. She was living in Montana by 1911, when she married Clement Sylvester Saxton in Custer County. By 1920, they were living with their children in Rhone, Colorado, a small unincorporated town in Mesa County. In 1923, she became a substitute mail carrier for the Highline District. She held this position for thirty-seven years. Her husband grew apples.