People

: Neva (Collier) Ames; She was born to John W. and Maggie Collier in Colorado. She grew up on the Redlands area of Mesa County, and received her high school education at Grand Junction High School. She was married and widowed some time prior to 1956. She became a nurse for the Colorado State health department and worked with families living in the migrant labor camp in Palisade. She was quite good at teaching methods for improving living conditions/lifestyles (e.g. demonstrating the use of powdered milk in the absence of refrigeration).

: Nevada (Lynch) Burford; She was born in Utah and moved as a young girl to Grand Junction with her parents. She grew up in Grand Junction, where her father was involved in several enterprises, and in Kannah Creek, where her parents homesteaded. As a child, she belonged to the First Methodist Church in Grand Junction. After she married a sheep rancher named Walter Farmer, they lived in several locations in the Kannah Creek area, struggling to get by until Nevada separated from him and returned to Grand Junction with her children. Rod Thomas, the director of the First National Bank, hired her as a bookkeeper. She later worked at the Mesa County Courthouse as a bookkeeper for twenty years.

: Newell W. Meigs; Meigs was born in 1864 and died in 1932 in Dodge County, Wisconsin. He moved to Salida, Colorado in 1886 after buying out the express business of W.H. Freeman and J. Wood. He later ran 'The People's Store', a books and stationery store. By 1904, Meigs had his own photo gallery and he took many photographs of the Salida area. Meigs was also active in Salida city politics.

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