People

: Penelope Chase "Penny" (Brown) Eberhart; She was born to Harry Lewis Brown and Penelope Chase (Hamilton) Brown in Newark, New Jersey. Her mother was a homemaker. US Census records show that her father was a tobacco salesman and a manager. He also owned a Wrigley’s chewing gum factory. Penelope went to high school in Glenn Ridge. She married Joseph Eberhart on March 23, 1929. According to the 1930 US Census, he was a motorman for the local street railway while she was a homemaker with their child. They moved to De Beque, Colorado in 1932, where they assisted her father, who had moved there to go into the oil shale business. She helped prepare the meals for the Index Oil Shale Company’s mining and refining operation. The 1940 census shows that they were living in Palisade, where Joseph worked as a salesman for a mining corporation (probably the family business). By 1950 they were living in Grand Junction at 731 N. 7th Street, with Joseph working as a gas station attendant. They had four children, four sons (William, John, Harry, and Gardener) and a daughter (Norma).

: Penelope Chase (Hamilton) Brown; She was born to David J. Hamilton and Alice E. (Willett) Hamilton in Perth Ambry, New Jersey and baptized on March 5, 1899. Her father was a broker and later, a telegraph man for the railroad. Her mother was a homemaker. She married Harry Lewis Brown on April 18, 1908. They moved to Glen Reach, New Jersey where they had a daughter, Penelope, and a son, Harry. They moved to Colorado in the early part of the 1920’s, following her husband, who had founded the Index Oil Company near De Beque. She worked as camp cook for the men who staffed her husband’s mining and refining operation. The 1930 US Census shows the family living in Denver, with family business as oil shale. The 1940 and 1950 censuses show Penelope and her husband living in Palisade with their daughter and grandchildren, and then in Grand Junction by themselves. She was a member of the Methodist Church.