YUMA
Twenty years ago Steve Jones of Yuma won the U.S. Open golf championship.
Added a page on the Charles Alexander family - although he homesteaded in Washington
County, he lived in Yuma.
Added some pages from the Laird area. One was Jonas Fahringer, who was the land surveyor
for much of Colorado. He claimed land in Yuma County before the railroad was built.
Another was the Wolfe family. One daughter headed the Denver Land Office in the
1920's. A son, W.E. Wolfe, claimed land in Yuma County, then worked for the Guggenheim
mining smelter in Pueblo when the Guggenheims were battling the Rockefeller for control of
the mines, then came back to Wray , owning Olve Lake Ranch and a store in Wray.
LOGAN
Doing some family pages from the Fleming area – the first land claims of 1890 were mostly
gone by 1900. Surprising number of them were carpenters.
One claimant, a Baptist minister, Richard Everett, presided at the wedding in Missouri of
his niece Rebecca to Jay Fulbright in 1894. Their son William Fulbright became the noted
statesman senator from Arkansas. Richard’s daughter became dean of women at Purdue in the
1930’s, in the Coast Guard during WWII, and had a cutter, the Everett, named after her.