Phoned Vicki Conklin’s mother this week – she said Vicki is still in the Greeley hospital,
and that’s why we haven’t heard from Phillips County.
Replaced the trusty-but-old XP desktop, but half the software won’t work with Windows8.
One is FrontPage – I can edit but not ftp. So with Pauli’s advice, am using CoffeeCup to
transmit.
Did add a surname and veteran burials to Washington County.
YUMA
January 2013 -
Added a page on the James and Mary Lay family of Wray . - Son Elza Lay was the planner
for Butch Cassidy's robberies - they rode together for ten years. Elza reformed after
a prison term in New Mexico, and ended up in Los Angeles.. He was much closer to Butch
than anyone else, but as one descendant said
"Who would go see a movie called "Butch Cassidy and Elza Lay !"
Updated the Bowden page of Pleasant Valley. - including photographs of young Chester and
his infant son Walter
Added a page on the Castle family of Waverly. - one daughter homesteaded, then she and her
sister worked fifty years for the Sinton family and their dairy in Colorado springs.
Added a page on John Y. Eckman of Weld City. - the first Old Settlers Day was held at his
ranch in far north Yuma County.
Added a page on John's stepson Raleigh Wilson . - he enlisted in the WWI Army with a
Wages address, and had a long career as a circus clown.
Added a page on the Hjelm family of Weld City. - Her husband died soon after their son was
born, but she proved-up the claim, and the son became a prominent doctor in Akron, Ohio.
Added a page on William Granville Logsdon and Charles Logsdon of Weld City. - Would like
some confirmation that this Charles Logsdon is the one that ended up in Abilene, Texas.
Added a page on the enterprising 'Alf' McNichols of Weld City - He also hosted an
Old Settlers Day celebration, and his son Bert was the organizer of the Yuma Cemetery.
Added a page on the Isaac McGee family of Weld City. - most probably the source of the
McGee / Magee precinct name.
Added a page on the Benjamin Metz family of Waverly and Weld City . - two sons were fine
baseball players for Yuma - and one later played for a company team in Trinidad.
Added a page on the Newell family of Wray . - He built the first business in Wray - the
Sod Hotel, and later operated it.
Added a page on Nell Bullard of Wray . - Long-time editor of the Wray Gazette - obituary
from the Denver Post
Added a page on the Spelts family of Ford . - early members of the Pleasant Valley
church, with many of the family buried in the cemetery.
Added a page of 1899 Wray School History..