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"A 1908 photograph of the family of Pete and Melissa Horn. Back, from left: Mary, Mabel, Ida, Maude. Front, from left: Walter, Arthur and Charley. All attended the Cottonwood school at one time or another and all are deceased except Mabel." -- McCoy Memoirs. p. 115
Pete Horn, coming from Bailey, Colorado, purchased the tract from two trappers about 1890, and homesteaded with the help of his wife, Melissa, and seven children.
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2) Katie Gates
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Catharine "Katie" Lemley Gates seated at a writing table.
James P. Gates..."married Catharine J. "Katie" Lemley in Monrow county, Ohio, on the 22d of October, 1868. Katie was born in 1842. They moved to Hebron, Nebraska, and started a family. A son George Albert was born August 15, 1872, in Hebron, Neb. Their second known child, Clark Lemley, was born August 21, 1878, in Hebron. James P. and Catharine had at least 2 more boys and twin girls,...
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"At the former Groh ranch on Rock Creek above McCoy in 1916 [photo dated 1917]. Here are: George Shepard, John Brooks [Jr.], Jessie [Brooks] Groh and Harry Groh. George, a faithful worker had been associated with the Brooks family for many years." -- McCoy Memoirs p.124
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"The Horn Family at Wolcott, Colo. in 1960. Leonard, Dorothy, Don Gates, Harold, Lulu, Mabel, Gail and Pamela Horn and a Branscomb boy. All are living, except Don who died in a tragic ranch accident while haying in Axil Basin in 1966." -- McCoy Memoirs, p. 120
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"Arthur, Lulu, Harold and Leonard Horn at their ranch on Rock Creek in 1917." -- McCoy Memoirs p.117
"In 1903 Pete's son, Arthur, took over the Rock Creek ranch and began renovation of the land and buildings. He cleared a lot more acres for cultivation. He also arranged with Jim Norvell to run cattle on shares until Arthur had finally a good sized herd of his own." -- McCoy Memoirs p.117
[date on photo 1918]
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James P. Gates seated, reading.
"J. P. had heard about gold being found in Routt county, and also that land could be filed on for homesteading in both Routt and Eagle counties in the state of Colorado. So he loaded up his family and headed west. They arrive in Routt county about 1885. James P. filed on some land on Rock Creek. Then he found a place for the family to stay in Yampa, Colo. George Albert, 13, and Clark Lemley, 7 years old, went to school...
