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1) Edwards area
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Looking across the valley in the Edwards area before Berry Creek development . View is from the Berry Creek hillside on the north side of former highway 6 & 24 towards current location of Arrowhead Golf Course. Bellyache Mountain in background.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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"Joe Edwards (J.W.) and Emma Newby Edwards, possibly following their wedding." They were married in Glenwood Springs on February 2, 1924.
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Emma Newby Edwards and Alta Edwards [Bush Holland], Emma's sister-in-law, waiting for a race to start. Both women are on horseback, Emma on Lady, Alta on Pinto.
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The Gay-Bar (Clark) Ranch as seen from Bellyache Mountain, October 1949. Highway 24, the Eagle River, and WIlmor[e] Lake are all visible at midground. Hay stack visible in closest field. [color degradation]
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A family gathering at the J.W. Edwards' house, probably after Joe and Emma's wedding. Left to right: John K. and Ella Casteel Edwards, Granda (Mamie) Miller; skip 4 popel; Emma and Joe Edwards; Nick Edwards (Joe's brother); boy's sitting, Ellis and Karlton Miller.
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Caption: " Joe, Lois, Esther."
"The automobile may have been the only one in the families, and may have been the one my grandfather Miller drove from Kansas, or the one the Edwards traveled in when they abandoned their homes on Bellyache in 1929 and journeyed to Chandler, Arizona. Most travel was by horseback or horse and buggy (wagon?)." -- Esther Rogers, March 3, 2013.
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Highway 6 & 24 in Eagle County. Wilmor[e] Lake would be off to the right. The Clark Ranch (Bar-Gay Ranch) is on the left at midfield. Bellyache Mountain is in the background.
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Caption: "John K. Edwards, father of Joe W. Edwards. He is at Joe's homestead on Bellyache near Foxe's sawmill."
The horses appear to be carrying fuel containers.
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Mamie and Tera Miller, posing for a photograph at their Bellyache homestead.
10) The Sorter Gang
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Joe Edwards at far left. The men are sorting potatoes by size into sacks, the sorting equipment being pulled by a horse.
12) "Tera" Miller
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Tera Miller with sled and horse team at his place on Bellyache Mountain. Winter weather. Lettuce crates are stacked and covered behind him.
13) Emma Mae Newby
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Emma Mae Newby, Esther Edwards Rogers' mother, on horseback, Bellyache Mountain. Emma Newby was Joseph T. (Tera aka Terry) Miller's stepdaughter. Her father died when she was 5.
Caption: "She was sure going high and crooked."
"I am not sure of the dates my family came to Eagle, but checking online homestead and census records, I found the Edwards family in the 1910 census in Colorado Springs and in 1919 to 1922 in Eagle County homestead records.
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J.T. (Terry) and Mamie Miller's cabin on Bellyache Mountain in Eagle County, Colorado. There are two automobiles in front of the cabin and people looking at the photographer.
15) Merell Holland
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Merell Holland and horses. Merell Holland was Alta Edwards' husband. Alta married Malcolm T. Bush in 1925 in Garfield County. In 1928, she married Merell Holland. They had a daughter, Frances Holland (not born on Bellyache).
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Nine children seated on a log for a photograph, all residents on Bellyache Mountain.
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Looking south west from Spring Creek with Weilmor[e] Lake in midfield. The Clark Family ranch is on the west side of Highway 6 which cuts through the photo. Squaw Creek and Bellyache are in the background. [photo color distorted]
18) Joe W. Edwards
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Caption: "Joe Edwards--his homestead on Bellyache near Foxe's sawmill before he and Emma married."
The horses appear to be carrying fuel containers.
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Emma Edwards standing in front of the homestead cabin in winter.
Emma wrote in little Joe's [Joseph Klyde Edwards] baby book, 1925: "When you were 5 months old we were going over to your Grandma Millers in the sleigh. One runner ran up on the bank and the other in the soft snow making the sleigh tip over on its side and threw you and me out in the snowdrift. You were asleep and never even woke up." -- Esther Rogers, March 3, 2013
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John Kelley Edwards and his grandson, "little" Joe (Joseph Klyde) Edwards.
