Hi Gail! Glad you started this group!

My Colorado roots run deep, not only in my family, but also my husband's family. My Christison family came in 1861. They lived in Chaffee, Fremont, Park, and Saguache counties. My husband's family - the Greshams, Eplers, and Squires - have deep roots in Elbert County.

I have a blog about the Christison family and Central Colorado history at http://ColoradoReflections.blogspot.com

Your family is in most of the counties that I have. Your husbands family out there in the plains not my area.

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I'm looking for any information on Fisk(e) Brainerd, who lived in the Colorado area from anytime between 1914/1920 and his death in 1951. He was previously married to Rosa (Rose) Estella Devore and had four children with her; Frank Devore, Charles (Charley) Porter, Corinne Margaret & Glenn Marvin (my grandfather). We have no information on him after he left the family between 1914 and 1920, nor do we have any information on his parents, siblings, etc. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

My great-great grandfather, Carson Arbuthnot, arrived in Boulder on June 20, 1869 along with four of his sons - Samuel, William (my great-grandfather), James and Charles who was only 12 years old. They later homesteaded north of Boulder. They were at the land grant office at noon to get their land on Jan. 2, 1863. Carson and William homesteaded Haystack Mountain, the other boys homesteaded near there along Table Mountain. They knew the land well as each got land along the Left Hand Creek and where there were natural springs.
Today, I dress up as the women that they married and tell their stories. One of my favorite women in our family is Mary Elizabeth Bader Arbuthnot, William's wife. She arrived in Colorado Territory in 1866 after her father had come home from fighting in the Civil War. He divorced his second wife in Iowa, loaded up the children from his first marriage and headed out to find his brother. They found him in Jamestown. But Mary's father, J. George Bader was more of a farmer than a miner, so they bought land and homesteaded just west of Haystack Mountain. Mary married her neighbor, William Arbuthnot on March 14, 1869. They had six children there where the Haystack Mountain Golf Course is now. When their youngest was two, William was kicked in the chest by a colt and died a week later. Mary took over the homestead business and did well educating her children on how to farm. She acquired additional land, enough to give a farm to each of her sons. We owned land around Haystack until 1944 when my grandfather retired and moved with my parents into Boulder.

I need to find death information on my great-uncle, Emil Weitenhagen. It is believed that he died somewhere in Colorado (probably Denver) sometime between 1934 and 1952. According to the 1930 census he worked for the railroad. Any help would be appreciated.

Summer 2008 I was in Denver for a national dance competition, then in Berthoud visiting my sister-in-law. I arranged a day trip to Fort Morgan to visit the genealogy room at their little museum. My paternal grandparents had a homestead nearby around 1920, and some of my father's sister's families settled in the area. Over the course of about 4 hrs., I found obituaries, where family graves were located, visited the cemetery and located some of the graves. Next I went to the Courthouse, found the Homestead papers with my grandfather's name, the tax assessor's office located the land, and I set off outside of town and found the property where my grandparents farmed and my Dad lived until he was 6. I'm sure there's a lot more information there, and even living first cousins, but I didn't have the time (or the nerve?) to make the jump from research to face-to-face.

Does anyone know anything about the names and locations of brickyards in Denver around 1900? My grandparents lived with their 9 children on Cook Street. My grandfather worked at the brickyard, and my grandmother ran a boardinghouse for laborers (brickyard) in addition to taking care of her children.

Never be afraid to face a cousin face to face, more than likely they will look like you and boy that is what is scary, seeing yourself in a total stranger.

Gail

Well, there wasn't much love lost between my father and his sisters. He was the youngest and most of the sisters were married and had (large) families by the time he was born. Everyone of my father's generation is long dead, and these 1st cousins of mine would be in their 70's and 80's and most likely don't even know my father existed, let alone me. My father probably wouldn't have approved of all this digging up of old family dirt. ;-)

My Kaler ancestor worked for the Union Pacific Railroad in Oakley, KS & Denver, CO.

I am researching my McIntosh line in Las Animas and Huerfano Counties. They were coal miners. My great great grandfather was Henry Hunter McIntosh b 1848 in Scotland and died 1924 in las animas county near Trinidad

Hello!  I'm researching the Donnellys in Pueblo County.  Just getting started.