Allee, Dale
Armstrong, Jim
Clark, Frank D.
Conley, Mike and Linda (EMS Profile)
Donley, Leslie E.
Downey, Marshall
Evarts, Washington Irving
Even, Edward and Agatha
Even, Joseph
Flag and Mt. Nebo
Galbreath, Henry Thomas
Goodpasture Blacksmith Shop
Goodpasture Post Office
Hausman, Clement F.
Hoag Sr., Frank S.
Hoag Jr., Frank Stephen
Hooper, Betty Wheeler
Hughlitt, Francis Leroy
Hughlitt, Sylvester Smith
Hurd, Walter K.
Keating, Kay
Klipfel, August W.
Klipfel, Charles Herman
Klipfel, Willard M.
Koller, Edmund B.
Lorje, Elnora
Luzardo, Kathy (EMS profile)
Mace, Juan
Merchant, Walt
Merhing, Joe
Moulton, Bill and Anne (EMS profile)
Murray, Hal (EMS profile)
Myers, Orville
Neu, Shirleen
Outhier, Louis
Outhier, Norma
Outhier, Corky (EMS profile)
Pearson, John & Betty Lou
Quillian, Mrs. Asbury
Rawlings, John William
Robinson, Harold E.
Roper, Francis
Roper, Ray and Edna Simonson
Senger, M.D., William
Sharp, William
Simonson, Ruth and Roy
Smith, Mona and Harold
Stryker, Ward
Thompson, Mrs.
Townsend, Capt. Wood F.
Traeber's Store
Vaughn, Robert
Vidmar Jr., Jake Theodore
Vories Family Reunion
Walter, Mrs. Karl
Walters, The Family
Wantram, John
Youngren, Ray
Zents, Clyde and Burnice

PICTURES

Marshall Downey
Joseph Even
Flag on Mt. Nebo
Frank S. Hoag, Sr.
Jimmy & Betty Wheeler Hooper
J.F. Keating
Kay Keating
Elnora Lorje
Kathy Luzardo
Bill and Anne Moulton
Hal Murray
Orville Myers
Corky Outhier
John & Betty Lou Pearson
Ray & Edna Roper
Francis Roper
W.F. Townsend
Ward Stryker

DALE ALLEE
by Gail Pitts
The Pueblo Chieftain

On warm, summer mornings, Dale and Ila Mae Allee like to have breakfast on the redwood deck off their kitchen, savoring the unobstructed view of Pikes to the north.

In the evening, they enjoy the sunset behind Greenhorn Mountain through the living room's picture window.

The Allee's 5,500 acre ranch on Waterbarrel Road - near Beulah- is strikingly green this late in June. The prairie paints a carpet in all directions from the ranch house.

Allee is one of Pueblo County's staunchest 4-H supporters and this year has been named to its Leader's Hall of Fame.

Born at North Avondale in 1929, when his father was working for the Thatcher family, he got his first taste of 4-H when he was nine or 10 years old.

"I always showed beef cattle, beef plus horses," he said.

Cattle always have been part of his life.

His dad moved from the Thatcher holdings to the Livesey ranch, 25,000 acres that "right now are the bottom of Lake Pueblo."

Allee spent eight years in a one-room school before attending the old Centennial High in Pueblo.

He tried a three-year stint at C.F. & I..

"Back in my time, every young guy went to work there," he said.

He was making $63 a week in 1957 and thought "I'd be a real success if I made $1,000 a month."

But he hated the mill. And he had some cattle of his own on the side.

"That graveyard shift was really torture," he recalled.

Still, when he quit he missed "the guys I worked with and I missed the paycheck."

He went to work for his dad.

The family moved to Westcliffe, but lived there only 11 months.

The elder Allee had the opportunity for an $87,500 profit on the Westcliffe ranch.

Meanwhile, a Texan had bought the Pat Ruddy ranch - once part of the Livesay - but "Hated it and wanted to go back to Texas."

That ranch is the Allee's home today.

"We have deeds back even before Charles Goodnight, before Gervacio Nolan."

Son Dennis and his family live down the road in the homestead house.

Daughter Donna and her family also live on the ranch. Deana and her family live in Pueblo.

Like so many 4-Hers, Allee became "reinvolved" when the three children were young.

He was leader of the Beulah Wranglers for 17 years. It's the old Turtle Butte Club, named for the buttes south of the ranch.

"We used to show at the State Fair. That was kind of the ultimate."

The club covered all 4-H projects, except Home Ec., he said.

That's not one of his many talents.

"He can zap leftovers," Mrs Allee laughed and waved toward the microwave.

But 4-H leader is just the toe in the stirrup for Allee.

He's the pool buyer at the Pueblo County Fair livestock sale. The youngsters raise money, $5, $100, $500 at a time from local friends and businesses. The money is pooled. If one pig or steer or lamb doesn't bring a price above market at the auction, Allee jumps in and buys it with the pool money.

It guarantees that all the 4-H youngsters will receive a fair return on their animals.

"Sometimes you will see me buy a grand champion," he said. "That's not pool money. Somebody's come up to me and said they want to buy so-and-so's animal but they don't want to bid."

Allee and former youth agent Bob Clark put together the first County Sale at the State Fairgrounds.

"It was a wreck. We had everything except buyers," he said.

He recalls that a banker from Minnequa "bought most everything at $5 to $10 over market."

"The next year, we got parents and businesses and it was OK."

Today, he usually has about $6,000 in pool money for the County Sale.

Allee also recalls the first Colorado State Fair Junior Livestock Sale in the Ag Palace. "It rained; water just poured through the roof."

Allee has been superintendent of the State Fair Livestock Sale for at least 20 years and chairman of the sale committee.

But you won't see him "hanging around" during the sale. Instead, he's everywhere at once.

"The real important part of the committee is to take care of snafus. I've got a large committee of really good volunteers."

He's looking forward to this year's sale, to be held in the new Events Center. "It ought to add some pizzazz," he said.

"I've been hanging around at this thing so I can have one at the Events Center."

Allee runs about 200 mother cows on the ranch and worries, like all cowmen, about the price of cattle, down 30 percent from last year.

"That's the hard part of it. You have to take what they want to give you, not what you want to get."

But prices of the supplies for the ranch, such as 500 gallons of gas a month plus diesel, aren't negotiable.

He also still raises a few horses, but isn't anxious to sit astride those bucking colts.

He rides an unregistered, year-old quarter horse/paint cro named Izzy.

"That's for what is he (izzy)," he laughed.

JIM ARMSTRONG

Jim Armstrong is the epitome of a self-sufficient rancher. He was born in Vineland on January 13, 1918 to Charles Edgar and Edna Pearl Armstrong. Charles Armstrong moved from Michigan to Colorado and homesteaded in the Apache Creek area where he had a dairy route in Pueblo. In 1919 when Jim was only 1 1/2 years old his family moved to Beulah. They bought the North Creek home which was originally built by Steve Service in 1916-17. His father bought beef cattle and hay cutting machines, and they raised cattle and sold feed. Jim has been a bachelor all his life. His explanation is: "I thought I would get married some day, but it just never happened." Jim does all his own work on his cattle ranch and only occasionally hires help during the busy haying season.

Jim has always been active in the Beulah community service organizations. He was the first member and president of the Beulah Saddle Club, which started in 1949. He was a member of the Beulah Volunteer Fire Department since its conception. He has been involved in the Beulah EMT ambulance and is currently a member. He has also participated and acted in our Beulah Melodrama.

Jim says running his ranch keeps him very busy, but he does have one hobby he enjoys. He is a sportsman and enjoys hunting elk in the Fall.

This article was reprinted from the April 1, 1990, Issue 8 of The Beulah Banner.

REMEMBERING AN 'OLD TIMER'
by Ron and Cathene Jones

Jim Armstrong was one of five children raised on the North Creek family ranch. He never married but dedicated his life to ranching, farming and our community. In 1949, the Beulah Valley Saddle Club was formed and Jim became the first president of the club. He remained active in the saddle Club for many years and was president several different times.

During the early '50's Jim was a Boy Scout Leader. He enjoyed taking the Scouts on overnight camping trips and packing with horses. One of Jim's most favorite activities was going elk hunting every Fall with his hunting group. Taking his horse to ride and pack and "roughing it" miles from civilization was a part of his life that he truly treasured. Jim was also one of the original cast members of the annual Beulah melodrama. He loved playing or acting the many different parts over several years. One he particularly enjoyed was the role of sheriff.

Almost everyone saw Jim at one time or another haying. Many young boys worked for Jim during haying season. Jim paid fair wages but expected a good day's work in return. The hay crews soon learned that the hay had to be stacked a certain way, and that was Jim's way.

Being a rancher and farmer very naturally took most of his time. He was a self-educated man and a voracious reader. He became very knowledgeable about grasses and weeds and an expert in our area. Jim ran a cow-calf operation and enjoyed raising baby calves and liked branding the old fashioned way. Several young men helped during every branding time and just like haying, it had to be done a certain way and that was Jim's way.

Jim was also an active EMT in Beulah for many years and still responded to calls up until about a year before he died. It has been nearly two years since Jim Armstrong passed away. With his slow drawl and sense of humor he was a very interesting person to visit with. Many Beulah residents remember this colorful character with deep appreciation and love. He gave so much of himself to our community through the years and left a nice little gift of money to Beulah Community Center and the Beulah Volunteer Fire Department.

The Beulah Community Center is planning a memorial dedicaton to him on Sunday, May 7, 1995. We will be drawing a lucky name to win a beautiful quilt that was made and donated by our Beulah Quilters. So everyone come and join in our celebration and Ice Cream Social.

Reprinted from the April, 1995 issue of the Beulah Valley Word.


Frank D. Clarke
The Man Who Was Scalped and Lived Here in Beulah

Frank was the father of two sons, Raymond Clarke of Beulah and Fred Clarke of Kokomo, Colorado; two daughters, Mrs. Lillian Fauntleroy and Mrs. Lorena Adams of Beulah. He also had two step-sons, Henry and Fred Boggs. His grandchildren included, among others, Shirley McGee, Martha Benesch, Wanda and Radell, Norman and Darrell Clarke of Beulah.

Frank was orphaned at an early age and had no recollection of his parents. Actual facts concerning his first years are obscure. His parents are believed to have fallen victims to an Indian massacre in the days when the white man first ventured into Montana. His parents, according to information Clarke picked up in later years, were members of a wagon train party which was practically wiped out by an Indian attack.

Clarke's first recollections were of a life at Ft. Benton, Montana, an outpost on the northwest frontier in the days of early Indian wars, where he lived with an uncle, Jim Hughes, an Indian Scout under General Custer.

He experienced a story-book adventure with the Indians. He was sent out from the Montana fort with a mule team. He was attacked by a party of Indians and was wounded by a tomahawk blow on the head. Apparently, the Indians decided to spare his life when they discovered his tender age so he was taken to their camp where a squaw nursed him back to health.

How long he was held prisoner was not known even to Clarke, but he said, according to relatives, that it apparently was several weeks. One day, according to his own story, he just walked off and made his way back to Fort Benton.

A long scar from the tomahawk blow on top of his head remained with him all his life.

After a trip to Leadville, Clarke prospected and mined in various parts of Colorado, New Mexico and Arizona. With the outbreak of the Indian Uprising in 1886, he became an Indian scout, serving with General George Crook and Nelson A. Miles in Arizona against Geronimo and Natchez until the Apaches were finally subdued.

He returned to Colorado engaging in various building activities and then turned to prospecting. The last 30 years he lived practically continuously at Beulah, where earlier he had spent considerable time.

An expert carpenter and cabinet maker, Clarke personally built several of the finest summer homes in the Beulah district. Despite his advanced years, his eyesight and ability remained keen so he could turn out cedar chests and cabinets. His cedar chests of native Colorado Cedar had been sent to many parts of the United States and several had been sent to England.

Although he never attended school, he interested himself in many studies. Another accomplishment was that of a violinist. He was fond of and adept at playing many of the old time tunes.

He numbered among his personal acquaintances such notorious figures of the old West as General George Armstrong Custer, Kit Carson, Buffalo Bill and Billy the Kid.

Death ended his career and he died in his sleep at the home of a daughter, Mrs. Lillian Fauntleroy.


MIKE AND LINDA CONLEY
EMS Profile by Rachael Thompson

Mike and Linda Conley have been with Beulah EMS for a year and a half. "It was something I always wanted to do. I read about the need for volunteers in The Beulah Banner , so I called," Mike says strongly. When Linda found out that one more person was needed to hold the First Responder Class, She also joined. Both Mike and Linda work in Pueblo and have lived in Beulah for four years. Mike and Linda attended First Responder and EMT Basic classes at PCC. Their goal is to become IV Certified. "The classes are worthwhile, the instructors are good, and it is a excellent program," says Mike and Linda. "Volunteers are reimbursed and there are some scholarships available if needed." Beulah needs volunteers who are in Beulah during the daytime when other EMTs are at work out of Beulah. "There have been a couple of instances," Linda recalls, "that there was no one available to respond..." Residents of Beulah need to be able to count on help when they need it. This is a great need that only someone in our community can fill. Donations are always welcome and they are 100% tax deductible. Mike and Linda are a part of Beulah EMS because they want to give something back to the community. They don't want thanks or a pat on the back, just to let everyone know that to support Beulah EMS is a gift to every person in Beulah.

The Conleys have four daughters, one son, and five grandchildren. Their daughter and twin grandsons, Tyler and Cody, have recently moved to Beulah and will attend Beulah School in the fall. The Conleys are excited about their grandsons attending Beulah School and the benefits that only our community can provide.

Beulah EMS will have a booth at the Arts and Crafts fair. Bottled water, Gatorade, and bowls of fresh fruit will be sold as a fundraiser. You can get your blood pressure checked for free, meet some of the volunteers, and learn more about Beulah EMS. For anyone interested in becoming an EMT with Beulah EMS, this is your opportunity to take the first step or ask your first question. According to Mike Conley, the EMT Program is one that any person who tries can get through. "Besides," he declares, "I passed!"

Reprinted from The Beulah Banner August, 2003 issue.

LESLIE E. DONLEY

Leslie E. Donley, well-known dairyman of Pueblo, Pueblo County, Colorado, is owner and operator of the Hillside Dairy, which was established in 1919 by his father and has been in the family since that time. At present the firm, which deals in the retail sale of milk, has 450 registered Holstein cows. The herd is the largest privately owned Holstein herd in Pueblo. In the beginning the business had twenty-five cows, which were milked by hand. Now the complete production and processing operation is done by strictly modern methods, never touched by hand. The delivery in Puebo covers ten routes.

Leslie E. Donley was born February 13, 1914, in Pueblo, to Floyd and Lula Glasscoe Donley. His father, born in Beulah, Colorado, in 1888, now lives in Pueblo. His mother was born in Greenfield, Missouri, in 1894. The adobe house in which Leslie Donley's grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Edward Donley lived, still stands on the Donley farm. The grandparents had moved there about 1899, engaging in ranching and dairying.

Leslie E. Donley married the former Velma Bartlett, daughter of Clyde and Nellie Andrus Barlett, in Pueblo Baptist Church May 20, 1934. Mr. Bartlett was born in Missouri and passed away in 1959. Mrs. Bartlett was born in Colorado Springs, married Mr. Bartlett in Pueblo November 7, 1912, and makes her home in Pueblo. Mr. and Mrs. Donley are the parents of two sons: David, who married the former Marion Mesojedic; and Richard.

Mr. Donley is past secretary of the Colorado Holstein Association and also a board member and a member of the board of directors of the Colorado Dairy Association. He is a member of the Colorado Holstein Association, the Rotary Club, and the Elks. He is a Mason, a member of the Blue Lodge Number 17, a member of the Southern Colorado Consistory and of Al Kaly Shrine. He is also a member of the Minnequa Club and a former board member. Mrs. Donley is chairman of the historical committee of the D.A.R., a member of Rotary Anns. of Eastern Star, and the ladies Consistory. He is a member of the admistrative committee of the Colorado Milk Marketing Order representing producer handler. Mr. Donley's hobbies are model train construction, water skiing and fishing. He is a member of Mesa Presbyterian Church. Mr. Donley is regarded in his community as a progressive businessman interested in efficient operation and the highest standards for his dairy.

MARSHALL DOWNEY
By Rachael Thompson
(Picture)

"He's a good father, a good husband, and a good man, and a good son," Bessie Downey proudly stated about Marshall Downey, her husband of 63 years, "but don't tell him I said that." Marshall met Bessie when his mother was having a baby and Bessie came to work there to help out. "She baked me my 17th birthday cake," Marshall grinned. "And I guess you can tell by looking at me that she's a pretty good cook." They lived just 60 miles apart in southwesten Kansas before moving to Beulah, but neither one knew it. Marshall built their home here in Beulah from scratch after he retired in 1981. "We moved in on November second, my birthday, and Marshall worked me so hard that he didn't have to take me out to dinner," said Bessie, who was pleased that her husband, who had worked so many years at a desk, could build such a beautiful home.

Marshall Downey's grandparents came to Beulah in 1898 after homesteading in Kansas. His grandfather worked most of his life for his family and other people, and was buried here in the Beulah Cemetery. Marshall's dad attended Cedar Grove School, was a dry land farmer and a sharecropper. "We moved around a lot," Marshall remembers, "and in fourth grade I went to five different schools." Marshall also attended Mountain View School on Water Barrel Flats and believes his teacher was named Neeva Shipley in the one room schoolhouse. Marshall attended Pueblo Junior College and later Denver University where he received his BA in Business and then lived in Denver for 30 years. He has worked at C.F.I, and United Airlines, but most of his career was with the Public Service Company as an accountant and auditor before supervising their employee health insurance and later their credit union. Marshall served our country during WWII stationed in the Marshall Islands as an Aviation Metalsmith in the United States Navy.

"It took 30 days by covered wagon to get from Kansas to Beulah," remembers Marshall "and I made the trip back and forth twice between 1925 and 1929. Once I camped near the school yard in Lamar, Colorado and corralled my dad's horses on the fenced playground." Marshall has ridden horses from the time he was big enough to sit on one, and has ridden everywhere you can see from the back of the Hogbacks all the way to Pueblo Reservoir and beyond, plus all over the flats and hills east of Highway 78.

Marshall's love and pride was apparent when speaking of his son, daughter, four grandchildren, five great grandchildren and one great great granddaughter.

On being a father, Marshall thought carefully and then said proudly, "I guess I've got a pretty good relationship with my children. They still come to see me for advice." He then spoke of a time when he and his son were struck by lightening on August 23, 1976. "It was a pack trip back in the mountains north of Pagosa Springs. There were nine men and seventeen head of horses. One man and seven horses were killed. The saddle mule my son was riding was dead and laying on my son's legs. I thought my son was dead, too. When he was clear of the mule, I hit my son in the middle of his shoulder blades as hard as I could. I don't know why I hit him like that. Then he started gasping for air and I knew my son was alive. My son doesn't remember all of this, but I do." Marshall and his son Bill still go horseback riding together. Bill is now the County Commissioner in Pagosa Springs, Colorado. Marshall Downey is a good father, a good husband and a good son. He is kind, caring, knowledgeable about his community, portrays high moral values, and enjoys living next to the school yard in Beulah. Happy Father's Day, Marshall!

This article is reprinted from the June, 2002 issue of The Beulah Banner.

WASHINGTON IRVING EVARTS

This interesting article was received from Roy E. Roper of Canon City. (Remember his Stairway to the Stars). He prepared this for his children and grandchildren and was kind enough to share with us.

A Man Named Washington Irving Evarts

The writings of an early American author named Washington Irving must have had a rather favorable influence upon a family named Evarts in 1827. On May 7 of that year they named their newborn son W.I. Evarts - a boy who later became a leading citizen in the small community of Beulah.

The Evarts family, of English extraction, lived in Middlesex County, Connecticut. Washington Irving, the author, lived nearby in the New York state area and in 1819 had completed one of his most popular writings, "The Sketch Book", which contained the stories "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" and "Rip Van Winkle". It seems likely folks liked the stories, or perhaps also the rhythm of the name Washington Irving.

At any rate the story of W.I. Evarts was one of self-reliance and determination to succeed. After education in the common schools of his state he apprenticed in the blacksmith trade at age 16. Born of poor parents, he probably did not have much choice as to a life's work. At age 22 he went to Ohio where he worked in his uncle's blacksmith shop for one year. Then he proceeded to Wisconsin where he assisted in putting together the iron work on the first bridge across the Wisconsin River. He resided there for 12 years, spending several winters in the pine woods where people would come for hundreds of miles for lumber; he often had as high as one hundred ox-teams to shoe in one season. His next home was in Fillmore County, Minnesota where he had a shop for three years. He was then in Kansas for about 1 1/2 years and moved to Missouri and engaged in business for 11 years. His next move was to Colorado, locating in Beulah, and did blacksmithing for 8 years, having arrived here in 1876.

In 1861 he married Hannah Kidder, born in Maine but reared in New York state. It is not known how they came to know each other but one guess is that he had returned to Conn. for a visit after working for a time in Wisconsin and met her there or perhaps in New York. In the years following, Hannah gave birth to eight children, six prior to the move to Colorado and the last two who were born in Beulah.

In Beulah he settled on a ranch and set about improving it from the wild land he found. He experienced all the hardships and trials incident to pioneer life and had some adventures with the Indians. His homestead patent #2047 was granted to him in March 1889. The 160 acre homestead was located 1/2 mile west of Beulah on Middle Creek. According to a record left by William Roper he later moved the Evarts blacksmith building to Goodpasture in 1921. Hannah deserves great credit for her part in improving the farm. She worked as a nurse in Pueblo to earn money to buy stock and pay for many improvements. She was a hard worker, an excellent woman, and highly esteemed by all who knew her.

Washington Irving Evarts died in Beulah in 1900 at the age of 72 years. His wife, Hannah, died at Oak Creek, Colorado in 1914. The are both buried in the family plot in the Beulah Cemetery, in the southwest corner. A rather tall square stone monument marks the plot, surrounded by graves of other family members. Many years ago someone planted a white lilac bush there that now dominates the graves. His last 23 years of life were spent in Beulah where their last two children were born.

Roy E. Roper is a great-great-grandson of Washington Irving Evarts and wrote this on December 6, 1996. Thank you, Roy.

EDWARD AND AGATHA EVEN
by Louise Even

I wish to share with the Historical members the story of my husband's grandparents, Edward and Agatha Even, as told to me by him and his brother, Robert. (I owe Robert much for the extra effort he put into this article).

The lineage of the Even family has been traced back to 1663 by family members residing in Hagen, Germany.

Edward W. Even immigrated to the United States from Schwelm, Germany arriving at Ellis Island on September 3, 1881. An older brother, Richard, and sister, Ida, were with him and they arrived in the Pueblo Area in 1882. Why they selected this area in Colorado is not readily known, however, it is believed it was due to ethnic acquaintances or perhaps employment opportunities at Pueblo smelters. During his early years in America, Edward worked at the Pueblo smelter. Later, with his brother, Richard, he farmed and raised cattle in the Belle Plain area, near the present day Pueblo Memorial Airport.

Agatha H. Borgman (Edward's bride to be) also came to the United States in 1881, landing July 4th with her mother, Mary Bernadina Borgman Elsing and half sisters, Caroline and Bernadine from Bochum, Germany. Fred Elsing, Agatha's step-father was killed in the Franco-Prussian war. Fred Elsing met the family in New York to bring them to Colorado and his girls didn't recognize him because of his beard.

Edward filed for a homestead in 1888 in the Couzzen Springs area northeast of Beulah and he and Agatha were married August 15, 1889 in St. Patricks church in Pueblo. He received his land patent in 1891 for his homestead.

The homestead house was a two story structure built of logs and prior to a staircase being built, access to the children's sleeping area was a ladder. Through the years, additions and renovations were made to the house. To this day, it is an inhabitable residence. Edward dug a well, by hand, in the canyon west of the house so water was nearby. They had an apple orchard and stored fruit and vegetables in a stone cellar they had built.

They harvested their first corn crop with an Indian hatchet. The corn was 18" tall. Oh, how different from our modern machinery of today. Agatha once related to a granddaughter that during the early years they observed Indians passing through the area, but they never encountered them.

I must mention that Mr. Elsing was struck and killed by lightning while in a pasture north of the Even homestead in the summer of 1904. Agatha found his body.

Eleven of Edward and Agatha's twelve children were born at their homestead home. The family consisted of 8 boys and 4 girls: Albert, Anna, Paul, Ida, Helen, Joseph, Henry, Josephine, William, Richard, Bernard and Aloysius. William died in 1923. All others lived most of their lives in Pueblo County and are buried in the Pueblo area. You will remember one especially, Paul. He was the Beulah Rural mail carrier for 36 years, 1923-1959. Widows of sons, Henry (Vera Bussey) and Aloysius (Phyllis Bornshein) reside in Pueblo.

The children received minimum educaton due to the necessity of making a living. It was told when the three oldest children enrolled at the Couzzen Springs School they could not speak English.

The original Couzzen Springs School was on the Hall farm, adjacent to the Even property.

The boys worked for board and room and the girls worked as servants for prominent Pueblo families or at the Colorado Laundry.

Agatha recalled her husband served on the first grand jury in Pueblo in 1920.

Among the memories held dear was the fact that Agatha always had a pot of coffee simmering on the back of the old wood stove just waiting for whomever might arrive. Also the Christmas celebrations were wonderful as all grandchildren were to recite school parts for all present, and there were popcorn strings and candles burned on the tree. Even during the leanest years, Agatha had Christmas gifts for her chidren, their spouses and her grandchildren. Herbert especially remembers the Easter Egg Hunts in the canyon when older children would help the younger ones.

Agatha was widowed in 1926 and faced the challenge of raising her younger children alone and keeping the Even Ranch intact, which she did very adequately as her children rallied around her.

In 1949, she was named "Olders Pioneer Cowgirl of the year" by the Pueblo Saddle Club at their annual Saddle Club Ball in February.

The land holdings acquired by the Evens through the years are, to this day, retained in the Even family by the children of son, Joe.

Agatha died in 1960 at the age of 90. She was survived by 8 children, 21 grandchildren and 19 great grandchildren.

JOSEPH EVEN
by Raechel Thompson

Joseph Even's father, Edward W. Even came to America and settled in Pueblo in the early 1880's. He then homsteaded a place in the Couzzins Spring area where his family farmed and raised Herefords. Joseph Even was one of twelve children born to Edward and Agatha Even. Joseph was born March 14, 1900 and died August 14, 1977 after living seventy-seven years on his land. The Even farm was established October 5, 1888 and covered 1600 acres.

Joseph and his brothers and sisters went to a one-room school, Couzzins Springs School, which was on a neighbor's property close by. He attended school here through seventh grade when Joseph's father needed him to work on the farm. Joseph quit school to help his father.

Joseph was the Pueblo County winner of the Century Farm Family Contest. George Scott, manager of the Colorado State Fair said of the Even family, "We are most pleased to be able to honor a family which has played a significant role in the agricultural process of Colorado for more than a century. Through the hard work of all families honored, Colorado was helped to become one of the major agricultural states in the nation."

During the Dust Bowl, times were hard for the Even family. Food and clothing were scarce and Joseph got a job on WPA where he did road work, sawed timber, and hauled dirt in a wheelbarrow for fill around bridges. Joseph worked hard for his family and for the land that would be his children's someday.

Joseph purchased his livestock brand in 1926. Other than ranching and farming, Joseph sometimes supplemented the family income working in the clay mines. Canaries were used to detect poisonous gases in the mine. Joseph had a strong work ethic that his children are proud of. They remember him almost never stopping to rest and that was when he was in his sixties.

Joseph married Josephine Hanratty in 1927. They had five children, three girls; Lillian, Vivian, and Theresa, and two boys, Everett and James. One child, James Frances, died from pneumonia at three months of age.

Everett Even remembers that his father, Joseph, was a water boy for a steam tractor that ran a threshing machine when he was twelve years old. He lovingly recalls that he and his father hauled coal from the Florence coal yards with a team and wagon. They slept in sheds and under bridges during the trips. "I've never known anyone who disliked my dad, and he never had a bad word to say about anyone, something we could all live by today. We loved him dearly."

This article was reprinted from the November, 2002 issue of The Beulah Banner.

The Flag and Mt. Nebo
(Now called by many "Flag Mountain")
(Picture)

The history of the "Flag" on Mt. Nebo began in the year 1934. It was that summer when the Frank Holloran family moved into their summer home next door to the George Broome family.

From the large summer porches of Broome's "Grand View" and Holloran's "Lone Pine" could be seen the peak of Mt. Nebo on the opposite side of Middle Creek Canyon. This peak was the challenge of three sons - Tom Broome (age 6), Fred Holloran (age 8), and Joe Holloran (age 10). To prove their scaling accomplishment, they took with them a stick to which had been nailed a sheet rag that they could wave to their families below and then jam into the crevice between the rocks at the peak to serve as a flag.

With the exception of one or two years, a new American Flag furnished by the Hollorans has flown atop Mt. Nebo, with this year's installation (approximately the 40th year) made by Pat and Stacy Holloran, the two youngest grandchildren.

Several Mt. Nebo climbs had to be made each summer as the winds would blow the flag down or other children in the valley would attempt to "Capture the flag" made of white sheet, Maggie's drawers, or whatever else was available.

About 1938, the boys began to use the genuine "Stars and Stripes" that was furnished by their parents. The game of "Capture the Flag" automatically stopped as the other kids in the Valley showed their respect for the American Flag.

As each boy was called into Military Service, the remaining two, then one, took care of the flag. When they were gone, the school children of Beulah replaced the flag one year and the Boy Scouts of Beulah another year.

In 1946 after World War II, Tom Broome, Lila Ruth and Pauline Bland, and Fred and Joe Holloran carried cement up the mountain in 10 pound lard pails to cement-in an iron flag pole (actually an old plumbing turnkey that had been obtained from Tom Clarke, owner of the Village Blacksmith Shop). The initials of the concrete bearers can still be plainly seen in the concrete atop the mountain.

This flag pole sufficed until bent and broken in 1960, when Holloran grandchildren, Tom and Dick Holloran, then carried a new pole and cement to the top for a replacement.

With our 100th year celebration approaching, it is interesting to note that for several years the Broomes, Hollorans and Blands pooled their 4th of July fireworks and fired them from the peak. Their shows were completed with a sparkler parade down the trail. The dry years and concern of a forest fire brought the practice to a halt.

Visitors to the peak experience a breathtaking panoramic view of the lush green Beulah Valley below. From it's lofty, yet easily accessible height, one can see mountain homes up North Creek, Spring Creek, and South Pine Drive.

It was probably the Valley view that inspired the early settlers to give the mountain its name after the true story of "Mt. Nebo in the Land of Moab" as recorded in Deut. 32:48-52 of the Holy Bible. Mt. Nebo truly overlooks a beautiful valley of promise, opportunity and love.

You haven't seen Beulah until you've visited the "Flag on Mt. Nebo". The trail starts right at the Middle Creek bridge near the "Mikado".

And as in the beginning, the Frank Hollorans still watch the flag from their front porch and the boys now with their families in their own summer homes.

(Orginally printed in the Beulah News Magazine on June 20, 1976, this article was copied and donated by Joe and Dorothy Holloran. Their grandchildren now enjoy hiking up the mountain when they come to visit and the Cernoia family who presently live in the Mikado help put up the flag now.)

During a recent hike on April 20th, 1996, to the top of Mt. Nebo, affectionately called Flag Mountain, members of the Beulah Historical Society and local residents replaced the weather shredded flag with one donated by Kay Keating. Prior to the hike a reading of a certification stated that "the accompanying flag was flown over the United States Capitol on November 22, 1991, at the request of the Honorable Matthew G. Martinez, Member of Congress. This flag was flown for Captain Katherine Keating." The day of the hike was cool with an overcast sky but the attitudes of the hikers were jovial and friendly. While on top hikers took time to observe the beginning of the spring greening and a small fire on Pine Drive. Those in attendance were: John, Angela, Joe & Jonelle Murgel, Patti Genack, Peter Schuyler, Laura Amman, Joe & Fred Holloran, Amy Arnold, Linda Amman Gradisar, Marshall Downey, George Dwight, Claudia & Jimmy Fountain and Orville Myers.

The above story appeared in the Beulah Valley Word, May, 1996.

Henry Thomas Galbreath Builds 1st Cabin in Beulah

Mr. Galbreath was born in Andrain County, Missouri, December 31, 1842, where he resided until he was seventeen years of age. He attended such schools as the country afforded during his boyhood. In 1860 he came to Colorado. The following year he was engaged in teaming between the Missouri River and points west and hauling lumber from the forest to Denver. In January of 1862 Mr. Galbreath went to Omaha where he remained but a short time before he proceeded to Missouri. In July following he returned to the mountains but his stay was short as he went to Fort Wise (now Ft. Lyon) in the Arkansas Valley in August of the same year where he was engaged in hauling hay for the government for a season. Immediately afterward, he was employed on a ranch belonging to a Mr. Haynes until the spring of 1863. At this time he made his first purchase of cattle, which consisted of 10 head of yearling steers. The following few months he was engaged in freighting, having taken a load of government goods from Denver to Ft. Garland. He then proceeded to Ft. Lyon and again furnished hay for the government. After concluding his contract he went to Cherry Creek near Denver and remained until February when he returned to the Arkansas Valley and commenced herding cattle for William Innis. He moved the stock to Mace's Hole, remaining with them until November. During the summer he built the first cabin ever constructed in that place. He did not winter there, but drove his herd down the Arkansas Valley to a point east of Pueblo, where he remained until the spring of 1865 when he returned to Mace's Hole in the employ of N.W. Cresswell. In the following July he drove the herd to Ft. Sumner, New Mexico and sold them to the government to feed the Navajo Indians. From this point Mr. Galbreath walked to Denver where he took passage aboard a mule train for his old home in Missouri, from which he had been absent six years. In the spring of 1866 he bought 70 head of one and two year old cattle and brought them to the Arkansas Valley, west of Pueblo.

He was also employed by C.D. Peck in herding cattle on a little creek that empties into the Arkansas river which is known as Tom's Creek having been named for one of Mr. Galbreath's given names. In February of 1868 he sold his cattle to L. Haden and returned to Missouri, remaining until May. Again he found his way to Colorado. On the road he purchased 124 head of cattle of Mr. S. M. Hayes of Council Grove, Kansas. The herd was in the Arkansas Valley where he kept them until the spring of 1869 when he traded them to Tom Patterson, a well known Texas drover, for a herd of steers and then went to Missouri. In June 1869 Mr. Galbreath was married to Miss Virginia Switzer. He now (1881) resides in Catlin, Bent County, Colorado, engaged in stock raising.

From History of The Arkansas Valley. Published in 1881 Lib.#978.8

GOODPASTURE BLACKSMITH SHOP AND FORD MECHANICS
1914- 1938

Eddie and William were the sons of Francis and Adeline Roper, arriving in Beulah in 1885. Eddie was three years old and William just a baby at that time. Their father was a Methodist minister and teacher in and outside of the valley.
At adulthood, Eddie moved to Rye and learned the blacksmith trade, met Louisa Hardin and married in 1904. He opened a blacksmith shop in Beulah in 1911, but the disastrous fire of 1912 burned several buildings and his was one of them. His next move was to Goodpasture where he and his brother William opened another shop doing both blacksmithing and Ford auto mechanics from 1915-1938. William's father-in-law, William Opp, became an associate with them also. He lived on the east wing of the building. Louisa died very early with pneumonia; they had no children. Ed married again late in life to Marie Boone who had three daughters. They lived at the Wales Canon area until retirement. William had two sons, Melvin and Roy, who are still owners of The Early Homesteads (1992).

FIRST GOODPASTURE POST OFFICE - 1895
WALES CANON AREA

According to the National Archives, the first post office at Goodpasture, Pueblo County, was established in 1895, John H. Murphy appointed postmaster. William F. Goodpasture, postmaster in Beulah at that time, petitioned for this proposed office to be called Goodpasture. This new office was located six miles north-east of Beulah on the Siloam Road, referred to as the Wales Canon locality. Homesteaders settled on both sides of dry canon westwardly towards the ridges overlooking Beulah Valley. The old map somewhat designates some of the landmarks in relation to the post office there, which eventually burned in the early 1900's. (Recalled by Edna Simonson now deceased.) Lee R. Roper was the second and last postmaster appointed in 1899 at a new location, eventually becoming the Goodpasture Community Center. He held this appointment for 25 years until closing in 1924.

About 1900 a Post Office was authorized at Goodpasture with Lee Roper as Postmaster. Later his son Wilbur Roper served as Postmaster. The Goodpasture Post Office served the surrounding ranches, and also had a route to Couzzen Springs to the north, and another which went south to the 3-R Ranch and east to the Sitton Post Office near Burnt Mill. These routes were operated only a short time.
In 1922 Wilber Roper circulated a petition requesting a Rural Free Delivery Route to start at Goodpasture and go via Beulah, the 3 R-Ranch, Burnt Mill, Couzzen Springs and back to Goodpasture. This request was granted, but the starting place was soon changed to Beulah.
Andy Anderson was appointed temporary carrier until a Civil Service Examination was held and William Middleton received the appointment, but was soon relieved of his duties and Wilbur Roper was appointed temporary carrier. Paul Even received the next appointment and served from July 1, 1923 until retiring January 1, 1949. Ray Traeber was appointed next and is still serving.

"MACES HOLE"

CLEMENT F. HAUSMAN

Clement F. Hausman, co-owner of Treasure Chest Homes, Inc., in partnership with Ralph Tack, and president of Treasure Chest Realty, Inc., is engaged in the real estate business, selling residential, commercial, farm, and ranch properties. Treasure Chest Homes has built 1500 houses in the Pueblo area of which 1200 are in the Highland Park section. The offices are at 255 West Abriendo Street in Pueblo, Pueblo County, Colorado. Mr. Hausman established Treasure Chest Realty, Inc., in 1949 and Treasure Chest Homes, Inc. in January 1952. He became a real estate salesman in 1947.
Clement F. Hausman was born to Mr. and Mrs. Edward Hausman at Trinidad, Colorado, on January 16, 1923. His father was a native of Cincinnati, Ohio. He was associated with the Hausman Drug Company in Trinidad, which was established in 1895. Clement F. Hausman's mother, Miss Mary Ellen Fenton before her marriage to Edward Hausman in Pueblo on April 29, 1919, was born in Lorenzo, Illinois. In 1895 the Hausmans established the Hausman Drugs in Pueblo. In 1935 Mr. Edward Hausman passed away. Clement F. Hausman was educated in Trinidad and Pueblo, Colorado. He was a member of the U.S. Army Air Force during World War II, serving for four and a half years in the Pacific as pilot on a B-24.
Mr. Hausman married Miss Marjorie Crews, of Pueblo, Colorado, daughter of Floyd H. and Jessie Ashmore Crews. Mr. and Mrs. Hausman have eleven children: Mary Marjorie, Jane Ann, Clement Michael, Barbara Louise, Patricia Jean, Elizabeth J., James F., Katherine C., Thomas E., Julie Ellen and Marie.
Mr. Hausman is on the advisory committee of the National Home Mortgage Credit Program. He is an honorary life member of the board of directors of the National Association of Home Builders. He is also on the executive committee of the national association and chairman of Senior Citizens Housing Committee. He was appointed to the President's 21-Man Senior Citizens Advisory Committee for a second time. This committee advises the President and Housing and Home Finance Agencies on all matters related to housing of the elderly members of our population. He is a member of the Chamber of Commerce, Rotary Club, Knife and Fork Club, national, state, and local Board of Realtors, Home Builders Association, and the Country Club. He is a Catholic. Mr. Hausman is eminently suited for a career in the real estate business and has been very successful in his chosen field and also as a civic figure and a developer of the area.

FRANK S. HOAG SR., 1918

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Pueblo Star -Journal Publisher Frank Stephen Hoag, born in Minerva, Ohio, in 1871, moved to Colorado Springs with his wife, Louise, in 1901. Doctors recommended Colorado's dry climate as a cure for her tuberculosis.
Hoag sold ads for a time for the Colorado Springs Gazette before taking a similar post with the Star-Journal some time in 1903.
He became general manager in 1904 under principal stockholder and general manager John Vail with the understanding that Hoag would be allowed to buy the newspaper as soon as he could raise the money.
That happened in 1918, the same year Hoag was appointed by the governor as manager of the State Board of Corrections. In that post, he was a strong voice for winning state funding for the Colorado State Hospital and prison projects in Southern Colorado.
In 1922, he and others convinced the state to expand the hospital (then called an insane asylum) to include "farms" where patients and inmates could work, raising revenue for the hospital and offsetting costs to the state.
Hoag bought The Pueblo Chieftain in 1933 from former U.S. Senator Alva B. Adams.

FRANK STEPHEN HOAG, JR.

Frank Stephen Hoag, Jr., is publisher of the "Star-Journal" and "Chieftain" in Pueblo, and president of the Star Broadcasting Company whose station is KCSJ. Mr. Hoag's career has in common with the success story of a number of eminent newsmen the fact that he started as a reporter on the staff of the same paper which now he publishes.
His rise in the journalistic field has been rapid, for Mr. Hoag is a young man to hold a top-ranking post in newspublishing. He was born June 11, 1908, in Pueblo, son of Frank S. and Louise M. Hoag, his father being president of the Star-Journal Publishing Corporation. After completing his secondary education at Centennial High School, Frank Hoag, Jr., attended Colorado College from 1926 to 1928, and continued his advanced training at Princeton University, where he recieved his degree in Bachelor of Arts in 1931. He was made Washington correspondent and reporter for this paper and for the Pueblo "Chieftain" in 1934, filling this post for two years. He was assistant publisher of these two papers for a decade, beginning in 1937, and in 1947 was made their publisher. Since 1945, he has also been president of the Star Broadcasting company, Inc. This concern reaches a vast listening audience throughout the Intermountain area through the medium of station KCSJ in Pueblo.
Mr. Hoag is active in civic and fraternal affairs. He is a member of the Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, of the Pueblo Golf and Country Club and the Knife and Fork Club. He holds, or has held, official posts in several organizations, being past president of the Pueblo Rotary Club and of the Chamber of Commerce, Community Chest, and president of the Pueblo Junior College District Committee. He was vice president of the Colorado State Chamber of Commerce during 1947 and 1948, and is a member of the Colorado Publicity and Advertising committee. He and his wife are members of the Presbyterian Church.
In Washington D.C., June 13, 1935, Frank Hoag, Jr., married Le Vert Wiess, daughter of Charles Raymond and Edwina (Edens) Wiess.

Betty Wheeler Hooper
A Trip Down Nostalgia Lane
by Jo Anne King
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It was my very great pleasure this week to interview a wonderful lady I first met in 1951 when I was a young teenager living with my family on Pine Drive across from the grocery store. Neither the store nor the house we lived in are there anymore, but Betty Wheeler Hooper still lives in the same charming house she did 'way back then'. Like many of the community's children I had made my trips to her house for first aid treatment and was very grateful for her compassion towards me.

Betty Hooper was born Betty Marie Richardson on December 18, 1919 in Silver Cliff, Colorado. When she was six years old she contracted rheumatic fever and was confined to bed for a year. She and her family then moved to Fowler hoping her health would improve, which it did. In 1938 she graduated from high school in Fowler, then studied nursing at Corwin Hospital in Pueblo, graduating from there in 1941. She says that initially she hoped to work on a newspaper, but all that changed when, as a senior in nursing school, she met Howard Wheeler, who was a pharmacist. In 1942 Betty and Howard were married by the Methodist Church minister in Howard's parents' home in Avondale.

Their son Bill was born in 1943. They then moved to Beulah to begin raising chinchillas. However, that was when the U.S. raised the embargo on Russia, so the bottom dropped out of the fur market. Howard then went to work in the Engineering Department of C.F. & I. In 1948 their daughter Martha was born. She is now the assistant Principal at Rye High School.

After 43 years of marriage Howard Wheeler died in 1983. Two years ago, after 16 years of living as a widow, Betty Wheeler married Jimmie Hooper, himself a widower of seven years. Jimmie had been married 52 years and has two children. Betty & Jimmie were married in the Beulah Methodist Church where Betty has been a member since moving to Beulah.

Betty's eyes glowed as she shared with me about the wonderful holidays she and her large extended family of kids, grandkids, and one great-grandchild have in the home in Beulah. Thanksgiving time is shared with about 40 relatives who bring in a delicious assortment of their favorite foods to load down the long tables that are brought in. On the fourth of July about 70 people show up and begin a day-long celebration. Traditionally, the shooting off of their homemade cannon that was built by Howard Wheeler's father signals the beginning and the ending of the festivities (and there might be a few times in between, too.) Sadly, Betty's mom will not be with them this year as she died last year at the age of 101.

Betty also remembers the fun everyone had at the old Gay Way dance hall which was in the back of what will soon be opening up as Flag Mountain Grill. Whole families went there on Saturday night for what was usually harmless fun, although often some had a little to much to drink and had to be taken home by friends. (Designated drivers were around then, too.)

Another of Betty's favorite memories is of her daughter Martha's third year in high school when they had an exchange student from Sweden. Inger became Martha's very good friend during the year she lived with them. She is still a very good friend of the family, and comes here every two years to visit them when she is able to get away from her dental research projects. When Betty's husband Howard died she went to Sweden to spend 9 days with Inger.

When Betty's children were young she did a variety of sewing projects as a hobby, but now she spends a lot of time traveling with her new husband Jimmy, who openly adores her. They will be traveling to Arlington, Texas soon to attend the dedication ceremony of a park there that will be named for Jimmy and his late wife Mary in gratitude for so much community work they did there in years past.

Betty's glowing comments to me about how blessed she feels to have lived in Beulah, and how it is such a wonderful place to raise children, are a clear reflection of her positive attitude about life in general. In return, may I say that this community has been truly honored to have such a loving, giving precious lady in it all these years.

The above story appeared in June, 2000 issue of The Beulah Banner.

Francis Leroy Hughlitt

Although Francis L. Hughlitt, of Pueblo, cannot be called a pioneer of Colorado, he assuredly is a tried and trusted veteran of certain features of its life. He was born at Hannibal, Missouri, in August, 1871, and educated in his birthplace and county.
After engaging in general ranching until he became of age, Mr. Hughlitt went to the Cripple Creek section of Colorado, where he operated hoisting machinery in the mines, and was frequently a leader in community affairs at both Cripple Creek and Victor. There followed several years' service as under-sheriff and four years as water superintendent, and membership on the Victor town council. In 1921, he came to Pueblo where he accepted the position of chief engineer at the Colorado State Hospital, an institution where he had been employed as a boy and with the operations of which he was thoroughly familiar. He now is the oldest employee of the Hospital in point of identification with it. He has witnessed its growth to tremendous proportions and to that development has contributed in important ways. Few men are more highly respected or more sincerely beloved by all of the host of people who know him and have had pleasant contacts with him. At the age of three-quarters of a century he remains active, always on his job, ever showing a spirit that might well be acquired by much younger men.
Like many another man whose abilities and experience have been alon