The Iron Springs Ranch Iron Spring is located north and slightly east of the water tower in Colorado City. This land was part of a homestead awarded to Nicholas Sheets in 1879.

LOCAL HISTORICAL LORE The Watson George Moody Family In the spring of 1906, Watson George Moody arrived at Idylwild, the new tuberculosis center in Rye, from Boston, Massachusetts on the stage from Graneros Station. His doctors recommended a dryer climate for his health and he decided to try the newer treatment methods at Idylwild.

Part IV of IV The Daughters of Earl Edwin and Lucy Dixon Wilcox Lucy ‘Earlene’ Wilcox Robinson Earlene married Ulric Rimer ‘Bob’ Robinson in 1928 at Pueblo. He was born in Illinois, the son of Robert F.

Part III of IV Earl Edwin Wilcox Earl was the sixth child of Andrew Jackson and Carrie Sarnes Wilcox. He spent his entire life farming and ranching; moving to Pueblo County with his family at the age of five.

LOCAL HISTORICAL LORE The Wilcox Family - Part II of IV Cheryl Johnson Huban Greenhorn Valley View The Wilcox Children Leonard Oviatt Wilcox Andrew and Carrie Sarnes Wilcox’s third child, Leonard and his wife, Bertha had three children born in Oklahoma, Carrie Marie, Charles Andrew and Ruby Mae. Daughter, Emma Lucile was born in Rye in 1903 and died in 1908 in Oklahoma.

Part I of IV This large family settled in Pueblo, Vineland and Rye, intermarried with the Dixon and other Rye families and contributed to the growth and prosperity of the area. Many descendents remain in Pueblo County.

Part I of II The Eakins family originated in Pennsylvania, moved to Illinois and eventually settled in Rye. Two of their six children also made Rye their home.

The Children of John and Margaret Ralston Jamison John A. Jamison After the death of his father, John A. took over responsibility for the care of his mother. Three daughters were born to the family: Susannah Margaret, Harriett Regossa ‘Rea’ and Ada Lillian, who was the first of their children to be born in the state of Colorado, in September of 1876.

The Children of John and Margaret Ralston Jamison Hannah Rebecca Jamison Johnson Hannah Rebecca Jamison, the youngest child of John and Margaret Ralston Jamison was born in 1847 and traveled with her family from Pennsylvania to Illinois and then onto Colorado. She married two men with the same last name although they were not related. In 1876, Hannah married William Otto Johnson in Maryland. Why she was in Maryland is unclear.

The Children of John and Margaret Ralston Jamison Martha Jamison Pollock Martha was born in 1833 in Pennsylvania and moved to Illinois with her family. Her husband David S. Pollock was born in Canada twenty years before Martha. They were married in Illinois in 1862 and their first child was born a year later. By 1865 they had moved to Benton, Iowa north of Kansas City and just north of the Missouri border. Three children were born here: Charles, Harriett and Ida May.