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Adam Stifel funeral at the McCoy Cemetery, McCoy, Colorado, 1918.
"Adam Stifel and his wife Edith (sister of Polly Tuck) came into the area with George Brown in about 1890....[He] found a likely place in the cedar country about six miles due west of McCoy where they found about 60 acres of mesa land. It could be irrigated by building a ditch from Tepee Creek just west of the land they had spotted. By dint of hard work and good management, Stifels...
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Headstone for the progenitor of the Gates family in Colorado, George Gates (son of Johannes Andreas Getz) in the Boger Cemetery, York, Ohio.
"Gorg Getz born in 1759 also became a professional soldier, serving as private in the Colonial Militia, Pennsylvania Line, Northampton county, Pennsylvania.
In 1778 Gorg Getz transferred from the Colonial Militia to the command of Major Daniel Boone as Ranger on the Frontier, stationed at Fort Reading. He was...
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18. Eliza Jane Berry
19. Mary E. Maxwell
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"The grave of Mary E. Maxwell, 1833-1889. A short distance northwest of the Salt Well. She was the first white woman to be buried at McCoy. Her husband, Elliott, is also buried nearby." -- McCoy Memoirs p.156
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]