{"id":188,"date":"2009-08-14T19:06:32","date_gmt":"2009-08-14T19:06:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifesreflections.com\/blog\/?p=188"},"modified":"2009-08-20T16:13:09","modified_gmt":"2009-08-20T16:13:09","slug":"homesteading-in-colorado","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifesreflections.com\/blog\/?p=188","title":{"rendered":"Homesteading in Colorado"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"John

John and Ada Fultz Homestead circa 1900<\/p><\/div>\n

My family on both my mother and father’s sides came\u00a0 to Colorado in the early 1890’s.<\/p>\n

My mother’s father, John Fultz, came from Illinois at the age of 17 to see if this Colorado dry climate would help with lung condition.\u00a0 It surely did as he lived to age 87.<\/p>\n

He settled in Saguache, CO in the San Luis Valley and became a partner\u00a0\u00a0in \u00a0a group of cattle ranchers who called themselves the Company Ranch.\u00a0 One of the partners,William\u00a0Whitten,\u00a0became John’s brother -in-law, as they married sisters, one of which is my grandmother, Ada Trebilcock Fultz.\u00a0 Ada met my grandfather John when she came from Keosaqua, Iowa\u00a0 to visit her sister, Flora Whitten.<\/p>\n

My mother, Ethel Fultz, was born in Saguache in 1906 and lived on the homestead until age 12 when the family moved to Hooper Colorado, some 30 miles south.\u00a0 John wanted to go out on his own, farming and raising both sheep and cattle.<\/p>\n

\"The

The Barn on the Fultz Homestead<\/p><\/div>\n

The old homestead near Saguache is still standing although unoccupied since the mid 30’s.\u00a0 It is no longer in the family and the land is used for cattle grazing.<\/p>\n

One of Bill Whitten’s sons, George, took my family and me to see the homestead a few years ago.\u00a0 The north and west interior walls were covered with newspapers–later painted and wall papered over.\u00a0 We did find a few still visible papers with dates of 1897 still on the walls.<\/p>\n

I did spend quite a bit of time at that Hooper homestead as a child. Riding horses was my favorite pasttime there as well as time with my granddad’s second family, Carroll and Phyllis Fultz.<\/p>\n

One always wonders what those old walls would say if they had a voice!<\/p>\n

My dad’s father, C.W. Woody came to Salida, Colordo in 1893 to work for the railroad.\u00a0 C.W. (Charlie) Woody came from Iowa, where his family were farmers.\u00a0 Salida was a “railroad” town and Charlie became an engineer on the D&RG (Denver and Rio Grande) railroad.\u00a0 He later owned a restaurant in Salida.<\/p>\n

He met\u00a0my grandmother, Ruth Rout, in Salida.\u00a0 She and her sisters walked behind a covered wagon from St. Francis, Kansas.\u00a0 The family was originally from\u00a0Lewiston, Missouri\u00a0where\u00a0Ruth and her siblings were born.<\/p>\n

Ruth’s brother Clarence and a\u00a0sister or two came to Salida earlier and then their parents and the rest of the family came in 1894.\u00a0 Her mother, Mary Ellen Barkley Zimmerman Rout wrote a letter that still exists about her doubts about moving to Colorado.\u00a0 Her\u00a0health was poor at\u00a0 the time of the move.\u00a0 She passed away shortly after the family came\u00a0to Salida.\u00a0<\/p>\n

This grandfather also wanted to ranch near Hooper and moved his family there about 1920.\u00a0 It was in this community of Hooper where my parents, Les Woody and Ethel Fultz met and married in 1924.\u00a0 The house in Hooper was torn down in the early 1980’s and is now a potato field.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My family on both my mother and father’s sides came\u00a0 to Colorado in the early 1890’s. My mother’s father, John Fultz, came from Illinois at the age of 17 to see if this Colorado dry climate would help with lung condition.\u00a0 It surely did as he lived to age 87. He settled in Saguache, CO […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[85,38],"tags":[91,93,90,99,92,86,88,87,94,95,97,98,89,96],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifesreflections.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifesreflections.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifesreflections.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifesreflections.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifesreflections.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=188"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/lifesreflections.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":190,"href":"https:\/\/lifesreflections.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188\/revisions\/190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifesreflections.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifesreflections.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifesreflections.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}