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"Joe Edwards (J.W.) and Emma Newby Edwards, possibly following their wedding." They were married in Glenwood Springs on February 2, 1924.
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Emma Newby Edwards and Alta Edwards [Bush Holland], Emma's sister-in-law, waiting for a race to start. Both women are on horseback, Emma on Lady, Alta on Pinto.
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A family gathering at the J.W. Edwards' house, probably after Joe and Emma's wedding. Left to right: John K. and Ella Casteel Edwards, Granda (Mamie) Miller; skip 4 popel; Emma and Joe Edwards; Nick Edwards (Joe's brother); boy's sitting, Ellis and Karlton Miller.
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Caption: " Joe, Lois, Esther." "The automobile may have been the only one in the families, and may have been the one my grandfather Miller drove from Kansas, or the one the Edwards traveled in when they abandoned their homes on Bellyache in 1929 and journeyed to Chandler, Arizona. Most travel was by horseback or horse and buggy (wagon?)." -- Esther Rogers, March 3, 2013.
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Caption: "John K. Edwards, father of Joe W. Edwards. He is at Joe's homestead on Bellyache near Foxe's sawmill." The horses appear to be carrying fuel containers.
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Mamie and Tera Miller, posing for a photograph at their Bellyache homestead.
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Joe Edwards at far left. The men are sorting potatoes by size into sacks, the sorting equipment being pulled by a horse.
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Emma and Joe's homestead cabin on Bellyache.
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Tera Miller with sled and horse team at his place on Bellyache Mountain. Winter weather. Lettuce crates are stacked and covered behind him.
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Emma Mae Newby, Esther Edwards Rogers' mother, on horseback, Bellyache Mountain. Emma Newby was Joseph T. (Tera aka Terry) Miller's stepdaughter. Her father died when she was 5. Caption: "She was sure going high and crooked." "I am not sure of the dates my family came to Eagle, but checking online homestead and census records, I found the Edwards family in the 1910 census in Colorado Springs and in 1919 to 1922 in Eagle County homestead records. I...
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J.T. (Terry) and Mamie Miller's cabin on Bellyache Mountain in Eagle County, Colorado. There are two automobiles in front of the cabin and people looking at the photographer.
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Merell Holland and horses. Merell Holland was Alta Edwards' husband. Alta married Malcolm T. Bush in 1925 in Garfield County. In 1928, she married Merell Holland. They had a daughter, Frances Holland (not born on Bellyache).
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Nine children seated on a log for a photograph, all residents on Bellyache Mountain.
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Caption: "Joe Edwards--his homestead on Bellyache near Foxe's sawmill before he and Emma married." The horses appear to be carrying fuel containers.
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Emma Edwards standing in front of the homestead cabin in winter. Emma wrote in little Joe's [Joseph Klyde Edwards] baby book, 1925: "When you were 5 months old we were going over to your Grandma Millers in the sleigh. One runner ran up on the bank and the other in the soft snow making the sleigh tip over on its side and threw you and me out in the snowdrift. You were asleep and never even woke up." -- Esther Rogers, March 3, 2013
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John Kelley Edwards and his grandson, "little" Joe (Joseph Klyde) Edwards.
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Ellis Miller, half-brother to Emma Newby Edwards, seated on a horse with his nephew, Joseph Klyde Edwards riding in front. The family cabins are in the background.
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Emma Mae Newby on horseback. Snow on Bellyache Mountain. Emma taught school at the little log school house on Bellache.
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Caption: "Joseph Washington Edwards with Joe, Esther, and Lois." "I was the middle child. My brother, Joseph K. Edwards was born on Bellyache in 1924. He was killed in WW II. My sister, Lois Elaine Edwards, was born on Bellyache in 1927. She died in 1985. Lois married Robert W. Kirk in Colorado Springs in 1945. I had a brother, Richard ("Dickey") born after they left Bellyache. He died in 1936 in LaJunta, Colorado, at age 5." -- Esther Rogers,...
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Caption: "Tera Miller and his father and mother at our home on Bellyache Mtn., Eagle County, Colorado."