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Franklin Pierce Forster at the age of 6, before his family left Iowa for the West.
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Studio portrait photograph of Elizabeth George, at right, with her daughter, Edna George Hesse.
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Muriel Colburn, daughter of Alice George Colburn; granddaughter of Elizabeth George.
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Henry Moore Forster, father of Elizabeth Charity and Franklin Pierce Forster.
"William Forster was born in New Garden, N.C., on April 26, 1894. As a young man, he went to Winterset, Iowa, and started buying land. In time, he became a large land owner. In Wnterset, he met another family from Redstone, Penn., named Wilson, and fell in love with one of their daughters named Elizabeth, born June 1, 1799. They were married April 4, 1818. To this union...
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Franklin Pierce Forster, son of Henry Moore Forster and Mary Jane Kirkland Forster, at the age of 4. He had one living sister, Elizabeth Charity Forster [George]. He was born Feb. 9,1866, in Winterset, Iowa. The Forster family moved to Valley View, Texas, and then in the fall of 1872 or early 1873, the Forsters sold their farm and began a covered wagon trip to the west.
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Pauline George, daughter of Frank George and Rowena Walker George; granddaughter of Elizabeth George.
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Edna George Hesse's daughters, Elizabeth and Marguriette, in 1920. Their grandmother was Elizabeth George.
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Charity Elizabeth "Libbie" Forster George, wife of William Henry "Bill" George, at Derby Mesa, Burns, Colorado, in 1930. She's standing in the fenced yard with antlers in the background.
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Twin daughters of Frank and Rowena Walker George, Gretchen and Rowena, in 1917.
"Gretchen and Rowena, twins of Frank and Rowena George, were seven month babies and doctors said in those days that seven month babies couldn't live. Also, their mother Rowena lived just four days after their birth. One can only imagine the heartache Frank George went through at that time. But Frank could not give up his twin baby girls without trying everything he could...
11) Ft. Morgan farm
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Grandma George's (Charity Elizabeth Forster George) farm in Fr. Morgan with cattle headed toward the barn.
12) Ft. Morgan farm
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Elizabeth George at her farm in Ft. Morgan, Colorado. She is standing with a cow and wearing a bonnet for sun protection, dogs in background.
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Elizabeth Charity Forster, daughter of Henry Moore Forster and Mary Jane Kirkland Forster, at the age of 18. She was born July 27, 1854, in WInterset, Iowa. Her family moved to Valley View, Texas, where Elizabeth met and married William Henry George October 23, 1873.
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Mary Jane Kirkland Forster, mother of Elizabeth Charity and Franklin Pierce Forster.
"Henry Moore and his new wife settled down on the farm that Henry's dad had given to him. He didn't plan to stay on his farm for long. He wasn't content with being like the others. He had a dream to join the movement west. But time has a way of slipping by and then they started their family. On July 27, 1854, Elizabeth Charity Forster was born. Another daughter,...
15) Muriel Colburn
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Muriel Colburn and her mother, Alice George Colburn. "Muriel worked in Washington, D.C., and was employed for many years by the Arapahoe County Clerk and Recorder's Office and the Social Security Office in Denver. She retired in 1971." [obituary] SHe passed away at 95, on Dec. 14, 1997.
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Franklin Pierce Forster, brother of Elizabeth Forster George. Occupation: geologist, assayer, miner, stockman.
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Charity Elizabeth "Libbie" Forster George, wife of William Henry "Bill" George and mother of "Nona" George Gates. After Bill died in 1900, Elizabeth sold their home in Breckenridge and bought a farm in Fort Morgan, Colorado. "In 1917 when her twin granddaughters, Gretchen and Rowena, were born, their mother died in childbirth. Elizabeth went to Colorado Springs and helped her son, Frank, with the twins and other children until he remarried. About...
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Gertrude Charity Debaun, maternal grandmother of Franklin and Elizabeth Forster.
19) Ft. Morgan farm
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Elizabeth George at her farm in Ft. Morgan, Colorado. She is sitting with her children standing behind her. Left to right, Edna George (born Aug, 10, 1890), Frank Forester George (born Apr. 9, 1881), Nona (Atha Nonetta George birn, Dec, 16, 1877), and Alice Maud George (born May 10, 1874).
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Charity Elizabeth "Libbie" Forster George, wife of William Henry "Bill" George, in Fort Morgan, Colorado, at the age of 63 (circa 1917).
