TERRITORIAL DAUGHTERS OF COLORADO SOUTHERN CHAPTER

MONTHLY NEWSLETTER

Lectures and Events

Goodnight Barn Fandango

October 8th, 3—6 p.m.

A Tribute to the Vaqueros

Join The Goonight Barn Preservation Group in helping

restore the 1870's Goodnight Barn. All proceeds from this

event will go to the preservation efforts.

-Tickets are $50/person or Corporate Tables of 8 for $500.

-PURCHASE TICKETS BY OCT. 4th. 719-542-4458.

-Event will be held at the Pueblo Union Depot from 3 p.m. to

6 p.m. (dinner at 4:30 p.m.)

Angel Vigil - Story Teller

Charro Demonstration

Mariachis

The Longhorns - Blizzard and Boo

* Note: there is no Denver Broncos Game scheduled for

this date.*

More Events and Lectures can be found on the website.

October Birthdays

Linda Perry—Oct 8

Jody Le Brasse—Oct 10

Cindy Cowing—Oct 12

Kara Vernetti—Oct 13

In this issue:

• October meeting

• TDC T-shirts

• October Birthdays

• Lectures/Events

• Article submission

•2018 Meetings

•Chapter News

•Lafayette Head

•Meet a Territorial

Daughters—Margaret

Storm

•October Calendar

2018 meetings

The 2018 Meetings will be the 3rd Saturday of each month , April through October. The September meeting has been changed to the 4th Saturday, to allow members to attend the San Isabel Electrical Association annual meeting in Walsenburg.

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October Meeting

The October meeting will be held October 21st at Nino’s Mexican Restaurant,

326 Main Street, Alamosa . The meeting will be at noon. A map is located on

the website and a link is in the email. Please RSVP to Nancy Minow by Oct.

14th (719-589-5973). Program to be announced.

October 2017

WANTED: History Articles

Please submit articles on Southern

Colorado History and Genealogy for

the newsletter and website to territori-

aldaughters@gmail.com. Newsletter

articles should be about 1 page. No

1

Territorial Daughter T-Shirts

Margaret Storm has designed a wonderful Terri-

torial Daughters of Colorado T-Shirt. The TDC

emblem is embroidered on the upper left front..

Anyone that is interested in purchasing one,

please contact Margaret at 719-275-8071. Price

varies by size.

Lafayette Head

Southern Chapter News

Bylaws—Amending the bylaws was discussed at the September meeting to note the change

in the dues amount for 2018 to $20. Several more updates were discussed, including updating

elections to be held in May instead of April every two years. A copy of the amended bylaws will

be emailed out to everyone to review before the October meeting. The bylaws will be voted on

in October if there are no other changes. Please plan on attending the October Meeting so

we can finalize the Bylaws updates.

Lafayette Head (1825-1897) served as the first Colorado

State Lieutenant Governor serving from 1876-1879. Head

was born at Head’s Fort in Missouri. His grandfather was

a Revolutionary War veteran and Missouri pioneer. Head

served in the Mexican-American war before moving to

New Mexico Territory. He married Maria Juanita Martinez

around 1851. He eventually settled in the San Luis Valley

at the community of Guadalupe on the Conejos River in

1854. The community he established became known as

Plaza de Guadalupe Head and Otto Mears established

the first sawmill and grist mill in southern Colorado in

1855.

Head became the Ute and Apache Indian Agent for the

area in 1860. He served in this role until 1868. As the In-

dian Agent he worked closely with Chief Ouray. They

traveled to Washington D.C. in 1863 to meet with Presi-

dent Lincoln to discuss the Treaty with the Utah-

Tabeguache Band. Head visited Washington D.C. again in

1868 to negotiate another treaty with the Utes that saw

Chief Ouray recognized as the leader or all seven Ute Bands

Head served as a U.S Marshall in New Mexico Territory and sheriff of Rio Arriba County. Head also served in the New Mexico Territorial Legislature while part of that Territory. He later would serve as Councilman in the Colorado Territorial Assembly, and he served in the Colora-do State Constitutional Convention. After his term as Lieutenant Governor, he returned to pri-vate life in the San Luis Valley. He died in 1897 while on a trip to Denver.

https://coloradoencyclopedia.org/article/lafayette-head-1825-1897-0

October 2017

Lafayette Head (1825-1897) Photo

from History Colorado collections.

Doyle School Update– The regional committee for Colorado Preservation Inc. endangered

sites list met in September. Our submission received unanimous support in a vote at the re-

gional level to move it ahead to Big Monday where all the nominations from the regions are

presented, reviewed and voted on by a larger group in October. Our nomination has a won-

derful advocate in the historic preservationist assigned to us, Roxanne Eflin, that will be pitch-

ing the project to the whole committee. Thank you to everyone that has supported this pro-

cess. Keep your fingers crossed we make it to the final list!

Meet a Territorial Daughter

Margaret Stiles Storm was born in Great Falls, Montana, moving

to Cañon City, Colorado, in 1961 when her Dad went into a part-

nership at the Royal Gorge Insurance Agency. She graduated

from CCHS in 1964 and then attended the University of Colorado’s

School of Nursing. School was put on hold while she married,

moved to Amarillo, Texas, and had two sons. When her sons were

in high school (one is now a doctor and the other works for FAA)

and she was working for Bell Helicopter Textron (15 years) as su-

pervisor of materials and dispatching, she received her degree in

business. After living in Texas for 20 years, Storm moved back to

Cañon City to care for her aging parents in 1991. In 2006, she re-

tired from the Colorado Department of Corrections as a Sergeant

in Security at “Old Max” after 13 years of service to become the full

-time caregiver for her Mother (her Dad died in 1999). It was dur-

ing this time that she became interested in her Mother’s family history. The two of them began attend-

ing the Wetmore-Hardscrabble Genealogy & Historical Society in 2005, learning more about the people

and area where her Mother lived for the first six years of her life.

Her Mother, Maxcy Jane Watson Stiles, was the granddaughter of William Alonzo and Mary Elisabeth

Crouch Watson who had homesteaded in the Wetmore area in 1863. William arrived in Pueblo in 1859

via Missouri and Texas from Tennessee (his parents, John T. and Martha Ann Harris Watson, arrived

1867) and Mary’s family (Joseph Elira and Sarah Elizabeth Parker Crouch) came from Kentucky via

Illinois in early 1860’s. William and Mary were married on the Hardscrabble in Mary’s parents’ home

March 15, 1866; 9 children were born in Wetmore of which the 5th son was Willis Alfred, Storm’s

grandfather. There was only one daughter (who went to college in an era that that was a rarity). All in

all, Storm has four great-grandparents and two great-great-grandparents who were in Colorado Territo-

ry and lived in the Pueblo and Wetmore areas.

Storm is a third-generation member of Chapter AC, P.E.O., being initiated into her mother and grand-

mother’s Cañon City Chapter in 1997.

In 2007, she was elected Deacon at her church, the United Presbyterian Church of Cañon City. Serv-

ing as moderator 1 year and communion coordinator 4 years, she then was elected an Elder in 2012.

She has been serving as president of the Wetmore-Hardscrabble Genealogical & Historical Society for

the past 6 years; was appointed to the Fremont County Heritage Commission in 2011, where she has

coordinated the Spirits of the Past for the past 6 years. During this time, she and Dr. Linda Carlson

compiled and published two booklets featuring the Spirits with their historical stories and photos.

Storm has been on the Board of Directors for the Fremont County Historical Society since 2011 and the

Committee for the Greenwood Pioneer Cemetery since 2012. It is through these County and City or-

ganizations that she volunteers her time assisting with the writing and editing of their seven published

booklets of County history and heritage – Downtown Cañon City, Downtown Florence, Skyline Drive,

Historic Howard, Western Fremont County, Cemeteries of Fremont County and the Coal Camps of

Fremont County.

Storm joined Territorial Daughters of Colorado October 18, 2008 by the invitation of Peggy Martin. She

is currently on the committee to publish a booklet on the Taos Trail and to get the kiosks funded and

installed. Colorado early history through our ancestors’ eyes is an important and valuable lesson for

us. She sees Territorial Daughters as a means to that end. And…the women she has met are charm-

ing, strong ladies proud of their heritage and families. It is an honor to belong to Territorial Daughters

of Colorado.

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Goodnight Barn

Fandango 3-6 p,

Pueblo, Linda

Perry Birthday

Columbus Day Jody LeBrasse

Birthday

Cindy Cowing

Birthday

Along the

Huerfano—Colo

Spgs,

Kara Vernetti

Birthday

Spencer Penrose

lecture, 2Colo Spgs,

Boggsvile Days,

Las Animas

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Boggsville Days,

Las Animas

Alamosa Meeting,

Noon

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Night at the Mu-

seum, Las Ani-

mas

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Halloween

Meeting and Event details available on the website, or by contacting The Southern

Chapter at territorialdaughters@gmail.com

October 2017