8th Grade Graduation
 May 29, 1902
Delta County, Colorado

Among my grandmother's papers I've found a (beautifully) decorated
handwritten 8th grade  Delta, Colo. graduation program dated May 29, 1902,
an invitation to her from one of the graduates, Bradford B. Kirkbride. the
envelope  addressed:  "Mrs Kennedy, City."
8th Grade 1902
Fred King  
Wilford Cowley  
Ross Conklin  
Grace Cunningham
Helen Kirkbride  
Guy Clark  
John Beardsley  
Sherwood Bailey  
Olive Whitney
Vera Ashe  
Orrin Anderson  
Clara Murray  
Harry Singleton  
Ida Griffin  
Will Williams  
Stella Kuhnley  
Elsie Garrison  
Bradford Kirkbride  
Nora Arch
Louise Amsbary  
Helene Cook  
Louise Aibe  
Lillian Tucker  
Alice Fairland
Helen Williams  
Miss Royce..
 
My grandmother was Etta Colorado Jay, daughter of Eliza and Samuel Jay,
early pioneers whom we've traced up and down the State, and who finally
settled in Ridgway.  (Graandmother was married at the family home in 1885 in
Dallas, Colo., to Bernard Kane Kennedy.)

In our seventies my sister and I began to make yearly summer trips to
Colorado tracing and searching for all those clues that lead one on to
understanding something of a family's story! That experience, of course, is
what makes me want to share this piece of history. 

Sincerely,
Ruth Brace Beebe

Transcribed by Ruth Brace Beebe
Donated to Rootsweb Oct 2003.