Yuma County, Colorado Photographs

Yuma County Pioneer Photographs:

Paul Storm, Wray


Paul was one of the participants in the 1888 organization of the St. Andrew's Catholic church in Wray.
Paul cash-claimed 160 acres in section 23, 2N 44W in 1890.
He had an entry for a timber claime in 3N 44W, but it wasn't completed.

POSSIBLY

In 1860 Walworth County, Wisconsin, Paul Storms is 27, Lydia 26, Adalade 10, Joseph 8, Peter 3 and Rosella 1.

Paul Storms is a carpenter in 1870 Buchanan County, Iowa, 40, born in Lower Canada, with Lydia 38, and Rosa 11 born in Wisconsin.

Paul Storms is a carpenter in 1880 Harlan County, Nebraska, 52, with Lidda 48, both born in "Cnd" and Mammie 8 in Wisconsin.

1942 Wray " If our readers are like this writer, there is something about an old landmark being removed that stirs up a faint nostalgic urge to know something of its history. When workmen started Monday to tear down the old house at the corner of Fourth and Adams to make room for the new Safeway building, we commenced to wonder how long the place had stood at its present site. As far back as we could remember the house had been a part of the topography of Wray. And from Fred Johnson, who has also been a landmark at Wray for a longer time than even the old house, according to his own admission, we learned something of the building's history.
Mr. Johnson recalls that the house started as an unimposing shack, put by an early settler named Paul Storms as a residence for himself and wife. Storms, Mr. Johnson recalls. was getting along in years when he built the house fifty-four years ago. Its principal distinction then was that it was supplied with water from a dug well in the yard from which the Storms simply dipped what water they needed in their domestic activities.
After the Storms had passed, (no pun intended), the residence passed into the possession of the late Jim Bond, a prosperous early day saloon-keeper in Wray. Mr. Bond built onto the house and made it one of the better homes in what was developing into one of the better residence sections of the town.
Several other families have lived in the property and for many years it was the residence of the late Henry Wells. And now the old house comes down with its job well done. More than half a century of providing shelter is work enough for the boards and plaster and nails and hardware that made it a house in which people lived and died, laughed and cried and carried on all the intricate business that makes up this job of living."

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