Yuma County, Colorado
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Yuma County Pioneers:
John and Hannah (Larson) Johnson, Yuma
John H. Johnson was perhaps the son of Rasmus Johnson and Hannah Hanson.
In 1895 Phillips County, Kansas, John Johnson is 34, Hannah 32, Maggie 13, all born in Denmark. Peter 11, Anna 8, and martha 2 were born in Kansaas.
In 1900 Phillips County, John, born Dec 1860, Hannah May 1862, and Maggie Jan 1882 were born iN Denmark. Peter Feb 1884, Annie Aug 1886, and Martha March 1893 wee born in Kansas.
In 1910 Phillips County, John is 49, Hannah 47 and Martha 17.
May 1915 "Last Friday J.H. Fail sold the Chas. Strom farm, 2 1/2 miles east of Yuma, to John Johnson, of Franklin, Nebraska. Mr. Johnson expects to move here next March."
1916 Mrs. John Johnson arrived from Franklin, Nebraska, Monday, and is a guest at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Ernest Hobson, seven miles southeast of town."
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MARGARET (JOHNSON) AND JOHN FARLEY
In 1910 Washington County, Colorado, John F. Farley is 31, Marguerite 28.
In 1920 Washington County, Colorado, John Finley Farley is farming, 41, born in West Virginia, with Margaruite 37 in Denmark, immigrating in 1883. Lillian Lucile 8, Myrna E. 6, aand Lois Margueirite 1 were born in Colorado. Next is Foss Lee Farley 45 born in West Virginia and his cousin Lewis Wesley Farley born in Ohio.
They're still farming in 1930 Washington County, John 51, Margueirite 48, Lucille L. 19, Myrna E. 17, and Lois M. 12.
In 1940 Washington County, John is farming, with Margeurite. L. Lucille is 28, born in Colorad, single. Their granddaughter Myrle L. Bean 8 born in Colorado is with them.
John, born Dec 10, 1878, died in February 1968.
He's buried in Akron # 75613153, with Marguerite (Johnson( Farley 1882-1977
# 75613162.
Myrla Louise Bean, born August 21, 1931 to David Monroe Bean and Myrna Elizabeth Farley,
died April 21, 1993 in Littleton, Colorado.
ANNA (JOHNSON) AND ERNEST HOBSON
Ernest Hobson was in Smith County, Kansas in 1895, age 8, with I. E. 42 born in Indiana
and L.A. 32 in Iowa. Mabel is 13, Daisy 11, Ernest 8, and Claud eight months, all four born in Kansas.
In 1900 Smith County, E.I is 47, A.L. 37, G.M. 18, D.M. 16, E.E. 13, and C.V. 5.
Isaac Edgar Hobson 1852-1927 is buried in Smith County # 50069213,
with Loduska A. (Metclif) Hobson 1863-1943 #50069239.
In 1910 Smith County, Kansas, Ernest and Anna, both 23, are farming.
In 1920 Yuma County, John is farming, 59, with Anna 57 immigrating in 1883, both born in Denmark.
They're next to Jess and Ruby Dickson (my great-aunt, so they were probably living near the fairgrounds - mdm)
In 1920 Yuma County, Ernest Hobson is farming, with Anna, both 33 born in Kansas. Elmo 8 was born in Kanss, Norma 3 in Colorado.
They're still farming in 1930 Yuma County, Ernest E. and Anna both 43, with Leslie E. 18, born in Kansas, Norma C. 14 and Merlin W. 5.
In 1950 Ernest and Anna have only Wayne, 15.
1951 "Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Hobson returned Sunday from a two weeks vacation. They visited at Bemidji, Minnesota with his brother, D. C. V. Hobson, who is a professor at the state collet, and with his sister, Mrs. C.A. Sawyer in Kensington, Kansas."
Ernest E. Hobson 1886-1965 is buried in Yuma # 50790572.
July 11, 1974 
Merlyn Wayne Hobson 1925-2014 is buried in Fort Collins.
"In 1881, John and Johanna Johnson emigrated from Denmark to the United States, settling in Smith County, Kan. Thirty-five years later they moved to Colorado with their daughter, Anna who had married Ernest Hobson, the son of English parents. Ernest and Anna bought land southeast of Yuma on the edge of the sandhills; the Johnsons bought land east of town along Highway 34.
Ernest and Anna had three children. Norma became an English teacher and published writer, leaving a wonderful series of essays about growing up on that farm. Elmo, the oldest sibling, graduated from high school, then persuaded his Grandpa Johnson to sell him the Highway 34 farm on favorable terms. The kid proved to be a good farmer, hit bumper crops three years in a row, and completely repaid the loan to his grandfather, much to the disgust of the old Dane.
Since he was the late baby of the family, it was years later that Wayne bought the sandhills farm from Ernest and began farming with a DC Case tractor (of course, no turning brakes or hydraulics) and ten-foot implements. Wayne took over Elmo's farm when the elder brother moved to Boulder, and then he moved up from the Case to two John Deere two-bangers--he would say they were the finest tractors ever made.
Wayne was known about town as the quiet man in the Big Mac overalls, the man who could drive the straightest row in the county and who was in church every Sunday, his two children sporting long, dangling perfect attendance pins. He served on the church board and on the board of directors of the Equity Coop Oil Company when it was located on Main Street. Wayne was not a social man, although he and Wilma played cards once a month over many, many years with a group of friends known simply as the Supper Club. This was a time when the men all wore coats and ties for an evening of pinochle.
Wayne's life just barely touched the era of farming with horses, ran through the Great Depression and a world war, and he began farming before there were commercial fertilizers, struggling to squeeze a living from a small sandhills farm. Then he saw the region, and his farm, transformed by irrigation. He sold the farm in 1971 and took a job as parts manager at L & L Implement, where he worked longer hours than on the farm. Wayne and Wilma eventually retired to Fort Collins.
Wayne Hobson passed away on March 24. There is no doubt that he would have counted among his greatest pleasures looking out over a good field of milo, watching the cattle graze in the sandlove grass after a summer rain, hosting Saturday night supper for the Reverend Nieves's and later the Reverend Harvey's every week without fail, and whiling away the retirement hours in the woodshop. His spirit still floats in the air here in that shop as we close it down, as it must float over that poor sandhills farm. To feel it, however, one must be very still, because he was a very quiet man.
Wayne was preceded in death by his wife of 52 years, Wilma, and by his brother and sister. He is survived by son, Barry, of Estes Park; daughter, Peggy and husband, Chuck of Fort Collins; granddaughters, Brooke and husband, Ken Colaizzi of Littleton and Brittany and husband, Eric Stinson of Parker; and the very precious great-grandchildren, Domenic and Sabrina. He is also survived by nieces and nephews."
1992 
Norma Christine (Hobson) Grenawalt was born January 15, 1916, dying May 13, 2004
MARTHA
Walter H. Tecker and Martha E. Johnson married on July 31, 1918
in Yuma, Colorado, the marriage recorded in Washington County.
September 1920 Yuma "Mrs. Walter Tecker and baby, who had been visiting with Mrs. Tecker's parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Johnson east of Yuma, returned to her home at Otis on the noon train Saturday."
May 1929 
August 1929 "Mrs. John Johnson and her sister, Mrs. Mary Mullery, of Kansas, who had been visiting with relatives in Otis and Akron for a week, returned to Yuma on the afternoon train Monday."
" Martha Tecker. Mar 28, 1893 - May 1973. Denver, CO"
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