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Studio portrait of Addison L. and Bird Crawford Hockett, early pioneers of Eagle County. He married Birdie Crawford on November 22, 1898. They lived in Gypsum and had six children. Addison's father, Barclay Hockett, first settled on the mouth of Brush Creek in 1882, in an area now known as Hockett Gulch. Barclay Hockett was Eagle's first postmaster. [Thanks to Bill Stephens, Sr., for this information.]
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Formal portrait of Barclay Hockett. He was born July 19, 1813, at Wilmington, Ohio, and died at Gypsum, Colorado, on June 7, 1915. He was an early settler of Eagle County, arriving at Battle Mountain in 1882, and moving to Eagle a year later. He homesteaded near Gypsum.
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Studio photograph of Bird Crawford (Hockett) and her brothers. "Birdie" came to the Gypsum valley as a small girl with her parents. In 1898, she married Addison L. Hockett, member of another pioneer family. They had four daughters: Myrtie Stephens, Mary Margaret Robichaud, Arta Pharo, and Lucy Ronchetti.
