Moffat County Colorado 1920

SMITH FAMILY PHOTOGRAPHS TAKEN IN BEAR VALLEY, MOFFAT COUNTY, COLORADO 1917-1923

(click on each photo to see a larger version)


Nora Jones Smith - Tom Smith's cabin in background	Tom Smith's cabin - side view	Nora Smith and her children at Tom Smith's cabin - front view


Frank & Sarah's with Rosa and Julie	Frank & Sarah's place	Frank & Sarah's, side view, potato field


Youghal school house	Calves and kids	The dugway constructed in Bear Valley


Frank Smith house after it was moved to Powers' land	Barn and corral at Jim & Frank Smith place	Frank & Jim Smith's barn

SMITH FAMILY PHOTOGRAPHS TAKEN IN BEAR VALLEY, MOFFAT COUNTY, COLORADO 1950

(The Smith family traveled back to Bear Valley to see the old homesteads)


Shirley and Ollie Smith in front of Tom's cabin	back view of Tom Smith's cabin	Tom Smith inside doorway of his old cabin


The potato field where Frank and Jim died	W. F. Smith place but with house missing	Youghal school house


Tom Smith and Elise White in his old cellar	Ernest and Tom Smith in 1950 - Colorado	Tom and Ernest Smith visit graves in Craig

RUSSELL FAMILY PHOTOGRAPHS TAKEN IN BEAR VALLEY, MOFFAT COUNTY, COLORADO AUGUST 1980

(Frances Russell returned to Bear Valley with her older son Kenneth and his two sons, David and Doyle in 1980)


Bear Valley Road 1-1/2m. from school	Youghal school house	Youghal school with Doyle and Ken


Bear Valley aka Bare Valley landscape	Frances at site of log structure	Frances Smith Russell at ruins


Doyle John Russell at ruins	log structure in ruins	entrance to cellar

RUSSELL FAMILY PHOTOGRAPHS TAKEN IN BEAR VALLEY, MOFFAT COUNTY, COLORADO AUGUST 1981

(Frances Russell returned to Bear Valley with her younger son Bob and his wife, and a friend Harriet Clemens in 1981)


Youghal school house	Youghal school with Frances	old cabin with Pam and Harriet


Old cabin - miles from Smith homesteads	Fallen roof - miles from Smith homesteads	Log structure - miles from Smith homesteads


Dugout built into side of a hill, very near Smith homesteads	Dugout, another view	Dugout, front view

MAPS TO THE BARE VALLEY HOMESTEAD SITES OF THE SMITHS


Map shows Hwy 40 west out of Craig to Elk Springs, Colorado, approx. 55 miles	Turn right at Elk Springs onto Bear Valley Road, aka Hwy 14.	Stay on Bear Valley Road until you are near the end of the straight east/west stretch, perhaps 20 miles from Elk Springs

THE SMITHS WHO STAYED IN CRAIG, COLORADO

This map (borrowed from "Blue Mountain Folks" by Doris Burton

shows the homesteads in Bare (Bear) Valley

Nora Jones Smith, wife of Thomas A. Smith (1893-1918) buried in Craig cemetery

James Wesley Smith (1893-1921) and his father William Franklin Smith (1865-1921) buried in Craig cemetery

IN 1950 FOUR OF THE SMITH SIBLINGS VISITED BARE VALLEY AND THE CEMETERY IN CRAIG ONCE MORE


1950 Craig Cemetery Ollie, Rosa, Julie at graves of Frank, Jim, & Nora	1950 Craig Cemetery Ernest at the gravesites	1950 Craig Cemetery Tom and Ernest Smith at the gravesites

PHOTOS TAKEN AT THE CEMETERY IN CRAIG IN 1981


1981 Craig Cemetery, new stone for Nora Smith's grave - Bob, Harriet, Pam	1981 Craig Cemetery - Harriet and Bob	1981 Craig Cemetery Harriet &Frances

1981 Craig cemeteryFrances Smith Russell
at the grave of her grandfather William F. Smith
and his son James W. Smith