Pueblo County, Colorado
ANNIE BLAKE

Contributed by Karen Mitchell.

Blake, Annie (1838 - 1927) - Annie and her husband George, lived in Rye, Colorado, where he was engaged in the real estate business.� George suffered from asthma and by 1869 he could no longer conduct business.� Annie took over the business, her first transaction being the purchase of the forty-eight plus acres of the Nolan Land Grant for $10,000.� Making a handsome profit, she sold one third of the land to Peter and Jacob Dotson for $5,000 and another one third to Charles Goodnight for the same amount.� Retaining a third of the land for herself, it eventually became the community of South Pueblo.� The original acreage covered all of Pueblo south of the Arkansas River, and the land between the Greenhorn Mountains and the St. Charles River.� � Annie made several investments in Pueblo, including the Roselawn Cemetery.� The census for Pueblo County in 1870, listed only eight employed women.� Annie Blake led that group of pioneer women. � She is buried next to George in Block 13, Lot 343 (in Roselawn Cemetery).� There is a marker. From "From the Grave, A Roadside Guide to Colorado's Pioneer Cemeteries," by Linda Wommack, published by Caxton Press, Caldwell, Idaho�in 1998.



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