Person:Belle Wilkinson (2)

There was a "Tuck, Colorado." When Aunt Belle and husband Jim WARD homesteaded, she opened a post office in her home and named it Tuck after her dad. Later that area was called Joy Coy, and that's what's on my mother's birth certificate. Then, when the railroad came to the end of the line in Baca County, the people moved a few miles south to the end of the line and platted out the town of Pritchett. Grandpa worked in Jett & Deeds Hardware the rest of his life.

 Rent the video or see the movie "Hi Lo Country" starring Sam Elliott.  A lot of it was filmed in Pritchett a couple of years ago.  You can see the hardware where Grandpa worked.  But I think in the movie they have it as a bar or something else.  You can see the big plate glass windows and the bench on the sidewalk in front.  --Cyd Pierce <cydpierce@@voyager.net>, e-mail, February 22, 2000

Belle and Jim are buried in Albuquerque, Bernalillo Co., NM.

descendant, Jack Dennis Ward <Papersails@@aol.com>