Person:Carl Wilkinson (4)

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 [Carl Wilkinson] 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

Carl (no middle name) WILKINSON married Carria Melvina TIERCE. Their children were: 1) Sydney Sylvester, 2) Lena A., 3) Carria Eulala, 4) Dorothy May, and 5) Robert Ray. --Cyd Pierce <cydpierce@@voyager.net>, e-mail, February 22, 2000

1917 June 5, Baca, CO: Carl Wilkinson, age 28, Tuck, CO (Joy Coy crossed through; Tuck written above it), farmer, tall, medium build, brown eyes, light hair, b. March 21, 1889, in Decatur, TX, dependent wife and two children. --World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918 (Ancestry.com)

1920 census

1930 Baca Co., CO, census, p.185B, Pritchett Town, Joy Coy Precinct, April 24, 1930, Noble E. Lenenberger: 19/19, Carl Wilkinson, head, owns home, $2000, no radio, M W 41, age 24 when first md., TX IA IA, manager, lumber yard; Cassia M., wife, F W 36, age 19 when first md., AL AL AL; Sidney S., son, M W 16, OK TX AL; Lena A., dau, F W 13, CO TX AL; C. Eulala, dau, F W 11, OK TX AL; Dorothy M., dau, F W 7, CO TX AL; Robert Ray, son, M W 4-2/12, CO TX AL.