 hen Edith Abbott and Delton Ewing married in 1907, he built a small house for them behind his parents' farmhouse near 95th and Arapahoe Road, where they lived for nine years before moving into the larger house. Edith, an avid gardener, tended a half-acre of flowers, raised vegetables, and canned fruit for the cellar. She managed a flock of 200 hens and stashed her egg money in a sugar bowl to help pay for her children's educations. All five graduated from the University of Colorado. After Delton's death in 1961, Edith managed the farm, with neighbors farming on shares, until her death at the age of 90. Her funeral service was held under the towering locust tree she had planted as a young farm wife. Today the Ewing property is a designated Centennial Farm, a farm owned and operated by the same family for more than 100 years. |
