AUGUSTA, FORREST AND FRANK RICKARD
Augusta, Forrest and Frank Rickard were signers 31, 32 and 33 on the Federal Heights incorporation petition. The Rickards were living in North Federal Heights at the time they signed the petition.
Augusta Jane Randell was born in 1871 to John Reed and Elizabeth (Patterson) Randall in Illinois. Her father died when she was eight years old and left her mother to raise five young children.
Frank Leslie Rickard was born in Sycamore, Illinois on April 24, 1873 to Alva W. and Eliza Jane (Collier) Rickard, the oldest of five children. Frank’s father served in the Union Army as a private with the Illinois 152nd Infantry during the Civil War. Shortly after Frank’s birth, the family moved to Cameron Township in Hall County, Nebraska where Frank and his siblings attended school.
Augusta married Frank Rickard on Friday, March 20, 1895 in Greeley, Colorado. The couple's first two children, Elizabeth and Frank, Jr., were born in Hardin, Colorado. In 1899, Frank, Augusta, Elizabeth and Frank Jr. moved to Abbott, Nebraska in a covered wagon. The couple had four more children - Ruth, Frederick, Florence and Forrest. When 45-year-old Frank registered for the World War I draft in 1918, he was farming in Ericson, Nebraska. The Rickard family remained in Nebraska until the early 1930s.
By 1940, according to the United States census, Frank, Augusta and 22-year-old Forrest, were living in a home they owned on North Federal. Forrest was working for the WPA. Adams County records indicate that even though the Rickards said they owned property on North Federal in 1940 at the time of the signing of the petition, Augusta and her son, Forrest, purchased Tracts 18 and 19 from Gertrude Woodruff several years after the incorporation of the town.
Forrest first married Florence Nelgen in June 1938. They had a son, Hershall. Forrest then married his wife, Lois Margaret Hendricks, on May 29, 1941. In April of 1942 Forrest enlisted in the Navy and served during World War II on the transport ship, USS Chaumont. Forrest and Lois had a son, Lowell Thomas Rickard, born in 1944.
In 1947, Forrest and his mother, Augusta, purchased Tract #18 and Tract #19 in Federal Heights where Frank and Augusta lived. They sold Tract #19 to Ruth Thomson and continued living in Federal Heights. Frank died in 1951.
In 1955, Augusta negotiated with the Federal Heights Town Board to deed a 20-feet roadway through her property, running east to west. After the road was constructed, Augusta came to the Town Board asking for relief for the negative effect the road had on her property. Augusta conveyed her interest in the property to her daughter Elizabeth in 1956. Elizabeth and her brother, Forrest, sold Tract #18 to David S. and Peggy June Wilson in July 1958.
Augusta died in 1958. She is buried next to Frank in Fairmount Cemetery in Denver. Forrest died in 2004 and is buried in Fort Logan National Cemetery in Denver.