� � � � William Arthur Nesbit was born in Biggsville, Illinois January 3, 1875, the son of William Samuel Nesbit and Adaline Horting Nesbit. He died February 12, 1957 in the Illinois Veterans Home in Quincy, Illinois. he enlisted in the U.S. Army and served in the Phillipene Insurrection with the 5th district scouts and was honorably discharged in 1902.
� � � � He tried homesteading in the sand hills of Nebraska near North Platte, but he and Wayne Pierson decided after one winter that that location was not for them. While Wayne returned to Biggsville, William got a job with a large sheep feeder near Lamar, Colorado.
� � � In 1907 he returned to Biggsville to marry Edith Ursula Henderson. They returned to Lamar, Colorado where he worked as a Foreman for the Sheep Feeder until the company took bankruptcy, woing more than $600 in back wages, which were never collected.
� � � � The Nesbits went to Penrose, Colorado, which was being developed as an irrigation project known as Beaver Park. One of the main investors was Spencer Penrose. A dam was being constructed. William and Edith were able to purchase some land and built a temporary shelter they called the "shack". George Mack Nesbit was born August 19, 1910. Two daughters and a son followed but died very early.
� � � � With two dams there was an adequate water supply for this project. July 5, 1921 Arthur Henderson Nesbit was born. This same year the dam on Beaver Creek went out contributing to the high water of the Pueblo flood of 1921, and the dam was never replaced. Thus the supply of irrigation water was never adequate, and the Nesbits moved to a farm near London Mills, Illinois in 1935.
� � � � Edith Henderson was born September 30, 1875 in Bloomingburg, Ohio and moved to Biggsville, Illinois 2 years later. After William's death, she moved to the Soldiers and Sailors Home in Quincy before dying in 1965.
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