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Directories show that David D. Butcher worked as a miner in Louisville. (At the time of the 1900 census, he had been a quartz miner in Clear Creek, Colorado.) The Boulder County Assessor card for this property (completed in 1948) gives "before 1908" as the date of construction of the house at 1013 Jefferson. The Boulder County website gives 1906 as the year of construction. The 1906 date could be correct, as property records indicate that the property was first acquired from the developers the year before, in 1905. The house is shown in the correct location on the 1909 Drumm's Wall Map of Louisville. Records indicate that it was not long after the house was built that David D. Butcher passed away. By 1909, Martha Butcher had remarried to a widower, Case Willard Peppard, who already had a daughter. In 1909, Martha conveyed 1013 Jefferson to her mother, Kezia Jones. Martha's mother, Kezia Cook Jones, was born in Pontypook, Gwent, Monmouthshire, Wales in 1850 and came to the US from Wales with her husband, Ebenezer, in 1869. Ebenezer Jones died between 1904 and 1906, after moving to Louisville. The 1910 census records show the following people to be living on Jefferson Avenue in Louisville, in all likelihood at 1013 Jefferson since this was the house owned by the Butcher/Jones family: Willard Peppard, age 42, farm laborer; Martha Peppard; Myrtle Peppard, age 13 (Martha's stepdaughter); Frank Butcher, age 15; Arvilla Butcher, age 13; Kezia Jones, widow (Martha's mother), age 60; and Wesley Jones, Martha's brother, age given as 21. A picture of this house from around this time can be seen on the following postcard of Louisville that was mailed in 1909, so it would presumably date from the period of a few years before 1909: