The life of Iciminda Yockey is an example of how women and children played roles in their local economy. She was the daughter of two of the early settlers of Boulder. Her parents David Baumert and Iciminda Harper came to Colorado in 1860 where they opened a general store in Burlington, just south of Longmont, and raised their four daughters. Iciminda Baumert Yockey married Levi Yockey who came to Colorado from Kansas in 1889. They bought 10 acres of land near Arapahoe and Folsom and grew 185 apple trees and 65 cherry trees. They sold their produce at a fruit stand which Iciminda operated for 25 years after her husband’s death in 1931. Iciminda and Levi had five daughters and then three young sons, so the girls were highly involved in the family’s business and helped run the fruit stand when Iciminda sold fruit up the canyon to the mining camps.
Photo used in a 1955 daily camera article, Carnegie Library for Local history.