Historic Highlandlake Commemorative Paper DollsLettie and Charlie

When she was 12 years-old, Electa “Lettie” Mead came to Colorado in a covered wagon with her father, Deacon Lorin C. Mead and step-mother, Elizabeth Sheldon Mead.

Her father founded the town of Highlandlake, Colorado. When Lettie grew up she married her neighbor, Fred Weston. They later moved to Washington D.C. where her husband was employed as a printer for the U. S. Postal Service.

Charlie Waite, moved to Highlandlake 1873 when he was about two. His family was one of the original three families to move into the district that year. His father was the Justice of the Peace.

Charlie loved to hunt and fish. One winter when he was 12, he took a shortcut across the ice on the lake. The ice was too thin and he broke through it and drowned. Charlie is buried in the Highlandlake Pioneer Cemetery next to his mother and grandmother.

Charlie’s dog, “Shep”

Charlie Waite

Lettie Mead

Print out this page on heavy paper, or print it and then glue it on some card stock or poster board. You can color the figures and their clothes with crayons, colored pencils, or felt-tip pens. Carefully cutout around the lines.

Artist: Elaine Terry Swenson. Copyright 2011 by Historic Highlandlake, Inc. All rights reserved.

Lettie’s Ice Skating costume