long live the widow!

Local lore tells the story of the widows who influenced the people so much that the talk around the area of the “viuda”, which means widow in Spanish, was mistaken for “buda”. The question is, who is the famous viuda that everyone was talking about? Was it Cornelia A. Trimble, the widow who owned and platted the land? Or was it the widows from The Carrington Hotel who made a meal so good, people stopped into town just for their food?