It was a routine biennial election in the Town of Fairplay. The year was 1974 and that year there was a bit of competition, but Ada B. Evans was declared the winner with 65 votes. The other two candidates had 49 and 45 votes.
What was left to other news sources throughout the country to report was the fact that Evans was the first black female mayor to be popularly elected in the State of Colorado.
Ada Belle Huff was born in a small rural community in Aiken County, S.C. She was the first person in her community to go to high school and then to college in Columbia. She met Ray Evans, her spouse of 50 years, in Aiken where she did her student teaching.
