Andy Towle/Roundup -atowle@payson.com

Taylor’s dad, George Allen Ewing began actively managing the ranch now known as the Cross 7 (or Cline Ranch) at the age of 14, and continued after he married his wife Linda in 1963. He later turned it over to Taylor and her husband. She is the sixth generation of Clines to continue ranching on the land. The ranch is on the east side of Tonto Creek and even back in the 1880s, the creek was prone to annual flooding.