This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Echenger, Gay, Maxey, Morton Classification: Death Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/5d.2ADI/3414 Message Board Post: Payette Independent Payette, Idaho August 19, 1893 Last Sunday afternoon Len Morton and William Gay discovered a body floating in Snake river at the Ontario ferry. They took a skiff and towed it ashore near the railroad bridge, and on Sunday evening an inquest was held by Coroner Maxey. The investigation failed to reveal the man’s indentity, but Coroner Maxey has since received word that the body was that of John Echenger. He had been engaged in placer mining on the island near Nyssia, Oregon, and his drowning was probably accidental. His boat and tools were found near the farm of Dr. W. C. Maxey, not far from the island. He was a single man and his address was Nyssia.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Nelson, Driscoll, Zimmerman, Adam Classification: Death Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/5d.2ADI/3413 Message Board Post: Payette Independent Payette, Idaho June 7, 1894 Found Dead. On Tuesday morning about 11 o’clock the dead body of a man was found near the railroad tank at this place. It proved to be George Nelson, a poor fellow who had been about town several days, and who had, only a few hours before secured a commitment to the county poor farm. He had evidently gone to the railroad to wait for a train to Caldwell. Tim Driscoll, J. P., at the request of citizens, summoned a jury and held an inquest. Nothing of the man’s former residence or friends could be obtained. The jury returned a verdict that the death was caused from an overdose of morphine, the deceased having been addicted to the habit of using the drug. The deceased was turned over to Messrs. Zimmerman & Adam, undertakers, for burial.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Little, Ballinger, Wackerhagen, Snell, Driscoll, Bolon, Thurston, Ross, McGlinchey, Rossi, Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/5d.2ADI/3412 Message Board Post: Payette Independent Payette, Idaho August 12, 1893 Local and Personal. John O. Little has been having a very troublesome time with one of his hands for the past week or ten days. The hand is badly swollen, at times very painful and is pronounced erysipelas. Mrs. R. Wackerhagen and mother Mrs. Snell, have come from Baker City, Oregon, to make their home in Payette. Mr. Wackerhagen has fitted up rooms for residence purposes in the second story of his new building on Broad street. Some fellow at Lewiston claims to have caught a 300 pound sturgeon, 10 feet long, and Tim Driscoll and R. Bolon are determined to beat it if they have to drag Snake river from Payette to Huntington. The INDEPENDENT has promised to help the boys out on the home-stretch. J. S. Thurston & Co., are putting up a one-story frame building on the corner of Broad and Main streets, to be occupied when completed, by their drug store. Mr. Coughanour will move the postoffice into the building occupied by them at present. Mr. Rudolph Bolon is expecting a party of gentleman in a few days from Beloit, Kansas. He says they have become interested in the Payette Valley from reading THE INDEPENDENT and now they propose to make a personal investigation of its resources. This is what we like to hear, because if there is a country under the sun that ought to make a favorable impression on those men who have witnessed failure after failure of the farmer’s efforts, by reason of lack of rain when water is most needed, it is certainly the irrigated regions of Idaho, where all kinds of crops are absolutely certain to reward the labors expended on them. A frightful runaway occurred over at Washoe on Wednesday morning. The team of Mr. Ross, the civil engineer, became frightened as he was closing a gate at Mr. Tharp’s place and ran in by way of Mr. Rossi’s residence where they collided with a horse and buggy belonging to Mr. McGlinchey, smashing both vehicles into smithereens. Misses Bird and Addie Rossi had but a few moments before the accident occurred, gotten out of the buggy and were sitting on the porch a few feet away. Mr. J. W. Ballinger, of West Union, Fayette county, Iowa, arrived in Payette one day last week, on a visit to his brother Jason Ballinger of this city. Jason was rusticating in Long Valley at the time and did not return to town until Tuesday when the brothers met after a seperation of 14 years. It is unnecessary to add that the meeting was a pleasurable occasion and that the gentlemen are improving ever hour in talking over events of their boyhood days. Jason killed a black bear, a nice fat two-year-old, a few days before staring home and brought in some of the meat and hide to convince his friends that he was not joking when he told them he was “going to the mountains loaded for bear.”

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Holton, Ryalds Classification: Death Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/5d.2ADI/3411 Message Board Post: Payette Independent Payette, Idaho August 12, 1893 Last Sunday afternoon a farmer discovered the remains of Pickett Holton the young man who was drowned in the Boise river on May 16th. The remains were lying on a pile of brush, in a slough, at a point about five miles from the city and about three miles from the place where the unfortunate young man met his death. Most of the flesh has fallen from the bones, but the remains were identified by a watch and chain, and were turned over to Judge Ryalds, an intimate friend of the deceased.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Driscoll, Green, Davenport Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/5d.2ADI/2009.4 Message Board Post: Payette Independent Payette, Idaho July 22, 1893 On Thursday a party composed of Messrs. Tim Driscoll, W. J. Davenport and C. C. Green, went to Snake river fishing and caught nearly a wagon load of sturgeon. They got 14 and three of the largest would weigh from 100 to 160 pounds each. THE INDEPENDENT is under many obligations to Judge Driscoll for a fine roast out of the north-east corner of one of the big ones.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Whyman Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/5d.2ADI/2009.3 Message Board Post: Payette Independent Payette, Idaho July 15, 1893 A monster Sturgeon, 8 feet long and weighing 300 pounds, was captured in the wasteway of the log pond at the Washoe sawmill, on Wednesday evening, by Mr. W. H. Whyman, in rather a peculiar manner. He first discovered the fish in shallow water and seeing only its back, mistook it for a large eel, which he attempted to drag out with a log hook. The fish immediately took to deeper water in the wasteway just below the railroad crossing, where it was captured by slipping a noose over its tail, when several of the employees at the mill assisted in landing it. My Whyman is perhaps the only man on record who is such an expert with the lariat as to use it in catching fish. He will doubtless receive a proposition to travel with Buffalo Bill’s Wild West show.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Driscoll, Bolon Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/5d.2ADI/2009.2 Message Board Post: Payette Independent Payette, Idaho August 12, 1893 Some fellow at Lewiston claims to have caught a 300 pound sturgeon, 10 feet long, and Tim Driscoll and R. Bolon are determined to beat it if they have to drag Snake river from Payette to Huntington. The INDEPENDENT has promised to help the boys out on the home-stretch.

My grandfather, Daniel Wertman, b. abt 1845 (Pennsylvania) and wife, Mary Bartch WErtman, came to Payette in the 1890's. Daniel, Mary and son George William Wertman, b. 1868, Michigan....appear on the 1900 census, living in Payette, Canyon co., Idaho. I find that Daniel applied for and received 2 Donation Land claims (see below). Can some kind soul please tell me how I can find out where those DLC's were located? There are all kinds of nice maps on the internet now so people can find Township/Range numbers and locate their ancestors DLC's, etc....does Idaho have a place where they have maps like that online? Doneva Shepard in Gresham, Oregon DLC# 1504 for 161.54 acres, March 4th 1895: S½NW 4/ 7-N 4-W Boise ID Payette county 3 4/ 7-N 4-W Boise ID Payette county Remarks: LOT 3 OR NENW QUARTER 4 4/ 7-N 4-W Boise ID Payette Remarks: LOT 4 OR NWNW QUARTER *********** DLC #251 for 640 acres in Payette co., Idaho 4th April 1894 E½ 22/ 8-N 5-W Boise ID Payette county E½NW 22/ 8-N 5-W Boise ID Payette county SW 23/ 8-N 5-W Boise ID Payette county W½NW 23/ 8-N 5-W No Boise ID Payette county my entire genealogy database, 63,030+ names http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=donevanell --------------------------------- Yahoo! Mail Use Photomail to share photos without annoying attachments.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Staples, Moss, coughanour, Pence, Toole, Rogers, Cooper, Leavitt, Wing, Rugg Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/5d.2ADI/3409 Message Board Post: Payette Independent Payette, Idaho October 25, 1894 The Idaho Trust Company. Mr. E. T. Staples, who has been spending several weeks at the placer diggings on the middle fork of the Boise river, returned to Payette the first of the week and is now fitting up offices of the Idaho Trust Company in the Payette Valley Bank building. This company was incorporated some time ago, with the following directors: W. A. Coughanour, A. B. Moss, J. J. Toole, Peter Pence, J. J. Rogers, E. T. Staples and W. A. Cooper, of Payette; Hon. S. D. Leavitt, of Eastport, Me., mayor of that city, Hon. Geo. H. Wing, of Ashburn, Me., president of the National Shoe and Leather bank of that city, and Hon. Chas. P. Rugg, of New Bedford, Mass. The officers of the company are: President, W. A. Coughanour, the well known capitalist of Payette; vice-president, E. T. Staples, who formerly resided in eastern Nebraska, where he was engaged in the banking business; secretary, W. A. Cooper, formerly of Brookline, Mass., where he was associated with the R. G. Dun Commercial agency. Mr. Staples informs us that he will now devote his entire attention to the business of the Idaho Trust Company. He is of the opinion that should Payette become the permanent county seat of Canyon county, it would be only a question of a short time when means could be secured with which to build a line of railroad up the Payette valley into the lumber and mining districts. In any event the company expects to succeed in attracting a large amount of capital to this portion of Idaho.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: McConnell Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/5d.2ADI/3410 Message Board Post: Payette Independent Payette, Idaho November 11, 1893 THANKSGIVING. Governor McConnell Issues the Customary Proclamation. Governor McConnell has issued the following proclamation: THANKSGIVING PROCLAMATION. The naming by the chief executive of the nation, and the governors of the several states of a day for thanksgiving and prayer, has become one of the honored and sacred customs of our country. In compliance with which, and in harmony with the recommendation of the president, I hereby proclaim Thursday, November 30th, a legal holiday, and recommend that it be devoted to thanksgiving and such other exercises as our people deem appropriate to the occasion. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and caused to be affixed the great seal of state. Done at the city of Boise, capital of Idaho, this 9th day of November, 1893. (Seal.) W. J. McConnell,

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Mock, Miller Classification: Death Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/5d.2ADI/3398 Message Board Post: Payette Independent Payette, Idaho April 8, 1893 An Editor’s Sorrow. Mrs. Annie Miller Mock, wife of F. G. Mock, editor of the Nampa Leader, died in Portland, Ore., on the morning of April 4th. Her remains were taken to Nampa where the funeral took place at 2 o’clock on Thursday from Mr. Mock’s residence. In this hour of his sore affliction Mr. Mock will have the sympathy of his brethren of the press throughout the state.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Pilmer Classification: Death Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/5d.2ADI/3400 Message Board Post: Payette Independent Payette, Idaho June 17, 1893 Who is the Dead Man? John Pilmer, who came down from Caldwell yesterday afternoon on a freight train, says there is a dead man lying by the track just beyond the Snake river bridge, near what is known as the Landon spur, some twenty miles from Payette. The train did not stop, but Mr. Pilmer could see that the man’s head had been crushed and he had apparently been killed by falling from a moving train. There was a man with some small children near by who appeared to be watching the body, and it is supposed that the coroner had been notified. From the ragged clothing and general appearance of the body, as seen from the passing train, Mr. Pilmer thinks the man was a tramp, and must have lain there in the broiling sun for several hours.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Roberts, Bogue, Carrick, Williams Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/5d.2ADI/3401 Message Board Post: Payette Independent Payette, Idaho July 1, 1893 An Old Grave Found. As Chas. Bogue and Bert Carrick were riding in the hills near Lem Williams’ house, they notices an old wagon end-gate lying on the ground. Examining it they found it was marked the grave of a Miss Martha Roberts who was buried there August 22, 1862. She was 18 years 1 month and 16 days old. As in those early days this portion of Idaho was entirely unsettled, it is evident she must have been buried there by parties who were passing through the country. Where they came from and where they were going is of course unknown, and the decayed headboard alone remains to tell us the sad story of their sorrow at having to leave one of their number by the way. –Salubria Citizen.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Byram, Kent Classification: Death Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/5d.2ADI/3399 Message Board Post: Payette Independent Payette, Idaho October 14, 1893 Word was received from Canada last Tuesday by Mr. S. L. T. Byram that his father died on Monday night. Mr. J. H. Byram and sister Mrs. Harry Kent, of Washoe, departed for Canada some two weeks ago, and it is presumed that they were with their father during his last hours.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Richards Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/5d.2ADI/3403 Message Board Post: Payette Independent Payette, Idaho October 14, 1893 Card of Thanks. EDITOR INDEPENDENT:-- I desire to use your paper as a medium through which to express the heartfelt gratitude of myself and family to the good people of Payette, for their great kindness to us in our recent sad bereavement. The generous consideration and tender care that was shown the dear one who has departed, has bound our hearts very closely to the community which recently became our home. On behalf of my family I thank them. CLARISSA RICHARDS.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Moss, Horn Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/5d.2ADI/3406 Message Board Post: Payette Independent Payette, Idaho September 3, 1892 THE RESULT. Brother Horn of the Nampa Leader takes his McConnell “crow” very gracefully, but in doing so he manages to pay our fellow townsman, Mr. A. B. Moss, a splendid compliment. He says: “The Moscow convention is a thing of the past. While the result of the deliberations of that body was not what the Leader had worked for, yet we bow to the will of the majority, believing that the best interests of the country can be served by supporting the principles of the Republican party through the nominees of the Moscow convention. The Leader has no apology to offer for the support it gave A. B. Moss; whose candidacy we urged for Governor. The manly course he pursued during the short campaign, made him hosts of friends, whose friendship will not be eradicated for many years to come, and should the name of A. B. Moss ever again be presented to a Republican convention in Idaho, he will be remembered as a man who would not countenance trickery or bribery in order to obtain the nomination for Governor in 1892.”

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: McAdams Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/5d.2ADI/2009.1 Message Board Post: Payette Independent Payette, Idaho April 8, 1893 J. A. McAdams was in town with a sturgeon weighing 150 pounds. That was a pretty good sized fish, but it was only a minnow compared with some of the sturgeon that have been taken from the Snake river. We have forgotten the exact weight of one that was on exhibition at one of our meat markets last summer, but we believe it tipped the beam at something over 400 pounds.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Lamme, Marquardsen Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/5d.2ADI/3407 Message Board Post: Payette Independent Payette, Idaho April 8, 1893 DISSOLUTION NOTICE. Notice is herby given that the undersigned, F. C. Marquardsen and D. S. Lamme, composing the firm of Marquardsen & Lamme, has this, 1st day of April, 1893, dissolved partnership by mutual consent, D. S. Lamme retiring. F. C. Marquardsen will pay all indebtedness of the firm and collect all outstanding accounts. D. S. LAMME. F. C. MARQUARDSEN. Dated this, April 1, 1893.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/5d.2ADI/3408 Message Board Post: Payette Independent Payette, Idaho October 21, 1894 The Payette Land and Improvement Company is making arrangements to open up Ada Avenue as far as the ditch crossing and we shall expect now to see some action taken towards making a good road on the upper side of the Payette ditch, leading up the valley and insuring the residents of the upper sections a good, dry road at all seasons of the year. It would be of immense advantage to all if such a road could be built and extended north to join the regular Weiser road, as it would not only afford a thorough-fare for the stock which are continually being driven through town, but such a road would form a most delightful drive, affording an excellent view of the valley, and in case of visitors remaining here between trains it would enable them, with very little effort, to appreciate the beauties and wonderful fertility of this, our beloved Payette valley.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Jimerson, Goad Classification: Marriage Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/5d.2ADI/3404 Message Board Post: Payette Independent Payette, Idaho October 14, 1893 JIMERSON-GOAD. Mr. J. R. Jimerson, of Payette, and Miss Lucy N. Goad, of Centralio, Ills., were joined in the holy bonds of wedlock, at the parlors of the Capital hotel, at Boise City, on Friday, October 6th. The ceremony was performed by Rev. W. Sanford Gee, pastor of the First Baptist church of Payette. Mr. Jimerson is one of the successful and prosperous fruit growers of this valley, as well as a popular teacher, and at present is employed in the Payette public schools. His bride is from the old home of his boyhood, and the union of hearts is the fulfillment of a hope that has long been cherished. Mr. and Mrs. Jimerson arrived in Payette Sunday afternoon and are making their home in the Master’s property on Ada avenue.