Gem Co. map
Reading & References
Sharon McConnel,
Gem County Coordinator

Biographies & Personal Histories Index

'Cogburn, John "Jack"
Cramer, William H. and Ruth J. "Janie" Coggburn , and fgs
Crawford, Elisha and Christina Tuttle Crawford (includes period spent in Valley County)
Fox, Balaam - Civil War Veteran, Stage Driver
Fowler Family: Fred Fowler, Bonnie Alcorn Fowler, Parson Fowler
Fowler - Our Life on Squaw Butte by Vera Meree Fowler Schneider
Gross - Growing Up on Squaw Creek by Hester Gross MacAskill Woody
Little, Andy - & Little Mansion (off-site link)
   " Andrew Little's sheep ranch in Idaho was so famous that a letter addressed simply 'Andy Little, USA' found its intended recipient." - Ferenc Morton Szasz, "Scots In the North American West, 1790 - 1917"
MacAskills, from Nova Scotia to Pearl
McConnel, Roy C. and Alma Carlson McConnel
Newell, Emmett - Family Hero and Civilian POW**
Joseph L. Reed (1849-1914)
    Reed Sawmill and Logging Crew (photo history)
Thompsons - The Descendants of Charles William Thompson   (includes period spent on Daggett Creek, Boise County)
Wardwell, James (1834-1891)
Wardwell, Park (1865-1916), Killed by Train in Ogden, Utah

** Note: There were at least three other Gem County men on the captured Morrison-Knudsen construction crew: Newells' one-time brother-on-law, Marvin Gross (obituary) and Gross' uncle Leroy Cramer. Leroy Cramer died on the hospital ship on the way home. He is buried at Ola. Bill Charters was also in that crew. For more information, see Wake Island on historynet.com.

Bios from Hawley's "History of Idaho, The Gem of the Mountains," Vols. II and III. The S. J. Clarke Publishing Co. Chicago, 1920. On-line at google books and archive.org

Burkhard, George J.
Cruickshank, Alexander
Davies, John B.
Knox, Clayton Bane
Knox, Walter
Lathrop, Rev. Alonzo C.
McConnell, John R.
Riggs, Boise G.
Riggs, Hon. Henry Chiles Riggs
Womack, Isaac

There are many more Gem County entries in this book. Other familiar names include Alsagar, Cronk, Davison, Hartley, Kesgard, Kessler, Morehouse, McCrossin, McKay, Pugh, Werle, and Wilhelm, to name a few. If your ancestor was here in 1920, do check this resource at google books.


Family Group Sheet Index

Gustav Gross
Courtesy of Darlene Christison Mingus:
* John Jackson (Frances Catherine Kesgard) Christison
* Thomas J. (Margaret Griffiths Williams) Davies
* George (Julia McAuliffe/McCullough) Gardner
* James Andrew Kesgard (Kjaersgaard)
* Christen Andersen Kjaersgaard, Kjersgaard
* Elcanal L. (Sarah Ann Shroll) Knouse
* Clayton Bane (Minnie Alice Knouse) Knox
* Douglas Clayton (Margaret Griffiths Williams) Knox
* Conrad Cornelius (Lavina Dollarhide) Mingus
* Fletcher Earl (Minnie May Knox) Mingus


Veterans

Veterans Buried at Bramwell
Veterans Buried at Emmett-Riverside Cemetery
(for veterans in Sweet and Ola Cemeteries, see inventories)

If you know of a link or to post your family story here, contact me, Sharon



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