Upper Clover Creek Cemetery, Gooding County, ID Submitted by: Diane Houser ***************************************************************************** USGenWeb NOTICE: Libraries and individual researchers may download this file for personal, non-commercial use only. Any other use requires written permission from the transcriber. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. ****************************************************************************** UPPER CLOVER CREEK CEMETERY 7 1/2 miles north, 1/2 mile east of Bliss, Idaho The North Alternate Route of the old Oregon Trail crossed the Snake River near Thousand Springs beginning in 1853 when Ed Taylor put in the first scow. It came past the present site of the Tuttle crossing the Malad River, meandering as purposefully as the topography would permit, past the Bliss Point, over the Natural Bridges and down the north side of Clover Creek, across Bell Mare and on to the future site of King Hill Station. This cemetery is just a little east of the emigrant trail and the first burial was Mary Ann Miller in the early 1850's. Info furnished by Hagerman Cemetery District. BUTLER, Riley T d. 1-10-1913 Clover Creek BRAY, boy Age 14. Suicide CONWAY, (Three Conway's buried here, a father, son and baby.) COLVIN, Ross Ira b. 10-27-08 Died when high chair was d. 02-16-10 pushed over, hit head on hammer & spotted fever. Parents Fred & Edith Colvin. COLVIN, Louise b. 11-11-11 Daughter of Fred & Edith d. 11-16-11 Colvin BUTLER, Mary Elizabeth b. 2-1876 Daughter of Lester & Ada d. 1-6-1883 Little Butler BUTLER, Sarah Frances Etchison 1863 - 1942 Wife of Bass. Daughter of Idaho Butler Bray & John Con Bray. "And God wipe away all tears from their eyes" Rev.21:4 BUTLER, Edmond Ellison b. 9-16-1889 d. 2-07-1891 "Sleep on sweet baby and take thy rest God called the home, he thought it best" BUTLER, Donald Paul b. 06-11-1906 d. 03-01-1909 "A loved one from us has gone, A voice we loved is stilled A place is vacant in our home Which never can be filled." TYACKE, Mary Elizabeth Butler Urhlaub (Jack) b. 06-21-1876 d. 01-10-1938 "A life member of the Order of the Midnights. Initiated July 4 on the Yukon River, 1937. One of the greatest women to ever live in Idaho" Ran lighthouse Haines, Alaska. HOUSTON, Beecher b. 08-30-1886 Died in farm accident. d. 09-09-1903 BUTLER, Pleasant Bassham 1850 - 1932 "Asleep in Jesus" AUGUSTINE, Fredrick b. 07-20-1858 Father of Fredia (Henry) d. 11-25-1933 Radamacher & Olga (Leonard) Strout. MANDEGO, Charles 1853 - 1918 Lived up Calf Creek, over first rim in a dugout. Trapper. MILLER, Mary Ann Age 18 Old timers wrote that a wagon box side "headstone" indicated that she was buried in 1850's. STANISLAW, Baby Drowned in 1908 in Cold Springs Creek. He floated under the little bridge and the nails of the bridge caught his clothes and held him there. ROBINACHER, Henry HUSTON, Bucher TOWNSLEY, George A friend of Radamachers from England. GADDY, George E 1819 - 1889 Captain 73rd RGT MO. Mil.(The original marble marker that was still there in 1976 also had inscribed on it "Dead of a Heart Attack." Marker has been replaced by a hand poured concrete one.) HOLLIDAY, Elias Langham d. 1884 (Rock Slab) HOLLIDAY, Richard T d. 1886 Son of Elias Holliday the 2nd family on Clover Creek, lived at Hot Springs Ranch. HOLLIDAY, Rudolph d. 1889 Son of Elias Holliday. BUTLER, Ray b. 1894 (cremated) Ashes buried d. 04-1985 A protestant minister, Philadelphia & Florida. BRAY, John Sterling b. 10-16-1918 Clover Creek native. d. 07-30-1995 (Ada Little Harris Butler d. 1936 and Lester Butler d. 1963 married at Blanche, Idaho on Clover Creek in 1910 have been reinterred in Hagerman.