Lemhi-Bonneville County ID Archives Obituaries.....Mounts, Hugh February 1, 1950
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The Post Register (Idaho Falls, Idaho) [Feb. 1, 1950]
Funeral: Hugh Mounts

SALMON, Feb 1.---Funeral services for Hugh Mounts,
known to his friends as "Crow" Mounts, were held at the
Jones Funeral home Salmon, on Monday (January 31,
1950), with Rev. Don L. Smith officiating.

Mounts was born on July 21, 1883, in Des Moines, Iowa,
the sone of Sy and Mary Mounts. he moved west with his
parents when a child and as a young man lived and worked
in many places in the northwest. About 1920 he came to
Lemhi ounty when in the employment of Fred Newman
while driving a band of sheep from Hagerman, where he
had been living. He became a well known stockman and
mining man in Lemhi county.

Shortly after his arrival in Lemhi county he worked for Martin
Kern for a number of years. For the last 20 years he had
worked in mines around Shoup, and was a partner with Joe
McCourt for several years in the Wichem mine. At the time
of Mr. McCourt's death in about 1938, Mr. Worley Lee became
his partner. The past years he has been working in mine during
the summer and staying with Mr. Lee during the winter months.

He had been in ill health for the past three years and died suddenly
on Friday (January 27, 1950) in Salmon.

He has no known survivors.

Two vocal solos were sung by Mrs. Eilna Ketchie, accounpanied
by Mrs. Louis T. Carpenter.

Pallbearers were Earl Witteborg, Ivan Reddington, Gilmore Denny,
William Clark, Elmer Smith, John Johnston.

Burial took place in the Salmon cemetery under direction of the
Jones Funeral home.


Additional Comments:
The Post Register (Idaho Falls, Idaho)
Wednesday, February 1, 1950, p. 3, column 4 (middle)


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