Shoshone County, ID obits submitted by: Nancy Fincham ================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, data may be used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or for presentation by other persons or organizations. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for purposes other than stated above must obtain the written consent of the file contributor. ==================================================================== Wallace Press-Times, Monday Afternoon, September 23, 1935, Page 1 JESSE A. PRICHARD IS TAKEN BY DEATH Jesse A. Prichard, 78, whose father, A. J. Prichard, was the first to discover gold in the Murray district in 1883, died at the county hospital Sunday following a two-year illness. His father founded the North Fork district town which still bears his name and was a familiar figure in the district during the days of the gold rush and the early days of the Bunker Hill and Sullivan mine at Kellogg. Prichard and two companions discovered placer gold in what is now Prichard creek, at a point where the now deserted town of Eagle stands. The son, then 28, joined his father in the Prichard district in 1885, remaining for about two years as a placer miner and returning to the district in 1901 after going east, where he was married. He had made his home in the Coeur d'Alenes continuously since that time and for more than 15 years was postmaster at Prichard. ILL SINCE 1933. The younger Prichard had carried on placer operations as a sideline to his work in the Prichard postoffice and was a resident of Prichard until the fall of 1933, when he suffered a stroke of apoplexy and was removed to the hospital here. He remained in the hospital until the summer of 1934 when his condition was sufficiently improved to permit his return to Prichard, where he made his home in a little cabin. A year ago in August he suffered a second stroke, toppling over onto a stove in the cabin and suffering severe burns on his hands before a neighbor discovered his plight. He was again removed to the hospital and had been in the institution since that time. He suffered a third stroke Saturday night and did not regain consciousness. Prichard was the father of eight children, one of whom, a son, Glenn B. Prichard, is in the railway mail service at Spokane. His widow and seven other children live in Kansas. He also leaves a brother, Glenn, at Spokane. FUNERAL TOMORROW. Funeral services will be conducted at Worstell's chapel at 2 o'clock tomorrow afternoon with Rev. E. W. McAbee officiating. Burial will be in the Wallace Cemetery. OBITUARIES (CONT'D) Wallace Press-Times, Tuesday, September 24, 1935 PRICHARD RITES CONDUCTED TODAY Funeral services for Jesse A. Prichard, 78-year-old pioneer of the Coeur d'Alenes and son of A. J. Prichard, who was the first to discover gold in the Murray district, were held at Worstell's chapel at 2 o'clock this afternoon with Rev. E. W. McAbee, officiating. Burial was in the Wallace Cemetery. Prichard died at a local hospital Sunday of apoplexy. He had lived in this region since 1885 and was postmaster at Prichard for 15 years. NOTES FROM THE FAMILY OF ANDREW J. PRICHARD AND JESSE A. PRICHARD Jesse Andrew Prichard's family believe that the he didn't arrive in the Coeur d'Alenes at the times stated in his obituaries. He was married in Osceola, Iowa Feb. 25, 1879, and his children were born Claudia Feb. 23, 1880 in Chepstow, Kansas; Raliegh Feb. 20, 1882 in Kansas (perhaps Osceola Iowa); Cynthia Ellen Feb. 29, 1884 in Osceola Iowa; Glennie Blaine Dec. 9, 1886 in Osceola Iowa; Ethel Alice Oct. 21, 1887, Beattie, KS; Jesse Ray Jan 12, 1890, Otto Jackson March 1, 1893, Mary Edna August 15, 1890, Harley Austin Nov 17, 1898, all in Home City Kansas. Our belief is that he may have visited his father, but did not settle permanently until after 1898. He was a schoolteacher in Kansas and research is being done to confirm his teaching assignments. Perhaps then, we can ascertain whether he was in the Coeur d'Alenes before the birth of his last son. Family lore is that he went to the Coeur d'Alenes to care for his ailing father and fact is that he never returned to his family in Kansas.