EARLY PIONEERS/SETTLERS IN VALLEY COUNTY, IDAHO, 1870 - 1920: AN INDEX by Wesley W. Craig Submitted for use of the USGenWeb Project and IDGenWeb Project Archives by Wesley W. Craig, 08 January 1997. This Index includes the names of those adults who resided in the Valley County area through 1920. Many sources have been consulted to generate these listings (see below). Many names are spelled in a variety of ways in the different sources and spellings are provided as given in the original sources. These sources are identified in the listings by the abbreviations noted below. Undoubtedly, many names of people who lived in Valley County during this period are not included due to having entered and moved between census periods, etc. The author would appreciate receiving additional names of those involuntarily omitted. Send e-mail to: Wesley W. Craig - wcraig@infowest.com KEY TO SOURCES: AATR = ALL ALONG THE RIVER, by Nellie Ireton Mills,1963. Example: AATR,297 (297=page) ALPHACEM = Alpha Cemetery (Alpha and Round Valley areas) (Note: Cemetery listings are found in SURNAME INDEXES TO THE CEMETERY AND BURIAL RECORDS OF VALLEY COUNTY, IDAHO 1878 - 1995. Compiled by Wesley W. Craig and Bea Snyder. Cascade, Idaho: 1997) BCMA = BOISE COUNTY MARRIAGE ABSTRACTS, 1889 - 1912. (Idaho History Library, 979.674, V22M) (Note: There are two books of abstracts in this collection. Example: BCMAbk1,9 = Boise County Marriage Abstracts, Book 1, page 9) BLM = HOMESTEAD LAND CLAIMS APPLICATIONS. (For Long Valley, Idaho 1891 - 1920). U.S. Bureau of Land Management, Boise, Idaho BMR= BOISE COUNTY MARRIAGE RECORDS - 1912-1917. (SLC FHL Microfilm 1420898) BOCEN70 = IDAHO TERRITORY POPULATION CENSUS OF 1870. Idaho State Genealogical Society, 1973. (Note: Only the Deadwood precinct pertains to the later Valley County area). BOCEN80 = BOISE COUNTY, IDAHO TERRITORIAL CENSUS OF 1880. (Copy in the Idaho History Library) BOCEN00 = BOISE COUNTY, IDAHO FEDERAL POPULATION CENSUS OF 1900. (Copy in Idaho State History Library - SLC FHL Microfilm 531034) (Included are the Alpha, Lake, Omega (Roseberry), and Van Wyck precincts.) BOCEN10 = BOISE COUNTY, IDAHO FEDERAL POPULATION CENSUS OF 1910, INDEX. (Extractions of Long Valley Precincts in the Idaho History Lib.,979.674, X2). Heads of households listed in the following precincts were selected for this compilation: Alpha - The area south of Crawford, including Thunder City down to Round Valley and Smith's Ferry Crawford - Includes old Crawford and what later became Cascade. Van Wyck - Includes area to west and north of Crawford area, including Arling Roseberry - Area around Roseberry, Center and present day Donnelly Lake - The area of Lardo and McCall BOWMAN = From WWI Military Registration and Service Records, compiled by Williiam Bowman for Valley County. An asterisk (*) following the name indicates active military service. Two asterisks (**) signifies death while on active duty. CASCADE = Cascade Margaret Cemetery CRWNPTCEM = Crown Point Pioneer Cemetery (Cascade/VanWyck/Crawford area) ELV = "Early Long Valley", by Carol Hamaker Herrick (Cascade News, 1936) FAMILY RCDS = Personal records of various families FINNCEM = The Finnish Cemetery (Roseberry/Donnelly area) GESTRIN = List of early Norwood residents, from Dorothy Whitney Gestrin HOLMCEM = Holmes Cemetery (Donnelly area) HUMPHREYS = LIFE ON A HOMESTEAD: or, 160 Acres and a Passel of Kids, by William Humphreys, 1983. IDCOCEN70= IDAHO COUNTY CENSUS OF 1870 - (Microfilm 0545684, SLC Family History Library) IG90,00,10 = IDAHO GAZETTEER of 1890,or 1900,or 1910, by R. L. Polk LVIM="Long Valley in the Making", article in THE CASCADE NEWS, Feb-Mar, 1922 LVCR = Long Valley Club Reunions For the two reunions held in 1933 and 1934, self-reports by members were given for the year in which they entered Idaho and for the year they first settled in Long Valley. The latter data (year into Long Valley) is used in this listing. The listings for 1973, 1974 asked only when they "First came to Idaho". This year has been used in this listing as being indicative of their Long Valley entry, which may not be accurate in a number of instances. Other reunion years did not ask for entry information. Example: LVCR32 = Long Valley Club Reunion List of 1932 MCCALLCEM = McCall Cemetery MDDLFRK = MIDDLE FORK HISTORY, by Joe Midmore, Harrah's Club, Inc., 1970, (with page number). Middle Fork of Salmon River pioneers MIDFRKSW = THE MIDDLE FORK AND THE SHEEPEATER WAR by Johnny Carrey & Cort Conley, 1980. Includes Middle Fork of Salmon River Pioneers (with page number) MTS = "Moccasin Tracks of the Sheepeaters" in SHEEPEATER INDIAN CAMPAIGN. By John Carrey. Grangeville, Idaho: Idaho County Free Press, 1968. Includes early settlers of South Fork Salmon River and Middle Fork Salmon River areas. NFAIU = National Farmers Alliance and Industrial Union (Roseberry) - Account Book: Applications for Membership Account (Idaho State History Library) OUAT = ONCE UPON A TIME, CASCADE WAS BORN by Gratia Bacon Matthews, 1988 (with page number) PMI = POST MARKED IDAHO SISK = Lizzie Sisk, "Long Valley History" (8 typewritten pages), 1922. Idaho State Historical Library SPINKCEM = Spink Cemetery (Donnelly area) VCCEN20 = VALLEY COUNTY, FEDERAL POPULATION CENSUS OF 1920. SLC FHL Microfilm 1820294. (See, VALLEY COUNTY, IDAHO: SURNAME INDEX AND SELECTED INFORMATION FROM THE 1920 FEDERAL POPULATION CENSUS. (Compiled by Wesley W. Craig and Bea Snyder. Cascade, Idaho, 1996.) VCGS & VCMR = Marriage Records of Valley County extracted by the Valley County Genealogical Society from the County Courthouse Records VCIMR = VALLEY COUNTY INDEX TO MISC. RECORDS, VOL. 1. These records kept by the County Clerk from 1917 - 1973. Earlier records from 1881 to 1916 are also included in this series and must have been secured from the Idaho or Boise County clerks after Valley County was organized. Not all references to a particular individual are included in this listing. Typically the first one encountered in the records was included. There may be a number of duplications due to names spelled differently in different transactions. This information was obtained from a microfilm copy located in the Salt Lake Family History Library. (FHL Microfilm 1502885). WEISER = THE WEISER INDIANS: Shoshoni Peacemakers, by Hank Corless, 1990. (with page number) WILD. = "Wilderness of the Heart: An early history of the land and the people of the Frank Church - River of No Return Wilderness" by Sheilla D. Reddy. Payette National Forest, January, 1995. (with page number). YELLPINECEM = Yellow Pine Cemetery USGenWeb Project 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, nor for commercial presentation by any other organization. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for purposes other than as stated above, must obtain express written permission from the author, or the submitter and from the listed USGenWeb Project archivist. For alphabetical groupings of the Index, please return to the Valley County Table of Contents.