Byron DeKalb Davis and family came from Colorado, via Washington, to Council about 1887.
They lived first on Cottonwood and later on Hornet Creek.[1]

1 Matilda Moser, notes, unpublished.

[There is a whole book on this Davis family: "Listen the Pine Trees are Singing" by Cary Davis
George.]

Charles Thomas Doughty was born in western Jackson County, Ohio, February 2, 1882. In his youth he migrated to Oklahoma, and then to Council when he was about twenty years old. He worked first on the East Fork ditch and then for Mr. Peck on Hornet Creek for a year and a half.[1]

He attended Boise Business College and then worked in J. F. Lowe's general merchandise store for three and one half years. Then he became a partner of George Winkler, Sr., and Sam Criss in Council Hardware. Before long the other partners sold their interest to M. C. Fuller, who later retired, leaving Tom the sole owner.[2]

November 7, 1906, Tom married Katie Hart of Council. To them were born six children, four of whom grew to maturity. They were Ralph A., Helen, Norman, and Louise.[3] The other two died as infants in a very tragic manner. Lola Allison and Raymond Eugene, one a baby and the other only two years old, were burned to death in a home fire August 7, 1909. Their tiny bodies were recovered from the ashes next day and were buried in one casket.[4]

Tragedy continued for this family. While on a fishing trip to Granite Lake with friends, Tom was drowned July 17, 1932.

Katherine ("Katie") Amelia Hart was born October 1, 1888, at Lincoln, Nebraska, and moved to Council as a child with her family. She attended Council schools. In 1934, after her husband's death, she moved to Nampa, where she remained until her death March 12, 1963.[5]

1 Obituary of Charles Thomas Doughty, Adams County Leader, July 22, 1932.
2 Ibid.
3 Ibid.
4 Council Leader, August 13, 1909.
5 Obituary of Katherine Amelia Doughty, Adams County Leader, March 15, 1963.

John W. Draper was born in Indiana October 17, 1842. He came to Idaho as a young man and settled in Middle Valley. He was married in 1883 at Council to Mary Elizabeth Harrington, daughter of William Riel Harrington and his wife Martha (Lovelace). Mary was born in Wyandotte County, Kansas, November 4, 1862, and came to Idaho with her father and brothers in 1882.[1]

Mr. and Mrs. Draper had six children. Emma died at age three and Jessie as an infant. James, Nute, Minnie, and Lydia grew to be adults.

John Draper died September 25, 1914, and Mary in 1942.

1 Obituary of Mary Elizabeth Harrington Draper, Adams County Leader, April 3, 1942.

The Duree family were French Huguenots who came to America before the Revolutionary War.
Before long they migrated into Kentucky and from there to Indiana.[1]

Isaac Jackson Duree, son of Peter W. and Rebecca Duree, was born in Indiana November 18, 1827. His father was a Methodist minister. By 1850 the family was living in Mercer County, Missouri.[2] I. J. Duree (known as "Jackie") married Rachel--, born August 2, 1831, in Indiana. They had five sons and five daughters. Rachel died in Princeton, Missouri, May 2. 1876. Jackie then married Nancy Lenore Norman, a widow with a son, Mel Norman.[3]

Nancy was born July 2, 1842, in Indiana. She moved to Missouri with her parents when she was nine years old. She married Jackie Duree in Mercer County in 1877.

Jackie Duree brought his family to Idaho by train. They came in an emigrant car in which the family rode with all their possessions. They were let off the train at the Weiser River bridge. They went to the Midvale area, settling first in Lower Valley, then to the upper end of Middle Valley. They were there about six years before moving to Council Valley in 1888.[4]

They settled in the Cottonwood area. Their homestead was on the east side of the road into Council, on Lester Creek.[5] Their grandson, John Gould, remembers when the telephone came to Council in 1906. He watched as the wires were strung and ran to tell his grandmother about them because they were shiny and exciting.

Nim Duree made a trip to Boise once a year, hauling hogs to market and, on the return trip, bringing
groceries and supplies.[6]

Later, Durees lived up Cottonwood Canyon.

The Duree children who came to Council were (by first wife):

Dave Duree--married (1) Ida Moser (2) Ella Shaw Nimon--did not marry
Ellen--married Frank Potter Viola--married George Gould Mel Norman--step-son--ran the dray line and the stage line from Council to Cuprum and other towns in that area.

(By second wife):
Ida Duree--married Edgar Moser
Charlie--born June 10, 1881, died December 26, 1892

Jackie Duree died while on a visit to a son in Hanston, Kansas, November 10, 1903. His widow, Nancy Lenore, married Henry Shaw in 1907. She died May 17, 1911, and is buried in the Cottonwood Cemetery.[7]

1 John Gould, Council, Idaho, oral interview, 1971.
2 1850 census of Mercer County, Missouri.
3 John Gould, interview.
4 Ibid.
5 Homestead records, state office, Bureau of Land Management, Boise.
6 John Gould, interview.
7 Ibid.

ECKLES, BILLIE
Billy Eckles: Harris, p 23: Eckles was elected sheriff in 1892
and has since lived in the Salubria Valley,... and was in the
mercantile business at Cambridge."  Forest p 24

1900 census:  John Eckles  Apr 1840, Ohio   age 60    single
miner Camp p 10 "John Eckles and Arthur Ritchie settled here
[on Big Bar] in the early 1890's and started growing fruit and
vegetables to sell to the mining communities high in the
mountains."  "John Eckles won top prizes in the Trans-
Mississippi Fair at Omaha, Nebraska, in 1898 for his fruit.
These hardy farmers would harvest their produce, pack it on
mules and ride into the Seven Devils Mountains to sell their
wares to hungry miners." CL July 4, 1912: John Eckles died
while doing his morning chores, had a coughing spell just
outside his cabin.  His sister and her husband came out to find
him coughing up blood.  They carried him into the cabin, but he
had died by the time they got him to his bed.  Lived on his Snake
River ranch for 25 years [since 1887] and lived in this part of
Idaho for about 30 years [1882].  He was 72 years old, never
married.  Funeral service held in his home.

EVANS

    John W. Frasier Called   By   Death John Walker "Pete" Frasier, 78 of Weiser, who served as an Adams county commissioner for dozen years, died  Tuesday morning at a Weiser hospital after an illness of two weeks. Services will be held this (Friday) afternoon at 2:30 p.m. at the Cambridge Baptist church, with the Rev. Dale Wakem officiating.   Internment will follow at Cambridige,  under the direction of the Northam-Jones  chapel of Weiser. Mr. Frasier was born  Dec. 3, 1881, in Nevada, 'Mo., and married in, Missouri to  Willette Carter Nov. 2, 1902,  The couple moved to Coffeyville, Kan.., where  heloperated: a livery stable with his brother, A. B. Frasier.
    From 1907 to 1910  the family lived in Montana, and  then   at Ontario and in the  Boise valley where he farmed.  In 1910 they moved' to a ranch in. Indian Valley, where Mrs. Frasier died June 16, 1939. On June 24, 1940, he married Lena Schillig and the  couple moved to Vale where Mr. Frasier spent the next five years associated: in the operation of the Vale Livestock Commission company, work that he continued for. the Weiser Livestock Commission company from 1950 to 1957.
    Mr. Frasier was a  Production Credit association director and a member of the IOOF at  Indian Valley, the Elks at Weiser,  the Modern Woodmen and the Council Valley Grange. Surviving are his wife, Lena, at Weiser; two sons, John Frasier, Council, and Hal F. Frasier, In-Indian Valley;  one daughter, Mrs. Walter Grossen  Camibridge; a stepson George Schillig, Dallas, Texas; a brother, George Frasier; Nevada, Mo.; a sister, Mrs. Mary Walton,  Parsons,  Kan,  and nine grandchildren  Three sons and a daughter preceded their father in death.

William M. Fifer was born in Missouri September 19, 1873. His family moved to Montana when he was very young. He went to Weiser, where he was a jeweler's apprentice in 1900.

He married Mabel --; and in 1904 they moved to Council, where Mr. Fifer had the town's first jewelry store. Within a few years the family moved to Parma, Idaho, and in 1936 to Redmond, Oregon.

There were two sons, Harold and Ivan.

Mr. Fifer died July 3, 1962.[1]

1 Obituary of William M. Fifer, Adams County Leader, July 5, 1962.

Albertus L. Freehafer, born February 12, 1868, in Richland County, Ohio, was the son of Andrew and Martha Kinton Freehafer. He married Olive Robinson in Ohio August 18, 1897. She was the daughter of Samuel and Anna Robinson.[1]

Albertus was a gifted child and went to school at an early age. He graduated from high school in Belleville, Ohio, and in 1893 he received his degree from Ohio Northern University. He taught school for three years, then entered a law office where he remained for three and one half years before moving to Utah. There he went back to teaching school and became principal of Scofield, Utah, high school. In 1902 the family came to Council to teach school. They taught in the schoolhouse on the hill, Mr. Freehafer teaching the upper grades, Mrs. Freehafer the middle grades, and Maude Peters taught the lower grades. Mr. Freehafer was Council 's first school principal. He served for three years.[2]

Mr. Freehafer took the bar examination before the Supreme Court and was admitted to practice law. In this field he spent the rest of his life.

A. L. Freehafer was in the insurance and real estate business with Joseph A. Carr, was a director of the First Bank of Council, and handled the legal matters for the merger of the Council State Bank and the First Bank of Council. He was elected in 1906 to the state legislature as county representative. He was elected state senator in 1908 and again in 1910. He was chairman of the board of trustees of Council and was appointed city attorney in 1911.[3]

Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Freehafer had only two children: Marie, born in May, 1898, and a baby who died in 1912. Marie married William McC1ure and they are the parents of Jim McClure, Idaho's United States Senator.[4]

Some time after Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Freehafer came to Council his parents came. They soon returned to Ohio but Mr. Freehafer came back to Idaho later and died there in 1915 at age seventy-five.[5]

William E. Freehafer, brother of Albertus, was born in Ohio January 18, 1875, and first came to Idaho to visit his brother. His wife was Lillie Uselding, whom he married in Grafton, Wisconsin, November 28, 1906. They came to Council that same year and remained the rest of their lives.  At one time he operated a confectionery store and for many years was active in mining and real  estate.

They had one son, William E., Jr., and one daughter, Emily.[6]

1 French, History of Idaho, v. 2, p. 810.
2 Ibid.
3 Ibid.
4 Marie McClure, Payette, Idaho, oral interview, 1973.
5 Ibid.
6 Obituary of William E. Freehafer, Adams County Leader, August 5, 1960.