Albert Lewis Hagar was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, August 9, 1878, son of Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Hagar. He left home at age seventeen, spending fifteen years in the Dakotas, Montana, Wyoming, and California. He came to Council in August 1910, and on August 28, 1918 he married Sadie May Bell. They had three children, Theodore Albert, Lily May, and Robert.

Mr. Hagar operated Council Creamery for many years. He drowned in the Weiser River December 7, 1945, while duck hunting. He is buried in the I.O.O.F. Cemetery.[1]

1. Obituary of Albert Lewis Hagar, Adams County Leader, December 9, 1945.
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HAINES

In 1882 William R. Haines and family were living in Haines Oregon, where their children--Henry, Lemuel, Sadie, and Eddie--were born.[1]

The family moved to Long Valley in 1887 and remained there until the summer of 1890,[2] when they moved to Crooked River. Nine years later they went to Weiser, then to Payette, and finally back to Council, where they settled on the I. J. Duree farm on Lester Creek. In a few years they were restless again and moved to Crooked River.

Eddie Haines, born February 23, 1882, married a widow with one daughter. He died November 24, 1936. He is buried in Cottonwood Cemetery. So are his father, William R. (1858-1945), his step-mother, and his wife.

1. Obituary of Eddie Haines, Adams County Leader , November 26, 1936.
   2. bid.
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HALLETT

Arthur Guy Hallett was born June 28, 1881, in Provo, Utah, son of Thatcher and Ermina Hallett. At age nineteen he left Provo, going to Lander, Wyoming, where he married Mary E. Casto August 2, 1902.

In August 1917 they sold out in Wyoming, took camping equipment and covered wagon, and moved west in true pioneer spirit. They spent two months and enjoyed Yellowstone Park and other areas along the way. They arrived in Council in late October and bought the land which originally was owned by Zadoc Loveless and son William, north of town on Weiser River. They were immediately busy establishing a farm and getting the children in school. There were no improvements on the farm so they lived in tents until Mr. Hallett built a house, which was completed just before Christmas.[1]

Their farm was on the area occupied by Council Fort in 1878, during the Indian unrest. Mr. Hallett plowed up pieces of the fort and removed some of the chimney stones. He also turned up pieces of chain which had been used in the first sawmill in the area.[2]

Mr. and Mrs. Hallett had six children

Mr. Hallett died in 1938 and is buried in the I.O.O.F. Cemetery. His wife is living in Council.

1. Obituary of Arthur Guy Hallett, Adams County Leader, May 13, 1938
2. Mary E. Hallett, Council, Idaho, oral interview, 1972
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HAM

Charles L. Ham was born in Sullivan, Moultrie County, Illinois, March 10, 1868, and died August 27, 1936.

When he was thirteen his family moved to Texas and stayed there five years. Next, he went to Walla Walla, Washington, and was married there December 25, 1889, to Eunice Bell Barnette.

They moved to Council in 1906 and lived on West Fork for thirteen years before moving into town. Charles Ham was sheriff, 1917-18.[1] He went into business, operating a Conoco service station south of the town square in the back of Ike Whiteley's building. When Conoco closed him out there he leased lots from the Odd Fellows Lodge and built a Texaco station on Main Street and operated it until his death.[2]

Seven sons and one daughter were born to Eunice and Charles Ham.

Eunice Bell Barnette Ham was born March 12, 1871, at Wallula, Washington, and died in October
1962.

1. Obituary of Charles L. Ham, Adams County Leader, September 4, 1936
2. Francis Ham, Boise, Idaho, oral interview, 1975
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HANCOCK

George W. Hancock, born 1833, married and lived in Missouri, where sons Gene and John were born.

George served in the Confederate Army from Missouri.[1] After the war he and his family moved to Sherman, Texas, and in 1881 they moved to Indian Valley, Idaho, traveling by horse-drawn wagons. On the last part of their journey they were accompanied by the Ross brothers, Jack and James. Hancock's home in Indian Valley was near Alpine store.[2]

George Hancock died in 1917. He and his wife are buried in Kesler Cemetery.

Gene Hancock was born in Green County, Missouri, September 22, 1857. He was six years old when his family moved to Sherman, Texas. In early days he practically owned the east side of Council and Mr. Moser owned the west. Here he conducted a store, hotel, and livery. Later he sold his business to Mr. Bolen and moved to a ranch in Council Valley, but his love of horses was overpowering and he reestablished himself in livery and dray business-at one time owning forty horses.[3]

John Hancock married Josephine Underwood in 1892. The ceremony was performed by Davy Richardson, J. P., who was one of Council's first school teachers. Josephine's parents were Thomas and Liddy Underwood. Her mother died when she was very small and she was raised by Mrs. Starr on the Starr ranch.[4]

John and Josephine Hancock traded for the Overland Hotel in Council in 1892[5] and moved there the same year. Before long he also owned a feed yard for freighters, a store, and a saloon in Council. Later he was the game warden for eighteen years. Their sons were born in Council--Fred, born August, 1893, died July, 1920, and Blake, born 1895.

John and Josephine separated in 1909 and he married Lulu Prince in December, 1912. She was born in Princeton, Kentucky, March 6, 1865 and died April 25, 1956. John died January 30, 1940.
Both are buried in Kesler Cemetery.

1. Burial records in Adjutant General’s office, Boise, Idaho.
2. Obituary of John Hancock, Adams County Leader, January 12, 1940.
3. Ibid.
4. Blake Hancock, New Meadows, Idaho, letter interview, 1974.
5. Ibid.
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HANSEN, NEILS

Neils Hansen, born in Denmark March 4, 1852, died February 3, 1931. He was a mechanic and engineer by trade and a musician by choice. He followed the sea for years.

Matilda Jubenlats was born December 23. 1851, at Harstead, Sweden. She came to the United States, landing December 3, 1873, and went to Ludington, Michigan where she married Neils Hansen December 10. They came to Idaho in 1903[1] and lived on Pole Creek. They farmed and, at one time, had a sawmill there.[2] They were known as "Pole Creek Hansens."

They moved to Council about 1930.
They had no children.
Both are buried in the I.O.O.F. Cemetery.

1. Obituary of Neils Hansen, Adams County Leader, February 6, 1931.
2. Obituary of Matilda Hansen, Adams County Leader, March 21, 1941.
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HANSEN, RASMUS

Rasmus Hansen was born in Denmark and married Anna Maria there in 1879. They came to the United States in 1881 and settled at Logan Utah. Two years later they came to Council and famed on Hornet Creek.[1]

Their children were: William, Nels, Soren, Anna, Mrs. Christian Ross, and Mrs. Ellis Hartley.

Rasmus died in 1920. After his death Anna Marie moved to the Fruitland bench and died there at the home of her son-in-law, Ellis Hartley. She was born November 21, 1855; died December 23, 1940. Both are buried in the I.O.O.F. Cemetery.

Soren Hansen married Dora D. Lakey, daughter of Sarah Lakey, born Grant County, Oregon. He was born June 4, 1881, in Denmark. He had both legs terribly crushed while working in Council Meat Market, about 1930.[2] He died at the John Kesler home November 3, 1932. Dora Hansen died March 31, 1925. Both are buried in the I.O.O.F. Cemetery.

1. Obituary of Anna Marie Hansen, Adams County Leader, December 27, 1940.
2. Obituary of Soren Hansen, Adams County Leader, November 11, 1932.
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HARP

James Harp, born April 28, 1828, in Tennessee, was the son of John and Lucy Harp. He married Sarah Clark in 1846 in Washington County, Arkansas. She was born in Tennessee in 1832 and was barely fourteen when they were married.[1]

Their children included Viny, William, Louis, Hardy, Martha, Sam, and Elizabeth.[2]

Late in January 1878 James's children started westward with their families, traveling with oxen and covered wagons. Those in the group were Hardy Harp, his wife, and two small sons; William, his wife, and two sons; Samuel, who was single; Martha and her husband, George Robertson; and sixteen-year-old Elizabeth Harp. There were several other families in the wagon train, including George A. Winkler, Alex Kesler and his brother Andy, and James Copeland.

When the train reached Barry County, Missouri, George M. Winkler and Elizabeth Harp ran away and got married.

Boise Valley appealed to the Harps and they stopped there for several years, settling south of Eagle near the river. George and Martha Robertson remained, too. In very early 1881 they moved on to Council.

Hardy Harp stayed in Indian Valley for a short time. He had married Rena Burke in Arkansas when she was barely fourteen. One daughter died before they started west. Other children were Grant, William, Edgar, Jesse, Dora, Nora, Dewey, and Jake. The family moved back to Boise from Council and lived for several years on a farm below Star or Eagle. On July 13, 1901, they moved back to Council, where Hardy took an eighty-acre homestead four miles north of town. They later moved to Cascade.

Louis Harp, born October 10, 1852, at Eureka Springs, Arkansas, was married to Emily Biggerstaff in 1879. She was a sister of Tolbert Biggerstaff. Louis operated a farm at Council until Emily's death in 1935. He went to Payette to live with his son, Sam. There were six other sons: James Robert, William, Jasper, Elmer, and Wesley, and one daughter, Bertie Harp.[3]

Louis Harp died March 11, 1942, and is buried in Winkler Cemetery beside his wife and parents.[4]

William Harp was born in Madison County, Arkansas, June 16, 1849. He married Jane Hall in 1870. They homesteaded the present Frank Galey place. They settled at Fruitvale and so did George and Martha Robertson. William died May 31, 1928.[5]

Viny Harp did not come to Idaho. James Harp served in the Union Army during the Civil War. He enlisted June 24, 1862, in Company E, First Regiment Arkansas Volunteer Cavalry and was discharged in 1865 at the end of the war.[6]

After their children came to Idaho James and Sarah were lonely and wanted to join them. They came most of the way by stage because James was ill. They arrived in Council in 1881 and settled three-quarters of a mile northeast of town. James did not live long after they came to Idaho. He died November 24, 1881.[7]

Sarah kept the farm for some years. In her later years she lived with her son Sam. She was a tiny Irish lady, with a typical Irish temper, and when she got upset with Sam she would tie some of her possessions in a big kerchief and go to Hardy's for a week or so until her temper cooled. Then she went back to Sam's home.

When Sam and his family moved to Walla Walla she went with them and remained until her death March 14, 1914. Her body was brought to Council for burial beside James in the Winkler Cemetery.[8]

1. James Harp’s Civil War records, G.S.A., Washington, D.C.
2. Luella Allen, Boise, Idaho, 1974, oral interview.
3. Ibid.
4. Winkler Cemetery records in Genealogical Library, Boise, Idaho.
5. Ibid.
6. James Harp’s Civil War records.
7. Mrs. Luella Allen.
8. Ibid.

Children of James and Sarah Harp:
     Viny
     William, b. June 16, 1849 / d. May 31, 1928--married Jane Hall, 1870
     Louis, b. Oct. 10, 1852 / d. Mar11, 1942 --married Emily Biggerstaff, 1879
     Hardy,  -- married Rena Burke
     Martha, b. Jan 12, 1860 / d. Aug 10, 1923--married George Robertson
     Samuel, b. Oct 1858   --married Jennie Kesler in 1881
     Elizabeth, b. Jan 9, 1862 / d. Sept 20, 1954 --married George Winkler, 1879
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HARRINGTON

Very shortly after 1880 Reil* Harrington and son Robert settled on Hornet Creek. Reil was called "Black Tail" because of the many deer of that species that he was able to shoot.[1]
 [*The spelling on his tombstone is "Ryal."]

William Reil (Rayle) was born January 31, 1835, and died in 1922.2 His wife, Martha Lovelace, died in Kansas in 1871 when their son Robert was three years old.[3]

Reil soon moved to Leadville, Colorado, taking his two sons and one daughter with him. In 1881* the family moved to Indian Valley, Idaho. There were only a few families and a fort there. In a short time the family moved to Council and the children attended school. Their teacher was Robert White.[4]
 [This date is wrong. The family was at Indian Valley in 1877, and shortly thereafter came to Hornet Creek. See obituary at end of this section.]

Robert Zadock Harrington, son of William and Martha, was born February 14, 1868, in Wyandotte County, Kansas. He married Lily Montgomery in Indian Valley. They settled on Hornet Creek where fifteen of their sixteen children were born.[5]
 Robert Harrington died in August, 1943. He is buried in Hornet Creek Cemetery, as are many of his family.

The Harringtons came to Idaho by a horse-drawn wagon. They were among the earliest settlers on Hornet Creek.[6]

Robert earned money by hauling supplies into Landore with four-horse teams.[7]

Lewis Clark Harrington, son of Reil and Martha, was born August 4, 1861. He came west with his father, brother, and sister. They spent the first winter at Fort Boise, going on to Indian Valley and Council the next year.[8]

He married Sarah E. Halford at Payette. They lived at Council until her death in 1900. He then moved to Kooskia, where he died November 4, 1961, at one hundred years of age. He is buried in Hornet Creek Cemetery.[9]

Lilly Montgomery was born at Jamison, Oregon, August 11, 1872, daughter of John and Martha Montgomery. Her parents moved to Boise when she was one year old. When she was fourteen she was ill and her parents thought it wise to move her to a higher elevation. They chose a farm on Hornet Creek. On June 29, 1890, she married Robert Harrington in Indian Valley.

Her obituary tells about her life in Council Valley:

She attended Upper Dale school, going on skis in winter. Her first textbook was the Almanac until her parents brought books from the old home in Boise. Her parents also brought the first fruit cans into the district and Jars that were round on the bottom and sealed with pitch. Most fruit to be canned was wild. Her mother's birthday usually marked the date for family vacation when supplies were packed and the family went to the mountains to camp out and pick huckleberries. Of eight hundred quarts of canned fruit needed for the large family two hundred quarts were huckleberries, the others were choke cherries and sarvis berries.

In the first few years of married life Mr. Harrington worked for other farmers and received his pay in produce which supplied part of their livelihood and their only money income was from herding horses on the range for other people. Their own team was Mr. Harrington's own saddle horses, broke to work. Grain received for labor was taken to Cuddy's mill, near where Cambridge is now, and ground into flour or corn meal. These trips were usually made in caravan, several neighbors going at the same time.

The children were taught early to share in household tasks.

Mrs. Harrington did her own sewing, buying cloth by the bolt, and after the garments were made the scraps were pieced into quilts.

Social life was enjoyed, in spite of the hardships and sometimes the refreshments served were turnips.

When the youngest child was fourteen, they sold the homestead and, after moving three times in one year, purchased the old Stutzman place on Hornet Creek where they lived until Mr. Harrington's death in 1943. Since then Lilly has lived with her children. She died February 17, 1957.[10]

Clark Harrington, brother of Reil, born December 13, 1832, was also an early Hornet Creek settler. His wife, Mary A., was born May 13, 1846, and died November 3, 1887. They are buried in Hornet Creek Cemetery.[11]

Clark and Reil Harrington were Civil War veterans. They fought for the Union.

1 William Winkler, Early Days of Adams County (Weiser: Signal American, 1923) 2 Hornet Creek Cemetery records, Idaho Genealogical Library, Boise.
3 Obituary of Robert Zadock Harrington, Adams County Leader, August 6,1943.
4 Ibid.
5. Ibid.
6. Johnny Harrington, Council, Idaho, letter interview, 1974.
7 Ibid.
8 Obituary of Lewis Clark Harrington, Adams County Leader, November 17, 1961.
9 Military records of Lewis Clark Harrington, General Services Administration, Washington, D.C.
10 Obituary of Lillie Harrington, Adams County Leader, February 22, 1957.
11 Hornet Creek Cemetery records.
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Obituary of William Ryal Harrington, Adams County Leader, June 2, 1922:
Timer in Council Valley Brought Home for Burial--
William R.Herrington, a man .whom everyone in Council, at least among the older generation, knew and called by his first name, died at Kooskia: Idaho, on May 24, 1922, and the body was shipped to his old homebere, where it arrived last Saturday and was buried in the local cemetery, the same day. Deceased was born January 31, 1836,  in  Iowa.  From  there  he moved to Kansas just before the beginning of the Civil war. He enlisted in the service and served with a Kansas regiment.  From Kansas, Herrigton moved to Colorado, where he lived about five years, coming to Idaho in 1876 settling in Salubria valley.  Three years later he came to Council Valley.  In 1861 Mr. Herrington was married to Miss Lucy* Loveless, who died nearly 50 years ago in Kansas.  To them  were born six children, three of whom survive, as follows:  Lewis C. Herrington of Kooskia, Idaho; Mrs. Mary Draper Tamarack, and Robert, of Council.
  [* Should read "Martha"]
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From file in Adams County Courthouse (instrument no. 26351, filed May 15, 1941), in Lillie Harrington's handwriting:

 Robert Harrington and Lillie Montgomery were married June 29th 1890 at Indian Valley Idaho by John Wilkerson, J.P.
 Robert Harrington was born in Wyandotte, Kan. on Feb 14th 1868.
 Lillie Montgomery was born on Willow Creek near Vale, Malhuer Co. Ore. on Aug 11, 1872.
 Elsie Harrington was born Nov 18th 1891.
 Bessie was born mar 5th 1893
 Winnie was born Oct 12th 1894
 Robert Vernon was born Apr 9th 1896
 Harold Ray was born May 26th 1897
 Martha Ellen was born Feb 20th 1899
 Glen Alfred was born Oct 21st 1900
 Harvey Louis was born Sept 7th 190_
 Kenneth Alva was born Apr 3rd 1904
 Dollie Inez was born Nov 24th 1905
 Erma Lillie was born Oct 3rd 1907
 Minnie Louise was born June 11th 1909
 Perry Lyal was born Apr 5th 1911
 Clyde Alton was born June 23rd 1913
 Mary Lucile was born Oct 29th 1915
 Johnie Harley was born Nov 30th 1917

Now this is correct by their mother. All were born on Hornet Creek near Council, Adams Co. Ida.

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HASTINGS, JACK              
Jack Hastings- another old timer that came into the Rapid River
area about 1900.*Tape of Ace Barton by Camp

HEATHCO

George Heathco came to Council about 1912 with his sister Minnie Thompson. They travelled by covered wagon from Oklahoma. George returned to Oklahoma.[1] [Correction/ addition by Patsy Phipps Bethel: George was just helping her move west.]

Mrs. Minnie Thompson was a widow. Her husband, Andrew Thompson, died in Oklahoma. After his death she homesteaded on the site of the present city of Tulsa. She married [Samuel Thompson] the brother of her late husband but they were divorced.[2]  In Council she married George Phipps June 29, 1902.

The Heathco family came to Council by train, arriving June 29, 1914. They got off the train at the Vista switch and went to the home of Mr. and Mrs. George Phipps, who lived on Cottonwood. They stayed with Phipps until the following June. Those who came were Solomon and his wife, Elizabeth C., their son George, and his wife, Bertha.[3]

Solomon S. Heathco was born in [Davidson County] North Carolina, September 17, 1840. He served as a Confederate soldier during the Civil War [4] and was wounded. A rifle ball lodged in his body where it remained all his life. He told children that if they listened carefully they could hear it roll. The youngsters strained their ears trying to hear it.

Mr. Heathco was one quarter Cherokee Indian. His maternal grandfather, was a full-blood Cherokee. [Correction/ addition by Patsy Phipps Bethel:  Solomon's father had Catawba blood (from his father , Nicholas's, side--not his mother's side), and his Mother was full blooded Cherokee. So  Solomon was 1/4 Cherokee and about 1/8 Catawba. ]

Solomon Heathco married Elizabeth C. Murphy, who was born October 10, 1845. She died March 27, 1916. He married again, in Council--a marriage which did not last. His third marriage was to Mrs. Elizabeth L. Simmons, a widow eighty years old. He was eighty-four. He died August 1, 1927. He and his first two wives are buried in Cottonwood Cemetery.

George Heathco was born March 27, 1880, near Alville, Johnson County, Missouri. He was one of nine children. He married Bertha Wheeler in Greer County, Oklahoma, September 18, 1912. She was born in Bledsoe County, Tennessee, to James and Margaret Davenport Wheeler.* Her brother, Jim Wheeler, had married and moved to Council before the Heathcos came. He was school custodian for many years.
 [*[Correction/ addition by Patsy Phipps Bethel: Bertha Heathco's parents were James and Sarah Craig Wheeler.]

George and Bertha Heathco settled near the upper end of Cottonwood Canyon on a farm which his sister, Minnie Phipps, gave them. Rob Thompson lived farther up the canyon. His house is gone now and the Heathco house is the last one up the canyon. It is a two-story house which was built by Rob Thompson. Their first house was a little one on a small hill across the creek from the present house. It was beside the orchard, which is still growing. Their cellar was there for years after the present house was built In 1915 there was a flood in Cottonwood Canyon which missed the Heathcos' house only because it was on a hill. It drowned their chickens and pigs.[5]

There were thirteen Heathco children. Two died in infancy and one as a young child. The others were Earl, Margaret, Merle, Ida Mabel, Trudi, Dilah, Dorothy, Mayme, George, Eunice, and Phyllis.

George Heathco died in 1942 and is buried in Cottonwood Cemetery beside his parents and children.

[By Patsy Phipps Bethel: The Heathco's had changed their name from HAITHCOCK or HEATHCOCK I had a heck of a time finding them in NC, said something about the name change, as I couldn't imagine why they did it.  An acquaintance spoke up and said I do.  Her name was Trebblecock. I kinda figured it out, kids being what they are]

1.Patsey Bethel, Boise, Idaho, oral interview, 1975.
2.Ibid.
3. Bertha Heathco, Council, Idaho, oral interview, 1972.
4.Burial records in Idaho Adjutant General's Office, Boise, Idaho.
5.Bertha Heathco, oral interview.

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HIGGINS

John Higgins was born in Kentucky in 1812. By 1880 or earlier, he was living near Omaha, Nebraska,[l] where he had married Ruthie Ann Martin. She died near Heber Spring, Nebraska.' in 1876.

About 1882 John Higgins hitched his teams to wagons and headed west to Myrtle Creek, Oregon, with his two sons. There they remained for a year and then moved to Council, in 1884. One son remained in Oregon, but Palmer W. Higgins and his wife came to Council and settled with John on Cottonwood Creek. They were neighbors of Jacob Groseclose. This land remained in the Higgins family until the 1960s when Palmer's son, John, retired and sold the farm to Peebles.[2]

The post office of Rose, Idaho, was in John Higgins' home. It was named for Rose Groseclose,[3] who was born there.** This post office was a place to exchange news, a center of the community. People stopped, visited, sent or received their mail, heard the latest neighborhood news, and reported on their own families. On April 29, 1896, the name Council Valley was officially changed to Council and the post office at Rose was closed.
 [**Correction by Harold "Shep" Smith: "Laura Higgins of Cambridge in her 1973 interview may not have been quite accurate in saying that Rose was born on Cottonwood in 1885 as it is carved in stone at the Council Cemetery that she was born in 1867. About 18 years of age would have been more like it, the way my pencil figures."]

Palmer Higgins married Alice Willard. They had ten children, two dying in infancy. They had a baby girl who died and they buried her beneath a pine tree on their ranch. On November 14, 1894, they lost a four-year-old son, Thomas Jefferson Higgins. At that time they realized the need for a permanent cemetery. They chose the present site, on a hill behind their house. The land was deeded by the Higgins family to be used as a cemetery forever and to revert to the family if ever used otherwise. In 1896 "Trapper John" Anderson was buried there and others followed--John A. Higgins in 1898 and many more. There are now seventy known and some unknown graves.
Other children of Palmer and Alice Higgins were John, William J., Henry, Ben, Lee, Alice, and Ida Rose.

Palmer Higgins, born 1853, died October 1, 1940.

Alice M. Willard was born December 4, 1859 in Greensboro, Vermont. When she was three years old the family went to Iowa and later to Nebraska. She married Palmer N. Higgins in 1876. She died August 13, 1943. She and Palmer are buried in Cottonwood Cemetery beside their children.

1. Census of Douglas County, Nebraska, 1880.
2. Laura Higgins, Cambridge, Idaho, letter interview, 1973.
3. Ibid.

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HILDERBRAND

John Hilderbrand was born in Germany in 1850. He married Fredricka Welfert. They had two children, a son who died in infancy and a daughter Mary, born in Germany in 1872. They came to America three years later.[1]

They settled on a farm in Iowa, where John died in 1889.

Christian Hilderbrand came to America with his brother John. He did not stay in Iowa but ventured farther west, settling for a while in California. While there he heard of Boise Valley and drifted there with others in search of gold. Later, upon hearing of the riches in other places, he went to Eldorado, where luck failed to smile on him; so he came back to Idaho. He stayed for a while in Silver City and found in the War Eagle Mountain that fortune was more kind. He sold some properties which made quite a fortune for him. From there he went to the Seven Devils country. There he had mines which were rich in silver, gold, and copper. He was the owner of the Mayflower group. There was an area called the Hilderbrand District.

In 1896 Fredricka came to Idaho to visit Christian Hilderbrand, her late husband's brother. They were married at Salubria April 26, 1896, and gave their place of residence as Falls, County of Washington, Idaho.[2] They returned to Iowa until 1908, when they came to Council.[3] Christian was familiar with beautiful Council Valley and he bought the ranch on Hornet Creek which was later owned by his son-in-law, Gus Kampeter.

He also bought several businesses in Council, including the Overland Hotel,[4] where they lived for a while. After the disastrous fire of 1915 they bought property west of town, later owned by W. R. McClure, and built a home.

Mr. Hilderbrand died in 1915

Fredricka Welfert, born in Statton, Germany, October 10, 1849, was confirmed in the German Lutheran church at age fourteen. She married John Hilderbrand in October, 1871.

She said her family was very poor and food was scarce. Al vegetable peelings were used. They wasted nothing.

Fredricka's family lived on, or near, the mountain in which legend says King Frederick is buried. The legend says he comes out once every hundred years and sends out a messenger to see if the ravens are still flying. If so, he goes back for another one hundred years. When the ravens no longer fly he will return and save Germany by reuniting it.

About 1923 Mrs. Hilderbrand purchased the home in which she lived until her death.

She suffered greatly during the First World War because all of her relatives, except her immediate family, were in Germany, but she loved her adopted country and wanted to help. She set a goal for herself-.to knit one hundred pairs of socks for "the Boys".

Author's notes:

Mrs. Hilderbrand was affectionately known to all, in her later years, as "Grandma Hilderbrand." She wore a crisp white cap over her hair. She lived in a house with a white picket fence. I went out of my way going home from school so I could pass her house. We children liked to make a stick clickety-clack along the pickets. This annoyed "Grandma" and she'd come out and shout at us. I don't know why this was fun. We loved her. Apparently, she never told on us for if Mother had known what I was doing she would have used the stick for another purpose.

It was the custom to give birthday offerings in church--one penny for each year of age. I remember the minister calling Mrs. Hilderbrand's name on her birthday and asking how old she was. Her prompt reply was, "I'm eighty-four years young." That was her attitude toward life.[5]

Fredricka Hilderbrand died November 17, 1933. She and her husband are buried in the I.O.O.F. Cemetery.

1 Hilda Ham, Council, Idaho, letter interview, 1974.
2 Marriage records of Washington County, Idaho.
3 Hilda Ham, letter interview.
4 Adams County Leader, April 2 and April 9, 1915.
5 Marguerite Moore Diffendaffer, Boise, Idaho, 1973.

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HINKLE

Elijah Hinkle, born about 1833 in Pickens County, South Carolina, was the son of Elijah Hinkle who was a prosperous farmer there. His wife, Mary A--, was born in the same county about 1837.[1]
She was nineteen when they were married.

Elijah served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War.[2]

At least three children were born in South Carolina. They were Sarah E., Milos A., and Martha. The family moved to Boon County, Arkansas, where they spent ten years before moving on to Chautauqua County Kansas, for five years, and eventually arrived in Council about 1883.[3] By then there were three more children--Jake, Abraham, and Nancy E.
Nancy Hinkle married John Root, who was a school teacher.

Martha married William M. Glenn.

1. 1850 and 1860 census, Pickens County, South Carolina, and 1880 census, Chautauqua County, Kansas.
2. Burial records in Idaho Adjutant General’s office, Boise, Idaho.
3. Ernest McMahan, Boise, Idaho, 1973.

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HOUSTON

James B. Houston, born in 1834, was the son of Robert Houston. The family came west with ox teams over the Oregon Trail in the first of the famous wagon trains. They settled at Albany, Oregon, in 1848.[1]

 James Houston married Mary Ellen Kinzer, who was born in Des Moines, Iowa , January 8, 1849. She came to Oregon with her family over the OregonTrail.[2] They were married July 17, 1873. He was an Oregon Indian War veteran.

They famed extensively near Albany[3] and several years later moved to North Powder and Lakeview, Oregon. They came to Council with George Gould in 1888,[4] settling on Cottonwood Creek, on a homestead. There they spent the rest of their lives. Their children were William H., Van N., Benjamin, Tom, Ellen, Anna, and Emma.
James died in 1904 and Mary Ellen January 18, 1935. She was the last of the four older Houstons. They all rest side by side in Cottonwood Cemetery.

Thomas Houston, born in 1842, married Armilda Kinzer, sister of Mary Ellen. She was born September 14,1852, at the foot of Mt. Hood, on the old Barlow route, while the train laid over for a few days rest. On account of the place of her birth she was nicknamed "Hoodie," a name which stuck to her through the years.

She married Thomas B. Houston at Albany, Oregon, when she was twentytwo. They came to Council July 22, 1890,[5] and settled on Cottonwood near James and Mary Ellen.  Their children were Ben, Bill, Tom, Van, Ralph, and Mark. Tom was a sheepman who took pack trains of supplies to sheep camps.

Thomas died in 1901 and Amilda July 21, 1930, almost forty years to the day since they had arrived in Council Valley.

1. Obituary of “Hoodie” kinzer Houston, Adams County Leader, July 25, 1930.
2. Ibid.
3. 1850, 1860, 1870 censuses, Linn County, Oregon,
4. John Gould, Council, Idaho, 1972
5. Obituary of Armilda E. Einzer Houston, Adams County Leader, July 25, 1930.