Boundary County IDGenWeb Project

We have added a new page - Boundary County Postal History

This postal history web site was donated to IDGenWeb to archive for our users by the original compiler.

The 'Welcome' Page has been refreshed and we have started adding some new typograpy.

New this month: Cemeteries

New Moravia Cemetery Survey by The Boundary County Historical Society

Sue Kemmis of the Boundary County Historical Society completed a new survey of the Moravia Cemetery for a cemetery walk in 2019, and she has donated the final list of interments to our site.

The new list adds 138 names to the cemetery!

The list includes columns indicating whether an obituary was found and if a gravemarker is present.

Check out the new cemetery page here -  Moravia Cemetery

New this month: Cemeteries

New Parker Family Cemetery Survey by The Boundary County Historical Society

Sue Kemmis of the Boundary County Historical Society completed a new survey of the Parker Family Cemetery for a cemetery walk in 2021, and she has donated the final list of interments to our site.

The list includes columns indicating whether an obituary was found and if a gravemarker is present.

Check out the new cemetery page here -  Parker family Cemetery

And, The USGenWeb Project has a new logo, celebrating over 25 years of Free Genealogy!

New this month: Obituaries

We added a seven obituaries this month:

• Dirks, Ernest d. 1958

• Mastre, Alma Amoth 1901-1958

• Jantz, Lena Schmidt 1882-1965

• Friesen, Lydia J. Gunther 1921-2003

• Kliewer, Katherine Dalke 1889-1946

• Decker, Isaac B. 1898-1960

• Toews, Johann B. 1865-1967

New this month: Obituaries

Finally! We completed the new page of links to 2019 obituaries found on Boundary County news websites. There were problems with the websites changing formats last year, but the page is working!

The new list adds 192 names!

Check out the new obituary link page here - 2019 Obituaries

New this month: Cemeteries

We did some updating and additions:

School House and other Burials

Resources and Links

We did some updating on:

Surname Researchers & Queries page

Genealogy Links page

Resources and Links

We did some updating

We pretty much remade: Records available through LDS Family History Centers

• New work on FREE MICROFILMS ONLINE with links
• Reworded, Reorganized & added a couple items and links

Vital Records

Started Updating Vital Records pages to notify of online microfilms and add links:

Birth Records - birthfilms-1907-1908/

Birth Records - birthfilms-1911-1913/

Birth Records -  physician-records-of-births-boundary-county-idaho-1914-to-1915/

Birth Records -  physician-records-of-births-boundary-county-idaho-1916-to-1918/

Newspapers of Boundary County

We updated the Newspapers page with information and links for newspapers that are available online

New this month: Resources and Links

We have added a new page - Maps of Boundary County

This new page maps of Boundary County and its's communities through history.

This page is a work in progress, please give us feedback! How is it working?

New this month: Obituaries

We added a one obituary this month:

• John E. Mattmiller - January 29, 1942 - February 16, 2012

Also we added a new page of links to 2018 obituaries found on Boundary County news websites.

Check out the new page of 2018 obituary links - 2018 Obituaries

The new list adds 210 names!

New this month: Cemeteries

We added a new small pioneer burial ground this month:

Check out the new cemetery page here -  Old Northside Burial Grounds

New this month: Cemeteries

New Copeland Cemetery Survey by The Boundary County Historical Society

Sue Kemmis of the Boundary County Historical Society completed a new survey of the Copeland Cemetery for a cemetery walk in September 2018. They have donated the final list of interments to our site.

The list includes columns indicating whether an obituary was found, if a gravemarker is present and the plot location. There are links to obituaries that we have online and there links to some biographies too.

Check out the new cemetery page here -  Copeland Cemetery

New this month: Biographies

Added a special new Bio on Pioneers page, the information received from a family researcher

• Charles Edwin Laherty
  Pioneer Valley Cattle Rancher
   

Also a new Bio on 1903 History page

• FISHER, FRED C. of Porthill

New this month: Resources and Links

We have added a new page - Newspapers of Boundary County

This new page includes names and dates of the local newspapers that we know of, with some links.

We did some updating on the Local County Resources page

History of Communities

• Updated the History of Boundary Communities page, we added some communty and place names and maybe a link or two.

New this month: Cemeteries

We added a new small church burial ground this month:

• Woodland Mennonite Church Cemetery

New this month: Resources & Links

Someone contacted us and asked what they could do to help, so we got around to adding a volunteer page

• How to Contribute and Volunteer

New this month: Obituaries

We added two new obituary this month:

• Vogt, Louis 1860 - 1940

• Elizabeth Lingard Gregory - September 24, 1833 - June 04, 1919

New this month: Obituaries

We added one new obituary this month:

• Ida Lyon Patton August 15, 1882 - March 11, 1902

New this month: History of Communities

We added a little story about the old town of Crossport

• Ancient City of Crossport

New this month: Resources and Links

We added a few books to the Books About Boundary County, Idaho page. LINK

New this month: Obituaries

We added a few obituaries this month:

• Haney, Isaiah A 1849 - 1912
• Porter, Margaret Marie Gordon 1927 - 1996
• Myers, Lucille E. McArthur 1924 - 2011
• McClellan, John William 1850 - 1922
• Moore, Warren James 1907 - 1922
• Morris, Dan Edwin 1969 - 1969
• Morris, Mark Charles 1962 - 1980
• McBain, Sandy 1859 - 1891
• Thompson, J. B. 1837 - 1892
• Meyer, Jacob James 1994 - 2010
• Steen, Roger 1935 - 1995
• Ramey, May A Baird 1914 - 2013
• Sinclair, Daniel G 1834 - 1893
• Schauer, Bernard H. 1917 - 2011
• Morris, Cecil LaDue 1932 - 2002
• Wood, Demond 1895 - 1973

New this month: Obituaries

We added a few obituaries this month:

• Cranor, Roy Anderson 1892 - 1976

• Cranor, Orville 1915 - 1982

• Cranor, Dorothy Grace Adamson 1918 - 2007

• Hester, Edward Raymond 1947 - 2004

• Risley, James David 1928 - 2007

• Cook, Mary Lucinda Search Grigg 1881 - 1967

• Cook, George Ira 1908 - 1978

• McKenzie, Minnie Warren Winchester 1878 - 1919

New this month: Obituaries

We added a few obituaries this month:

• Lundin, Erick 1850 - 1915

• Tucker, Alice 1926 - 2005

• Thomas, Phebe 1871 - 1951

New this month: Additions to the Obituary Index

This month, we added some pages with lists of links to offsite obituaries - links to these obituary pages have been added at the top of the obituary index page LINK

• Added a page of links to offsite obituaries for 2011 LINK -- Adds 99 names!
• Added a page of links to offsite obituaries for 2013 LINK -- Adds 107 names!
• Added a page of links to offsite obituaries for 2014 LINK -- Adds 98 names!
• Added a page of links to offsite obituaries for 2015 LINK -- Adds 78 names!
• Added a page of links to offsite obituaries for 2016 LINK -- Adds 98 names!

New this month: Obituaries

We added a few obituaries this month:

• Parker, Cora M. Mickelson 1894 - 1979
• Ponsness, Lloyd Evertte 1912 - 1995
• Shelton, Benjamin R 1982 - 2001
• DePue, Jerold Steven (Jerry) 1942 - 2017

New this month: Cemeteries

We spent a good deal of time working on the McArthur cemetery, so far we added a map of the graveyard. The updated list of internments should be ready next month.

New this month: Biographies

We added a couple more biographies from the 1903 history book.

• JAMES H. GUTHRIE
• MARION GUTHRIE

New this month: Pioneers & Biographies

We have added a new section

We found a Pioneer Page that Ellie Grover had added to the site back in 2004, at some point it was lost.

We have restored it and made it into a new Biographies page: LINK

We also added to the Pioneers page -

An old page of Ellie's of pioneer graves - LINK

And started adding biographies of Boundary County residents from “An Illustrated History of Northern Idaho, Embracing Nez Perce, Idaho, Latah, Kootenai and Shoshone Counties, Western Historical Publishing Company, 1903 “ - LINK

The name of the new section is - "Pioneers and Early Residents of Boundary County, Idaho" - LINK

New this month: Obituaries

We found some more old obituaries from the now defunt news website "KVPress.com" and published them here:

8 more obituaries this month:

• Roddy Roy Torrence
• June Elaine Bennett Patelzick
• James William Coats
• Larry Duane Pennock II
• George W. Pinsonneault
• Enrique Rual Ruiz
• Vonnie A. Austin Smith
• Kelvin Paul Strong

We all so responded to a couple requests from family history researchers for some obituaries, so they have been added to the website.

• Ellen Ester Lerette Morgan Miller
• George H Miller
• John Dirks
• John Elmer (Big John) Morris
• John Francis Morris
• Lela Stich Morris
• Beulah May Stich Wood
• Flora Caroline Cardin Stich
• John Jacob Stich
• Joyce Ellen Johnson

Obituaries

We had bad obituary links on our cemetery pages that pointed to the now defunt news website "KVPress.com"

Finished adding new obituaries to fix those links this month:

• Peter E. Atkins
• Roger W. Benefiel
• Penelope 'Penny' B. Black
• Nina G. Chordas
• David Byron Daniel
• Mary David
• Ilah M. Doyle Davis
• Florence Evelyn Haynes
• Gladys Richardson
• Goldie Lindsey
• Peter Stanley Nagy
• Liliya B. Nestorova
• Joyce Lucille Schied
• Charlene Plumlee Smith
• Stella Emiglia Bernasconi Spencer
• Esther Leta Taft Stone
• Patricia Jane Tirk
• Don Gene Wilson
• Jefferson Byron (J.B.) Wages
• Mary Eileen Welch

This month we repaired the cemetery page links for Grandview Cemetery - Sa Surnames to Z and the "Unknown Grave Locations page".

While we were finding those old obituaries we found and added color pictures to obituaries that we already had on the site:

• Floyd Alman Flory
• William M. (Bill) Loughery
• Carole Peterson Merrifield
• Randall W. Day
• Honey Joy Huseby
• Robert L. Harvey
• Geneva Goldie (Swain) Nelson
• Mary Ann (Zondervan-Droz) Luedtke

Photo Page:

We added a couple of photos too.

• 1927 Birdseye View of Bonners Ferry
• Kootenay River Valley - Watercolor by James Madison Alden

History Article

We added an article to the community histories section about Eastport. LINK

Photos

Added a couple photos of Eastport with the new history article LINK

Photos

History Article

Obituaries

The new list adds 16 names!

The new list adds 51 names!

Resources Section:

• Idaho Online Genealogy Records
• Idaho Census
• Boundary County Wiki page at FamilySearch
• Linkpendium Links for Boundary County
• Online Military Indexes and Records
• Birth & Marriage Records Indexes
• Searchable Death Indexes

History Section

Boundary County history has been affected heavily by the railroad industry, once the gold fever died down and almost before the lumber boom got started, the railroads brought many of the early pioneers. This month we have added a railroad history heading to the history articles index - LINK

First railroad history article

1905 Train Wreck - Boy Tramp Saves Life LINK

Obituary Section

Added a page of offsite links for Bonners Ferry Herald obituaries for 2011 LINK

The new list adds 91 names!

Vital Records   

This month we restored the Vital records section that was lost in the folders over the years, which includes pages of extracted county registers and more, done by Ellie Grover, Oma Sanders and the team at the Bonners Ferry Family History Center back in the late 1990's and eary 2000's.

   This restored section includes 17 pages of extracted data from births, marriages, deaths, naturalizations and more. LINK

New Obituary Index

Adding new obituaries led to the creation of a new obituary index page to list obituaries as they are added LINK

Also, we started adding some pages with lists of links to offsite obituaries - we will include a list of these pages at the top of the new obituary page LINK

Added page of links to offsite obituaries for 2012 LINK

The new list adds 108 names!

Added list of Bonners Ferry Herald obituaries for 2008 LINK

The new list adds 119 names!

Obituaries

We had bad obituary links on our cemetery pages that pointed to the now defunt news website "KVPress.com"

We started adding some new obituaries to fix those links:

22 this month, see list below:

• Schnuerle, Ruth E. Davis 1910 - 2005
• Sherman, Oscar Benjamin Jr 1922 - 2005
• Roach, Evelyn Marie Yancey 1910 - 2005
• Roberts, Helen W 1922 - 2005
• Plato, Jack Clinton 1926 - 2005
• Mills, Neva Jean 'Grandma' 1933 - 2004
• Miller, Carolyn J 1930 - 2006
• Mesenbrink, Dorothea Mildred (LaFountain) 1909 - 2005
• Kidd, Anne Theresa Mooney 1918 - 2005
• Hodgson, Roy Allen 1937 - 2006
• Garten, Robert H 1939 - 2006
• Clark, Leonard William 1918 ~ 2005
• Anglen, Beulah Rae Pruitt 1914 - 2005
• Booth, Joan Margaret Meeker 1940 - 2007
• Frederickson, Wilbur Ray Jr. 1937 - 2007
• Cossairt, Ruth Lorraine (Washburn) Nieman 1919 - 2005
• Florea, Richard Roy 1944 - 2005
• Anderson, Earl 'Pete' 1928 - 2005
• Ripatti, Daniel Edward 1913 - 2005
• Baldwin, Jesse William 1925 - 1995
• Andrews, Addie B. 1919 - 2005
• Schlener, Frances Marie (Read) 1922 - 2006

Added four obituaries -

• Blockhan, Marie (Hinkle) 1936 ~ 2005
• Strom, Victor 1885? - 1943
• Fetterley, Alex E. 1889-1963
• Lederhos, Juanita Frances 1933-1998