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YANKEE FORK
&
LOON CREEK
GRAVE SITES
H. Arthur Packard
GRAVE SITES OF YANKEE FORK AND
LOON CREEK MINING DISTRICTS
Published by the
IDAHO GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY
POB 1854
BOISE ID 83701-1854
Send corrections and additional information to the address above.
Revised 2002 May 14
REFERENCES
Coroner’s inquest records
Custer Museum files, including interviews, oral history tapes, and Historical
Data books, probably now located at headquarters of Land of the
Yankee Fork Interpretive Center near Challis, Custer County, Idaho.
Custer County Book of Marriages, Custer County Courthouse on Main Street,
Challis, Idaho.
Custer County Death Register 1907-1911, Custer County Courthouse on
Main Street, Challis, Idaho.
Death certificate
School records, District offices in Middle School Building on Main Street,
Challis Idaho.
Idaho State and Territorial Federal Census - 1870, 1880,1900, 1910.
Brown, William Carey 1971. The Sheepeater Campaign, Idaho, 1879. Facm.
reprint, Shorey Book Store.
Demurest, Tom of the Diamond D Ranch, Custer County, Idaho.
Farms, Agusta Bixler 1988. The Letters of William Birelie Hyde. Privately
printed. This may be difficult to find. There are, or have been, copies at
the Challis City Hall and library in Challis, Idaho.
Giampedraglia
Gilmore, Zelma Zieglar, Custer Museum files.
Green, Roberta 1987. They followed the Glory Trail. Privately printed.
Ivers, Jim Jr. Park City, Utah.
McGown, Edna Niece, 417 Altair Drive, Twin Falls ID, 83301.
McGown, Edna & Anita Southwick 1978b. Bonanza Grave Sites, Custer
Museum files.
McGown, Edna & Anita Southwick 1978a. Custer Grave Sites, Custer
Museum files.
Nelson, Marjory Ramey 1990. Footprints on Mountain Trails. Privately
printed.
Nordling, Bart, deceased.
Pierce, Jim, Cliff and Lucille Shoemaker. Deceased.
Probate records, Custer County Courthouse on Main Street, Challis, Idaho.
Randolph, Julia I. 1989. This Quiet Ground. Privately printed.
Solberg, Jennie, deceased.
Stillwell, Bonnie Sullivan interview, Custer Museum files.
Sullivan, Bill, Challis, Idaho. Deceased.
Yarber, Esther 1963. Land of the Yankee Fork. Privately printed.
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MIDDLE FORK AREA
Helmke, John C.
Born 1845 August, Germany.
Died 1925 June 17 of asthma.
(Silver Messenger nd).
Selmer, Ben
Born 1901 December 31, Wisconsin.
Died 1932 May 18 when he drowned in Loon Creek. Buried on Lovell Ranch.
Trapper and miner
(Silver Messenger nd; Bill Sullivan pc).
Greenlee, Claude
Drowned in the Middle Fork of the Salmon River. No record of burial
(Bill Sullivan pc).
FALCONBERRY RANCH GRAVE SITE
Dellen, Fred - Teddy
Born 1889, son of Christian Dellen and Anna Bahm.
Drowned in Loon Creek 1904 May 25, age 15. Buried at mouth of Sammie
Creek at Norton Bar.
Parents operated Dellen Hotel in Bonanza .
(probate records; McGown & Southwick 1978b:2; Bonnie Sullivan Stillwell
interview; Edna McGown pc; Randolph 1989:107)
SOLDER’S BAR GRAVE SITE
Eagan, Harry
Solder wounded during Sheepeater War. Attempted to amputate his leg but
he died during the field operation. Said to be the only solder in Idaho to be
buried where he fell in battle.
(Brown 1971; Randolph 1989;44).
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YANKEE FORK GRAVE SITES
AND CEMETERIES
GREENWOOD GRAVE SITE
Near summit on Old Toll Road from Challis to Custer
(someone has started calling it the Custer Motor Way or some fool name no
one ever heard of before)
Keene, Robert
Born about 1859 in Iowa, son of Charles A. Keenes and Harriet C. Mitchell.
Died 1889 spring, at Greenwood Station.
Grave said to be marked but not found by author.
Was harnessing a horse at Tollgate when he was kicked and badly injured.
Taken to nearby Greenwood Station where he died and was buried.
(1880 Idaho Territorial Census, Silver Messenger 1909 April 6; McGown &
Southwick nd; Edna McGown pc).
CUSTER CEMETERY
Half a mile above Custer, just above Swift’s Gulch, on left side of road when
going upriver. Watch for picket fences.
Davis, John D.
Austrian.
Died 1904 February 12 near Bonanza from injuries and suffocation in a snow
slide on trail to Charles Dickens Mine.
(McGown in Yarber 1963:180; Prospector nd; Idaho Statesman 1904
February 26; Southwick & McGown 1978a; Nelson 1990:330; gs).
Lang, John
Born 1849 in New York.
Died 1881 January 19 near Custer of injuries and suffocation in a snow slide
off Baldy Mountain.
Carried the mail. Name also spelled Laing, Llang or Lliang. Lost note in
Friends of Custer file says it should be Lang. Lang used in Silver Messenger
1890 November 2.
(McGown in Yarber 1963:33;Silver Messenger 1890 November 2; McGown &
Southwick 1978a; Nelson 1990:330).
Lomas, T.D.
Austrian.
Died 1904 February 12 near Bonanza of injuries and suffocation in a snow
slide on trail to Charles Dickens Mine.
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