Aspirations

I have been having the strangest sensation. I vaguely remember feeling this a looooong time ago. I think.... I'm not sure yet.... But I think I'm actually......well bored? I have been aspiring to boredom for many years now. Since cutting out school, and cutting back on other activities that run me ragged, I think I have finally achieved it. It is fleeting, but oh..... so....... enjoyable!
But I have begun doing genealogy. I am not smitten or obsessed, although it can become that way when I am on ancestry.com. They are so good at teasing you with "hints".

It's like laundry~ you are just never done. But it's also not something I can't procrastinate. So, you see, I am balancing genealogy and boredom.

Really, I am Reading

Out of the Best Books: Really I am Reading

State Sponsored Intimidation

Franklin County Wa. Republicans: State Sponsored Intimidation Sponsored by Maureen Walsh

Franklin County Wa. Republicans: Is this how Obama wants kids to be educated?

Franklin County Wa. Republicans: Is this how Obama wants kids to be educated?

Idaho Ancestors

So my mom's family lived in and settled Carey Idaho. I had never been there before May 2009. I needed to research that branch of my family tree so me and Megan went that way to go visit family in Rexburg/ Idaho Falls. My great-grandmother Vivian was born in Missouri and her siblings in Kansas in the 1890's. I found the family on several census and decided they came to Idaho in late 1909 or 1910. There is a family question about which side of the "Mormon" debate they were on. We suspect they were anti-Mormons. (At least her parents Reuben Thomas Cross and Rosa Elizabeth Pitman Cross.)
Anyway, Vivian Cross married Forest Howard Eldredge who came from several generations of Mormon Pioneer stock. His family was in Carey a bit before the Cross's arrived. The crosses settled an area called Fish creek about ten miles north west of Carey. This picture is the area around Fish Creek Dam or what was once known as Crooks Idaho. This building may have been built at the time my Cross's came to the area.


My mother remembers going to Fish Creek to fish.


At the Hailey Family History Library they have newspapers from the area on microfilm and I found some obituaries for Vivian, Forest, Reuben Thomas, and Rosa. They did come in 1910!
I found Forest and Vivian's graves in the Carey cemetery along with several other Eldredges, but not a single Cross was found there. I was beginning to think they just didn't want to be found....
I asked the Family History Center if there was a cemetery near Fish Creek. She had a book listing local cemeteries and the people buried there and we found the Cross's listed in Hailey's cemetery! So we called the guy who takes care of the cemetery and he led us to the graves.

Eureka!