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Descended as follows --
Adam Logue, born 1751, County of Derry, Ireland. Died 1876, buried in
an old cemetery at Si nn,homrg,Potter County,Penn. where other members
of the family are buried,
"In he years 1316-17 George, Archibald and Tomas Logue settled at the
mouth of the First Fork(Sinnehoming). The:: were called "Orangemen".
They 'were supposed to be brothers and were sons of above named Adam and
his wife, Mary Meyers."
"Adam Logue served in the Revolutionary w ar; enlisting and serving 2 years
. and :2 months as a Private and Brickmak.er with the Penn. Troops under
Captains John Lemon and Samuel Popelwaite. At the time of his enlistment
he was a resident of Carlisle,Cumberland County,Penn; Adam Logue received
400 acres of land in Cumberland County, Penn. After the war he moved to
York County, Penn where he resided 5 or 3 years. He then moved to Ba!deagle,
then to Norrthumberland and afterwards to Lycombng County,Penn. He was re-
siding in Grace Tounsiip,Lycoming County in 1832
George Logue, son of the above named Adam Logue, was a Major in the
Revolutionary War from Cumberland County,Penn.. -(he died about 1773. ) His
;wife.was Elizabeth -?- who died about 1782. Their children were
Hugh, George, Wil l i am,Joseph,Daniel,Thomas and Adam.
-2- Archibald Logue born in y Ireland, married Mary Mevers of Lycoming County, Penn.
(Mary and her sister,Savilla, (who married Aaron Balley) were of German
parentage. (It is said Mary Meyers had some Indian Blood also. )
Children Archibald and Mary (Meyers) Logue were
George, born 8-11-1814
Archibald, born 7-22-1816
Adam Leverson, born 4-24-1816, died 1893; married Sally Ann Mahon,
-.born 1827, died 2-1 -1874.87`=. (She had brothers icomas •
and John F'ahon.) ( aid to be first cousin to her husbar
Jae, born 2-2-1320
James, born 7-20-1321
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Thc=as, born 5--25-1825, died 1910. Had son James who married
Carrie Vhite, daughter of Aurilla Irway 1.,ite who
later ma.rried,as second wife,Geo_rge le=nder Logue
and moved to Idaho with him.
ter,born 11-0-1��26; died 139 Married Thomas ).,'anon(born
1826)died 1880) who was a brother of Sally Ann
N!ahon who marriedAdam Leverson Logue,named above.
Tn; :e th, born 9-27-1c3
Jozm, born
Sal?;? nn, born 11-14-1332;died 6-23=1?lO; married John Brooks
born 6-5-1829;died 3-5-1903; son of Benjamin Brooks
• and wife Nancy Jordon..Ben_jam,;n Brooks II was
killed by Indians and Nancy Jordon Brooks orobabiy
married again.
Etmaline, born ? married ---Hart
'. tilda, born ? married-Wykoff
I,;lcr1 ng County, Pen. Census of 1850 gives the following data,—
---
Adam Logue -age 30, Sarah Ann, age 32,
Children
. George Alexander, age 9 ------ tarried,lst. Sarah Sweet, 2nd Auril l
White
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Thomas Elbridge, age 7 --(died Curing Battle of Wilderness, Civil
T4ar
'ary Jane, age 6, (married Jose-,:h 1 illi ams. )
T ashington Scnnf_fer, age 5, , raied lst, 'osa<i�_: I rrall: 2nd
- Engli shl
Sarah Em aline, age 4, (married John Williams)
ILycsm n : -ntiy Census of 1870 ---
Ads e , age 51
52
e7.after, age 25
Sarah. D- ' .:ne, age 22
Sally . , age 17
Census of 1860
age-10
, age 3
Elizabeth, age 6 -
Zahn 1 non,ag e 7 J,f a Cher of Sally Sinn,Wife of Adam Lever s on
Logue
-3- ';e ^der L:.-- born 12-25-1848 at Lo gue,?enn..--(died 7-4-1a7 at Cascade,
Idaho)
rP -rfi. 1st, Sarah S .eet, born. 1- 0-1842, 1.-7-1882 in Penn.
(Sarah Sweet had a sister named Prudence who married Steven Horton
anzI is listed in a Horton Fame l book. They had'darghters Henreitta
-a--r;ed -?- Davenport) and Boll..
2n !urilla Ir-r-ay Tani te,born 1E45,:$i ed 5-1.,--1900 (of T. B.)
-was a widow with three children --- Carrie who married James
_u:.e (son of Thomas Logue) (1E-25-1010) who was son of Archibald
:• .-y :fey ers Logue; Cora White) who married Charlie LeBarr;
=d Phillip ip White who married Fanr_y Berfield,daughter of Henry
�--%� 7,- ra (7i1l is s)Berfield.
4-i'sn. of George Alexander Logue and 1st 14ife Sarah Sweet were------
v cbn born ? who m?.rr ied Jessie Huff in Penn.
Their children were---
lY++tip uvr.v�i.r.v•v, vv+ � - --.-r.-vim '- _
Clayton Gerald,born 5- - 1902
Thomas Elbridge-- born 1-5-1871 who married Vinn±e Patterson
at Crawford, Idaho
Their children riere--
= . Cecil,Audry,Merton,Fred,and Leona
;sell, died y ourg.,in Penn.
7rederic Sweet Logue , bor n4-7--1375 in Logue,Penn. died Jan.9,
i i v o in Monroe, "ashi ngton.
married Josephine Swank(born 6-21-1876) daughter of
William And Elizabeth(Brooks)Swank of Penn.
Children of George Alexander Logue and 2nd wife Aurilla Irway r hite,
(a widow with three children) •
They had one daughter, Bessie Logue.
Bessie Logue married 1st, Clayton Willi ans -- their child 1-as a
daughter, Beatrice.
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narried 2nd, Ernest Harwood, --their children. were Stanley,
• George and Louise.
married 5rd John Lambe-- their child was a dat g� t _ t
' "`t7� 'Y'J L'�r��1y.
* Children of Freferic Sweet Logue and Josephine (s'-a nip§ Logue -
---
Stamle7 Ramine, born 1-13-1,39 at Logue, Penn. He married Stella
James 6-2.:-1". ..'.3 at Ln'c cam""sh,
Earoid Frederic, born 2-1e,-1902 at Logue,Pot ter County, Penn. He
=cried Elora Jean Duc .er,2-6-1527 at Caldwell, Tdaho.
born 3-5--1305 at Boise, Idaho. She Tr-TT-Tied 17i11-;am.
Caster at .E.onroe, T a hi ;ton.
'.LIs se_ Lowell, born 19-1911 at Thunder City, Idaho.
3adi.e =ii ^eta (Sge), born i 1-21-1:1S at Boise, Idaho. She married
t avid Solt batch ,:...5-f,:3-1954 in Seattle, washing ton.
Children of Ste: _ Logue and Stella (Janes) Logue were
fir= , born 2-13-
E -d corn
Carol -m born 2-15- 1959
Children of Earc'.1:1 z eric and Erna Jean ( Ducker) Logue were ------
ba a .ear, born 11-8-1958 at Ontario, Oregon(Holy Rosary Eosoital)
(Her parents were residing in ?ewPrn^.1,.l h? LaRO)
S.e Z r led Stanley F.Godes 5-2-1976 in Honolulu}Hai`
C. -''ren of ...'r e (Logue)and Vi 11 i an. Caster were---
Richard 7=1-4p-m., born 3-8-1957 at MOnroe, ''ashy gton.
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for JPo.,nsef. ;^,e-r=�->nd i-`7 e -- born 6-21-1:36 at First Forks, C ameron County,
,
1938 in Syracuse, __.
Y. to Frederic Sweet Logue.
Descended as = cws-----
Sna„ was f a-g_s e r of 'William and Elizabeth (. (Broo s)_. C wa ~t of Fmr st Forks,
Penn.
There ;,-ems e eren ch d+ren --------(still living in 1948)
~ai:,ems,
almnanaiimIng, !-a.
Josephine, ' onroe,?•ashington
r 1e enava, Penn..
John, Em-corium, Penn.
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Percy, Eustin Penn.
Pearl, S 'nana oni rig,Penn.
al h, lialliamsport, Penn • .
rte, Buffalo, N. Y.
George, Bus tin , Penn.
Lou, (daughter), Emporium, Penn
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Descended as foil aws
_i_ Adam Logue, born 1751, County of Derry, Ireland. Died 1878, buried in
an old cemetery at Sinn hcming,Po tter County,Pe gin. where other members
gibers
of the family are buried.
"In the year s l:, 3-y7 G e org e, Archibald and Thom-.5 Logue settled at the
_..
mouth of the First Fork(Cinnehoi O ng). They yere ca=red "Qran cman".
They were su Posed to be brothers and were sons of above named Ad:m and
This wife, ilary neyers.f!
"Adam Logue served in the Revolutionary Far, enlisting and serving 2 years
. arld amonths as a Private End Bric'_maker -frith the Penn. Troops under
Captains John Lemon and Samuel Poelwaite. At she time of his enlistment
he as a resident of Carlisle,Cumberland County,Penn-. Adam Logue received
400 acres of land in Cumberland County, Penn. After the war he roved to
=
County, i:nn.Where he re Q 2 c '.; or 3 j a r a. He then :04 y to Bai Q.agle
,
then to Sor numberThn.d)a.nd afterwards to Iy cemin,; Coo nt;r,renn. He was re-
siding in Grace TownshipIL,Trcaming County in 1K2.
George Logue, son of the above nom eC_ Adam Logue,was a Major
in the
- .ev. 1.7a_r from COmoerla_nd Co•inty,Penn. -(he died about 1i73. ) His
rife was Elizabeth -?- who died about 1782. Their children were
ug ,George,Wil!.iam,Jose;h,i,an,1,Thomas '-nd Adam.
-2- Archibald Logue born in Ireland, married Vary Meyers of L,-coming County, Fenn.
(
'_ -. and her sister ,Savill.a, (whc. married Aaron Bailey) were of German
parentage. (It is said 'y ar7 : eyers had some Indian Blood also.)
Ch i l d_ren of Archibald and Nary (Neyer s; Logue were
George, Born 8-11-1814
Archibald ,born 7-22-1813
Ar'a-Z Leverson ,born 4-24-1818, died 1393; married Sally Ann Mahon,
..born 1327, died 2-1::-1874. (She had brothers Thomas •
and John Mahon.) (Said to be first cousin to her hus.b_r.4)
Jane, born 2-2-1820
Janes, born 7-20-1821
Mar? +.,born 8-21825
Thomas, born 3-25-1825, died 1910. Had son James who married
Carrie Vhite, daughter of Aurilla a, Irway V_rite who
later married,as second wifo,George A1ez,ander Logue
and moved to Idaho with hip;.
Eleanor,born 31-6-18:26; died 1324. :Tarried Thomas Mahon(bo=n
1826)died 1880) who was a broiler of Sally jinn
Mahon .who marrie&Adam Leverson Log e,nan ed above.
Elizabeth, born 9-27-3223
o ona,
SA11 y Ann, born 11-14-l35-2;di ed 6-23-1310; married Jean Broo cs
born G-8-1822;died 3-5-1905; son of Benjamin B=ooks 1L
and wife Nancy Jordon..pen j a_m,n Brooks II was
killed by Indians and Nancy Jordon Brook probably
married again.
F.aline, born ? married -----uart
Matilda, born ? ed-Wycoff
Lycaming County, Penn. Census of 1850 gives the following data,— -
Adam Logue -age 30, Sarrh Ann, age 32,
Children George Alexander, age 2 `�: iod,?ct. Sarah Sweet, 2nd Aur i ll a
Vhite
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• Thhonas Elbr?dge,. 7 --(died during Battle of 7:ilderness, Civil
Var
' :lazy Jane, age 6, (married Joseph illi ams.)
"asrington Schaffer, age 5, r,arrie lst 'osri i Da rill: 2T
Sarah Er^al ne, age 3, (married Join iilli arms)
•
14y-coming Co=t,' Census of 1E70 ---------
Adam Lozue age E
Sarah tnn, age 52
:ash-^g tcn Schaffer; age 25
Sarah ='-^�l�ne age 22
Sally '^n age 17
Census of 1860
Betsy, age 10
Sai1, .
2-_nn , age 8
Eli'za eth, age 6
John I hon,age 70,father of Sally Ann,w-ife of Adam Lever son
• Logue
-5- Gecr e Alexander Lo J ie born 12-25-1848 at Logue,Fenn..--(died 7-4-1::17 at Cascade,
Idaho)
^a^ried- 1st, Sarah Sweet, barn. 1-� 0-182, did _-7--168 : in
Penn.
(Sarah Sweet had a sister named Prudence i:ho married Steven Horton
and is listed in a Horton Famili book. They hackdaughte_s Henreitta
(..rd-;o married -4- Davenport) and Poll.
Married 2.nd, A.urii a Ir� y ? nite,bon n 1&45,died 5-1.-1:,00 (of T. B,)
She was a widow with three children -- Garrie who married James
Logue (son of Thomas Logue) (1825-1 10) who was on of Archibald
and pry Meyers Logue; Cora trite, who married Charlie LeBa.rr;
and Phillip "White who married Fanny Berfi eld,dauhter of Henry
and l ;'f1?i Berfield.
Children of George Alexander Logue and 1st wife Sarah Sweet were
John, born ? — who mprried Jessie Huff in Pern.
Their children were--•-
An a Uenevi ve, corn ---
Clayton Gerald,born 5- - 1002
• Thomas Elbridge-- born 1-5-1871 who married ,,inn ie Patterson •
at Crawford, Ice ho
Their children were-
'+ Cec 1,A.udry,Mert on,F+ed,a.nd Leona
: ell., died r oung,in Penn.
Frederic Sweet Logue , born-ti--7-1875 in Logue,Penn. died Jan.9,
1 q S 0 in ;Monroe, YTashington.
married Josephine Shrank(born 6-21-1876) daughter of
Vil?iam And Elizabeth(B_roo s)S wank of Penn.
Children of George Alexander Logue and 2nd wife Aurilla
(a widow with three children)
They had one daughter, Bessie Logue.
Bessie Logue married 1st, Clayton i.'i 1 l i ams -- their child was a
daughter, Beatrice.
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married 2nd, Ernest rarwood, --their children were Stanley,
George and Ladise.
married ed 3rd, John Lambe--- their child was a daughLr,Dorothy.
Children of Frederic Sweet Logue and Josephine (S',.ank§ Logue
Stanley P.om Lne, born 1-1a-1 9 at Logue, Penn. He Wiz, Stella
:ied Stell
Janes 6-25-1:K8 at S oh cnish,
Harold Frederic, born 2-13-1902 at Logue,ro t ter County, Penn. He
married Elora Jean c'=_er,2 6-l927 at Cald-well, Idaho.
,! .e Catherine, born 3-5-1905 at Boise, Idaho. She married TJ4ll4am
Caster at ..•onrce,
Pssell Lovell., born 9-1J-1911 at Thunder City, Idaho.
Sadie Elizabeth (age), born 11.-21-1 13 at Boise, Idaho. She married
• Day id Sult2bach .5-23-1954 in Seattle., Washington.
Children of Stanley ?amine Logue and Stella (James) Logue were
Lerglas A ^to r, born 2-1D-
. Haward born
Carol J oAna born 2-15- 1959
. .se. Children of Earold Frederic and Elma Jean (Tucker) Logue were _--
Barbara Jean, born 11-8-1938 at Ontario, Oregon(Holy 7.osary Tospita?)
(Her parents - ere residing in 7e7-r l:.n u th, Idaho)
She ed Stanley F.Godes 5- -1975 in HonolUlu-IBwaii
C:n i iren of ri e Catherine (Logue)and William Caster were
Richard Fallen,am, born 3-3-1937 at onroe, 7.jashington.
Lineag ae f Joseb'n.:ne S -'`)Lowe ------ born 6-21-1U6 at First Forks, Cameron County,
Z^ T
Pew. �*-�^.�ea 1898 in Syracuse, 17. Y. to Frederic Sweet Logue.
Descended as follows----
She was t .. daughter of Wi l?iam and Elizabeth ' (Brooks)_.3w ri{ of Fthrst Forks,
Penn.
Trere were e?eTe children --------(still living in 19 4 8)
falter, Si n ma roming, Pa.
Josephine, Monroe,T;ash ngton
? rtle, Renova, Penn:
John, Emporium, Penn.
Will, -----
Percy, Austin Penn.
Pearl, Si n ahonin 1,Penn.
Ralph, V illi ams ort, Penn
Ben, Buffalo, U. Y.
George, Austin , Penn.
Lou, (daughter), Eiporium, Penn
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Wednesdays through Sundays and • Cabarton lasted for 22 years before "We visited through the years," she
changed twice a weck. The Robbs used the logging camp picked up roots in said, adding that the
the billboards to tack eight by 10-inch � g they came back to
g y 1936 and moved to MacGregor, two Cascade for the winters in 1972. In 1976,
glossies of different scenes from "up miles south and west of Donnelly, for when Joe retired in Alaska,the Kelleys
and coming shows." four years. That's when Aileen was a returned to Cascade to live year
"There were gorgeous pictures of the high school student in Donnelly. around.
old, old movie stars -- Constance Aileen graduated from high school in "There have been so many
Bennett, Heddy Lamar, Robert New Meadows, where the logging changes," she said. "The (Stiburek)
Taylor," Aileen says nostalgically.- camp shifted in 1940. J. I. Morgan bakery is gone--that was a landmark.
"After the show the kids could go and eventually bought the New Meadows The town's become very modern -- it's
take the pictures... and nobody_ ever ca i, gone from the olden days
took any pictures before it was time." ys to modern
Boise Payette really moved times.
Mention Levy Williams to Aileen and around," Aileen added, recalling a "T1 are lots of new people.
you are bound to hear about how, as a time when the Miesners were the only Growt is good. I used to know
boy, he went up and down all of family in one camp one winter. everybody yin town. Now I don't know
Cascade's streets before a movie ever
Being a twin was no rarity in everybody like I used to.
yelling, "Movie tonight... Movie Cascade when the Miesner girls were "In those days things seemed so far.
tonight!"' in first grade. Aileen and her sister had It was over the hill to Van Wyck. You
"He was real smart because he got in to pose on the school's front lawn with really went somewhere when you wen
the show free for doing that," she said. four other sets of twins to have their to Van Wyck.We never went to Mc t
Aileen's father, Winston Meisner, picture taken. Now they're so close." Call.
came from Nova Scotia in 1921. When
When they weren't in Cascade,
she was a young girl, Aileen and her Aileen and Eileen took turns living with
twin sister, Eileen, lived with their their grandmother, Genevieve, during
parents in numerous Boise Payette the summers. Genevieve took boarders
logging camps." into her four-bedroom home. High
At four, she lived in the camp seven ;chool students whose families lived in
miles south of Cascade that became the :abarton stayed at the house during
town of Cabarton. It averaged 75 he winters because there was no high
families and had its own one-room, ;chool in Cabarton. Teachers were also
eight-grade schoolhouse, its own ice imong her grandmother's boarders.
cream parlor, store, post office and Aileen received her nursing training
dance hall. n 1941.After that,she and Joe married
"Cabarton was a busy little place," Ind lived in Boise, Long View, Wash.
Aileen said. "It was really a self- ind Nome, Alaska.
contained little area,
The dance hall was called. "Al's
Place,"after Al Nelson, owner. All the � � k k rb:
school programs, dances and com- "�, a
munity parties were held there. .;*. '
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logging camps -- "all over, wherever Y r i, ?� "Y�
there was timber." They returned to �z w.�r` �
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Star News 7/17/1985 Sidi- Ne- ws 1(11y /7,/g31
Walt and Vava Logue, former-
. ly of Cascade, celebrated their
golden wedding anniversary on
April 20 in Lyle, Wash.
The couple were married in
Cascade, where Walt was raised.
Vava grew up in Montour. They
lived near Council along Hornet
Creek for nine years and spent .000t, -:4000oppo.,,
the next several years with 5.
MacGregor Triangle and Boise
Cascade Corp.
Upon retirement, they bought
a home in Emmett, and sold that ;:
home last summer to move tosMRa•
Washington, where their children
live. "
Out-of-town guests included
Mert and Mary Alice Logue and
Fred and Ruth Logue from 7
Cascade, Mrs. Jim Pennix of
Emmett, Bill and Virginia s'`
Fk
Marstens of Rainier, Ore., and
Bob and Doris Oberst of Carsen,
Wash.
Also attending was Mrs. Verda Vava and Walt
Weller of Baker, Ore., who stood
with the Logues with her hus- Logue
band, Shorty, when the Logues
were married. depicting their 50 years of mar-
The couple's three children, riage.
Afton Robison, Bud and Dave , The Logues have seven grand-
all of Lyle, presented them with a children and three great-
cross-cut saw painted with scenes grandchildren.
Subject: Logue, Merton
Address: Cascade
Dates March 31, 1976
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1 Born at Crawford, September LL, 1910
Mother's family-arrived 1889
Father's " If 1 901
2 School first 4 years at Crawford
Eight years at Cascade
Homesteaded
3 Dexters
School about 1f2 mile eat of Crawford
Sheriff for 22 years
4 Rolin Clark murdered back on Monumental Creek.
5 Airplane Crashes
7 Joe Mossman-Sheriff prior
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8 Hunting accidents
1123 . Family-two step-children
First teacher-Mrs. Wayland
11� Carl Kitchen
16 Slot Machines
17 Fred Koven
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RELEASE OF TAPES TO IDAHO BICENTENNIAL COMMISSION'S ORAL HISTORY PROJECT
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hereby give and grant to the Idaho State Historical Society and the Idaho
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purposes as the Idaho Historical Society and the Idaho Bicentennial
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Coranission shall determine, the tape recordings made today, and aZZ
lvterary rights therein.
Or -7,\J-1 (witness.)
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Merton' Logue
with Joe Bennett
and Doug Jones
March 31, 1976
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DOUG "Today's date is March 31, 1976. We are conducting an interview between Mr.
Merton Logue and Mr. Joe Bennett for the purpose of recording oral history.
This conversation is being tape recorded at Mr. Logue's residence in Cascade.
The time now is approximately 10:00 a.m."
JOE "Merton, the first thing we might as well find out where you were born and
when."
MERTON "I was born _lout here at Crawford. My folk's house had burned down the night
before so I was born at my grandmother's place."
JOE "What year was that?"
'IMERTON "That was September 4, 1910."
JOE "When did your folks come to the valley?"
'MERTON "My mother come here with her folks in 1889. My dad come from Pennsylvania
in 1901, I believe."
JOE "Where did your mothers' folks come from?"
MERTON "Illinois."
JOE "How did they come to the valley here? Did they come by train part way?"
MERTON "They came by train to Caldwell, I believe. I think that was the jumping off
point. Then they came by wagon over through Pearl and Montour and Sweet and
over that way."
JOE "How many was there in your father's family? How many brothers and sisters
did you have?"
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MERTON "I had three brothers and three sisters. Seven of us all together."
JOE "They were all born here in the valley."
MERTON "Yes"
JOE "Where did you go to school at?"
MERTON "I went to school the first four years to Crawford. Then finished up the next
eight years in Cascade."
JOE "What did your folks do when they come in here?"
MERTON "They farmed. My dad homesteaded out there. My mother's folks homesteaded
up in the Crawford Nook. Then mother later on homesteaded 160 acres, right
across the county road from where her dad had homesteaded."
JOE "Where was that at? Above the Bean place?"
MERTON "It was this side of the Bean place. It's right where the highway starts up
the hill now. Thatwas my granddad's homestead."
JOE "You don't know when he proved up on his land, do you?"
MERTON 'No
JOE "Did some of your folks run the store, too?"
MERTON "My dads' brothers run the FS Logue and Brothers Store in Thunder, in about
1917 they moved to Cascade."
JOE "What was your fathers' name?"
MERTON "Tom"
JOE "Who was some of your brothers?"
MERTON '
RTO Iny brothers was Cecil and Walter and Fred. Fred lives in Cascade. Cecil and
Walter live in Emmett. I just got one sister left alive and she's in California."
JOE "Jerry Logue, he was a cousin."
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MERTON "Yes"
JOE "Were you some of the Logues relatives of Patterson's?"
MERTON "My mother and Horace Patterson's mother were sisters."
JOE
"What was their maiden names?"
BERTON "Dexter, Dexter homesteaded at the foot of the hill."
JOE "Where was your father's homestead?"
MERTON "Dad's homestead was straight east of here about three miles. It's over towards
what's the Tommy Davis place now."
JOE "You went to high school here in Cascade. Did they have a high school then?"
MERTON "The high school started here I believe in 1919, I suppose. I started here at
1920, I guess. High school probably started before 1919. Theyhad grade
school in Cascade probably 1915. I don't know just when they started the high
school."
JOE "Did you go to school in that old drug store over there at Crawford?"
MERTON "They had the school out about half a mile east of Crawford."
JOE '"What did you do when you grew up, Merton? Farm or log?"
MERTON "Well, I worked in the woods for nine years. Then I farmed for seven. Then I
went into the office of sheriff."
JOE "What year was it you were elected sheriff?"
MERTON "Elected 1950. I served twenty-two and a half years."
JOE "Can you tell us some of the things you had to do as a sheriff? Some of the
incidents that happened. I know you had to make several trips to the back
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JOE "country. Tell us about some of those."
MERTON "We had one murder in the back country. Back on Monumental Creek. I forget
what year that was."
JOE "Who was it?"
MERTON "Rolin Clark was the guy that was killed. I can't think of the guys name
.) ;)that killed him."
JOE "What did you have to do? Go back and bring out the body?"
MERTON "I went back in with a helicopter, the docter and I. Then, the man wasn't dead
when we got there. We put him on the helicopter and started in but he died
on the way in. There was four other guys there, I guess."
, JOE "Were they miners?"
MERTON "Well no, Rolin Clark was a miner. I think the trouble started over his claim.
This man that was supposed to have killed him was from Ontario. But there was
never any conviction."
JOE "What was some of the others? You had to back there and rescue the% didn't you?"
MERTON "Oh, I went back there on several hunter deals. We spend eight days hunting for
one hunter on Salt Creek. We had the Forest Service crew out there and set
up a hundred man deal at the mouth of Sugar Creek."
JOE "That was over by Stibnite."
MERTON "Yes"
JOE "Yeah, I was on that."
MERTON "I can't remember names. I did have htm name on the tip of my tongue. But
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MERTON "anyway he was found about four, five days after we give up the search. It .
was the head of Snowside Creek, where we found him. He'd given up. Layed
right down in the center of the trait and shot himself."
JOE "I know we hunted for him and couldn't quite figure out where he went. He
went up over the mountain and down the other side. Did you have any more
murders back there?"
MERTON "No, that's the only one."
JOE "Well, can you tell us about some of the trouble you had out here?"
MERTON "Well, we never had anymore murders at all. We had a lot of car accidents,
drownings, so forth. We had thirteen fatalities in one year. They were mostly
car accidents and drownings."
JOE "What are the main duties of a sheriff?"
`'T alt "It's just protecting the rights of the citizens. We had at that time all the
civil papers to serve. That, made a lot of work. We had first one deputy.
Then I got up to a deputy and a girl in the office. We had a lot of country to
cover. They had plane crashes back in the hills."
JOE "Yeah, can you tell us.'did you investigate some of those crashes?"
MERTON "Yes, I investigated several. These four Army men from Mountain Home cracked
up on Pistol Creek. Off of the Pistol Creek airfield. Three of them was killed
and one of them lived. Then we had a man and a woman and a buy killed at
Pistol Creek, same airfield. At the Indian Creek airfield they had a man and
a woman killed."
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JOE "What vas the prime reason of this. Merton?"
MERTON "Well, I think the biggest cause was from taking off of the airfields at thee-
wrong time of day.. They just couldn't get the elevation "
JOE "It Gould be pretty hard to r'alk into one of those accidents and start to take
care of it, wouldn't it?"
MERTON "Yes, some of them "e vent in by helicopter. There vas a spray nl_ane for the
Forest Service and =.'e landed the helicopter right 'here it crashed. Where
these four army guys 'dent do''n T•e had to use Hack horses and walk un to it.
We packed the bodies out. Then r'e vorked all night getting the place cleared
out to land a helicopter in there to get the crinnled man out."
.OE "Ws not quite packing out a deer, to pack out a man."
MERTON "No, it's kind of a hard thing to do."
JOE "You just put them right on a pack saddle then and tie them an."
MERTON "Yes, strap them on there."
JOE, "Did you ever make a winter trip in there?"
MERTON "No, I don't believe we ever had to make a winter trip in there. Our main
winter deal was these two boys that was lost up at McCall. They got lost on
their snowmobiles, then they left their snowmobiles. Started to walk to McCall
and just didn't make it."
JOE "When did you find them? Did you find them at that time?"
'MERTON "We found one of them at that time. The next one we found in the spring, two
months later."
JOE "They weren't even very far from the rood were they?"
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MERTON "No, one of them actually got down to within a Quarter of a mile of the road
at one time. ' Then he went back up the hill the other way."
JOE "They wasn't dressed for it either, I don't think."
MERTON "No, they wasn't dressed for being out at all."
JOE "I bet that taught a lot of people that they better take a lot of stuff with
them."
MERTON !"Yes, I think it really helped. The first lost hunter we had was old Dr. McCallen
from Emmett. He went and got lost over here up from Round Valley. He was 82
years old and they said he had a bad heart. When they found his body the next
fall he was seventeen, eighteen miles from where he took off. They found him
about a year and two weeks after he got lost."
END OF SIDE ONE
JOE "Whosa place did you take as sheriff?"
MERTON "Joe Mo a swan"
JOE "He was sheriff when Dr. Hurd got shot. How did that happen? Did they take
him for deer?"
MERTON "The three of them was hunting in the Chamberlin Basin area. They was in this
awful thick brush. Doc Hurd and Les Witson set down to rest on this log
right in the thick trees. Les had on one of those jackets about the color
of an elk. Ralph Willims seen him there, he was only about 150 feet away.
He said he watched him for three or four minutes. Les had his gun over his
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MERTON "shoulder and he said he thought that was elk horn. That gun would move once
in a while. So finally he decided it was. He shot and hit Les right in the
armpit. It went right on through end killed Dr. Hurd."
JOE "What's your idda of them shooting? Have you ever decided why one man shoots
another for game?"
MERTON "I think that they just don't take enough time. They figure it's going to
get away and they shoot too Quick. We had one shooting down here at Round
Valley, up on the head of Bacon Creek. This guy that done the shooting was an
expert hunter and hunted all his life. He'd taken a couple shots at some
deer and they run a circle right around them. He saw this man right below
him and the deer running right that way. He saw the motion of this man and
he just shot him."
JOE "That's what you could really call a hunting accident, couldn't you? Not like
when they got shot with no game around."
MERTON "Don't seem like it. Of course, this boy that shot his dad up here by Donnelly,
remember that?"
JOE "Yeah"
MERTON "Well, there was deer around them when he shot."
JOE "Well, I never did see a man look like a deer. I don't think I ever got that
excited."
MERTON "I have let deer get away from me because I hesitated long enough to find out
for sure."
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JOE "Yeah, well do you have any idea how many people have been shot in this back
country here for deer?"
MERTON "Oh, I would any twelve or fifteen."
JOE "The first one I can remember was that Atkins was shot in the arm. He got his
arm shot off back there at the mines. He was bringing ore out of there with a
car. This fella shot at him several times. He never heard the bullet because
his car was making so much noise but he did hear the shot. He finally got
his arm shot off. Seemed like law officers would get into a mess with family
squabbles once in a while. Did you ever do that?"
13RTON "Well, I used to go to them but I-±got so that I just told them to get a comp-
laint signed and then I would take over. We only had one case where they
ever signed a complaint. Of course, it was always the same families that was
fighting; We had about four or five families in the county. Actually there
was nothing a guy could do but go over there and referee their fight. They
generally wanted to be left alone."
JOE "Did you ever have to take in any bad men, Merton? Can you tell us about
robbers?"
MERTON "Well, we picked up a lot of them. We sent some of the people to the pen from
here for robberies. A lot of time you pick them up for something else and when
you check them out you tie them into something. We had some that broke in cabins
at McCall that we caught with the stuff on them before they got out of the
county. We had three that robbed cabins at McCall and took the stuff to Portland
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MERTON "and they guy got picked up over there."
JOE "If somebody come in and said my cabin was robbed, what's the procedure?"
MERTON 'Well, they give us a list 'of the stuff. Now it's really more simple because
they have these communications. They have a tele-type and they get the infor-
mation right on and it goes to all police agencies. Then pawn shops are
supposed to keep in touch with the police. It used to be that we had to phone
them. You couldn't afford to phone all police stations so you phoned the main
ones. That was about all."
:JOE "You didn't do like in the movies and dust for finger prints."
*TON "Oh yes, we done a lot of dung for finger prints. The only thing about
finger prints then you've got to find the man to fit the finger prints."
J)E "Tell us the difference between the office of sheriff then and now. Didn't
you act as the deputy last summer some? Mayne you are now."
MERTON "I carry a special deputy badge but it don't mean too much. I have patrolled
two trips to Yellow Pine this winter. Last summer I was up in the Forest
Service program. They appropriated the money to the sheriff's office and the
sheriff hires this back woods deputy to patrol the Forest Service area. Anyway.
when I first started I had one deputy and myself to cover the whole county.
When I resigned, three years ago, I had two deputies and one girl in the office.
Now I don't know how many they got. They must have six or eight deputies, and
five or six in the office. The budget has expanded quite a bit."
JOE "Can you tell us what the budget was then you first took office? Do you remember?"
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MERTON "I think it was around twelve thousand but I'm not sure. I think it was about
twenty-two thousand when I resigned. A lot of this money is federal grants.
) The first year was under that Forest Service program,'the Forest Service bought
the four wheel drive pickup and radio and all the eeuipment."
JOE "Do they have more than one man?"
MERTON "They've got one man at Yellow Pine and one at Warm Lake. One for Payette
Forest and one for Boise Sorest." ,
JOE "Well, can you think of any special stories that you can tell ups?"
MERTON "We had a kid that drew a gun on mu downtown one day. He got away but they
picked him up afterwards. Down in Louisiana. I lived here and was in there
twenty-two and a half years and I never had to hit a man in all the time I was
in office."
' 3UG "What do you consider to be the most important technological advance that has
become available to law enforcement agencies?"
MERTON "I think that the radio communications was the main thing. I think that a lot
of this other stuff that they've added to it, about 90% of its is unnnecessary.
Of course I may be wrong."
DOUG "Did you have to go to the police academy before you could be sheriff?"
MERTON "I was just elected."
DOUG "Did you have training offered to you?"
(MERTON 'bh, I took small courses just maybe a day at a time was all. I never had to
. go to the police acadmy. I didn't have any experience at all when I went in
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MERTON "there. All that I got was what I picked up right in the office. I had good
prosecuters all the time? they were always real helpful to me."
JOE "That helps a lot, doecn't .it?rr
MERTON "You bet, I always worked with the prosecutes. There was never any fighting
between us or anything."
DOUG "Has the population of Valley County grown since 1950 or has it shifted?"
MERTON "I think the permanent population has dropped off quite a bit. When I first
went into office we had Stibnite that had six hundred families out there. No-
, body out there now. The population in the last census was ahfew short of what
it was before. McCall has increased quite a bit."
JOE "I think it's increased three, four hundred people is all in the last fifteen
years."
.. c;ON "We didn't have any summer homes at that time but now there's hundreds of them.
Subdivisions all over. k makes a big summer population. Now, a lot of retired
people are moving in here for the winter, too."
END OF SIDE TWO
JOE "I never asked about your family, Merton. How many children did you have?"
IRTON "I didn't have any of my own, I had two step-children. I was married in 1935.
My wife died of cancer in 1973."
JOE "Where are your children at?"
MERTON "They're in Boise."
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.10E "Can you remember when the train came in?"
MERTON "Yeah, I think the first togging train come in in 1915. My brothers and
sisters were going to school so my dad come to town. That was shortly after
Cascade was started. I got to see the train and everything. I don't know
, whether it was that fall or in the spring Union Pacific had that big rotary
snowplow come up."
JOE "That was the year of 1917."
MERTON "No, it would've had to been '15 and '16. I started school in the fall of
1916."
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JOE "ThatAwhen the train was stuck down in the canyon 'about fifty-eight days.
They finally plowed it out. I know a couple people walked up here the other
way because the train was stalled. Who was your first teacher?"
"Mrs. Wayland."
JOE "Then she was County Superintendent of public schools. Tell us some of the
other teachers you had."
MERTON "My first grade teacher was Mrs. Wayland. There was three of us in first grade
together. Frank Callender and a girl and me."
JOE "Did she have eight grades?"
MERTON "Yes, then Miss Roberts and Mrs. Kelly was the other teachers out at Crawford,
my first four years. And then we had, I can go through and name them all but
I don't want to spell some of them: Helen Gesulson, Carl Kitchen was my eighth
grade teacher. Miss Coulter was superintendent when I was a freshman and the
Howard Heckner was the next three years."
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JOE "Is Carl Kitchen still alive?"
MERTON "Ho, he died several years ago. His boy lives here in town. He ownsthie
Cascade Hotel. He bought it last fall. Car11Kitchen was the first teacher
in Cascade."
JOE "Oh was he? Well, didn't he hold a county office, too? Wasn't he auditor?"
MERTON "He was auditor."
JOE "Nell, do you remember some of the first county officers after we got a county
of our own here?"
:'7RTON "Well, Ed Smith was the first elected sheriff. Sheriff Sherill was appointed
in 1917. The first election Ed Smith beat him."
"In those days did the cities have sperated sheriffs and police departments
from the county?"
MERTON "Well, in them days I think the county handled it all. I don't know when
McCall got their police force."
JOE "Well, they had it a long time ago. They had a town marshall before we had
• county. I remember Otto Close when I was just a kid. The mayor and the
town council ordered him to step on the drunks. The first one he throwed in
jail was the mayor and he got fired! Then Bob Wilson was marshall there for
a long time. Could tell us some more about those other county officers when
you went there as sheriff?"
MERTON "Well, Forest Robb was county auditor. Bob Remaklus was district attorney."
JOE "Was he in there the most of the time you were sheriff?"
"No, he was in there term
�ERTOIi , a a or two and then he run for state attorney once.
Larry Shoenhut was in and Chuck Spence was in for a while, Ward Hower, so there's
been several. The treasurer was Fred Gardner and he still stayed till he retired."
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JOE "Was Bob Wilson assessor when you was in?"
MERTON "No, Bob was in there while I was in there. But he wasn't when I went in.
Hale Patterson was in there a few years. Hale was in there I believe ahead
of Bob. He might have been assessor when I first came."
JOE "Who was some of the commissioners?"
MERTON "Well, Horace Patterson was in there till he retired. Bob McBride was in
there when I went in and he's still in there. Tom Fleming was there. Frank
Hall was in there most of the time. I forget who's place Frank Hall took.
When I first went in Ben Mahoney was the commissioner."
JOE "Some of the commissioners nerved quite a while, didn't they? Horace especially."
MERTON "Horace was in there I think thirty-seven years. Forest Robb was in there
about that long, too."
"Who are some of the county officers now?"
"Bob McBride and Frank Hall and Francis Gestrin are commissioners. Carmin
" Zrwin is treasurer. Jim Nissula is assessor. Darrel Linskey is sheriff."
.JUG "When you took office were the gambling clubs in McCall pretty much closed up?"
MERTON "Yes,they had."
DOUG "Do you remember what year it was when they closed those down?"
MERTON "I wouldn't know, but it was before I went in office."
DOUG "I think Blair Armstrong said '48."
MERTO N "Probably so."
OE "Well, did you have much clubs down here at Cascade?"
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BERTON "Not like they did in McCall. They had slot machines down here. Of course,
I think they gambled all the time but it wasn't legal."
JOE "In McCall they let them. ,In Donnelly, too."
DOUG "What was the name of the club in Donnelly where they gambled most?"
JOE "I think Tucker's, wasn't it probably? `red Tucker"
DOUG "Would you say Donnelly was more active in gambling than McCall?"
JOE "I think there was just one there."
MERTON "I remember once I was at McCall. I don't remember if it was a celebration or
not. They had a gambling deal in the back end of, I guess it was a hotel
that had burned down there on the.. .maybe it was Lake View. But I remember I
was in there one time."
QE "�?r "Yeah, they had thirteen clubs there at one time."
MERTON "We had thirteen clubs here in town one time. When they built the dam in '49
and '50."
DOUG "Was the town pretty booming when they built the dam?"
MERTON "dust for about three years, '49 and '50 was the main time."
IDOUG "Was that because the construction brought in a lot of people?"
MERTON "Yes"
JOE "I don't suppose you can remember when they built the railroad grade and the
amount of people that was brought in here then."
'MERTON "No, I remember hearing talk about it. I remember that three guys was killed
by dynamite making this cut up here north or town. I believe in 1912. I
remember when they built all these mill railroads out east of here. They was
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MERTON "all built with horses and Japs working by hand."
JOE "Well that was Eehles was it that built the railroad?"
MERTON "Yeah, W.H. Echles was the 'first man. Howard and Hallack bought Echles out.
I remember when the county was first made, my uncle ran for Senator on the
platform of getting the county divided up and a seperate county made here."
JOE "Was that Fred?"
MERTON "Yea"
JOE "Was that when he was at Thunder City or here?"
MERTON "It was about the time he moved to Cascade."
JOE "I guess it was '17 when they finally got the county."
MERTON "Yes"
JOE "I know a person in McCall had to go through about five counties to get to the
county seat."
MERTON "That made it pretty expensive. I heard my uncle say several times after, that
if he had it to do over again he would never work for that again. It doubled
the expenses. Of course transportation was picking up t% and they could get
back and forth easier. They had the railroad then."
DOUG "Can you remember the first car you saw in Cascade?"
MERTON "The first car I seen was a little red roadster of some kind. Our house was
about a ruarter mile from the county road. This guy that had it, Fred Koven,
he lived right across the raffid from us. He had a place there but I don't think
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he ever lived there. He'd come to this little hill right down by the creek and
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MERTON "then he'd get off and push it up the hill! It wasn't too powerful."
DOUG "Do you know about what year that would've been?"
MERTON "Well, I was just a kid. Must've been around '14 or '15. It was before I ever
west to school."
JOE "Can you tell us something about this Fred Koven. Wasn't he a butcher?"
MERTON "Yes, he was a butcher. He sold beef. He had a little buggy and team and he
peddled beef in Cascade and Thunder City. Then he moved on up to Donnelly.
I think he lived in Donnell. when he passed away."
JOE "What nationality was he?"
MERTON "German. When I first heard of him it was always Odi Koven. Then he had the
Odi taken off."
DOUG "That was before Callender set up the butcher shop?"
MERTON "Oh yeah, long before that."
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Statesman 1/23/1987
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MERTON A. LOGUE
Merton A. Logue, 76, of Commerce, and was active for
Cascade, died Thursday, Jan. 22, many years with the Valley Coun-
1987, in a Boise hospital. ty Fair.
Funeral services were held Merton will be remembered as
Tuesday, Jan. 27, at the Cascade a man who loved life and the
Community Christian Church. great outdoors. He had a quiet
Don Wilson and Mark Farmer humor, and found nothing but
officiated under direction of the good in everyone.
Heikkila Funeral Chapel, Mc- Survivors include his wife,
Call. Burial will be in Margaret Mary Alice of Cascade; a son,
Cemetery, Cascade. Glen of Boise; a brother, Walter
Mr. Logue, a retired sheriff, of Murdock, Wash.; a sister,
was born Sept. 4, 1910, at Leona Gray of Dinuba, Calif.;
Crawford. His mother came to three grandsons, Michael, Mer-
Valley County in 1889 from Il- ton and Mark, all of Boise; and
linois, and his father from Penn- many nieces and nephews. His
sylvania in 1901. His father former wife, Julia; two brothers,
homesteaded three miles east of Cecil and Fred, and two sisters,
Cascade where seven children Geneva Brackett and Audrey
were born. Clark, died earlier.
Merton attended his first four Memorials may be made to
years of school in Crawford, Valley County Hospital or to a
finishing his schooling at favorite charity.
Cascade, where he graduated in
1928. He worked as a logger for
nine years, farmed for seven
years, then was elected Valley
County sheriff in 1950. He served
in this capacity for 221/2 years,
and as a back-country deputy for
two years. He married Mary
Alice Griffis in 1976 at Nome,
Alaska.
He was a life member of the
Methodist Church. He served as
master of the Valley County
Pomona Grange for one term.
He joined Ionic Masonic Lodge
number 82 in 1946, serving as
worshipful master of the lodge
for three terms. He held the of-
fice of worthy patron seven times
in Valley Chapter number 74,
Order of Eastern Star. He was a
past member of the Chamber of
Merton A. Logue
CASCADE—Merton A. Logue,
76, of Cascade, died Thursday,
Jan.22,1987,in a Boise hospital.
Funeral services will be held at
2 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 27, at the
• Cascade Community Christian
Church. Don Wilson and Mark
Farmer will officiate, under di-
rection of the Heikkila Funeral
Chapel, McCall. Burial will be in
Margaret Cemetery,Cascade.
Mr. Logue, a retired sheriff,
was born Sept. 4, 1910, at Craw-
ford, Idaho. His mother came to
Valley County in 1889 from Illi-
nois,and his father from Pennsyl-
vania in 1901. His father home-
steaded three miles east of Cas-
cade where seven children were
born. Merton attended his first
four years of school in Crawford,
finishing his schooling at Cascade
where he graduated in 1928. He
worked as a logger for nine years,
farmed for seven years, then was
elected Valley County sheriff in
1950. He served in this capacity
for 22 and one-half years,and as a
back country deputy for two
years. He married Mary Alice
Griffis in 1976 at Nome,Alaska.
He was a life member of the
Methodist Church. He served as
master of the Alpha Grange three
times, and master of the Valley
County Pomona Grange for one
term. He joined Ionic Masonic
Lodge #82 in 1946, serving as
worshipful master of the lodge for
three terms. He held the office of
worthy patron seven times in Val-
ley Chapter #74, Order of East-
ern Star. He was a past member
of the Chamber of Commerce,
'and was active for many years
with the Valley County Fair.
Merton will be remembered as
a man who loved life and the
great outdoors. He had a quiet
humor', and found nothing but
good in everyone.
Survivors include his wife,
Mary Alice of Cascade; a son,
Glen of Boise; a brother, Walter
of Murdock, Wash.; a sister,
Leona Gray of Dinuba, Calif.;
three grandsons,Michael,Merton
and Mark,all of Boise; and many
nieces and nephews. His former
wife, Julia; two brothers, Cecil
and Fred: and two sisters,
Geneva Brackett and Audrey
Clark,died earlier.
Memorials may be made to Val-
ley County Hospital,or to a favor-
ite charity.