Bonneville County Idaho Death Records

DEATH TAKES AN ODD CHARACTER
Former Resident of Path Valley Dies in Idaho at Great Age.
"Ned" Cowan left Path Valley, in Franklin County, where he was born many years ago, shortly after the outbreak of the Civil War. He went to Nevada at the time the state line was being established between Idaho and Utah. He spent some years there in mine prospecting and later became a stage driver between station towns in Idaho and Montana. During his long absence Cowan communicated little with the friends he left behind, two of these being sisters, at that time residing near Chambersburg.
     "Ned" died suddenly the other day, aged nearly ninety, at Idaho Falls, Idaho, where he had become widely acquainted because of his peculiar characteristics, his good nature and his extraordinary fund of reminiscense. He kept himself from being a burden on the city by his unusual eccentricities, and his happy, harmless ways of making the acquaintance of good fellows about town.
     He was a cripple, having lost his leg in the famous Comstock mine in Nevada. No sooner did he give a signal of distress, which was never an annoying one, than quick response was made by one or more of his benefactors, not the least of whom was Frank Bydee, a generous citizen of Idaho. Folks who never knew the value of money, and in the early days of mining always kept his pockets lined with gold.
     Cowan died in a little shack that he had long lived in. When Cowan was active in Path Valley he helped to build the rock abutments of the bridge over the Conococheague Creek east of Fannettsburg. On one of these he cut a cross to signify his devotion to the Roman Catholic Church. It was after the finish of this bridge work that he started for the West to catch up with the great gold strike in California.

Adams County News, Gettysburg Pennsylvania July 14, 1917

©Shauna Williams

Obituary of Bertha "Pat" Elizabeth Utter Morrell Hanson
Rushville Times, August 22, 2001, page 13, column 5
Bertha E. Hanson
Bertha Elizabeth "Pat" Hanson, 82, of Idaho Falls, Idaho, died Aug. 11, 2001, at Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center.
She was born May 23, 1919, at Frederick to Carl Utter and Beulah Quinn Utter. She attended schools and graduated from high school in Frederick. She served as a Navy nurse during World War II.
She married George L. Morrall (Morrell) in Jacksonville, Fla., in 1946. They were later divorced. On Aug. 26, 1987, she married Francis Hanson in Reno, Nev. She worked at Just^Òs (?) Store and in clerical positions in numerous other businesses.
She was a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints and served as a visiting teacher. She enjoyed sewing, crocheting, and growing roses. She especially enjoyed her family.
Survivors include her husband, Francis Hanson of Idaho Falls; two sons, Harry Morrall (Morrell) of Bigby and Jason (wife Kathy) Morrall (Morrell) of Nampa, Idaho; brothers, Jim Utter of Buckeye, Ariz., Bill Utter and Dave Utter, both of Rushville; sisters Carlene Shoupman of Mt. Sterling; and Rose Speers of Rushville; and four grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by two brothers and two sisters.
Funeral services were Wednesday, Aug. 15, at the Idaho Falls LDS Woodruff 1st Ward, with Bishop Larry Christensen officiating. Burial was in Fielding Memorial Park under the direction of Wood Funeral Home.

©Sara Hemp

Date: 1898-09-02; Paper: Idaho Register
Death of Mrs. Pendleton.
Died, in Idaho Falls Idaho. August, 31,1898, of apoplexy, Mrs. Stella Pendleton. aged 59 years.
Mrs. Pendleton was the mother of Dr. G. W. Pendleton. She came here July 1, 1897, from Seattle, Wash.
A few months previous to coming here she had a stroke of apoplexy, but, got considerable better and came here
During the past month or two she had been feeling quite well, and on Friday evening last went several miles in the
country to Herman Bauman's visiting. On Sunday evening she was taken down and died on Wednesday morning.
The remains were brought in and are waiting for the arrival of three daughters, Mrs. M. L. Scully and Mrs. F. E.
Ellwood of Seattle; Mrs. E. Barr of Denver arrived this morning. The others are expected to arrive tonight.
The funeral will take place from the M E church at 2 o'clock p.m. on Sunday. Rev. Gannaway officiating.

Submitted by Barbara Ziegenmeyer

The Quincy Daily Journal
Monday, January 27, 1919
Page 2
Transcribed by Debbie Gibson

Eugene Burbidge
Eugene L. Burbidge, who was born in this city November 1, 1885, died

in Idaho Falls, Idaho, January 6. The family was well known in Quincy

where it resided up to a few years ago. Mr. Burbidge was educated in the

public schools of Quincy, going through the High School and later attended

the Illinois university, making a specialty of electrical engineering. For

some years he was connected with the Central Union Telephone company, and

then went west. He became a line chief in the northwest and installed many

of the plants in Washington and Oregon and Idaho. It was while doing this

he homesteaded a claim near Idaho Falls, and lived on it three years, and

then returned to his former employment. At the time of his death he was

the district manager of the Bell company at Provo, Utah, but had gone to

Idaho Falls to spend Christmas with his family. He was taken down with

influenza while on the visit and died in less than two weeks. There

survives the mother, Mrs. M. V. Burbidge; three sisters, Jessie, Cora, and

Cornella, and one brother, Asa, who had just returned from the army. The

funeral was held at Idaho Falls.