Month: October 2020

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Weekend to Palisades

Star Valley Wyoming Temple

Earlier this summer we took a little family get away to Lake Palisades. A family friend let us use their family cabin for the weekend. We very much appreciate their hospitality and friendship. We took the opportunity to also do some limited traveling. Above you can see the Star Valley Temple in Afton, Lincoln, Wyoming. The temple is shuttered due to Coronavirus. Amanda will have to share pictures of the Star Valley Tabernacle.

Blevins Family Cabin

We visited in middle of July. We also took the chance to drive over to Alpine and Jackson, Teton, Wyoming. Of course we had to get a picture with the famous elk horn arches. Somehow the picture makes it appear very few people were around. But in the middle of tourist season, and despite Coronavirus and mask mandates, the place was crawling with tourists. We got nearly all our state license plates in Jackson for our road games.

Ross Family in Jackson, Wyoming, 17 July 2020, mandated masks and all

We took some time to go play with kayaks on Big Elk of the Palisades Reservoir.

Amanda, Hiram, James, and Aliza Ross
Hiram, Aliza, Lillie, James, and Amanda Ross on Big Elk of Palisades Reservoir
Lillie and James Ross fishing at Palisades Reservoir

Grandpa and Grandma Hemsley drove up on Saturday and joined us for all day Sunday.

Breakfast with Grandma and Grandpa Hemsley. From Grandma clockwise, Jill and Bryan Hemsley, James, Amanda, Hiram, Lillie, and Aliza Ross

It was a fun weekend. Maybe we will have to impose ourselves and ask to use the cabin again sometime.

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Overland Avenue looking north over Main Street

Looking north over Overland Avenue near Main Street in Burley, Idaho

When I saw this photo it caught my attention. I don’t recall the topic of the book this photo was in, but I took a picture of it.

I am guessing this is the late 1910s from the top of the Mayfair Building, I don’t recall the name on the building.

Of particular interest is the old flour mill in front of the grain silos. I don’t know when it came down, I don’t have any memories of it in the 1980s.

The truck was not yet in production, or widely available in Burley, for shipping commodities as these are all wagons. I cannot tell if they are waiting to go to the mill or if something else is going on. The line appears to keep going past Main, but not quite sure it goes all the way to the silos.

I recognize the two story buildings on the right as they are both still there. The building to their left, the old Thriftway Building was taken down about 1990 and is now just a parking lot.

None of the buildings between Main and the flour mill, including the mill, are still in existence.

I cannot quite tell if we are seeing the impounded water from Milner Dam in the background. Milner predated Burley so it is very likely the wide open space is Milner Lake.

I was thinking the flag could tell me a time frame but I cannot see the stars to any degree to tell if this is before or after 1912. This is likely the 48 star flag from 1912-1959.

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Grandpa’s Pumpkin Patch

Grandpa Milo’s Pumpkins 13 September 2020

Fall is upon us. Harvest is happening. Thought I better share a picture of my kids with Dad’s pumpkins.

The grain in the background has a swipe of the field harvested, the rest was done the next day.

Dad had a frost that killed all the vines, so he pulled them out and that left the pumpkins behind.

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Neuffer Family Book

Joh Valentin Neyffer (1572-1610)

I received a copy of an old book that belonged to my Great Grandfather and Grandmother, Bill and Mary Andra. My Uncle Larry had the book and was looking to have it translated. I knew there were some German speakers I knew in the area and was put in contact with David Badger of Rupert. He does these types of projects, this one tested him. He completed it and did a great job.

This is a copy of a book that was originally published in 1735. We knew it was believed to be related to my Great Great Grandmother’s family, Regina Frederike Nuffer Wanner. Our family has been linked to these individuals. I have some reservations as to accuracy of those connections.

Below is the pdf with all the pages of the book in black/white. David Badger’s translation, in pdf, includes some pages in color. I attach some of the language and some of the photos below.

Johannes Neifer (1556-1632)

The cover is below. Here is the translation by David Badger.

Neuffer Family Book with TranslationDownload
Cover and translation of the Neuffer book

Pedigree Chart of the very old,  and for 300 years, renowned family in Württemberg

Neuffer Family

Created with Respect and Love by M. Martin Ludwig Neuffer, Archi-Diac. in Ludwigsburg

The same was published in the Cottaischen Court and Canßlev Publishing House 1735

Translated into English by David Von Badger – 2020

Here is a copy of the Coat of Arms from the book.

Coat of Arms for Martin Neuffer, 1594-1638

Here is the book scanned in black and white. Thank you to Braylyn Mercado for scanning and photographing.

Raw black and white copy of the Neuffer BookDownload
Epitaph for Johannes Neifer (1556-1632)