Middle name also spelled as Celestian
Mother: Sarah Soucie
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(Published in History of Idaho: The Gem of the Mountains Vol. 4 by James H. Hawley 1920)
Orley Soucie, an Idaho pioneer, who was formerly one of the old-time miners of the Boise basin, is now residing on a well improved and valuable ranch of eighty acres situated two and a half miles south of Meridian. He purchased it as a relinquishment claim in March, 1910, and took possession of the tract, which was then covered with sagebrush. Something of his activity and enterprise is manifest in the excellent appearance of the property at the present time. The life story of Orley Soucie had its beginning in Door county, Wisconsin, where he was born July 17, 1869. His father Dammas Soucie, was a French Canadian, although born in Bangor, Maine. During the greater part of his life he followed fishing or was a pilot and sailor on the St. Lawrence river, the Great Lakes and also on the Atlantic, this life bringing him many varied and interesting experiences. He died in Boise in 1893, when on a visit to his son. His home was at that time in Nebraska, where he owned a good farm. His son Orley was then residing on the coast in the state of Washington and the father had paid him a visit and was en route to his home when he became ill of spotted fever and passed away in Boise, his remains being interred in the Morris Hill cemetery of that city. In tracing back the ancestry of Orley Soucie it is found that his paternal grandfather was a native of France, while his mother was an English woman.
Orley Soucie left Door county. Wisconsin, with his parents in 1881, when, twelve years of age, removing to Custer county, Nebraska, where he was reared to manhood and was married. It was on the 21st of August 1890, when he had just passed his twenty-first birthday, that he wedded Miss Jessie Smith, a native of Missouri, with whom he long traveled life's journey most happily. To them were born nine children, eight of whom are still living, but in the year 1913 the wife and mother passed away, her death occurring on the 22d of November.
After their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Soucie lived for a time in Nebraska and then removed to the coast, settling in the state of Washington in 1891. In 1893, however, they retraced their steps eastward as far as Idaho, and for several years, or from 1893 until 1910, Mr. Soucie followed mining pursuits at Centerville and Pioneerville in the Boise basin. In the summer of 1900 Mr. Soucie was also in the Klondike, where he was employed by a dredge company. Since 1910 he has continuously occupied his ranch property south of Meridian, comprising eighty acres of land, which he has converted from a tract of sagebrush into one of the highly developed and valuable ranch properties of the district. It is now largely planted to alfalfa and red clover, the remainder being in pasture land, and he is successfully engaged in the raising of registered Hampshire sheep, cattle and horses.
Since the death of his wife seven years ago Mr. Soucie has remained a widower, attempting as best he can to fill the place of both father and mother to his children. Seven of the nine children are still living: Ralph, twenty-seven years of age, who is a veteran of the World war, having served for nineteen months in France, while at the present time he is located on a ranch of his own near Meridian; Elta, the wife of Joe Pettit, a rancher living near Meridian; Grace; Clara, now the wife of Merl Pettit, a brother of Joe Pettit and also a rancher near Meridian; Irene, May and Zelma, who are in school and make their home with their father on the ranch.
Mr. Soucie belongs to the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and he is also connected with the Grange, being now master of Locust Grove Grange in his home neighborhood. He is also identified with the Non Partisan League. He carefully considers all vital public questions and his position upon any such is never an equivocal one. He stands firmly for what he believes to be right and his aid and influence are always on the side of progress, reform and improvement.
Mother: Sarah Soucie
____________________________
(Published in History of Idaho: The Gem of the Mountains Vol. 4 by James H. Hawley 1920)
Orley Soucie, an Idaho pioneer, who was formerly one of the old-time miners of the Boise basin, is now residing on a well improved and valuable ranch of eighty acres situated two and a half miles south of Meridian. He purchased it as a relinquishment claim in March, 1910, and took possession of the tract, which was then covered with sagebrush. Something of his activity and enterprise is manifest in the excellent appearance of the property at the present time. The life story of Orley Soucie had its beginning in Door county, Wisconsin, where he was born July 17, 1869. His father Dammas Soucie, was a French Canadian, although born in Bangor, Maine. During the greater part of his life he followed fishing or was a pilot and sailor on the St. Lawrence river, the Great Lakes and also on the Atlantic, this life bringing him many varied and interesting experiences. He died in Boise in 1893, when on a visit to his son. His home was at that time in Nebraska, where he owned a good farm. His son Orley was then residing on the coast in the state of Washington and the father had paid him a visit and was en route to his home when he became ill of spotted fever and passed away in Boise, his remains being interred in the Morris Hill cemetery of that city. In tracing back the ancestry of Orley Soucie it is found that his paternal grandfather was a native of France, while his mother was an English woman.
Orley Soucie left Door county. Wisconsin, with his parents in 1881, when, twelve years of age, removing to Custer county, Nebraska, where he was reared to manhood and was married. It was on the 21st of August 1890, when he had just passed his twenty-first birthday, that he wedded Miss Jessie Smith, a native of Missouri, with whom he long traveled life's journey most happily. To them were born nine children, eight of whom are still living, but in the year 1913 the wife and mother passed away, her death occurring on the 22d of November.
After their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Soucie lived for a time in Nebraska and then removed to the coast, settling in the state of Washington in 1891. In 1893, however, they retraced their steps eastward as far as Idaho, and for several years, or from 1893 until 1910, Mr. Soucie followed mining pursuits at Centerville and Pioneerville in the Boise basin. In the summer of 1900 Mr. Soucie was also in the Klondike, where he was employed by a dredge company. Since 1910 he has continuously occupied his ranch property south of Meridian, comprising eighty acres of land, which he has converted from a tract of sagebrush into one of the highly developed and valuable ranch properties of the district. It is now largely planted to alfalfa and red clover, the remainder being in pasture land, and he is successfully engaged in the raising of registered Hampshire sheep, cattle and horses.
Since the death of his wife seven years ago Mr. Soucie has remained a widower, attempting as best he can to fill the place of both father and mother to his children. Seven of the nine children are still living: Ralph, twenty-seven years of age, who is a veteran of the World war, having served for nineteen months in France, while at the present time he is located on a ranch of his own near Meridian; Elta, the wife of Joe Pettit, a rancher living near Meridian; Grace; Clara, now the wife of Merl Pettit, a brother of Joe Pettit and also a rancher near Meridian; Irene, May and Zelma, who are in school and make their home with their father on the ranch.
Mr. Soucie belongs to the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and he is also connected with the Grange, being now master of Locust Grove Grange in his home neighborhood. He is also identified with the Non Partisan League. He carefully considers all vital public questions and his position upon any such is never an equivocal one. He stands firmly for what he believes to be right and his aid and influence are always on the side of progress, reform and improvement.
Middle name also spelled as Celestian
Mother: Sarah Soucie
____________________________
(Published in History of Idaho: The Gem of the Mountains Vol. 4 by James H. Hawley 1920)
Orley Soucie, an Idaho pioneer, who was formerly one of the old-time miners of the Boise basin, is now residing on a well improved and valuable ranch of eighty acres situated two and a half miles south of Meridian. He purchased it as a relinquishment claim in March, 1910, and took possession of the tract, which was then covered with sagebrush. Something of his activity and enterprise is manifest in the excellent appearance of the property at the present time. The life story of Orley Soucie had its beginning in Door county, Wisconsin, where he was born July 17, 1869. His father Dammas Soucie, was a French Canadian, although born in Bangor, Maine. During the greater part of his life he followed fishing or was a pilot and sailor on the St. Lawrence river, the Great Lakes and also on the Atlantic, this life bringing him many varied and interesting experiences. He died in Boise in 1893, when on a visit to his son. His home was at that time in Nebraska, where he owned a good farm. His son Orley was then residing on the coast in the state of Washington and the father had paid him a visit and was en route to his home when he became ill of spotted fever and passed away in Boise, his remains being interred in the Morris Hill cemetery of that city. In tracing back the ancestry of Orley Soucie it is found that his paternal grandfather was a native of France, while his mother was an English woman.
Orley Soucie left Door county. Wisconsin, with his parents in 1881, when, twelve years of age, removing to Custer county, Nebraska, where he was reared to manhood and was married. It was on the 21st of August 1890, when he had just passed his twenty-first birthday, that he wedded Miss Jessie Smith, a native of Missouri, with whom he long traveled life's journey most happily. To them were born nine children, eight of whom are still living, but in the year 1913 the wife and mother passed away, her death occurring on the 22d of November.
After their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Soucie lived for a time in Nebraska and then removed to the coast, settling in the state of Washington in 1891. In 1893, however, they retraced their steps eastward as far as Idaho, and for several years, or from 1893 until 1910, Mr. Soucie followed mining pursuits at Centerville and Pioneerville in the Boise basin. In the summer of 1900 Mr. Soucie was also in the Klondike, where he was employed by a dredge company. Since 1910 he has continuously occupied his ranch property south of Meridian, comprising eighty acres of land, which he has converted from a tract of sagebrush into one of the highly developed and valuable ranch properties of the district. It is now largely planted to alfalfa and red clover, the remainder being in pasture land, and he is successfully engaged in the raising of registered Hampshire sheep, cattle and horses.
Since the death of his wife seven years ago Mr. Soucie has remained a widower, attempting as best he can to fill the place of both father and mother to his children. Seven of the nine children are still living: Ralph, twenty-seven years of age, who is a veteran of the World war, having served for nineteen months in France, while at the present time he is located on a ranch of his own near Meridian; Elta, the wife of Joe Pettit, a rancher living near Meridian; Grace; Clara, now the wife of Merl Pettit, a brother of Joe Pettit and also a rancher near Meridian; Irene, May and Zelma, who are in school and make their home with their father on the ranch.
Mr. Soucie belongs to the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and he is also connected with the Grange, being now master of Locust Grove Grange in his home neighborhood. He is also identified with the Non Partisan League. He carefully considers all vital public questions and his position upon any such is never an equivocal one. He stands firmly for what he believes to be right and his aid and influence are always on the side of progress, reform and improvement.
Mother: Sarah Soucie
____________________________
(Published in History of Idaho: The Gem of the Mountains Vol. 4 by James H. Hawley 1920)
Orley Soucie, an Idaho pioneer, who was formerly one of the old-time miners of the Boise basin, is now residing on a well improved and valuable ranch of eighty acres situated two and a half miles south of Meridian. He purchased it as a relinquishment claim in March, 1910, and took possession of the tract, which was then covered with sagebrush. Something of his activity and enterprise is manifest in the excellent appearance of the property at the present time. The life story of Orley Soucie had its beginning in Door county, Wisconsin, where he was born July 17, 1869. His father Dammas Soucie, was a French Canadian, although born in Bangor, Maine. During the greater part of his life he followed fishing or was a pilot and sailor on the St. Lawrence river, the Great Lakes and also on the Atlantic, this life bringing him many varied and interesting experiences. He died in Boise in 1893, when on a visit to his son. His home was at that time in Nebraska, where he owned a good farm. His son Orley was then residing on the coast in the state of Washington and the father had paid him a visit and was en route to his home when he became ill of spotted fever and passed away in Boise, his remains being interred in the Morris Hill cemetery of that city. In tracing back the ancestry of Orley Soucie it is found that his paternal grandfather was a native of France, while his mother was an English woman.
Orley Soucie left Door county. Wisconsin, with his parents in 1881, when, twelve years of age, removing to Custer county, Nebraska, where he was reared to manhood and was married. It was on the 21st of August 1890, when he had just passed his twenty-first birthday, that he wedded Miss Jessie Smith, a native of Missouri, with whom he long traveled life's journey most happily. To them were born nine children, eight of whom are still living, but in the year 1913 the wife and mother passed away, her death occurring on the 22d of November.
After their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Soucie lived for a time in Nebraska and then removed to the coast, settling in the state of Washington in 1891. In 1893, however, they retraced their steps eastward as far as Idaho, and for several years, or from 1893 until 1910, Mr. Soucie followed mining pursuits at Centerville and Pioneerville in the Boise basin. In the summer of 1900 Mr. Soucie was also in the Klondike, where he was employed by a dredge company. Since 1910 he has continuously occupied his ranch property south of Meridian, comprising eighty acres of land, which he has converted from a tract of sagebrush into one of the highly developed and valuable ranch properties of the district. It is now largely planted to alfalfa and red clover, the remainder being in pasture land, and he is successfully engaged in the raising of registered Hampshire sheep, cattle and horses.
Since the death of his wife seven years ago Mr. Soucie has remained a widower, attempting as best he can to fill the place of both father and mother to his children. Seven of the nine children are still living: Ralph, twenty-seven years of age, who is a veteran of the World war, having served for nineteen months in France, while at the present time he is located on a ranch of his own near Meridian; Elta, the wife of Joe Pettit, a rancher living near Meridian; Grace; Clara, now the wife of Merl Pettit, a brother of Joe Pettit and also a rancher near Meridian; Irene, May and Zelma, who are in school and make their home with their father on the ranch.
Mr. Soucie belongs to the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and he is also connected with the Grange, being now master of Locust Grove Grange in his home neighborhood. He is also identified with the Non Partisan League. He carefully considers all vital public questions and his position upon any such is never an equivocal one. He stands firmly for what he believes to be right and his aid and influence are always on the side of progress, reform and improvement.
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