F.A. McConnel was born when his parents were homesteading on McConnel Island at the mouth of the Boise River. He is known to have attended school in Parma, and probably on McConnel Island before the family moved closer to town in 1890. After the family moved to the foothills of Squaw Butte around 1896, he attended school at both Anderson Creek and Sweet.
After an extremely short stint at mining, Frank went into sheep, first as a hand, later in a partnership with several brothers. McConnell Brothers sheep company was a large outfit based on Anderson Creek, between Emmett and Montour. They went broke after WWI, when the price of sheep was revalued.
In 1904 he was working on a crew near Enterprise, OR, when the crew was poisoned by eating stewed rhubarb that was left out. Everyone but him threw it up, and it ended up eating holes in his bowels. Surgery removed the affected section, and he recovered, against long odds.
While recovering at his father's place in Oregon he met his future wife, Hattie Lucile Bennett. They married in 1906 and had eight children.
In 1922 the family moved from a homestead on Johnson Creek to the Marsh-Ireton place in Montour. F.A. farmed there until his death from a stroke on the first anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor.
After an extremely short stint at mining, Frank went into sheep, first as a hand, later in a partnership with several brothers. McConnell Brothers sheep company was a large outfit based on Anderson Creek, between Emmett and Montour. They went broke after WWI, when the price of sheep was revalued.
In 1904 he was working on a crew near Enterprise, OR, when the crew was poisoned by eating stewed rhubarb that was left out. Everyone but him threw it up, and it ended up eating holes in his bowels. Surgery removed the affected section, and he recovered, against long odds.
While recovering at his father's place in Oregon he met his future wife, Hattie Lucile Bennett. They married in 1906 and had eight children.
In 1922 the family moved from a homestead on Johnson Creek to the Marsh-Ireton place in Montour. F.A. farmed there until his death from a stroke on the first anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor.
F.A. McConnel was born when his parents were homesteading on McConnel Island at the mouth of the Boise River. He is known to have attended school in Parma, and probably on McConnel Island before the family moved closer to town in 1890. After the family moved to the foothills of Squaw Butte around 1896, he attended school at both Anderson Creek and Sweet.
After an extremely short stint at mining, Frank went into sheep, first as a hand, later in a partnership with several brothers. McConnell Brothers sheep company was a large outfit based on Anderson Creek, between Emmett and Montour. They went broke after WWI, when the price of sheep was revalued.
In 1904 he was working on a crew near Enterprise, OR, when the crew was poisoned by eating stewed rhubarb that was left out. Everyone but him threw it up, and it ended up eating holes in his bowels. Surgery removed the affected section, and he recovered, against long odds.
While recovering at his father's place in Oregon he met his future wife, Hattie Lucile Bennett. They married in 1906 and had eight children.
In 1922 the family moved from a homestead on Johnson Creek to the Marsh-Ireton place in Montour. F.A. farmed there until his death from a stroke on the first anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor.
After an extremely short stint at mining, Frank went into sheep, first as a hand, later in a partnership with several brothers. McConnell Brothers sheep company was a large outfit based on Anderson Creek, between Emmett and Montour. They went broke after WWI, when the price of sheep was revalued.
In 1904 he was working on a crew near Enterprise, OR, when the crew was poisoned by eating stewed rhubarb that was left out. Everyone but him threw it up, and it ended up eating holes in his bowels. Surgery removed the affected section, and he recovered, against long odds.
While recovering at his father's place in Oregon he met his future wife, Hattie Lucile Bennett. They married in 1906 and had eight children.
In 1922 the family moved from a homestead on Johnson Creek to the Marsh-Ireton place in Montour. F.A. farmed there until his death from a stroke on the first anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor.
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LUCILE B. / FEB. 15, 1889 / MAR. 8, 1984
FRANK A. / MAR. 5, 1882 / DEC. 7, 1942
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