Lucile was born in Milton, OR in 1889, before that town merged with Freewater.
She met Frank McConnel when he came to Milton in 1906 to stay with his dad George and step-mom Ada while recovering from surgery. He was working in his rented pear orchard with Richard Leslie "Dick" McConnel, who was throwing little green pears around instead of helping. One managed to hit Lucile in the eye -- she was in her family's adjacent pear orchard. She got a black eye, and Frank and Dick met her when they came to apologize.
Frank and Lucile were each going to school -- Frank taking a business course by mail, Lucile attending summer normal school in Walla Walla. They did some studying together under the Bennett's big shade trees that summer.
They spent more time together when Frank's parents went to Ada's parents' place on Couse Creek for harvest. Frank and his brother John (visiting from Emmett, ID to help with the fruit harvest) then took meals with the Bennetts.
In Nov. 1907 Lucile and Frank became engaged, and they were married June 10, 1908 in "Grandma Crowe's new home".
They moved to Idaho, back to where Frank and John were ranching. They had 8 children between 1909 and 1927. In 1910 they moved to the Anderson Creek ranch south of the Payette R. between Emmett and Montour; in 1916 homesteaded on Johnson Creek one drainge closer to Montour; and in 1922 moved into the Marsh-Ireton place in Montour.
She met Frank McConnel when he came to Milton in 1906 to stay with his dad George and step-mom Ada while recovering from surgery. He was working in his rented pear orchard with Richard Leslie "Dick" McConnel, who was throwing little green pears around instead of helping. One managed to hit Lucile in the eye -- she was in her family's adjacent pear orchard. She got a black eye, and Frank and Dick met her when they came to apologize.
Frank and Lucile were each going to school -- Frank taking a business course by mail, Lucile attending summer normal school in Walla Walla. They did some studying together under the Bennett's big shade trees that summer.
They spent more time together when Frank's parents went to Ada's parents' place on Couse Creek for harvest. Frank and his brother John (visiting from Emmett, ID to help with the fruit harvest) then took meals with the Bennetts.
In Nov. 1907 Lucile and Frank became engaged, and they were married June 10, 1908 in "Grandma Crowe's new home".
They moved to Idaho, back to where Frank and John were ranching. They had 8 children between 1909 and 1927. In 1910 they moved to the Anderson Creek ranch south of the Payette R. between Emmett and Montour; in 1916 homesteaded on Johnson Creek one drainge closer to Montour; and in 1922 moved into the Marsh-Ireton place in Montour.
Lucile was born in Milton, OR in 1889, before that town merged with Freewater.
She met Frank McConnel when he came to Milton in 1906 to stay with his dad George and step-mom Ada while recovering from surgery. He was working in his rented pear orchard with Richard Leslie "Dick" McConnel, who was throwing little green pears around instead of helping. One managed to hit Lucile in the eye -- she was in her family's adjacent pear orchard. She got a black eye, and Frank and Dick met her when they came to apologize.
Frank and Lucile were each going to school -- Frank taking a business course by mail, Lucile attending summer normal school in Walla Walla. They did some studying together under the Bennett's big shade trees that summer.
They spent more time together when Frank's parents went to Ada's parents' place on Couse Creek for harvest. Frank and his brother John (visiting from Emmett, ID to help with the fruit harvest) then took meals with the Bennetts.
In Nov. 1907 Lucile and Frank became engaged, and they were married June 10, 1908 in "Grandma Crowe's new home".
They moved to Idaho, back to where Frank and John were ranching. They had 8 children between 1909 and 1927. In 1910 they moved to the Anderson Creek ranch south of the Payette R. between Emmett and Montour; in 1916 homesteaded on Johnson Creek one drainge closer to Montour; and in 1922 moved into the Marsh-Ireton place in Montour.
She met Frank McConnel when he came to Milton in 1906 to stay with his dad George and step-mom Ada while recovering from surgery. He was working in his rented pear orchard with Richard Leslie "Dick" McConnel, who was throwing little green pears around instead of helping. One managed to hit Lucile in the eye -- she was in her family's adjacent pear orchard. She got a black eye, and Frank and Dick met her when they came to apologize.
Frank and Lucile were each going to school -- Frank taking a business course by mail, Lucile attending summer normal school in Walla Walla. They did some studying together under the Bennett's big shade trees that summer.
They spent more time together when Frank's parents went to Ada's parents' place on Couse Creek for harvest. Frank and his brother John (visiting from Emmett, ID to help with the fruit harvest) then took meals with the Bennetts.
In Nov. 1907 Lucile and Frank became engaged, and they were married June 10, 1908 in "Grandma Crowe's new home".
They moved to Idaho, back to where Frank and John were ranching. They had 8 children between 1909 and 1927. In 1910 they moved to the Anderson Creek ranch south of the Payette R. between Emmett and Montour; in 1916 homesteaded on Johnson Creek one drainge closer to Montour; and in 1922 moved into the Marsh-Ireton place in Montour.
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McCONNEL
LUCILE B. / FEB. 15, 1889 / MAR. 8, 1984
FRANK A. / MAR. 5, 1882 / DEC. 7, 1942
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