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(Lower Cemetery) As of 11 Aug 2023 the cemetery was in very, very bad condition. No headstones or markers present. There are some outlines of graves present. Felled trees and shrubbery exists all over the cemetery. There were 2 posts laying on the hill which I believe were part of William Mullaly's grave. No other evidence of a graveyard exists. You would not know there was a cemetery at this location by just looking at it. South end of Rocky Bar.
Compiled and contributed 2023 Aug 26 by Terry Sunderlin
Birth: unknown
Death: 1896, Rocky Bar
Died while trying to reach Rocky Bar in Winter with Annie Morrow (Peg Leg Annie) Froze to death
Birth: Jan., 1833 Washington Co, MO
Death: Sep. 13, 1913, Rocky Bar ID
Originally buried at Rocky Bar, he was later moved to Mountain Home Idaho cemetery.
Wife Margaret A. Halbert married 5 Feb 1871
1848 South Carolina 23 Jun 1921 Mountain Home Id.
Children: 4 boys 4 girls, with 2 girls and 2 boys are buried at Rocky Bar
Birth: Jun. 18, 1874, USA
Death: May 11, 1908, Rocky Bar
Son of George and Margaret Jackson
First he was buried with Father at Rocky Bar then movied with his Father to Mountain Home Idaho
Birth: unknown
Death: unknown, Rocky Bar
daughter of George and Margaret Jackson
Birth: 1848, SC
Death: Jun. 23, 1921, Mountain Home
Mountain Home Republican, 2 July 1921
She was buried and then taken to Mountain Home Idaho
Page 1, column 1 Passed from this life to the other life, Thursday, June 23, Mrs. Margaret A. Halbert Jackson, at the age of 72 years and six months, at the home of her sons, frank and Robert Jackson, in Mountain Home, Idaho. She was born in South Carolina in 1848. As Miss Margaret A. Halbert, she was married to George W. Jackson, at Steelville, Mo., February 5, 1871. To this wedlock eight children, four boys and four girls, were given. Her husband was buried at Rocky Bar eight years ago, and near him two children: other two lie, one in Missouri and one in Colorado. She is survived by two daughters, Mrs. Laura Hunter of Oakland, Calif., and Mrs. Grace Ryan, of Hillsboro, Ore.; and two sons, Frank L. and Robert P. Jackson. She has ten grandchildren, the two oldest being Mrs. Edna Schartt of Gillette, Wyo., and Willie D. Bickel of Mountain Home. All were present at her bedside at the last parting, and she knew them all.
The deceased was an Idaho pioneer. The same year of the marriage, 1871, Mrs. Jackson with her husband came on the overland route, by way of Salt Lake and the old Mountain Home near Rattlesnake creek to Rocky Bar. Mr. Jackson at one time owned the Elmore mine, and Mrs. Jackson helped to sack out the gold ore in belt pockets around the waist. Thirty-two years of her life were associated with the Jackson ranch, near the Boise river bridge near Featherville. This valuable property was started and developed by Mr. and Mrs. Jackson. The past few years her home has been with her sons in Mountain Home.
Birth: unknown
Death: 1876, Rocky Bar, ID
Died in an Street fight in Rocky Bar Idaho
Birth: 1830, NY
Death: Aug. 19, 1865, Rocky Bar, ID
Depending on where you lived in Idaho, the dastardly deed or official
move occurred on March 29, 1865. With Lyon absent, the newest
Territorial Secretary (Secretary of State) Clinton DeWitt Smith named
himself acting governor. He went to nearby Fort Lapwai, brought a
contingent of soldiers to the Lewiston Capitol building, broke into the
building, loaded the Territorial Seal and as many official papers that
would fit in his saddlebags, and headed to Boise. They were on the road
(make that trail) for 16 days, arriving in Boise on April 14. This seems
a long time, but the group probably wasn't familiar with the foul
weather that can hit in early spring in the high prairies and rugged
canyons between the two cities.
Foul! the Northerners cried. But
Smith had seen the out-migration of miners as he rode into Lewiston. He
had arrived on March 2, 1865.
The Northerners had thought they
had a tight grip on the capital. The first territorial governor
President Abraham Lincoln had sent west in 1863, a man named William H.
Wallace, had picked Lewiston as the capital city. It seemed a good
choice. The city at that time was larger than Olympia, Seattle, and
Portland put together. It was also the closest Idaho city to his
residence in Washington. His temporary territorial secretary, a man
named Silas Cochran, appears to have been for keeping the Lewiston site.
But a permanent secretary (Smith) can over-rule a temporary one.
How did they get into this knotty mess? Part of it was the dozen
territorial governors appointed between territory and statehood. Few of
them, it seems, wanted to tackle the enormous problems presented by a
corduroy piece of country full of people at odds over almost everything.
The Territorial Seal brought to Boise by Smith. It has not since
been found.A new seal, designed by Gov. Caleb Lyon, was unveiled in
1866.Photo courtesy: John Mock, Lewiston historian It came to a slight
head with the first legislative session in December of 1863. More
southerners showed up than northerners, and even Wallace must have seen
what was coming. It came when the southerners introduced a bill to move
the capital to Boise. A representative named H.C. Riggs (a Democrat)
introduced the bill, but northerners managed to get the bill tabled at
that session, and everybody went home without a decision on where the
capital was to be. It wasn't tough to know which site Riggs favored. He
had named his son Boise, and he carved Ada County out of Boise County,
naming it after his daughter.
But a funny thing happened in that
first session. Apparently by mistake, the first session set two dates
for the second session - one on November 14, 1864, and another on
January 1, 1865.
Everybody showed up on November 14, this time
with even more southern representatives. Arguments filled with spit and
vitriol replaced debate, but the southerners managed to maneuver the
Boise capital bill through the legislative mill. Governor Lyon signed
the bill.
Northerners sued. They said that the legislature should
have met in January instead of November, and everything passed during
the November session was invalid. With no Supreme Court, a Lewiston
judge heard the case and upheld the northerners' plea. Probate Judge
John G. Berry locked up territorial records and said that if Lyon or
Cochran or anyone else tried to remove them, they would be arrested and
jailed.
Smith broke into this building in 1865, stuffed territorial
papers into saddlebags and escaped to Washington Territory with a U.S.
Marshal on his heels. Cochran apparently didn't want to remove
them, and Lyon was out-of-territory, so Cochran, after traveling to
Washington to talk to Lyon, declared that since Lyon was out of the
territory, his signing of the bill was not binding. He refused to lend a
hand by opening the safe for troops sent to the capitol by Lyon. Enter
Smith, the permanent territorial secretary. He personally oversaw the
move-theft on horseback to Boise. Smith had been chased to the Snake
River ferry by U.S. Marshal Joseph K. Vincent, who waved Judge Berry's
warrant for Smith's arrest. While the troops kept the marshal at bay,
Smith made it to the ferry, and he didn't stop until he was across the
river and into Washington Territory.
Smith arrived in Boise April
14, 1865, and made a short speech on the balcony of the Overland Hotel.
He said he was among friends. A large crowd of Boise residents was there
to cheer him.
"I feel welcome now, for it seems to me that I have
got among my friends. It is the first time I have felt so since I
arrived in the territory," he said. He said he planed to stay in Boise,
then left the balcony after saying he was very tired.
Idaho's
Territorial Capitol was finished in 1886. It stood at the same location
as the current Capitol building and was torn down to make way for
construction of the State Capitol in 1919. The architect for this
building was E.E. Myers of Detroit, Michigan.
Smith's arrival in
Boise got little press coverage, for he had arrived on the same night
President Abraham Lincoln, the man who had appointed him territorial
secretary, was shot at Ford's Theater in Washington, D.C.
That
wasn't the end of the story.
A Supreme Court came into being in
1866, and since the original lawsuit had not been settled at the
territorial level, the court finally reconsidered the case and ruled,
two to one, that Boise was the one and only capital city. However, the
action is recorded only in court minutes. An official opinion was never
written.
And Smith did not live to see his actions upheld by the
high court. While on an inspection trip to the quartz mines at Rocky
Bar, he fell over dead during a game of chess. His obituary in the Walla
Walla Statesman said he died August 14, 1865, and was buried on the spot
"with the usual manifestation of mourning."
Birth: 1830
Death: Sep. 12, 1899, Rocky Bar, ID
Contributor: Unknown
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