(Published in History of Idaho: The Gem of the Mountains Vol. 2 by James H. Hawley 1920)
For forty years Joseph E. Weeks was a resident of Idaho and enjoyed the goodwill and high regard of all who knew him throughout Canyon county. He passed away April 5, 1919, at Jennings Lodge, Oregon, being then about sixty-five years of age. He was born in eastern Canada on the 16th of November, 1853, and was but three months old when his parents, Mr. and Mrs. William Weeks, removed to Linn
county, Iowa. There the father engaged in farming and continued to make his home in that locality to the time of his death, which occurred when he was nearly ninety years of age.
Joseph E. Weeks obtained his education in the schools of Linn county, Iowa, and when twenty-four years of age went to the Black Hills of South Dakota, where he remained for a year and then removed to Idaho. He rented the Davis farm on Eagle Island, near the town of Eagle, and continued its cultivation for three years, after which he removed to the Simpson ranch, about fifteen miles west of Boise, where he engaged in stock raising in connection with Charlie Simpson, to whom he afterward traded his stock for the ranch. He then took up farming in a general way and also engaged in sheep raising on an extensive scale for eighteen years, when he disposed of the ranch property and secured a homestead of eighty acres sixty miles west of Boise. There he again engaged in general farming and sheep
raising for seven years, at the end of which time he removed to Caldwell in order to provide his children with better educational opportunities. After one year spent at Caldwell he purchased a farm at Eugene, Oregon, and there
established his home. He sold the eighty-acre homestead in 1918. He remained in Oregon for one year and then traded his property there for six hundred and forty acres of land in Alberta, Canada, near Monitor, where his son Ralph now resides and carries on the farm.
Mr. Weeks and his family spent the summer of 1918 in Alberta and then returned to the home of his son at Wilder, Idaho. In 1918 he disposed of all his interests in this state but retained the ownership of his home at Eugene, Oregon.
Mr. Weeks was twice married. By his first wife, who bore the maiden name of Fannie Ingle, he had four children. Cecil L., thirty-eight years of age, married Alta Griggs, of Boise, and has one child, Leon, and an adopted daughter, Josephine. He was associated with his father from his eighteenth birthday in sheep raising and is at present connected with the sheep industry. Cassie died
at the age of twelve years. Joseph Waldo, thirty-four years of age and a farmer and sheepman of Wilder, married Belle Keith, of Star, Idaho, by whom he has two children: Lola, who is attending school; and Waldo Ingle. Joy I., thirty-two years of age, married Grace Look, of Wilder, and has four children: Joseph William, Harvey Lee, Cassie M. and Donald Joy. Joy I. Weeks is also engaged in the sheep business near Wilder.
It was on the 25th of August, 1889, that Joseph E. Weeks was united in marriage to Miss Alice Oglesby, of Clay county, Illinois, and they became the parents of five children. Ralph, twenty-nine years of age, married Wilma Zeisler, of Kansas, and has one child, Byrle, aged five. Edgar passed away when two and half years of age. Harlan, aged twenty-five, was in France with the Quartermaster's
Corps, operating the sterilization plant, with the Eighty-second Division. Blanche is the wife of L. L. Hurst, a bookkeeper at Wilder. Clair O. is attending school at Wilder.
Mr. Weeks led a very active and useful life and his death, which was occasioned by hemorrhage of the brain on the 5th of April, 1919, at Jennings Lodge, Oregon, was a great shock and blow to his many friends as well as to his immediate family. He was always very considerate for the welfare of others, was devoted to the interests of the members of his own household and his many sterling traits
of character naturally made him greatly beloved by all who knew him. His widow is at present residing at their old home in Wilder.
For forty years Joseph E. Weeks was a resident of Idaho and enjoyed the goodwill and high regard of all who knew him throughout Canyon county. He passed away April 5, 1919, at Jennings Lodge, Oregon, being then about sixty-five years of age. He was born in eastern Canada on the 16th of November, 1853, and was but three months old when his parents, Mr. and Mrs. William Weeks, removed to Linn
county, Iowa. There the father engaged in farming and continued to make his home in that locality to the time of his death, which occurred when he was nearly ninety years of age.
Joseph E. Weeks obtained his education in the schools of Linn county, Iowa, and when twenty-four years of age went to the Black Hills of South Dakota, where he remained for a year and then removed to Idaho. He rented the Davis farm on Eagle Island, near the town of Eagle, and continued its cultivation for three years, after which he removed to the Simpson ranch, about fifteen miles west of Boise, where he engaged in stock raising in connection with Charlie Simpson, to whom he afterward traded his stock for the ranch. He then took up farming in a general way and also engaged in sheep raising on an extensive scale for eighteen years, when he disposed of the ranch property and secured a homestead of eighty acres sixty miles west of Boise. There he again engaged in general farming and sheep
raising for seven years, at the end of which time he removed to Caldwell in order to provide his children with better educational opportunities. After one year spent at Caldwell he purchased a farm at Eugene, Oregon, and there
established his home. He sold the eighty-acre homestead in 1918. He remained in Oregon for one year and then traded his property there for six hundred and forty acres of land in Alberta, Canada, near Monitor, where his son Ralph now resides and carries on the farm.
Mr. Weeks and his family spent the summer of 1918 in Alberta and then returned to the home of his son at Wilder, Idaho. In 1918 he disposed of all his interests in this state but retained the ownership of his home at Eugene, Oregon.
Mr. Weeks was twice married. By his first wife, who bore the maiden name of Fannie Ingle, he had four children. Cecil L., thirty-eight years of age, married Alta Griggs, of Boise, and has one child, Leon, and an adopted daughter, Josephine. He was associated with his father from his eighteenth birthday in sheep raising and is at present connected with the sheep industry. Cassie died
at the age of twelve years. Joseph Waldo, thirty-four years of age and a farmer and sheepman of Wilder, married Belle Keith, of Star, Idaho, by whom he has two children: Lola, who is attending school; and Waldo Ingle. Joy I., thirty-two years of age, married Grace Look, of Wilder, and has four children: Joseph William, Harvey Lee, Cassie M. and Donald Joy. Joy I. Weeks is also engaged in the sheep business near Wilder.
It was on the 25th of August, 1889, that Joseph E. Weeks was united in marriage to Miss Alice Oglesby, of Clay county, Illinois, and they became the parents of five children. Ralph, twenty-nine years of age, married Wilma Zeisler, of Kansas, and has one child, Byrle, aged five. Edgar passed away when two and half years of age. Harlan, aged twenty-five, was in France with the Quartermaster's
Corps, operating the sterilization plant, with the Eighty-second Division. Blanche is the wife of L. L. Hurst, a bookkeeper at Wilder. Clair O. is attending school at Wilder.
Mr. Weeks led a very active and useful life and his death, which was occasioned by hemorrhage of the brain on the 5th of April, 1919, at Jennings Lodge, Oregon, was a great shock and blow to his many friends as well as to his immediate family. He was always very considerate for the welfare of others, was devoted to the interests of the members of his own household and his many sterling traits
of character naturally made him greatly beloved by all who knew him. His widow is at present residing at their old home in Wilder.
(Published in History of Idaho: The Gem of the Mountains Vol. 2 by James H. Hawley 1920)
For forty years Joseph E. Weeks was a resident of Idaho and enjoyed the goodwill and high regard of all who knew him throughout Canyon county. He passed away April 5, 1919, at Jennings Lodge, Oregon, being then about sixty-five years of age. He was born in eastern Canada on the 16th of November, 1853, and was but three months old when his parents, Mr. and Mrs. William Weeks, removed to Linn
county, Iowa. There the father engaged in farming and continued to make his home in that locality to the time of his death, which occurred when he was nearly ninety years of age.
Joseph E. Weeks obtained his education in the schools of Linn county, Iowa, and when twenty-four years of age went to the Black Hills of South Dakota, where he remained for a year and then removed to Idaho. He rented the Davis farm on Eagle Island, near the town of Eagle, and continued its cultivation for three years, after which he removed to the Simpson ranch, about fifteen miles west of Boise, where he engaged in stock raising in connection with Charlie Simpson, to whom he afterward traded his stock for the ranch. He then took up farming in a general way and also engaged in sheep raising on an extensive scale for eighteen years, when he disposed of the ranch property and secured a homestead of eighty acres sixty miles west of Boise. There he again engaged in general farming and sheep
raising for seven years, at the end of which time he removed to Caldwell in order to provide his children with better educational opportunities. After one year spent at Caldwell he purchased a farm at Eugene, Oregon, and there
established his home. He sold the eighty-acre homestead in 1918. He remained in Oregon for one year and then traded his property there for six hundred and forty acres of land in Alberta, Canada, near Monitor, where his son Ralph now resides and carries on the farm.
Mr. Weeks and his family spent the summer of 1918 in Alberta and then returned to the home of his son at Wilder, Idaho. In 1918 he disposed of all his interests in this state but retained the ownership of his home at Eugene, Oregon.
Mr. Weeks was twice married. By his first wife, who bore the maiden name of Fannie Ingle, he had four children. Cecil L., thirty-eight years of age, married Alta Griggs, of Boise, and has one child, Leon, and an adopted daughter, Josephine. He was associated with his father from his eighteenth birthday in sheep raising and is at present connected with the sheep industry. Cassie died
at the age of twelve years. Joseph Waldo, thirty-four years of age and a farmer and sheepman of Wilder, married Belle Keith, of Star, Idaho, by whom he has two children: Lola, who is attending school; and Waldo Ingle. Joy I., thirty-two years of age, married Grace Look, of Wilder, and has four children: Joseph William, Harvey Lee, Cassie M. and Donald Joy. Joy I. Weeks is also engaged in the sheep business near Wilder.
It was on the 25th of August, 1889, that Joseph E. Weeks was united in marriage to Miss Alice Oglesby, of Clay county, Illinois, and they became the parents of five children. Ralph, twenty-nine years of age, married Wilma Zeisler, of Kansas, and has one child, Byrle, aged five. Edgar passed away when two and half years of age. Harlan, aged twenty-five, was in France with the Quartermaster's
Corps, operating the sterilization plant, with the Eighty-second Division. Blanche is the wife of L. L. Hurst, a bookkeeper at Wilder. Clair O. is attending school at Wilder.
Mr. Weeks led a very active and useful life and his death, which was occasioned by hemorrhage of the brain on the 5th of April, 1919, at Jennings Lodge, Oregon, was a great shock and blow to his many friends as well as to his immediate family. He was always very considerate for the welfare of others, was devoted to the interests of the members of his own household and his many sterling traits
of character naturally made him greatly beloved by all who knew him. His widow is at present residing at their old home in Wilder.
For forty years Joseph E. Weeks was a resident of Idaho and enjoyed the goodwill and high regard of all who knew him throughout Canyon county. He passed away April 5, 1919, at Jennings Lodge, Oregon, being then about sixty-five years of age. He was born in eastern Canada on the 16th of November, 1853, and was but three months old when his parents, Mr. and Mrs. William Weeks, removed to Linn
county, Iowa. There the father engaged in farming and continued to make his home in that locality to the time of his death, which occurred when he was nearly ninety years of age.
Joseph E. Weeks obtained his education in the schools of Linn county, Iowa, and when twenty-four years of age went to the Black Hills of South Dakota, where he remained for a year and then removed to Idaho. He rented the Davis farm on Eagle Island, near the town of Eagle, and continued its cultivation for three years, after which he removed to the Simpson ranch, about fifteen miles west of Boise, where he engaged in stock raising in connection with Charlie Simpson, to whom he afterward traded his stock for the ranch. He then took up farming in a general way and also engaged in sheep raising on an extensive scale for eighteen years, when he disposed of the ranch property and secured a homestead of eighty acres sixty miles west of Boise. There he again engaged in general farming and sheep
raising for seven years, at the end of which time he removed to Caldwell in order to provide his children with better educational opportunities. After one year spent at Caldwell he purchased a farm at Eugene, Oregon, and there
established his home. He sold the eighty-acre homestead in 1918. He remained in Oregon for one year and then traded his property there for six hundred and forty acres of land in Alberta, Canada, near Monitor, where his son Ralph now resides and carries on the farm.
Mr. Weeks and his family spent the summer of 1918 in Alberta and then returned to the home of his son at Wilder, Idaho. In 1918 he disposed of all his interests in this state but retained the ownership of his home at Eugene, Oregon.
Mr. Weeks was twice married. By his first wife, who bore the maiden name of Fannie Ingle, he had four children. Cecil L., thirty-eight years of age, married Alta Griggs, of Boise, and has one child, Leon, and an adopted daughter, Josephine. He was associated with his father from his eighteenth birthday in sheep raising and is at present connected with the sheep industry. Cassie died
at the age of twelve years. Joseph Waldo, thirty-four years of age and a farmer and sheepman of Wilder, married Belle Keith, of Star, Idaho, by whom he has two children: Lola, who is attending school; and Waldo Ingle. Joy I., thirty-two years of age, married Grace Look, of Wilder, and has four children: Joseph William, Harvey Lee, Cassie M. and Donald Joy. Joy I. Weeks is also engaged in the sheep business near Wilder.
It was on the 25th of August, 1889, that Joseph E. Weeks was united in marriage to Miss Alice Oglesby, of Clay county, Illinois, and they became the parents of five children. Ralph, twenty-nine years of age, married Wilma Zeisler, of Kansas, and has one child, Byrle, aged five. Edgar passed away when two and half years of age. Harlan, aged twenty-five, was in France with the Quartermaster's
Corps, operating the sterilization plant, with the Eighty-second Division. Blanche is the wife of L. L. Hurst, a bookkeeper at Wilder. Clair O. is attending school at Wilder.
Mr. Weeks led a very active and useful life and his death, which was occasioned by hemorrhage of the brain on the 5th of April, 1919, at Jennings Lodge, Oregon, was a great shock and blow to his many friends as well as to his immediate family. He was always very considerate for the welfare of others, was devoted to the interests of the members of his own household and his many sterling traits
of character naturally made him greatly beloved by all who knew him. His widow is at present residing at their old home in Wilder.
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