In Searach of Ancestors in Idaho

Recently, my husband Bill and I took a day trip to Southern Idaho to visit towns and cemeteries significant to the Boice (Boyce), Barzee, Marshall-Chadwick family lines.

Franklin is a very historic town in Idaho and the burial sites of Sarah Goode Marshall Chadwick, her only son, George Marshall and her husband Joseph Chadwick.

John and Mary Ann Barzee are buried in Oxford, Idaho in a very small pioneer cemetery against a hill. Dayton is the birth place of Delila May Boice Asay.

North of Preston about 2.5 miles is the location of the Bear River Massacre. Smithfield Utah is where the family lived prior to moving to Idaho and where George Barzee and his nephew John Boice are buried.

We began our small adventure in Franklin, the oldest town in Idaho and the resting place of Sarah Goode Marshall and her son George, and husband Joseph Chadwick.

There is a monument in the park in the historic section of the town that lists the early Pioneers. Sarah Marshall is listed on the monument.

The adobe brick building below is one of the first ZCMI buildings, note the "Holiness to the Lord" in the arch with a beehive. The park and monument is located to the left of this building and next to a log building which houses many Pioneer artifacts.