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Ketchum Pioneer and Six ChildrenMrs. Sarah Jane McCoy, who will observe her 92nd birthday anniversary Christmas day, Is shown above with her six surviving: children. Lett to right, the children are Janies McCoy, Hailey; Melvin McCoy, Butte, Mont.; Mrs. Gilbert Hickey, Salida, Wash.; Roy McCoy, Goodins:; Mrs. Gary Castle, Picabo, and Arnold McCoy, Ketchum. (Staff engraving)lt;* * * * * * ft *ftKetchum’s Oldest Resident, “Grandma”McCoy, Arrived in Area 68 Years AgoBy DOROTHY POVEYKETCHUM, Nov. 1—Mrs. Sarah Jane McCoy, Ketchum’s oldest resident, recently decided it was about time her family got together. Consequently her 6 living children, 48 grandchildren, 48 great-grandchildren and 8 great-great-grand-children had a reunion Oct. 18. Pictures of the entire group were taken by one of her great-grandsons, Alvin, now working on the photographic staff at Sun Valley.“Grandma McCoy as she is known to all her friends, arrived in Ketchum with her husband, George, and their five children 68 years ago this month, almost on the heels of receding bands of blood-thirsty Indians, who had been driven out, for the most part, by 1878.died. We children were left among strangers. I was taken back to California to live with a family who had known my father.Grandma McCoy says the only people she ever felt any ill will toward were the Indians, and that in later years she has overcome that.Aside from the killing of her father, she witnessed many blood curdling acts of the Digger Indians in California. She told of one and shuddered a little as she related it.“Mr. Allen, who lived on Cow creek, not far from us, had to go to town for some supplies. His wife begged him not to go, but he felt it necessary. When he returned hefound his wife and five children piled on the hearth. She and the baby were dead. Three of the children were scalped and one was leftfppVllfifcrntnrlarl T TTian4' ♦ nardous trips over the 8,500-foot Trail creek summit, on a road which was built by Isewis and his partners,“They carried all the mail, express and heavy freighting to Chal-lis, Custer and Bonanza, and they charged a toll fee, for anyone else using the road,” she said.And then, just as she bad watched it grow and fortunes accumulated she watched Ketchum sink back again to almost as small a popula-tioh as that first night she slept there. With the drop of silver, the mines gradually closed and the miners left. Only those remained who had “homesteaded” ranches and who had come with the intention of making their permanent homes in the narrow valley.In the summers the sheepmer from the lower country moved ir
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Twin Falls Times News
Twin Falls, Idaho, US
Mon, Nov 01, 1948
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