My sister, Linda, and I drove to Twin Falls on Tuesday to help clean out my Grandpa Al's house. He is in a care center and will probably have to stay there. He will be 91 this summer and not in the best of health. As we looked through old papers we came across this newspaper article about Grandpa Al's father, Andrew Ezra Hansen. He was born in Mink Creek Idaho in 1888. My great grandparents on Grandma Bess' side (Grandpa Al's wife) were born in Dayton, Idaho (Delilah 1892, Warren 1890. DAVE's grandparents were born in Preston (1896-John Carver) and Oxford (1895-LaVern Olson). Oxford, Preston, Dayton and Mink Creek are all within 30 miles of each other! Preston and Dayton are only 7 miles apart. Do you think they knew each other?? I would love know if there were any connections.
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Grandpa John Carver lived in Mink Creek and Grandma Carver lived in Franklin Idaho. We visited the old family farm a couple years ago. While I don't know Grandpas' birth year, grandma was born in 1895. Your great grandpa was born in 1888 only 7 yrs between them. For sure if you lived in Mink Creek in the late 1880's you knew everyone within 5 miles.
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