Old Missoula

 

Myron P. and Aurora Augusta Jewett

 

Information below is taken from Sam Sloan Family Tree Article

 

Myron Pixley JEWETT was born on 21 Nov 1872 in Lamoille Valley, Elko, Nevada. He died on 25 May 1940 in Missoula, Montana. The cause of death was Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever. He was buried in Missoula City Cemetery. He married Aurora Augusta HAEGER on 27 Sep 1895 in Bannack, Beaverhead, Montana.

 

RITES FOR MYRON PIXLEY JEWETT TO BE TUESDAY AT 2

 

Funeral services for Myron Pixley Jewett, 67, logging operator of Evaro, who died at a local hospital Saturday, will be at 2 o’clock Tuesday afternoon, at the Marsh & Powell chapel. Rev. T.W. Bennett will officiate, and burial will be in Missoula cemetery.

 

Mr. Jewett brought his mother and two sisters to Montana in a covered wagon when he was 19 years old. They settled in Dillon, and Mr. Jewett drove a stage between Bannack and Dillon at the time Bannack was the capital of the State. In 1898 he worked as engineer on a gold dredge at Bannack, and in 1905 he went to Anaconda, where he was a miner and smelter worker.

 

He came to Missoula County in 1909, becoming a farmer. In 1917 he entered the logging business which he remained in until the time of his final illness. He lived for 29 years one mile east of Evaro.

 

Mr. Jewett was married in 1895 to Aurora Haeger, and they reared 14 children.

 

Survivors are his wife; eight daughters, Mrs. Roberta Johnson of Evaro, Mrs. Manila Forsberg of Bremerton, Wash., Ruby Jewett of Evaro, Mrs. Helen O’Hoyt of Kalispell, Mrs. Georgia Curran of Missoula, Mrs. Gladys Brown of Bremerton, Mrs. Hazel Hart of Missoula, and Mrs. Emma Rees of Bonner; four sons, Ervin G. of Idaho Falls,Idaho, Myron P., Jr. of Evaro, Floyd of Seattle, Wash.,and Howard of Missoula; 18 grandchildren; a sister, Mrs. Clara Ketterman of Seattle, Wash., and a brother, John of Carson City, Nev.

 

Aurora was brought west by her parents while still an infant. They settled in Hamilton which at that time was still part of Missoula county, Montana. Her father died from pnemonia in 1883 and her mother moved to Virginia City, Montana to run a boarding house.

 

After her mother remarried the family moved from one mining town to another until the ended up in Bannack.

 

Aurora Augusta HAEGER was born on 24 Jul 1879 in Boone City, Boone, Iowa. She died on 12 Dec 1956 in Missoula, Montana. She married Myron Pixley JEWETT on 27 Sep 1895 in Bannack, Beaverhead, Montana.

 

Mrs. Aurora A. Jewett, 77, 1535 1/2 Howell St., died at a local hospital Wednesday afternoon. She had lived in Missoula since 1942.
She was born July 24,1879, at Boone City,Iowa. After coming to Montana she settled in Bannack where her husband, Myron drove the first stage from Bannack to Dillon.
They later moved to Anaconda and from there to Evaro, where her husband died in 1940. Two years after his death she moved to Missoula.
Mrs. Jewett was a member of the Episcopal Church and of the West Side Club.
Surviving are 12 children, Howard Jewett, Mrs. O.L. Johnson, Mrs. William Curran and Mrs. Robert Reese of Missoula, Pixley and Ervin Jewett of Idaho, Floyd Jewett, Mrs. Manilla Whitney and Mr. Guy Brown of Seattle Wash.,Mrs. Ruby McMerchie of Alaska and Mrs. Rolla Jesson of Great Falls; 23 grandchildren; 39 great grandchildren; a half-sister in Seattle and a half-brother in San Francisco.
Funeral services will be conducted Saturday at 11 a.m. at the Squire-Simmons-Carr Rose Chapel; Burial will be in the family plot in the Missoula Cemetery. (Sources: Journal record made by Ervin Jewett for all births also Birth,Marriage,and death Cert.)

 

 

 

Article below is from the Missoulian – 6/24/99

 

Ruby Ruth Jewett

 

KETCHIKAN, Alaska – Ruby Ruth Jewett, 98, of Ketchikan, formerly of Evaro and Missoula, and Gilmore, Idaho, died Friday, April 30, 1999, in Ketchikan.

 

Ruby was born on Feb. 18, 1901, in Bannack, to Myron and Aurora Jewett, the fifth of 14 children.

 

She spent most of her early life in Evaro, where she finished the first eight grades. Ruby later received additional education at the Catholic Sisters’ School in Missoula.

 

Throughout her long life, Ruby exhibited an adventurous spirit that led her first, at age 16, to Gilmore, Idaho, where she kept house for her father and brother while they worked at the Gilmore mines. Happiest when on the move, she traveled to 47 of the 50 states, including Hawaii.

 

A very capable woman, Ruby worked as a manicurist, cook, waitress, and photographer. She particularly enjoyed taking family photos in Ketchikan during the 1940s and cooking in the early 1950s at a resort on Mirror Lake in Alaska.

 

Ruby’s warm and caring nature is demonstrated by the many friends and family members who will miss her sense of humor, her passion for living, and her ready help for those in need.

 

She is survived by her sons, Richard Benedict of Salmon, Idaho, and Wayne McMurchie of Ketchikan; sisters, Gladys Brown of Silverdale, Wash., and Hazel Connor of Great Falls; grandchildren, Richard of Las Vegas, Lynne of Boise, Idaho, Hope Benedict of Salmon, Idaho, Kaaren Woods of Seattle, and Greg McMurchie of Seattle; great-grandson, Richard Benedict of Boise; and many nieces and nephews.

 

Ruby’s ashes will be placed with her parents in Missoula Cemetery on Sunday morning, June 26, where family members will gather to say their final goodbye.

 

 

Article below is from the Missoulian – 7/17/2001

 

Hazel L. (Jewett) Conner

 

MISSOULA – Hazel L. (Jewett) Conner, 90, of Missoula and formerly of Great Falls, passed away of natural causes Sunday, July 15, 2001, at Hunter’s Glen in Missoula.

 

She was born on May 1, 1911, in Evaro to Myron and Aurora Haeger Jewett. One of 14 children, she was raised and educated in Evaro.

 

Hazel owned and operated several beauty shops in Missoula and worked as an operator for over 30 years in Great Falls.

 

In 1931 she married Charles “Chick” Hart. They were later divorced. She then married Rolla “Jess” Jesson and they moved to Great Falls in 1952. They were later divorced. She later married Harold Conner and he passed away in 1967.

 

Hazel was a member of the Eagles Club Ladies Auxiliary. She loved her pets and gardening. She enjoyed a long, active and healthy life.

 

She was preceded in death by 12 brothers and sisters, her husband Harold Conner and grandson Travis Allen Hart.

 

Survivors include her son Charles “Chuck” Hart and his wife Brenda of Eureka; sister Gladys Brown of Silverdale, Wash.; two grandsons, K.C. Hart of Missoula and Todd Hart of Big Sky; great-grandson Jackson Hart of Missoula; and numerous cousins, nieces and nephews.

 

A private family memorial service will be held at a later date.

 

The family suggests memorials to Partners in Home Care Hospice, 500 N. Higgins Ave., Suite 201, Missoula, MT 59802.

 

 

Below is a link to Ervin Gerard Jewett born in Anaconda, Montana in 1896, died in 1970 in Spokane, Wa.

 

https://www.geni.com/people/Ervin-Gerard-Jewett/5552903856150064529

 

 

Ervin started his schooling in Bannack. The school is still standing and is directly beneath the Masonic Lodge. He eventually graduated from the 8th grade.

 

He and his brothers worked in the hay fields in the summers and Ervin at the age of 16 went to work in a mine during the spring, summer and fall. His only companion was a cat. Most of the money earned was sent home to help support his brothers and sisters.

 

By 1918 he was working in Gilmore, Lemhi county, Idaho. Gilmore was a small mining town supported by the silver ore found there. While here Ervin met a pretty young woman who was working in the Post Office. He fell in love with her and after awhile asked her to marry him.

 

Esther had worked hard ever since she was a young woman and already felt like an old woman. Her mother died when she was nine years old and she being the oldest girl found herself doing the wash and cooking for the family. For these reasons she kept telling Ervin “no.” Ervin did not give up and soon Esther gave in and Ervin went to her father to ask for her hand in marriage. Esther’s father said he would if Ervin agreed to let Esther help with the cooking and cleaning for his family- which she did until they left Gilmore.

 

World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918 Record

 

about Ervin Jewett

 

Name: Ervin Jewett

 

City: Not Stated

 

County: Lemhi

 

State: Idaho

 

Birthplace: Montana

 

Birth Date: 8 May 1895

 

Race: Caucasian

 

Roll: 1452218

 

DraftBoard: 0

 

In order for the marriage to occur Ervin had to quit his job at the mine. In those days there were no vacations and few excuses for not being on the job. He and Esther left Gilmore by train to Salmon, Idaho where they were married at 2:00 a.m. on the 3rd of January 1918. They returned home and Ervin returned to the mine.

 

A short time after their marriage Ervin joined the Army and prepared to fight in WWI at Fort Lewis, Washington. He was stationed at Hoboken, New Jersey when he received his orders to go overseas. He and his fellow soldiers boarded the train for New York, but it never arrived. The train went off the tracks and many were injured, including Ervin. He was sent to an army hospital with a broken arm and by the time it had healed the war was over.

 

By the time they were expecting their first child Ervin was working with his father on the farm in Evaro. His father had started logging in 1917 and could pay the boys for helping him with the business.

 

Esther carried her child for ten months before he finally delivered. In 1920 it was the general practice to just let nature take its course. The child only lived two days and Esther nearly died also. When asked how she felt about losing that first child, she said that she was so ill herself that she was just lucky to be alive. She recalled that her entire lower body was black and blue do to the length of time she carried the child.

 

Their next child, Clifford, was born in Evaro with few complications and they were blessed with a third child, Lovere in 1925.

 

They returned to Gilmore, Idaho about 1927 and Ervin worked again in the mines. They were there for a few years before they moved to Idaho Falls, Idaho where Ervin worked for the Bonneville Lumber Company. It was here that Ervin and Esther’s third son became ill and died of Hodgkin’s disease.

 

Esther told of how Lovere grew weaker and weaker. In the later stages of the disease he would get bloody noses that would not stop. On the day that he died he had filled a whole dishpan full of blood. Just before he died he sat up in bed and said he had to go through the door, they were calling for him to go! Then he simply passed away in his mother’s arms.

 

Esther endured yet another tragedy when she became pregnant in the tube. By the time she knew she was pregnant the baby had already died and she underwent surgery for gangrene. Once again she was just glad to be alive.

 

During the depression the family had to find work where they could and with Ervin’s hard rock experience the family found themselves in Las Vegas, Nevada working on the Hoover Dam and in Boulder City, Nevada. They returned to Idaho Falls for a short time, sold their home and moved to North Idaho where Ervin went to work in the Sunshine Mine. Here they lived in the small town of Osburn.

 

Ervin hated working in the Sunshine Mine as it was very hot mine with poor ventilation. He quite and went to work at the Sidney Mine as a shift boss. Other family members worked there also. His brother Pix, and nephew Merle Jewett and his father-in-law, James Stout. They were living in a rented home at Pine Creek, Idaho at that time.

 

After their son returned from WWII, he talked his parents into buying four lots in Pinehurst, Idaho. They purchased two out buildings from the old King Tut mine near the Canyon side of the Fourth of July Pass and moved them to Pinehurst where they put them together and made one house. Here they lived until Ervin died in 1970, he fell off the garage roof and died two weeks later. Esther continued to live there until her death in 1995. The house has since been remodeled

 

After the Sidney Mine closed Ervin went to work at the Page mine where he retired as a shift boss.

 

Esther became very active in the community after Ervin’s death serving as the secretary for a number of years for the Pinehurst Senior Citizens. She also took her friends to doctor appointments and other activities as she had a vehicle and could still drive. In 1981 she went to Coeur d’Alene to visit her grandson, Jim and his family. On the return trip she hit some black ice and went into a skid and rolled her car. She was thrown completely out of the passenger side window head first. The impact broke both of her collar bones, her left arm, six ribs, crushed three vertebrae and broke her pelvis. For several days she begged the doctors to just put her out of her misery, but she slowly recovered enough to return home where she could get around just enough to live there up to six weeks before her death. Much of that time was spent alone except for a short time when her grandson Ray lived with her.

 

Esther had many hobbies such as gardening, crocheting, embroidery, sewing and quilting. She also was great at tatting and making things out of almost anything to decorate her home and yard.

 

Esther was four foot eight inches tall in her prime. At the time of her death she was only four foot six and weighed only eighty six pounds.

 

Retired Miner Taken by Death

 

Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Tuesday from the Kellogg Funeral Chapel for Ervin G. Jewett, Pinehurst, 74, retired miner and shift boss whose death occurred Nov. 14, at a Spokane Hospital.

 

The Rev. Fr.Lauren McReynolds of Emmanuel Episcopal Church will officiate at final rites and interment will be made in Greewood Cemetery, Shoshone Funeral Service, Inc., in charge.

 

Graveside rites will be conducted by the Knights of Pythias Galena Lodge No. 12, Bus Zoellner Post No. 36, American Legion and World War I Veterans.

 

Jewett was born May 8,1896 in Anaconda, Mont. He was a veteran of World War I and came to this district in 1941. He retired as a shift boss for American Smelting & Refining Co. in 1961. In addition to the organizations mentioned above for graveside rites, he was a member of Wardner Lodge No. 34, AF & AM.

 

Jewett married Esther Stout of Rexburg, Idaho on Jan. 3,1918 at Salmon , Idaho.

 

In addition to his wife at the Pinehurst home, survivors are three brothers, Myron D. of Hayden Lake, Howard S. of Missoula and Floyd V. of Seattle. three grandsons; eight sisters, Mrs. Roberta Johnson, Mrs. Georgia Curran, Mrs. Emma Bidlake, all of Missoula; Helen J. Burch, Bremerton; Mrs. Manilla Whiting and Ruby R. Jewett, both of Seattle; Mrs. Hazel Connor, Great Falls, Mont. numerous nieces and nephews.

 

Esther V. Jewett, 95

 

Funeral services will be held Friday at 10 a.m. at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in Pinehurst for Esther V. Jewett, 95, Pinehurst. Bishop Glen Keller will preside. Burial will follow at Greenwood Cemetery in Kellogg. Esther died Monday at Shoshone Living Center in Kellogg.

 

Esther was born Jan. 9,1900 in Cedar Point, Idaho, the daughter of James and Mary Stout. She wed Ervin Jewett on Jan. 3, 1918 in Salmon, Idaho, and they came to this area in 1943 from Idaho Falls. Ervin preceded her in death in 1970.

 

Esther was a mother and homemaker. Memberships included the VFW Auxiliary, Pinehurst Senior Citizens and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.

 

Survivors include three grandsons, Willam and James, both of Spokane and Raymond of Moore, Idaho; eight great-grandchildren and several nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her husband and three sons, Floyd, Clifford and Lovere.

 

Arrangements are under the direction of Shoshone Funeral Services.

 

Sources: Death cert. ,Marriage, Birth cert., Journal record of births by Ervin Jewett; LDS Hibbard Ward record of blessing and bap. of Esther Stout; Bible record. Esther’s birth cert. lists Cedar Point Idaho as birth place-which was about two miles from Hibbard, Idaho on the Snake River. (The News-Press Wednesday, May 17,1995.)