James E. McConnel and Susie Idella Wheeler McConnel Family Sheet

Husband:  James (Jim) Elmer McConnel
Birthdate:  11 October l883
Birthplace: McConnel Island (Parma) Canyon County, ID
Death date:  October 31, 1934
Place of death: Wilder, Canyon County, ID
Father: Benjamin Casner McConnel
Mother: Elizabeth Hall

Marriage date: 31 December 1907
Marriage place: Caldwell, Canyon County, ID 
Minister: Wm J. Boone

Wife: Susie Idella (Ida) Wheeler
Birthdate: 2 March 1886
Birthplace: Dawson, Lac Qui Parle County, MN
Death date: 24 October 1965
Place of death:  Seattle, King County, WA
Father: Oliver (Mark) Isaac Wheeler
Mother: Laura Etta Dill


CHILDREN

Child No. 1: Paul Irwin McConnel
Sex: Male
Birthdate: 19 May 1909
Birthplace: Dixie Area, Canyon County, ID
Death date: 14 February 1974
Place of death: Sarasota, FL
Marriage date (1): 26 Sep 1931
Marriage place: Wilder area, Canyon County, ID
Spouse's name: Geraldene Wood
Marriage date (2): 6 June 1953
Marriage place:  Charlotte, NC
Spouse's name: Maude Wilson Poe


Child No. 2: Pearl Queen McConnel
Sex: Female
Birthdate:  28 September 1910
Birthplace: Boise, Ada County, ID
Death date: 18 July 2004
Place of death: Hospital at Bend, OR
Marriage date: 14 February 1933
Marriage place: Wilder, Canyon County, ID
Spouse's name: Robert (Bob) Wade Eidemiller

Child No. 3: Benjamin (Ben) Curtis McConnel
Sex: Male
Birthdate: 20 January 1913
Birthplace: Caldwell, Canyon County, ID
Death date: 30 January 2008
Place of death: Ontario, OR
Marriage date: 25 February 1940
Marriage place: Fruitland Methodist Church, Fruitland, ID
Spouse's name: Eulah Flose Bratton

Child No. 4: Forest James McConnel
Sex: Male
Birthdate:  16 November 1914
Birthplace: Caldwell, Canyon County, ID
Death date: 5 June 2012
Place of death: Seattle, WA
Marriage date: 26 June 1938
Marriage place: Roswell, Canyon County, ID
Spouse's name: Ida Eledes (Dee) Hunt

Child No. 5: Oliver McConnel
Sex: Male
Birthdate: Stillborn 1917
Birthplace: Roseberry, ID
Death date: 1917
Place of death: Roseberry, ID
Marriage date: 
Marriage place: 
Spouse's name: 

Child No. 6: June Idella McConnel
Sex: Female
Birthdate: 25 June 1918
Birthplace: Arena Valley, Canyon County, ID
Death date: 16 September 1986
Place of death: Arena Valley, Canyon County, ID
Marriage date: 28 November 1937
Marriage place: Wilder, Canyon County, ID
Spouse's name: Merle Hugh Jenkins

Child No. 7: Lois Etta McConnel
Sex: Female
Birthdate: 17 February 1922
Birthplace: Wilder Bench, Canyon County, ID
Death date: 
Place of death: 
Marriage date: 1 February 1942
Marriage place: Olympia, WA
Spouse's name: Merwyn (Mike) Ernest Dunagan

Child No. 8: Joseph Earnest (Ernest) "Mac" "JEM" McConnel
Sex: Male
Birthdate: 7 December 1925
Birthplace: Arena Valley, Canyon County, ID
Death date: 8 October 1984
Place of death: Norfolk, VA
Marriage date: 20 April 1947
Marriage place:  Jacksonville, FL
Spouse's name: Clara Jean Ward

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Note:
Jim and Idella also raised the sons of Idella's sister, Maude & Jim Wright. "My folks took Neil (1900-1979) and his brother Robert to live with them when Maude died in 1912 (she died undergoing an the operation for appendicitis). Neil was the younger of the two brothers. He was 10 or 11 (as I recall Mom telling me). He stayed with them until he and Robert were old enough to go into the Army in World War I. Both brothers survived the war. Neil and his wife, Esther, lived in Portland, OR for many years. We saw Robert and Neil (but rarely). My brother Forest (living in Anchorage, AK then) visited with Neil and Esther occasionally when he was in the Portland area." - Lois

Album

Jim & Idella
Jim plowing in High Valley
Uncle Jim on horseback, with shovel (love it!)
Idella's Friendship Signature Quilt


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