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Note: http://www.idahogenealogy.com/goodale/onaga_journal.htm
The Onaga Journal, 3 May 1883
(partial exerpt)
Soon emigrants began to move into the area on up the Weiser River. Indian Valley, 12 miles east of Salubria, was the next area to begin to be populated. One of the early emigrants was a sickly man, Albert 'Olly' McDowell. He and his wife, Francis Brown, had six children and came from Dubuque, IA. Albert had tuberculosis, and his doctor had advised him to move to a warmer climate. It could be argued that the Weiser River valleys were probably no warmer than where he had come from, but in 1867, he and two brothers, with a friend, Isaac Spoor, formed a wagon train, and the family came first to Salubria. These all traveled up the Crane Creek variant.
Albert's two older girls, Elizabeth and Elvira, stayed in Salubria where Elizabeth found a school teacher's position in need of her skills in 1868. She met Taylor Cole, a young, earlier emigrant to the area, who was also teaching in the school, and soon married him. (Two teachers in one school offers a hint of how large the school had become with the influx of those early pioneers.) Albert tried Indian Valley for a short time, but evidently it was not helpful to his health. His family picked up their things and moved on to Monterey, CA, the same year they came to Idaho, in 1867.
Isaac Spoor, on the same train as the McDowell family, had stopped and settled in the Payette Valley. In the spring of 1868, Spoor's friends, Albert McDowell and family, once again emigrated from California back to Idaho, and again traveled back up the old Tim Goodale road, and settled in Indian Valley. In the winter of 1868, Albert died at Indian Valley. Albert's youngest son, Albert Warren, was 4 years old when he lost his father.
"Fannie" Francis McDowell soon married Isaac Spoor, and later they moved to Pioneer City, ID. She was about 38 years old and Isaac was 62. Some years later, about 1883, the son, Albert Warren, moved back to Indian Valley. The records show that this McDowell son also died there on May 26, 1927, after living in Indian Valley more than 40 years.
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