William F. Hartley

1864 - 1923  (59 years)

• Name	William F. Hartley  [1, 2]
  Born	20 Mar 1864	Iowa, USA   [1, 2]
  Gender	Male
  Biography	Biography of William F. Hartley, from Hawley's History of Idaho William Hartley William Hartley, who follows farming and stock raising near Star, was born in Iowa, March 20, 1864, and crossed the plains with his parents, William and Eliza (Paynter) Hartley, in company with a large wago train, it requiring about three months to make the trip. They arrived at the old Walling ranch just above Boise in August, 1864. The father farmed in different sections of the state to the time of his death, which occurred at what is called Dixie Slough, about eight miles below the present site of Caldwell, in 1871. In the family were three children: Clinton F., who died in 1916; Lizzie, the wife of Edgar Meek, of Caldwell; and William Hartley. The last named was but a few months old when the family started across the plains. They drove a yoke of cows, which they milked all the way across, and they also drove a yoke of steers. William Hartley was but seven years of age at the time of his father's death. In 1881, when a young man of eighteen years, he arrived in the Wood river country of Idaho, where for three years he engaged in the live stock business and then spent about three years at Rocky Bar, where he was engaged in the same business and in butchering. In 1892 Mr. Hartley was united in marriage to Miss Annie Morrison, a native of Missouri, who came to Idaho with her parents and located on Dry creek about five miles fin where the town of Eagle now stands, the place being then called Junction House. Her parents were Thomas and Elizabeth (Lampton) Morrison, well known early pioneer people of that section of the state. Following his marriage Mr. Hartley purchased one hundred acres of the Thurman ranch about five miles below Boise and there engaged in farming for about eleven years, raising hay and stock. On the expiration of that period he sold the property and removed to Nampa, where he devoted two years to merchandising, and during the same time he was also active in buying land and stock. Resuming the occupation of farming he was so engaged on the McCuette ranch on Snake river, near the old McCarty ferry. Mr. Hartley crossed the river there when McCarty, who later became one of the prominent men of Boise, was operating the ferry. From the McCuette place he removed to his present ranch, having forty acres northeast of Star on rural route No. 1. Here he raises stock and hay. He has about two hundred head of beef cattle, which he ranges on the south fork of the Boise river, having ranged cattle there for twenty-five years. He has passed through all of the hardships and privations of pioneer life and there is no phase of the development of this section of the state with which he is not thoroughly familiar. During the Bannock war he was one day hunting horses in the Dry creek mountains and saw from the top of the hill, where he sat on his horse, an Indian coming down the road as though in a great hurry. He was riding a pony and was out of sight in a moment, but Mr. Hartley was only a small boy and was very much frightened. He learned later, however, that the Indian was more frightened than he, as a white man was after him and would have killed him could he have gotten within range of the foe. Clinton Hartley, brother of William Hartley, had an early experience which was typical of those times. He was driving the cows out to pasture and in proceeding up a gulch near the house one morning he came face to face with an escaped convict from the penitentiary at Boise. In those days they shaved only one side of the prisoner's head, leaving the hair long on the other half. The convict said he was armed and that he would kill Clinton Hartley if he did not cut his hair. The boy had only an old pocket knife but did the job with that and the convict looked as though he had been in a fight with a bear when the task was finished. The convict promised the boy a watch and other things, but he was caught before he had a chance to make his promises good. Mr. and Mrs. William Hartley have become the parents of six children: Morris, twenty-seven years of age; Hazel L., a stenographer at Boise; Florence A., who is a stenographer at the State Normal School; Fred, who is farming with his father; Leslie T., who is attending school; and De Roland, thirteen years of age, who is also in school.  [3]
  Died	5 Sep 1923	Boise, Ada County, Idaho, USA   [2]
  Buried	Dry Creek Cemetery, Boise, Ada County, Idaho, USA
  Person ID	I4348	Full | ProgenitorWalker
  Last Modified	25 Sep 2011

  
  

  Father	William Carroll Hartley,   b. 23 Oct 1834, Greenville, Bond County, Illinois, USA ,   d. 10 Jul 1871, Idaho Territory, USA  (Age 36 years)
  Mother	Eliza Ann Paynter,   b. Abt 1840, Virginia, USA ,   d. Yes, date unknown
  Married	7 Mar 1861	Cedar County, Missouri, USA   [4]
  	Brothers, William C. Hartley and Henry K. Hartley, married sisters, Sarah Jane Paynter and Eliza Ann Paynter. Both families moved to the West.
  Family ID	F1455	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Documents

  William F. Hartley, son of William C. Hartley and Eliza Paynter, death certificate, 1923, Ada County, Idaho "Idaho Death Certificates, 1911-1937," database, FamilySearch.org (https://familysearch.org : accessed 21 September 2011), entry for William F. Hartley, Ada County, death certificate (1923), certificate no. 43040; GSU film no. 1530765.

  
  

• Sources

  [S1615] 1870 U. S. census, Ada County, Idaho Territory, population schedule, Boise City, p. 28-29 (penned), p. 15B-16A (stamped), dwelling 241, family 240, William Hartley household; digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 21 September 2011); citing NARA microfilm publication M593, roll 185. [S1616] "Idaho Death Certificates, 1911-1937," database, FamilySearch.org (https://familysearch.org : accessed 21 September 2011), entry for William F. Hartley, Ada County, death certificate (1923), certificate no. 43040; GSU film no. 1530765. [S1620] Hawley, James Henry, History of Idaho: Gem of the Mountains (Chicago: S. J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1920), vol. 3, 651-652, biography of William Hartley; digital images, GoogleBooks (http://books.google.com : accessed 23 September 2011). [S1614] “Missouri Marriage Records, 1805–2002,” digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 19 September 2011), Cedar County, [vol. not stated]: 181, for Hartley-Paynter (1861).