Hyde Park, Utah
We started our journey in Hyde Park. After coming to Salt Lake and a short stint down in Springville, Anna, Charlotte and Jens Peter Krogue were called to help settle Hyde Park. Located just north of Logan, we were able to find a monument to the original settlers.Reading the names we found one that looked familiar!
We found a "Peter Crouge" which according to this newsletter is none other than Jens Peter Krogue.
View of Hyde Park from Valley:
Montpelier, Idaho
We took approximately the same route from Hyde Park that Jens Peter and Charlotte Krogue would have taken in the Spring of 1864 when they were called yet again to move their family. We figured it would have taken almost a week for them to drive a team of oxen with all of their belongings to get to Bear Lake Valley.
Once in Montpelier we took the full tour. A couple of highlights were Angus and Bertha's home that they shared their whole marriage which is still standing:
It was sad to see that Grandma Frankie's tulip garden has been turned into a parking lot :(
At the museum we were surprised to see Grandma Bertha's wedding dress! (Ryan was not thrilled to pose for this picture) The museum also had a plaque with Frankie Bischoff's name on it recognizing her "Scholarship Loyalty and Achievement."
Krogue Farm
~7 miles to the north was ggGrandpa Jens Peter's dry farm (Paul got permission from his cousin Leonard the day before for us to walk out there). He left 40 acres of this farm to Angus. The kids enjoyed looking at all of the farm tools that were rusting near the silo:
Geneva, Idaho
It was really neat to visit Geneva because we got to talk briefly with Great Aunt Nadine who lives in the same house that Grandma Frankie grew up in. She shared a few stories and then pointed us to the appropriate corner of the lot to get a similar picture to the "famous" homestead picture that great aunt Ruby has hanging on her wall (need to remove the out buildings, the covered front porch and the siding on the house):
We wandered around gGrandpa Alf's homestead a bit and got this picture looking up what google maps tells me is named "Bischoff Canyon:"
We drove down into downtown Geneva and saw the church, post office and old country store. I made the following map of where Alf, his brothers and father Homesteaded (more detailed map with descriptions can be found in google earth kml at the end):
Bloomington
Bloomington was fun too. Not only did we see the old Krogue homestead, but we got to meet Grandpa Elmer's cousin Leonard. He was in good spirits and was walking around the property with some of his nieces and nephews when we arrived. We didn't get to go inside the home, but we did get to go inside the big Barn that was built when Leonard was in high school. Ryan and Colin really enjoyed grinding wheat using their gggGrandma Charlotte Krogue's wheat grinder:
Here is a picture of the house:
Ryan and Colin got a kick out of the door on the second floor that led to nowhere. It was the group consensus that Charlotte and her family built the house while Jens Peter Krogue was on his mission.
There was also some discussion about where Jens Peter's other wife Anna would have lived. Leonard thought it was off to the SW, with Paul recollecting it off to the SE. Paul deffered to Leonard, but I think that Paul is correct. If you download the image below and zoom in on block 11, you will see a lot kittycorner to the SE that appears to be in the Krogue name:
Here is my overlay from google earth:
Anyway, we had a wonderful time. Many thanks to Paul and Jim for showing us around and for all of the stories. Also thanks to Christine for watching the little ones so we could go. Paul has a grave spreadsheet that he put together. Using this and Google Earth, I made an attempt to load all of the graves as well as all of the places we visited in one place. I marked out different homesteads so that future generations might be able to see these places without a guide. If you do use it and notice some errors, let me know. Thanks.
Here is the Google Earth kml
