“Keeping Up with the Jones”
Andrew J. Jones, born on October 27, 1830, arrived in the Kootenai Valley in 1899. He and his wife, Maryetta (Starbuck) built a log hotel in Bonners Ferry which they operated for 2 ½ years. The couple homesteaded forty-nine acres ½ mile east town (at the base of Cemetery Hill), planting fruit trees and growing many vegetables. They had two children Thomas J. and Annabell “Belle” Bishop (wife of Dr. Thomas A. Bishop).
This photo is of “Andy and Mary” with “the dogs” by their home in what we now call the Jones Addition (Fessler home site).
Keeping Up with the Jones