Joseph N. Williams, a Crystal farmer for 26 years, dies in 1943
A Pennsylvania-born farmer who settled at Crystal about 1914 and once grew peanuts on the divide died in Pocatello in May 1943, three years after leaving the valley.
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A Pennsylvania-born farmer who settled at Crystal about 1914 and once grew peanuts on the divide died in Pocatello in May 1943, three years after leaving the valley.