AVARBON VALLEYIDAHO · OUR SHARED HISTORY
FAMILY ALBUM · SUMMIT AREA

The Nunnelley family.

The Nunnelley family is documented on the valley map from land and family records. The original archive has no family history for them, so their pictures are kept together here. 1 land patent · 1 newspaper clipping.

Land patents

Federal patents to the family’s land, from the General Land Office records, in date order.

Homestead patent to Mamie Nunnelley, 1915View photograph ↗
July 7, 1915

Homestead patent to Mamie Nunnelley, 1915

Federal land patent signed July 7, 1915 (BLM serial IDBL 0005799). Shown: the top of the first page.

Bureau of Land Management, General Land Office Records (public domain)

In the old papers

Clippings of newspaper articles that name the family, in the order they were printed. Each opens the story retold from it. All the clippings ↗

Four sisters from Summit answer the call as nursesView photograph ↗
June 11, 1918

Four sisters from Summit answer the call as nurses

One after another, four daughters of W. A. Nunnelley of Summit trained as nurses, and the papers traced them through a Navy enlistment, the influenza of 1918–19 and a Logan diploma in 1920.

From: Four sisters from Summit answer the call as nurses ↗
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Help put names to these pictures.

Many of these photographs still need names, places and dates. If you know who is in one, open it and choose “Help identify this photograph”. If your family keeps photographs of the valley, the archive would love to see them.