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Title Work and Sweat to Honor Pioneer Family Gravesites
The grandchildren and great-grandchildren of William Redmond and Nancy Davis Strickland, Edward Burton and Susie Strickland and Joe and Maggie Taylor and Iva Strickland Kelley Phipps worked all day Sunday, May 28 to clean, decorate and pay tribute to their early Pioneer families buried in the Bruneau and Hot Springs cemeteriess.
Casey Kelley, his wife Tina and daughter Haylee spent the entire day pulling tumbleweeds and arranging rocks around the Hot Springs gravesites. Casey is the great-great grandson of Joe and Maggie Taylor. Maggie Taylor was a full blood Shoshoni Indian born in 1848 on Coon Creek near the Idaho-Nevada border. Joe Taylor and parents and brother Fletcher came from California in the late 1870s to gold mine in the Jarbidge, Nevada area. William Redmond and Nancy Davis Strickland came from Nevada City, Missouri in 1879 and settled in the Bruneau Valley near Hot Springs. They are Casey's great-great grandparents. They brought three daughters and one son, Edward Burton Strickland who is Casey's great-grandfather. They had 8 other children born at their Hot Springs Ranch although two children died at birth. The Stricklands have ranched for over a hundred years in Bruneau.
Joe and Maggie Taylor had 10 children who were born in Rowland, Nevada. Susie Taylor was the oldest daughter and married Edward Burton Strickland in Wickahoney in 1905. They had six children born in Grasmere and raised their family on the Diamond A Plateau near the Idaho-Nevada border. Their second youngest daughter was Iva Strickland and is Casey's grandmother. Casey, Tina and Haylee worked very hard but are very proud of their heritage and happy to spend time cleaning and decorating there family gravesites.