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Jesse and Annie Puckett - Bayview

Jesse Wade Puckett was born in Arkansas in 1876.  He married Mary Ann "Annie" Napier in 1895.  Jesse and Annie Puckett were the first of a long line of Pucketts who have made Bayview their home.  They came to northern Idaho from Arkansas with their first seven children about 1911, including Hughbert, Helen, Lillian, Laten, Tom, William and Jesse, Jr.  The next child Glennie was born in Bayview in 1913, followed by Robert "Sonny" (1916) and Raymond "Babe" (1918) who were born in Montana.  One more child, a daughter, died when an infant. 

Between 1927 and 37 the family lived at the Blackwell Ranch (right) located on the point of land between Bayview and Idlewilde Bay which is now Farragut State Park.  Jesse acted as the caretaker for the Blackwell property, built by Frederick Blackwell of Coeur d'Alene and owned by Bill Ulrich at this time  Although those were depression years, hunger was not a problem for those who liked to hunt, fish, pick fruit, morels, dandelion greens, blackberries or huckleberries.  The gardening was good and a small herd of milk cows roamed the “point”.  Annie's brother, Lige Napier and family, lived nearby in Bayview.  Children from both families enjoyed sharing a close life with their cousins.  Most Friday nights would find the four Napier children spending the weekend at the Blackwell Ranch with Glennie, Sonny, Babe and Jesse, Jr. the only Puckett children still living at home.  The children attended elementary school in Bayview.  Glennie, pictured with her Napier cousins near Blackwell Point, recalled taking a steamer across the lake to Lakeview for dances.

Most of the Puckett children remained in north Idaho when they got older. Willie died at the age of nine and Tom succumbed to spinal meningitis in his early twenties.  Their eldest child Hughbert, born in 1897, returned to Arkansas and married Grace Fox in 1920, had three children and returned to Bayview about 1926.  Helen, the second born, also lived in Bayview with her husband Mike Sirkoff.  The couple ran a local grocery store.  Lillian married George Beeson, Laten married Bobbi Hudlow and Jesse, Jr. tied the knot with Marge Lindberg.  The three youngest Puckett children also married, Glennie with George Lowry, Sonny with Marguerite W. Smith. Babe married twice, first to Leanna Jones and later to Lucille Cheney.

Jesse, Sr. was laid to rest in 1964 at the Mountain View Cemetery in nearby Athol, followed by Annie in 1969.  Now that cemetery marks the graves of 12 different Pucketts, including seven of their children.

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