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Harry Hawcroft Bounds

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Harry Hawcroft Bounds

Birth
Tulare County, California, USA
Death
14 Sep 1961 (aged 74)
Lewiston, Nez Perce County, Idaho, USA
Burial
Lewiston, Nez Perce County, Idaho, USA Add to Map
Plot
Divisio 3, Row 57, Lot 018, Grave 03
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Harry Bounds, 74, Dead Of Cancer

Harry H. Bounds, 74, retired construction worker and farmer, died yesterday morning at 9 at Sommerville Home in Lewiston.

Mr. Bounds was a brother-in-law of Walt Disney, a Hollywood movie producer, whose wife, is the former Lillian Disney of Lapwai.

Mr. Bounds was the son of a pioneer Federal Marshall and the government blacksmith at the North Idaho Indian Agency in Lapwai. He had operated a rock crusher for the Security Bridge Co., when it was building the Spalding, Myrtle, Cherry Lane, and Lenore Bridges across the Clearwater River.

He had farmed in the Lenore and Myrtle areas at intervals for about 20 years and then had worked for the state highway department for a number of years. Later he was the caretaker of Spaulding Park.

Harry was born on Feb. 19, 1887, in Tulare, Calif., and came with his parents to the Genesee area when he was 7. The family moved to Lapwai a few years later.

He was married to Elizabeth Menzes in Moscow, Idaho in November of 1915. She died on April 9, 1951.

Surviving besides Mrs. Disney area a son, Willard of Lewiston; four brothers, Lloyd Bounds of Sheridan, Ore.; W. W. Bounds of Portland, Ore.; Side Bounds of Seattle; and Obie Bounds in Calif.; two sisters, Mrs. Grace Papineau and the former Mrs. Hazel Sewell of Los Angles, and four grandchildren.

Lewiston Tribune Friday, Sept. 15, 1961. pg. 20
Harry Bounds, 74, Dead Of Cancer

Harry H. Bounds, 74, retired construction worker and farmer, died yesterday morning at 9 at Sommerville Home in Lewiston.

Mr. Bounds was a brother-in-law of Walt Disney, a Hollywood movie producer, whose wife, is the former Lillian Disney of Lapwai.

Mr. Bounds was the son of a pioneer Federal Marshall and the government blacksmith at the North Idaho Indian Agency in Lapwai. He had operated a rock crusher for the Security Bridge Co., when it was building the Spalding, Myrtle, Cherry Lane, and Lenore Bridges across the Clearwater River.

He had farmed in the Lenore and Myrtle areas at intervals for about 20 years and then had worked for the state highway department for a number of years. Later he was the caretaker of Spaulding Park.

Harry was born on Feb. 19, 1887, in Tulare, Calif., and came with his parents to the Genesee area when he was 7. The family moved to Lapwai a few years later.

He was married to Elizabeth Menzes in Moscow, Idaho in November of 1915. She died on April 9, 1951.

Surviving besides Mrs. Disney area a son, Willard of Lewiston; four brothers, Lloyd Bounds of Sheridan, Ore.; W. W. Bounds of Portland, Ore.; Side Bounds of Seattle; and Obie Bounds in Calif.; two sisters, Mrs. Grace Papineau and the former Mrs. Hazel Sewell of Los Angles, and four grandchildren.

Lewiston Tribune Friday, Sept. 15, 1961. pg. 20


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