On this Memorial Day, we remember those who were buried here at the Fort Boise Military Cemetery.
“So the town of Boise, Idaho, was started by Fort Boise,” said Ken Swanson, the former director of the state and military museums. He says that Fort Boise was the one stop between Eastern Idaho and Washington State; a place where pioneers could stop and rest and, in some cases, bury their dead.
I spent the morning listening to Swanson tell stories of those who came through Boise. “You can barely read it. Robert, son of William McComb, born in Lewistown, Illinois, 1814. He would have been an Oregon Trail guy,” Swanson said.You may think that because veterans of the Civil War and the Indian Wars are buried here, they died in battle. Not so, says Swanson…