When his mother, Elizabeth Meyers Haverfield, sold her homestead in Lonesome Butte (see Opheim, Montana: End of an Era), her son Burton—Percy’s youngest brother—went to seek his fortunes near Emmett, Idaho. Burton had made a name for himself at the Wood Mountain rodeo both as an impressive bronco rider and as a handsome ladies’ man. He took his horsemanship south to Idaho and soon was married to an attractive woman named Edna Heck, who also loved to work with horses.

At the age of 94, Burton reflected on his life in an interview for the Portland Tribune (see “Haverfield reflects on 94 years of history”) “I still ride a saddle horse at the ranch,” he said, “but I'm getting so damned old and the horses are getting pretty high.”

According to his obituary, published in the Portland Tribune (February 9, 2005), “He had ranched and bred horses throughout Idaho and by 1945 had also built and operated the Emmett Sale Yard that he sold in 1947.”

After selling their Rock Creek farm in 1938, Percy and Pluma followed Burton to Idaho and found a farm to manage outside of Emmett. Their daughter Lela boarded in Emmett during the week to go to school, and in 1941, at the age of 16, she met, fell in love, and eloped with Wayne Limbaugh who was then 22. Wayne worked in a sawmill. Within five years, Lela and Wayne had four children: Judith Marie, Gary Wayne, Karen Lee, and Kay Loree. (Their fifth child, Verna Dean. was born in 1952 in Enterprise, Oregon.)