So Evie’s grandmother left this for Frontier, Wyoming?

Around 1850. the Rufeners, a family from Blumenstein, Bern in the German speaking area of Switzerland, moved over the hills into the Val de Ruz near Neuchatel in the French speaking area.  I think they were basically struggling  poor farmers and laborers, but joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and left all of this to join the "Saints" in Zion (which for Evie's Grandmother, eventually turned out to be Frontier, Wyoming.)

The Val-de-Ruz is a beautiful valley of farm land above all the lake fog in Neuchatel. Fontaines, where the main parish church is located, sits in the middle of the valley, but several villages -- and most of the recent growth (and there seemed to be a fair amount of new housing under construction) are located above the farmland on the hillsides.

    EVIE'S COMMENTS:  These pictures below were taken in Fontaines and that is the parish church which you see in the background.  This is where the parish was located -- however, my grandmother was actually born in Les Legos which is in the hills outside of the valley.  We would probably have needed to rent a car to go there -- it's very small, and if anyone is interested you can google it, and see pictures of what it looks like today.

Don't know anything about this Jonas, but it was impressive to see such an old building.

 

This is the town of Cernier (below)-- up on the hill above the valley floor.

Fontaines -- Although largely agricultural, there were some other industries, such as this SWATCH facility (presumably attracted, as is often the case in the US, by a good workforce and nice place to live)
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This is a school in Fontaines.