CEDAR COUNTY, NEBRASKA - OBITUARY OF JOHN KOLESKY

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DIED OF EXPOSURE
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ST. HELENA HERMIT DIED SUNDAY
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DEATH COMES AFTER RESCUE
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ECCENTRIC CITIZEN NEAR ST. HELENA FAILS TO RALLY FROM ILLNESS -- DIES AT HOME OF IGNATZ LAMMERS

	John Kolesky, an eccentric citizen of near St. Helena, passed 
away last Sunday morning at the home of Ignatz Lammers, after a harrowing 
experience in the cold and stormy weather last week.
	Kolesky was about 40 years old. His father, Jacob Kolesky, was 
at one time a well known citizen in the north part of the county.  He 
was an inmate of the Leavenworth soldiers' home and is reported by the 
officials there to have died, but old friends claim that he is now in 
the soldiers' home at Milwaukee, Wis.  Mrs. Kolesky has married again 
and is now residing at Glasgow, Mont.
	For a number of years past John Kolesky, who never married, lived 
alone on the 120-acre farm about 5 1/2 miles southweast of St. Helena, in 
the direction of Menomineee.  He was eccentric to an unusual degree and 
never neighbored with the near-by-farmers, who gradually ceased to make 
overtures of friendly nature.
	Kolesky was taken ill last week and becoming weaker gradually 
reached the condition which made it impossible for him to care for himself 
or perform his household chores.  Owing to the extreme cold he suffered 
greatly.  Realizing his condition he took a kitchen chair and started to 
make his way to his nearest neighbor, Ignatz Boehmer, resting frequently on 
the chair.  His strength was not sufficient to enable him to complete the 
journey, but his cries attracted the Boehmer family, who went at once to his 
assistance.  he was taken in and cared for and later removed to the home of 
Ignatz Lammers, whom he had highly esteemed.   Death, caused by a hemorhage 
of the stomach, came to him at the Lammers home Sunday morning.
	County Attorny O'Gara was notified and wired to his father and mother 
but was unable to locate the former.   Mrs. Josephine Wilson, the mother, 
wired that she would come at once and she was expected this morning.  The 
funeral will be held immediately on her arrival.


DECEMBER 28, 1916  CEDAR COUNTY NEWS