CEDAR COUNTY, NEBRASKA - Rosina Oswald
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Cedar County News 12-5-1929

Early Pioneer Dies in Omaha Thursday

Death of Mrs. Rosina Oswald leaves Louis Goetz survivor

	Death of Mrs. Rosina Oswald, 85, pioneer settler of Cedar county,
at Omaha Thanksgiving day leaves Louis Goetz of Hartington the oldest 
survivor of the little band who came in 1867 from Prairie du Chien, Wis., 
to settle in the neighborhood of Wynot and St. James. Mr. Oswald, with 
Mrs. Oswald and their son Herman were members of the same party to which 
Mr. and Mrs. Albert Edenberger and children John Edenberger and Mrs. John 
Weiger, Mr. and Mrs. Ferdinand Riibe, Louis Dietsche, and Louis Goetz and 
his mother belonged. Herman Oswald later cashier of the Hartington First 
National bank has been for some years in the livestock commission business 
in Omaha.

	The party braved the wilds and perils of the old west, driving 
their covered wagons and ox teams across unbroken trails and crossing the 
Missouri River at Sioux City on flat boats. In Cedar county each family 
bought all the land they wanted for $1.25 an acre, the Oswalds securing 200 
acres. 

	Indians were frequent visitors to the Oswald home, as it was situated 
half way between the Omaha and Winnebago reservations and the Sioux.  
Occasionally they asked for food or lodging, and Mrs. Oswald once went so far 
as to let several sleep in her kitchen. Fascinated by her kitchen utensils, 
her guests asked to borrow a few pots and pans. Mrs. Oswald knew that the 
utensils would never be returned and refused. One of the braves drew his 
tomahawk seeking vengeance for the denial. The woman knocked the hatchet from 
his hand and chased them all out of her home, members of the family relate.