CEDAR COUNTY, NEBRASKA - Dr. Theo. O. PICKERING
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Randolph Times Newspaper, Thurs., January 2, 1930
 
THEO. O. PICKERING DIES CHRISTMAS DAY - 
He Had Lived in Nebraska for More Than Forty-eight Years.
 
Dr. Theo. O. Pickering, 72, died at Sholes on Christmas Day at the home 
of his son, R.E. Pickering.  Theo. O. Pickering was born at Freeport, IL., 
Jan. 24, 1858, and grew to manhood in his native state and there studied 
veterinary medicine, and was later licensed to practice in Nebraska.  He 
married Nancy Purman in Illinois, and with his bride came to Nebraska in 
1880, living first near Ashland, where his wife died not long after. 
(other stories said a baby also died.)  Mr. Pickering then took a homestead 
in Gosper County, near Elwood, and lived there some years.  Here it was he 
was married in 1886 to Sylvia C. Hitchcock at Plum Creek, now Lexington.  
They moved to Banner County (near Dorrington where they resided about 3 years). 
 They returned to Dawson County and purchased a farm near Elwood where he 
lived for seven years, then sold his farm and bought another near Eustis, 
where he farmed three years, and then moved to town (Eustis).  His wife 
died in 1916.  (After a few years he moved to Hastings, Nebraska where he 
resided until 1924).  For the past six years, Mr. Pickering lived with his 
children (until the time of his death). 
 
Mr. Pickering had been in poor health for about four years.
 
Deceased leaves four sons and four daughters, all living in Nebraska:  
O.W. Pickering of Lincoln, R.E. Pickering of Sholes, Mrs. Etta Anderson of 
Holbrook, C.R. Pickering of Magnet, Mrs. Essie Stark of Hastings, Mrs. 
Myrtle Brown of Elwood, Mrs. Ora Hess of Orafino, L. M. Pickering of Sholes.
 
Funeral services were held Saturday morning at 10 o'clock at Brenner Funeral 
Parlor in Randolph, Nebraska on December 28, 1929. The service was conducted 
by Rev. E.W. Graham of the Presbyterian church in charge.  Burial was made 
in the Randolph Cemetery.