CEDAR COUNTY, NEBRASKA - OBITUARY OF JOHN SHERBURNE

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Wynot Tribune – Feb. 5, 1914

John Albert Sherburne

The subject of this sketch, John Albert Sherburne, was born in 
Ontario Co. NY, Sept. 9, 1837, and departed this life at the home of 
his sister in St. James, NE, Sunday morning, February 1st, 1914, 
having attained the ripe old age of 76 years, 4 months and 22 days.

While a boy he moved with his parents to Illinois, where he lived 
until the breaking out of the rebellion when he enlisted in the 
Fourteenth Illnois battery as a Union soldier serving four years and 
being honorably mustered out of the service in 1865. He spent five and 
a half months in Andersonville prison where he endured all kinds of 
hardships and suffering and where his people gave him up as dead. When 
he escaped from prison, he was more like a skeleton than a live human 
but he weathered the diseases and difficulties and regained his health.

He came to Iowa in the late sixties and in the fall of 1871 came to 
St. James and took up a homestead in the vicinity of Lime Grove. He was 
united in marriage some time after the war to Lizzie Nozzle of Michigan. 
To this union four daughters and one son were born and they still 
survive him  with the exception of the oldest daughter. Besides his 
children he leaves to mourn his departure two sisters, Mrs. Marietta 
Thompson of St. James and Mrs. Emeline Hannant of Shell Rock, IA, and 
one brother, B.F. Sherburne of Waterloo, Iowa besides a large number of 
other relatives. 

The funeral was held from the Methodist Church in Wynot, Tuesday 
afternoon at two O’Clock, being conducted by the pastor Rev. Burke. 
Burial took place in the Wynot cemetery. The family has the sympathy of 
all in their sad bereavement.


CARD OF Thanks
    We desire by this means to convey our heartfelt thanks to the 
neighbors and friends who have been so kind and helpful during the 
illness and at the death of our father and brother, John A. Sherburne, 
and for many acts and words of sympathy in our bereavement. 

The Relatives.




Hartington Herald – March 13, 1914 

Jno A. Sherburne of St. James, another of the pioneers was buried from 
the M.E. Church Thursday afternoon, Rev. Burke conducting the funeral. 
Mr. Sherburne was an uncle of A.H. Thompson of this place.