NEBRASKA HISTORY AND RECORD OF PIONEER DAYS VOL III, NO. 3, JUL-SEP 1920 Transcribed from a copy of the original publication by the submitters. Submitted to the USGenWeb Nebraska Archives, January, 1998, by Ted and Carole Miller (susieque@pacbell.net). USGenWeb Project NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the internet, data may be used by non-commercial researchers, as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages may not be reproduced in any format for profit, nor for presentation in any form by any other organization or individual. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for purposes other than as stated above, must obtain express written permission from the author, or the submitter and from the listed USGenWeb Project archivist. *************** NEBRASKA HISTORY AND RECORD OF PIONEER DAYS Volume III, no. 3, 1920 (Original had no Table of Contents) The April Blizzard, 1873 1-2 Red Willow County, First Capital of 2, 4 Nebraska Society Daughters of the American Revolution 3 Passing of Nebraska Pioneers 4 McGUIRE, Elisha - Burt Co. BRINKMAN, Christopher - Madison Co. OBERMILLER, Hans - Hall Co. (see below) GRANT, George - Saline Co. (see below) OBERMILLER, Hans - Howard Co. (see above) FILLEY, Elijah - Gage Co. PENISKA, Jack - Ponca Indian Reservation BROSIUS, Mrs. E. K. - Cedar Co. (died in SD) GRANT, George E. - Gage Co. (see above) WICKHAM, Nathan Albert - Richardson Co. KEISER, Preston - Richardson Co. BAKER, Alexander Hamilton - Dakot Co. DAVIS, Jesse - Nemaha Co. GRIFFITH, Mrs. Eunice Bennett - Cass & York Co.s PARKER, Mrs. James Monroe - Douglas Co. BEARDSHEAR, Ellen - Dakota Co. SPENCE, Mrs. Elizabeth - MILLER, Victor William - Sarpy Co. BINDERNAGEL, Philip - Otoe Co. MOORE, William Henderson - Otoe Co. STEBBINS, Sidney Herbert - Pawnee Co. STUHR, Mrs. Gratzie - Douglas Co. GRIFFITH, Mrs. L. J. - Cass Co. QUANTE, Auguste - Nemaha Co. TOLLE, Thomas Newton - Otoe Co. CUNNINGHAM, William Granville - Washington Co. DELLONE, Francis X. - Douglas Co. MURPHY, Timothy - Dakota Co. DOLAN, Mary - Saunders Co. KIMSEY, Thomas C. - Nemaha Co. KRANTZ, Dora Sophia - Johnson Co. STEVENS, Zenas - Douglas Co. HAZELGROVE, Mrs. John W. - Dakota Co. SHOEMAKER, Mrs. Burton H. - Lancaster Co. WEHMER, Gerrit H. - Johnson Co. BROWN, Duane - Washington Co. KEMP, Henry Martyn - Colfax Co. JOHNSON, Michael - Dodge Co. MARTIN, Jonathan - Dixon Co. KARBACK, Mrs. Charles J. - Douglas Co. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ NEBRASKA HISTORY Northern Pacific railroad, on June AND RECORD OF PIONEER DAYS 14, 1872. but was called Fort ------------------------------------McKeen until November 19, 1972. Published Monthly by the Nebraska Bismarck was just getting a start State Historical Society not far above on the opposite side. ------------------------------------Fort Rice was established July 11, Editor, ADDISON E. SHELDON 1864, on the west bank of the Associate Editors river, about twenty miles in a The Staffs of the Nebraska State direct line below the subsequent Historical Society and site of Fort Abraham Lincoln. This Legislative Reference Bureau regiment was part of the ------------------------------------Yellowstone Expedition which was Subscription $2.00 Per Year sent to establish a depot of ------------------------------------supplies at a point on the q All sustaining members of the projected line of the railroad near Nebraska State Historical the confluence of Powder river with Society receive Nebraska the Yellowstone. The site chosen History without further payment. was at the mouth of Glendive Creek, q Entered as second class mail now within Dawson county, Montana, matter, under act of July 16, near its eastern boundary. The 1894, at Lincoln, Nebraska, April Northern Pacific railroad, in its 2, 1918. westward course, first struck the ------------------------------------Yellowstone at this point. The town VOLUME JULY-SEPTEMBER, of Glendive, on the same site, is III. 1920 NUMBER 3 the capital of Dawson county. ------------------------------------ The Daily State Journal of April 15, 1873, relates that two boys The April Blizzard, 1873 were severely injured in Lincoln on Sunday by a shed being blown over The slanderous proclamation by upon them; and on the 22d that a Nebraska newspapers that the well man was killed by the wind in Olive mannered snowstorm of April 3, Branch precinct on Monday, but it 1920, was a blizzard because it was mentions no other casualties. On beneficently copious, calls for the 16th the Journal said that the some account of the real thing of snow was six feet deep at Grand April, 1873, which began late in island and that a gale of sixty the afternoon of the 13th and miles an hour had blown down all lasted with little abatement the telegraph wires along the Union through three nights and days. The Pacific railroad. No trains had 1920 storm increased in violence in reached Lincoln from the west on its eastward course - a very common the Burlington and Missouri road occurrence by the way - though it but they had come in on time from nowhere deserved the name of the east. Lincoln was "enjoying" superlative import. the fourth day of the storm on the Eastern and southwestern land 16th. On the 18th it said that the interests very selfishly strove to storm had abated on the Union keep the Nebraska country a Pacific line and that it hoped that perpetual dumping-ground for the communication by rail and telegraph Indians they wished to be rid of with the Pacific slope would soon and accordingly opposed its be opened. territorial organization. Partly On the 20th - Sunday - the through the inertia of that early Journal said that General Otto spitefulness, and for the rest Funke, of Lincoln, was snow-bound through its immemorial at Sutton, on the Burlington road, provincialism, the East has from Sunday until Friday, when he habitually tried to be funny at the got to Crete on horseback. There trans-Missouri country's expense. had been great damage to buildings In fact, Nebraska is relatively at Sutton and in its vicinity, and immune from, real blizzards. There large numbers of horses and cattle are two reliably recorded. the one were smothered in the snow. Near of 1873; the other of 1888. There Grafton the house of the Keeler have been few, if any, others family, comprising husband, wife during the period of occupation by and one child, blew in upon them, white people. and in trying to reach a The fortunes of Nebraska seemed neighbor's, half a mile distant, so precarious even as late as the the mother and child perished. seventies that The Omaha Republican After they were dead the nearly advised against telling to the crazed father pressed on and world the whole truth about the arrived at his goal in an exhausted storm of 1873; but the Bee and the condition. The storm was roughest Herald criticized their between Grafton and Sutton. contemporary for cowardice and The Journal of the 22d says that praised their own bold the first train from the west truthfulness. The hyperbole habit - reached Lincoln on the 21st. Ed. A. applying extravagant epithets to Church, for many years manager of ordinary things leaves no words the theater in Lincoln, was among properly to characterize truly the passengers. He had been extraordinary ones and thus beggars visiting his family at their home the language. near Hastings, where he was The storm of 1873 was about two snow-bound for a week. Within two hundred miles wide in Nebraska, but sections in the neighborhood twelve it was probably most violent in the horses perished. Often roofs of two adjoining tiers of counties stables were blown off, and then comprising Nance and Platte on the the snow filled the buildings, north and those lying south as far smothering the stock. On Sunday as the Kansas line. It extended afternoon a man who lived near Red into Dakota on the north and Kansas Cloud was visiting a neighbor two on the south, but according to miles from his own home when the available reports, not very far or storm came, preventing his return. violently. At Yankton it was rough Fearing that he had been lost, the enough to cause severe suffering to next morning his wife started for the men and horses of the Seventh the neighbor's house with her U. S. Cavalry. Papers accompanying little daughter. They were found the report of the secretary of war dead within ten rods of their own for 1973, inform us that this house. One farmer in that vicinity regiment was on the march from the lost seventy-five cattle. The department at the South to Fort Journal of April 24 complained of Abraham Lincoln and Fort Rice to continued winter weather. According suppress hostile Indians and to to the accounts, the storm was much protect surveyors of the line of severer in Seward county than in the Northern Pacific railroad Lancaster. westward from the Missouri River, Charles B. Letton, now a Justice and of the northern boundary of of the supreme court of Nebraska, Dakota. The staff, band and four was keeping house all alone in a companies left Louisville, the dugout, about seven miles north of regiment's headquarters, on April Fairbury, at the time of the storm. 2, and the other eight companies He relates that the spring was very started from Memphis in three forward and that the weather was separate detachments on April 3, 4 extremely pleasant on the fatal and 5. Fort Abraham Lincoln was Easter Sunday when a fierce established on the west bank of the northwest wind, with rain, came Missouri at the crossing of the suddenly. On Monday morning there was a howling snowstorm and the snow had so nearly filled his stable, that two at the animals were smothered before he could dig them out. He was obliged to shelter some of the stock in his house and this was commonly done by settlers in the vicinity. Many people whose houses were unroofed or who had sought protection in ravines were frozen or smothered to death. Under the head, "The Storm in Platte County," The Platte Journal of April 23, 1873; said that no human being perished in the county dur- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2 Nebraska History and Record of Pioneer Days ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ing the "fearful storm" but a thousand wind N., barometer rising, head of cattle and a few horses, weather, Hy. Snow. mules, sheep and chickens succumbed. 16th - Snow changed to rain The ratio of losses of cattle was not during the night continued falling greater than in other parts of the all day. Wind N., steady at 20 path of the storm. H. A. Gerrard & Co. miles per hour. erected a temporary fence above the 17th - Rain ended during the original fence of their corral, on the past night. Storm still raging on side where the snow got up to the top the line of the U. P. R. R. As of it, and thus kept the cattle from near as can be determined, the getting out and drifting to storm has an area of 500 miles destruction with the storm; and East and West, and about 75 miles notwithstanding that there was no being the distance over which it shelter in the enclosure, they all has raged in its greatest fury. survived. There were no losses where This evening, the first trains good care was taken. The Journal came in since the 12th instant. called it "the terrific storm of April Passengers report that the 14th, 15th and 16th." It also copied suffering of the emigrants must from the Kearney Press a statement have been terrible, cut off from that a woman who lived fifteen miles all supplies of every description, northeast of the town, whose husband many have starved to death, while was absent at Grand Island, perished others have become blinded by the in an attempt to reach a neighbor's fury of the storm, and in house after the roof of her own fell consequence of this have wandered in. A boy about fifteen years old from the course and frozen to started from the office of the Lone death. The ingress of emigration Tree Sentinel on an errand to a place to this State during the present only twenty rods away. he was found year, has been unusally [sic] dead in the Platte River a mile and a large, and many who had just half distant. Heavy losses of stock arrived at the points selected for were reported from Colfax county. future homes, had only temporary The Sioux City Journal reported shelter, consisting principally of that the storm was very severe at tents. These, being composed of Yankton. On April 25, 1871, Captain such light fabrics, the gale tore John Mix of the Second Cavalry, to shreds almost instantaneously commanding at Omaha Barracks, made an leaving them (the Emigrants) official report of the storm, which without shelter of any kind. The was printed in The Platte Journal of snow which has fallen during the May 7. prevalence of this fearful storm, He started from Omaha on a scouting has not been of the ordinary large expedition after a band of Indians who flakes, but fine almost as sand, had stolen horses on the North Loup. filling the air so perfectly, as His command comprised Company M and to make it impossible to see the five soldiers of Company C. It hand, when held out at arm's traveled by railroad to Grand Island length. In the village of Grand and then marched across country. At Island, men were lost in crossing Loup City it was caught in a hurricane the street, and the bodies found of wind and rain followed by snow. The three miles away, on the banks of men were saved only by shelter the Platte River. Houses, that provided by citizens in the were supposed to be strong enough neighborhood. The storm lasted from to withstand the heavy gales that sundown on the 13th to six o'clock in the country is subject to, were the afternoon of the 16th. Twenty-five lifted up bodily and dashed down horses and five mules perished, and with violence to the ground, at many men lost their blankets, boots which they were completely and shoes. Some of the men were badly demolished. The track of the road frost-bitten and some so chilled that has been completely covered in 18 it was very difficult to revive them. feet of snow at numerous places, Though the horses were only sixty ever since the storm began. Its yards away they could not be reached. equal has never been seen nor felt A sentinel was buried in snow from by the inhabitants of this portion three o'clock in the morning until the of the country, and the U. P. next noon. The command managed to Officials say it is the most march eight miles to Oak Creek on the severe that has ever occurred on 17th, and on the 18th it followed down their road. Large quantities of the creek ten miles to settlements, stock has been lost both at the where food was obtained for men and farms and on the cars. Out of horses and wagons for the disabled eight car loads of hogs at soldiers. The snow was very deep and Laramie, not enough remained after the weather very cold. the storm to fill one single car, The record of temperatures kept at and the devastation has been Plattsmouth makes the following proportionally large among the showing: other species of stock on the On the, 13th, 7 a. m., 56; 2 p. m., road. Full reports of this storm 63; 9 p. m., 54 will be obtained and forwarded to 14th, 7 a. m., 50; 2 the Chief Signal Officers. p. m., 47; 9 p. m., 28 Notes from the observations 15th, 7 a. m., 31; 2 made for the Smithsonian, Post p. m., 37; 9 a. m., 29 Hospital and other weather 16th, 7 a. m., 37; 2 observers in Nebraska, with regard a. m., 42; 9 a. m., 38 to a severe storm that occurred in The precipitation on the 14th was that State during the period April rain, 2 inches; on the 15th, rain and 13 to 17, 1873. snow, 3 inches. The lowest temperature Sidney Barracks - Min. Temp. at Denver during the storm was 18 10o on the 15th, no remarks except degrees above zero. snow and rain on the 13th. This record believed to be in error. ------------ Probably 10o. Copy of notes made by the Ft. McPherson - Min. Temp. 22o Smithsonian Institution Observer, at on 16th. Rain and snow 13 to 15. Santee Indian Agency, Nebraska, De Soto - Rain and snow 13th to relative to the severe storm, April 16th. Lowest observed 31o on 15th. 13-16, 1873. Emerson - Rain and snow 13th to The great distinguishing feature of 16th, amount .60, lowest this month was the great snow storm of temperature observed 24o. the 14th, the most destructive in its Norfolk - Rain and snow 13th to effects of any which has occurred in 16th, amount 1.15. Lowest observed this Section for some years. It might temperature 24o. properly be said to have commenced on the 12th with a very strong wind from Omaha Mission - Rain or snow SW and South which continued without 13th to 16th, snow melted. Lowest interruption through that and part of temperature observed 34o. the succeeding day. On the morning of Papillion Valley, near Bellevue the 13th about 10 a. m. a heavy cloud - Rain and snow intervals, 13th to was seen to the South, accompanied by 16th. Lowest temperature 32o. several reports of distant thunder; Plymouth (near) - Snow storm on towards noon the wind veered round to 15th with a strong wind from NW. NW and by night it blew strongly from Snow drifted to the depths of 6 the North. About 4:00 p. m. it feet in the draws and behind commenced raining and continued until stables and fences. Had no daylight when the snow commenced to instruments to take temperature or fall and continued uninterruptedly amount of melted snow. The until the afternoon of the 16th the temperature was above freezing or wind meanwhile blowing a perfect stock would have suffered. hurricane. The horses and cattle that Red Cloud - Min. temperature were exposed were driven before it, 26o. The 13th of this month the into ravines and by places where they first rain (excepting slight were covered by the drifting snow and sprinkles) fell in six months. It hundreds of them perished. It was soon turned to snow. The storm impossible to ascertain the average continued three days without depth of snow with accuracy but in abating, increasing in severity placing it at 20 inches I think I have and attended with very high winds. under rather than over estimated it A number of people perished being for this first of May snow drifts can out in the storm. Horses and be found more than 2 feet in depth. cattle were driven by the storm Bazile Creek, which in ordinary times into the river and perished. runs a stream of water 40 feet in Houses being constructed were width from 1 to 3 feet in depth and demolished and dwelling houses which is here dammed for milling partially unroofed. purposes was completely dried up by Harlan, Republican City, P. O. the accumulated snow so that no water - Rain and snow 13th to 15th, 6 passed over the dam for more than a inches snow. Lowest temperature week and for several days there was 27o on 16th. Tornado 4:00 p. m. none in the pool above it. The Eastern limit of this storm about 40 miles 13th uprooted trees, blew down east of this place is said to have houses and blew cattle into river been clearly defined as though made and drowned them. with a line. The mean temperature of West Point - Snow and rain 13th the thermometer during the snowfall to 16th. (Amount uncertain, was 28.11 degrees which produced a wet probably mostly melted as it snow and in great measure was the fell.) cause of the wholesale destruction of After consulting the report of animal life as it adhered to their the storm by the chief signal bodies and impeded their movements officer of the U. S. army, Mr. until exhausted they sank under it and George A. Loveland, Meteorologist were smothered in the drifts. of the U. S. weather bureau at Copy of "Daily Journal", Omaha, Lincoln, agrees with my opinion Nebraska, April 13th to 17th, 1873 that the foregoing statement of 13th - Barometer still gradually the damage along the Union Pacific falling. Light rain began 10:30 a. m., railroad is exaggerated. The storm ended at 1:30 p. m., 0.34 rainfall. was most destructive in Texas. All communication with the West was cut off, after the 6:20 a. m. report. ALBERT WATKINS. A violent storm began in the West. From Officials of the U. P. R. R. it ----------- was learned that a great deal of First Capital of Red Willow County damage was done by the extraordinarily high winds. A large number of lives A historical sketch entitled were lost. The Beginnings of Red Willow 14th - No communication can yet be County, printed in volume XIX of had with the West, the lines of both the publications of the Historical telegraph companies being down and Society, contains an account of buried in 15 feet of snow. The storm the struggle for the county seat still rages with unabated violence in between Indianola and Red Willow. the West, although at this point Senator John H. Cordeal supplied nothing more serious than heavy rains valuable material for the history, are as yet felt. Barometer quite low, obtained from the county records. Cor. 29.46, wind N., weather Lt. Rain. The election for locating the 15th - Rain changed to snow during county seat and for choosing the the night falling very heavy, first county officers was held on May 27, 1873. The canvassers found in favor of Indianola, both in respect to the county seat and the candidates for county offices nominated by the partisans of Indianola; whereupon the Red Willow faction brought suit in the court of George W. Colvin, a justice of the peace at Arapahoe, then the county seat at Furnas county, praying for a reversal of the count of the canvassers. On August 1, 1873, the justice found for Red Willow, but the decision was appealed to the district court, whereupon the Red Willow party gave up the county records and yielded the offices to the appellants. Quite recently Sen- (Concluded on fourth page.) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Nebraska History and Record of Pioneer Days 3 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ NEBRASKA SOCIETY DAUGHTERS [Image] OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION [Image] Memorial Fountain and Seat in Antelope Park, Lincoln, erected by Deborah Avery Chapter.[Image] The National Society, Daughters of pedition. The anniversary of the the American Revolution, organized council of Lewis and Clark with the in Washington, October 11, 1890, Oto and Missouri Indians was with a charter membership of 818, observed August 3, 1904, and a now numbers more than 102,000. The Nebraska boulder was dedicated at dream of the pioneers of this Fort Calhoun with appropriate organization has come true in a exercises, participated in by the manner exceeding the hopes of even Sons of the American Revolution and the most optimistic. Memorial the Nebraska State Historical Continental Hall, the home of the Society. This was the first society in Washington, is one of historical event commemorated by the show places of the capital. It the Daughters in Nebraska. is valued at more than one million Through the efforts of the dollars and is held under charter Nebraska Daughters $2000 was granted by the United States appropriated by the legislature in government the only one of its kind 1911 "for the purpose of assisting granted to any patriotic society. in the procuring of suitable and is free from taxation by monuments to mark the Oregon trail special act of Congress because of in the state of Nebraska." the aims and purposes of the This sum was expended under a society in promoting ideals of commission composed of the state public service and patriotism. regent of the Daughters of the Memorial Continental Hall is unique American Revolution, the secretary because it is a memorial by women of the State Historical Society and to the men and women of the the state surveyor. The most stirring revolutionary times. Many important places along the Oregon of the most important meetings in Trail in Nebraska have been marked Washington for the advancement of beginning with its entrance into historical research, scientific the state at the southwest corner investigation and sociological of Gage county and ending with the study are held in Continental Hall. monument near Henry, Nebraska, The Nebraska Society of the where Daughters of the American Revolution [Image] [Image] MRS. S. B. POUND A State Regent Nebraska Society, MARY M. A. STEVENS Daughters of the American First Regent Deborah Avery Chapter, Revolution Lincoln (handwritten - "See C 2285") the trail crosses the line into Wyoming. had its beginning when Deborah The Nebraska Society recently Avery Chapter was organized May 15, held its eighteenth annual 1896, at Lincoln and chartered by conference in Hastings and reports the National Society on June 17. thirty-eight chapters in the state The Omaha chapter was formed on and a membership of 1672. "Any June 29th and chartered by the woman, eighteen years of age or National Society on October let of more, is eligible to membership the same year. Mary M. A. Stevens provided she be descended from a was the first regent of Deborah man or woman who, with unfailing Avery Chapter and Mrs. Laura B. loyalty, rendered material aid to Pound, appointed in May, 1806, was the cause of American Independence; the first state regent for or from a recognized patriot, Nebraska. Mrs. Frances Avery soldier or sailor or Civil officer, Haggard of Lincoln was elected in one of the several Colonies or state regent in 1898 and was States, or of the United Colonies followed by Mrs. Elizabeth Towle of or States...." The Daughters do not Omaha. In 1901 Mrs. Pound was again consider the tracing of ancestry a elected and served two terms. She fad but a family duty in order that called the first state conference the recollections and traditions of in October 1902 which was held in the past may be preserved for the Lincoln at the home of Mrs. Addison historian. S. Tibbets. The main purpose of the The Nebraska Society desires to conference was to arrange for cooperate in every. way with the celebrating the centennial of the Lewis and Clark ex- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 4 Nebraska History and Record of Pioneer Days ------------------------------------------------------------------------ State Historical Society and the county seat was located at 17th annual conference in Hastings Arapahoe, but at the election held in 1920 passed a resolution that on October 14 of the same year, the Daughters of the American Beaver City captured the prize and Revolution in Nebraska encourage has held it ever since. Just as in the accumulation of data pertaining the case of Red Willow, there were to the early history of each county two small factions in the county, and that a department for extensive one of Arapahoe, the other of genealogical research be Beaver City. established and fostered in cooperation with the State ALBERT WATKINS. Historical Society. One chapter is now at work gathering data for a ----------- history of Butler county; another is compiling a record of the names Passing of the Nebraska Pioneer and war service of the soldiers and sailors of Fairmont and vicinity. Elisha McGuire, pioneer Deborah Avery Chapter of Lincoln Nebraskan, 1857, died in Tekamah, has placed in the historical March 27th; was a stage driver in library as a permanent loan a 1859- 60; served eleven months in complete set of the lineage books the Civil War, in Company B, Second containing the family record of Regiment Nebraska Cavalry over 50,000 members of the Volunteers. organization. New volumes are added Christopher Brinkman, soldier of as rapidly as they are published. the Civil War, pioneer Nebraskan, This chapter also maintains a in 1866, died at Newman Grove, valuable collection of Colonial March 29th. relics in the rooms of the society. Hans Obermiller, who settled in In 1916 a volume on Nebraska Grand Island in 1862, died March Pioneer Reminiscences was published 29th. by the Daughters. George Grant, resident of DeWitt During the recent war the since 1858, died March 30th. Daughters of the American Hans Obermiller, resident of Revolution pledged themselves both Nebraska since 1862, died at as an organization and as Farwell, about March 31st. individuals "to our country in arms Elijah Filley, resident of Gage for liberty and humanity." Perhaps county since 1867, died in Beatrice the greatest work they are now March 31st. He was a member of the doing is the movement toward House of Representatives in the patriotic education; the training legislature of 1881, and a senator of the heterogeneous mass of our in the legislature of 1883; and was people in the duties and privileges active in agricultural of American citizenship. The organizations. Nebraska Society has been Jack Peniska, Ponca Indian especially active in the work of scout, veteran at file Civil War, Americanization. Deborah Avery buried March 31st on the Police chapter conducted classes for Indian Reservation. Military better citizenship under a trained services were held by the Niobrara director for several years. When post of the American Legion after final papers are granted giving the which the tribal ceremony was rights of citizenship to the conducted by the Indians. foreign born of Lincoln a Mrs. E. K. Brosius, born at St. representative of this chapter is James, Nebraska, in 1858, died at appointed to attend the ceremony Rapid City, South Dakota, March and present a silk flag to the new 29th. citizen. George E. Grant, pioneer of 1858 On March 7th Mrs. Elvira in Gage county, died March 30th. Caroline Tewksbury, a daughter of a Nathan Albert Wickham, pioneer Colonial here died in Plattsmouth. of Richardson county in 1864, died Her father, James Walker, served in at Salem, April 1st. Colonel Chase's regiment in the Preston Keiser, resident of Revolutionary war and under command Nebraska since 1865, died in of General Francis Smith was one of Humboldt, April 2nd. the militiamen who marched from Alexander Hamilton Baker, Cornish, New Hampshire, to resident of Dakota county for reinforce the garrison at Fort sixty-five years, died April 2nd at Ticonderoga. Mrs. Tewksbury had his home near Dakota, City; born in been a resident of Plattsmouth and Chautauqua county, New York, Cass county since 1860. For several December 22nd, 1835; settled at years she received a pension from Omadi in 1855. the Daughters. Jesse Davis, who came by ox team to Nemaha county in 1867, died in CLARA S. PAINE. Weeping Water, April 3rd. Mrs. Eunice Bennett Griffith, ----------- who settled on a farm in Cass county in 1867, died in York April First Capital of Red Willow County 10th. (concluded from second page.) Mrs. James Monroe Parker, who came to Nebraska territory with her ator Cordeal discovered the record husband by prairie schooner in of the judgment on the appeal at 1863, died in Omaha April 11th. the courthouse at Beaver City, now Ellen Beardshear, resident of the county Seat of Furnas county. Dakota county since 1858, died at Following is a copy of the Dakota City April 13th. instrument: Mrs. Elizabeth Spence, who came to Nebraska in 1866, died at her TRANSCRIPT OF DISTRICT COURT home in Glendale precinct April JOURNAL, VOL. 1, PAGE 24. 13th. FURNAS COUNTY, NEBRASKA: Victor William Miller, resident or LaPlatte since 1854, died April W. D. Wildman, Leslie M. 14th. Lawton, Philip Bindernagle who come to Royal Duck & Thomas Nebraska City by ox team in 1866 Eaton, died on April 15th at Beatrice [Image]Plaintiffs. where he had lived since 1877. Against, William Henderson Moore, I. J. Starbuck, E. S. resident or Otoe county in 1854, Hill, B. F. died in Plattsmouth, April 15th. At Bradbury, William Boyer, the age of fourteen he was hired by W. S. Majors, Russell and Waddell as a Fitch, and G. A. Hunter, bullwhacker and made some thirty [Image]Defendants. trips across the plains. Sidney Herbert Stebbins, a resident of Pawnee City since 1860, The above entitled action having died April 16th. been duly brought into this court Mrs. Gratzie Stuhr, who settled on an appeal taken by the in Douglas county in the fifties, appellants, I. J. Starbuck, E. S. died in Omaha, April 18th. Hill, B. F. Bradbury, William Mrs. L. J. Griffith, pioneer of Boyer, W. S. Fitch and G. S. Cass county in 1867, died April Hunter, from file judgment rendered 19th. on the 1st of August, A. D. 1873, Auguste Quante, pioneer and by George W. Colvin, a justice of freighter, resident of Nebraska the peace of Furnas county, in the since 1866, died in Brock, April state of Nebraska, in favor of the 23rd. said W. D. Wildman, Leslie H. Thomas Newton Tolle, resilient Lawton, Royal Buck, Thomas Eaton of Nebraska City since 1858, died and L. R. Sitler, and now on this April 23rd. 22 day of June, A. D. 1877, comes William Granville Cunningham, a the said defendants, I. J. freighter across the plains in the Starbuck, et. al., by their early sixties, died at Blair April attorney, W. S. Morlan, and it 24th; had been a resident of appearing that the said plaintiffs Nebraska since 1860. W. D. Wildman et al have not Francis X. Dellone, noted prosecuted their action with Catholic pioneer of Omaha since diligence against the said 1857, died April 26th. defendants, I. J. Starbuck, et al., Timothy Murphy, Dakota county and after full hearing of said pioneer since 1867, died in Dakota matter and deliberation being had City April 26th. thereon it is now on motion at the Mary Dolan, who homesteaded near said W. S. Morlan adjudged that the Wahoo in 1858, died in Plainview on said judgment rendered by the said April 30th. justice as aforesaid be and the Thomas C. Kimsey, resident of same is in all things reversed and Nemaha county in 1857, died at that this action be and the same is Benkelman on April 30th. hereby dismissed at the costs of Dora Sophia Krantz, a resident the said plaintiffs W. D. Wildman of Nebraska since 1866, died May et al. It is therefore considered 1st at her home near Sterling. that said defendants I. J. Starbuck Zenas Stevens, who freighted et al will recover of said with ox teams from Omaha to Salt plaintiffs W. D. Wildman et al., Lake City and Denver, a resident of the costs in its behalf expended, Omaha since 1860, died May 3rd. taxed at $........... and costs. Mrs. John W. Hazelgrove, who came to Nebraska in 1860, died in Read and approved WILLIAM South Sioux City May 3rd. GASLIN, Jr. Judge. Mrs. Burton H. Shoemaker, June 22, resident of Nebraska since 1863, 1877, Dismissal for died in Lincoln on May 4th. want of Gerrit H. Wehmer, who came with prosecution. his parents to Nebraska in 1862, 16 W. D. Wildman, died near Sterling on May 10th. J. G. Eaton Duane Brown, who resided in L. K. Sitler and Washington county from 1866 to Royal Buck, 1918, died at the home of his vs. [Image]LLLL daughter in Bloomfield on May 13th. I. J. Starbuck, Henry Martyn Kemp died in E. S. Hill, B. F. Bradbury, Schuyler, Nebraska, May 13th; born William Burger in England, October 10, 1823; came W. S. Morlan and W. S. Fitch, from Michigan to Nebraska in a [Image]Deft. prairie schooner in 1858. Michael Johnson, a highly At an election held on August 2, respected pioneer citizen of Dodge 1891, a majority of the voters county since 1859, died May 16th. decided to remove the county seat Jonathan Martin, born near Fall from Indianola to McCook, but a River. Mass., July 21, 1820, died dispute over the vote of Coleman at Martinsburg, Nebraska, on May precinct was kept in the courts 18th; came to Nebraska in 1867; was until 1896, so that, the removal the founder of the town of did not occur until that year. Martinsburg. At the first election in Furnas Mrs. Charles J. Karbach, a county, held on April 8, 1873, the resident of Omaha for sixty-three years, died May 19th; Mr. Karbach came to Omaha in 1855 and had a large part in the development of that city. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Produced for NEGenWeb, 1998 by Ted & Carole Miller