Members of the Nebraska Association, who became
the first settlers of Beatrice, Nebraska:
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KINNEY - husband John PITCH
- b.7 April 1816, New Haven, NY - d. 17 August 1902 San
Diego, CA. Wife Hannah D. (HALL) - b.
about 1816 - d. 1895 San Diego, CA. Daughter Julia
Beatrice - b. 29 October 1839, Ohio - m. Julian METCALF.
(The town was named for this young woman)
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McCONIHE - husband John - b. 4
Sept. 1834, Troy, NY - d. battle of Cold Harbor, Civil
War. Buried, overlooking the Hudson, near Troy, NY.
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TOWLE - husband Albert
"Pap" - b. 1817, IL - d. 8 March 1879 Beatrice,
NE. Wife Catherine (HOLT) d. about 1889,
Beatrice, NE. Daughter Helen - m.Jefferson B. WESTON
- d. before 1918. Daughter Emer - m. Joseph SAUNDERS,
1868 - d. before 1918. Daughter Adelia - m. Richard C. DAVIS
- d. 1916, Chicago, IL. Daughter Mary - m. Dr. John G. DAVIS.
Daughter Katie -m. George M. AYRES - d.
28 March 1890, age 32 - first white child born in Gage
County.
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NELSON - husband Joseph Rutherford
- b. about 1836 - alive in WA in 1918. Wife Mary (EASTMAN)
m. 8 Sept. 1869, Wayne, WI. Five children were born to
this union, of whom only one is living, a son Amos A.
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HEWETT - husband Judge Obediah Brown
- b. 18 Sept. 1828, Hope, ME - d. 10 Nov. 1898 Chino, CA.
Wife Mary W. (TURNER) m. Oct. 1857,
Brownville, NE - d. 22 March 1891, Hastings, NE. Son,
James H. H.; daughter Katherine L. - m. ____DAVIS;
son, C. William; second wife - Mrs. Mary NANCE
- d. shortly after 1898; married 1893, Riverside, CA.
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WESTON - husband - Jefferson BURNS
-b. 23 March 1821, Bremen, ME - d. 15 Sept. 1905, buried
Evergreen Home Cemetery, Beatrice, NE. Wife Helen (TOWLE)
- d. 1917; m. 30 April 1860; son Ralph A.; daughter
Elizabeth N.; daughter Katherine - d. before 1918, buried
Evergreen Cemetery, Beatrice, NE.; son Herbert T.
Husband's parents - Eliphaz and Elizabeth (LONGFELLOW)
WESTON - both b. ME. Wife's parents -
Albert and Catherine (HOLT) TOWLE.
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BRODHEAD - husband - William H.
- b. 25 August 1832, Pike County, IA - d. 21 Oct. 1898,
Hailey, ID ; wife - Eliza (AVERY), m. 11
June 1867, Honesdale, Wayne County, PA; son - W. A.
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MUMFORD - husband - Isma P. b.
MD - d. 6 miles west of Nebraska City, NE 1873; wife
Elizabeth (MALLOCK) - b. 1830, Adams
County, OH - d. March 1897, Nodaway County, MO; son -
Rev. James; six more sons and two daughters were born to
this couple. Wife's father - "bore arms for his
country in the War of 1812." Wife's grandfather -
"A Revolutionary soldier."
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MATTINGLY - husband - James B.
- b. 8 April 1818, Harden County, KY - d. 19 Oct. 1907,
in a little town in northern WA. Wife _____________; son
Joel Thomas (m._____) - father of Polly JONES.
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JONES - husband - Samuel - b.
1826, Grayson County, VA - d. 8 Feb. 1872, Gage County,
NE buried on the hill a quarter mile south of the old
stone dwelling on the northeast quarter of section 15,
Midland township, Gage Co., NE. Wife - Rebecca - d. 1901,
Gooding, ID; seven children d. before 1918 - this couple
gave life to 14 children. Son - William R., daughter
Sarah A. - m. Lorenzo L. DREW; son John T.; daughter
Elizabeth - m. ______DWYER; son - Leroy
C.; son - Albert; daughter - Rebecca - m. ________PETHOUD.
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PADDOCK - husband Algernon
Sidney - b. 9 Nov. 1830, Glens Falls, NY - d. about 1897.
Wife - Anna L. (MACK) - alive in 1918,
m. 22 Dec. 1859. Son - Daniel - d. at an early age;
daughter Susan - d. at an early age; daughter - Harriet -
m. O. J. COLMAN; daughter - Francis
Amelia - d. before 1918; son - Franklin Algernon;
husband's father - Ira A. PADDOCK;
wife's father - Daniel MACK.
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GALE - husband George - b. 17
May 1828, Columbia Co., NY - d. 9 Jan. 1899, Gage Co.,
NE. Wife - Margaret M. (SHAW), m. 26
March 1850; son - Edward B.; daughter - Mary A.; son -
Charles F.; daughter - Margaret. Husband's parents -
Alonzo and Phoebe (PECK) GALE,
both natives of Dutchess Co., NY. Husband's sister -
Carrie - m. Louis T. GRIGGS, mother of
George, Clifford, Albert, Kirk, and Mollie GRIGGS.
Wife's father - Stephen P. SHAW.
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TINKHAM - husband - Rev. Albert
L. - b. circa 1800 - d. Beatrice, NE, age 78. Wife -
Sarah (WILSON); son - Gilbert - d.
Beatrice, NE, 1859;
daughter - Wealthy
- m. Joseph HOLLINGSWORTH; son - Elias;
daughter - Margaret Constance (m. Nathan BLAKELY);
son - James Leroy; son - Thomas; daughter - Alice; son -
Edward; son - Albert.
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REYNOLDS - husband - Dr. Herman
Myer - b. 1832 - d. 26 April 1875, Beatrice, NE. Wife -
Naomi (BARCUS) - alive in 1918, m. 20
Oct. 1861. Daughter - Josephine; daughter - Ruth - m.
Corey C. FARLOW; daughter - Elsie - m.
________LOEBER; daughter - Mollie - m.
George RANDALL; daughter - Hermina - m.
Harry E. SACKETT.
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BLAKELY - husband Nathan - b.
26 July 1824 Roxbury, CT - d. 26 July 1906, Beatrice, NE.
Wife - Margaret Constance (TINKHAM) - d.
6 Dec. 1908, Beatrice, NE, buried Beatrice, NE - graves
unmarked in 1918. Married Nov. 1868. Prior to her
marriage Mrs. BLAKELY had been one of
the active and successful teachers of Gage County. Her
first school was at Blue Springs, and her pupils were:
Carter C. COFFINBERRY and Hugh J. DOBBS,
John SHAW, Thomas JOHNSON,
James JOHNSON, Richard JOHNSON,
Martha JOHNSON, Maria KNIGHT
(who m. Louis WEHN), Retta ANTHONY
(who m. F. M. GRAHAM), Isaac ANTHONY
(brother of Retta ANTHONY - both
children of Dr. Levi ANTHONY), Sarah FISHER
(daughter of King FISHER).
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EMERY - husband Charles N. - b.
15 August 1836, Industry, ME - d. "when venerable in
years." Wife - Mary (BENSON) - d. 6
Jan. 1907, m. 4 May 1858, Lawrence, KS. Son - George E.-
b. Lawrence, KS; son - John C. - b. Lawrence, KS.
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HOLLINGSWORTH - husband Joseph
- b. 2 Nov. 1836, Melbourne, Derbyshire, England - d. 23
Oct. 1914, Portland, OR; wife - Wealthy (TINKHAM)
- alive 1918. Son - Arthur; son - Thomas; son - George;
son - Albert; son - Archie; daughter - Alma; daughter -
Arvilla; daughter - Aimee. Husband's parents - James and
Elizabeth HOLLINGSWORTH; husband was
youngest of twelve children. Brothers and sisters: James,
Henry, Robert, Elizabeth (m. William WILD),
and Frances (m. Francis SHELLEY).
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LOOMIS - husband - Gilbert T. -
a young man in 1857; wife - sister of Thomas W. BROWN.
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MILLIGAN - husband - Joseph -
d. TX, many years before 1918 - of Irish descent; wife -
d. TX, many years before 1918 - of Irish descent.
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COOK - husband - Harrison F. -
b. 4 Nov. 1830, Norridgewock, ME - d. 17 Jan. 1908,
Beatrice, NE. Wife - Lucinda H. (HARVEY)
- b. Stafford Hollow, CT - d. before 1918; m.15 March
1860, Stafford Hollow, Tolland Co., CT
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WISE - husband - Dr. Bayard T.
- b. about 1835 - d. 16 May 1908, Indianapolis, IN. Wife
- d. before 1918. Husband and wife buried Elmwood
Cemetery, Fort Madison, IA; son - Edward P.; son -
Frederick T.; son - Gus M.
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PIKE - husband - Bennett - b. 6
Jan. 1829, Cornish, ME - d. 15 July 1892, Arcadia, MO;
husband's parents - John and Elvira (CHECK)
PIKE.
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TOWNSEND - husband - Oliver -
b. about 1834 - d. April 1914, Gage Co., NE; wife Kate (MONCE)
- alive in 1918; m. 1880, Nebraska City, NE. Daughter -
Jean; daughter - Ruth; daughter - Catherine; sons - three
died in infancy; husband's sister - Jennie.
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PARKER - husband - Hiram W. -
b. 17 Dec. 1827, Worcester, MA - d. 1899, Beatrice, NE;
wife - Almira T. (DOLE) - b.OH - d.
before 1918; m. Oct. 1852, Austinburg, OH.; buried old
Evergreen Cemetery, Beatrice, NE. Son - Franklin H.; son
- Louis C.; two children died before 1918; both buried in
old Evergreen Cemetery, Beatrice, NE.
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DORSEY - husband - Charles G. -
d. Kansas City, MO; wife - Mary E. (MAJORS),
m.Autumn 1871, Peru, NE. Son - William C.; daughter -
Edith; son - Harry - d. Beatrice, NE a number of years
before 1918; husband's brother - George; wife's father -
S. P. MAJORS; wife's brother - Colonel
Thomas J. MAJORS.
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ROPER - Fordyce -
d.Bakersfield, CA, a few years before 1918.
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WICKHAM - husband - Horace M. -
b. 2 Sept. 1832, Licking Co., OH - d. 4 Sept. 1906; wife
- Lavinia (YOUNG), d. Southpark, CO, 7
Aug. 1860; m. 8 May 1859, Gage County, NE - The couple
was m. by Nathan BLAKELY, then acting
probate judge of this county, since no minister was in
that part of the country at that time. Second wife - Mrs.
Isabelle BEEBE, d. 1873; m. St. Joseph,
MO; daughter - Clarissa; son - Franklin P.
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