Mrs. Elizabeth O'Neill Herold, a
resident of Plattsmouth for sixty-five years, died July 14
at the age of 78. Her father, James O'Neill, Samuel Martin
and Joseph L. Sharp built a trading house on the site now
occupied by Plattsmouth in 1853, which was probably the
first settlement by white men, though it is said that such
an establishment was placed there in 1851.
Henry Stanford, pioneer of Cass county,
died in Elmwood on July 19, born in Elkhorn, Wisconsin,
February 2, 1852; settled in Nebraska in 1860.
John W. Patterson, Peru, Nebraska, born in
Davies county, Indiana, April 10, 1838, died July 3. He
married Lucy Ann Grubwell February 11, 1857, and settled in
Richardson county, where he resided until 1913.
Hans Behrens, a resident of Hall county
since 1865, born February 15, 1836, died July 3, age 83
years.
Mary Harris Cox, Nebraska pioneer, born in
Nodaway county, Missouri, December 15, 1843, died July 4 in
St. Louis; married Edmund Cox in 1858 and settled in
Richardson county, Nebraska. In 1903 they moved to Fairbury,
where Mr. Cox died in 1910. Mrs. Cox was the mother of
sixteen children, nine of whom are living.
Mortimer N. Kress, Hastings, died July 4,
having homesteaded in Adams county in 1871. He passed
through Nebraska in 1865 on his way to Colorado but did not
become a permanent settler until six years later. Mr. Kress,
generally known as "Wild Bill," was a frontiersman, Indian
fighter and scout and was associated in the early days with
Buffalo Bill and other well known plainsmen. He was a
veteran of the Civil War.
Dempsey C. West, Wyoming, Nebraska, died
July 5; born in Ohio May 31, 1844; settled in Otoe county in
1857, where he lived until his death.
John E. Douglass, Madison, died July 5;
was born at Uniontown, Pennsylvania, October 19, 1838;
enlisted in the Fifth Battery Indiana Volunteers for service
in the Civil War, was in the battles of Perryville, Stone
River, Chickamauga, and Chattanooga, and took part in the
siege of Atlanta. He reenlisted in Hancock's Veteran Corps
and was stationed at Washington when Lincoln was
assassinated and was on duty during the trial of the
conspirators. Mr. Douglass settled in Nebraska in 1866 and
had been a farmer, merchant and banker.
Jefferson Brawner, Fairbury, born in
Atchison county, Kansas, February 20 1863, died July 6. He
came with his parents to Jefferson county, Nebraska, in
August, 1863; married Alice McVey in 1887 and became the
father of six children.
Mrs. Elizabeth Stukenholtz, Julian,
Nebraska, died July 9; was born in Germany, December 24,
1831; came to New York in 1852; married Frederick
Stukenholtz; settled in Nebraska in 1859, where she lived
until her death.
John Robert Hall, pioneer of Nemaha
county, born in Rutherford county, Tennessee, July 9, 1836;
died July 13 at the Soldiers Home in Milford; came with his
parents to Nebraska in 1855 and settled near Brownville;
freighted across the plains both before and after the Civil
War; enlisted in the Second Regiment Missouri Infantry and
participated in several engagements with Quantrell's
guerillas near Westport; reenlisted in the Second Kansas
Battery and took part in the Red River campaign; in 1868
married Luisa Whitlow and became the father of twelve
children, all of whom survive.
Marion Baker, Brownville, born in
Rockport, Missouri, January 8, 1862, died July 20; came with
his parents to Nemaha county in 1863 and with the exception
of a few years spent most of his life in Brownville; he was
mayor of the town in 1916.
Joseph W. Ponn, Brownville, born in
Lorraine, Virginia, May 31, 1844; died July 31; served in
the confederate army; settled in Nemaha county at the close
of the Civil War.
James Emory Neal, pioneer of Nemaha
county, died in Boise, Idaho, August 12; born near Urbana,
Ohio, October 26, 1831; homesteaded near Peru in 1863.
Jesse Jeffries, Nebraska City, born in
Andrew county, Missouri, April 29, 1850, died August 13;
moved to Nebraska City in 1865, where he became a cabinet
maker and wheelwright.
Mrs. John Lee Webster, Omaha, died August
20; before marriage was Josephine Watson of Belle Vernon,
Pennsylvania. They settled in Omaha in 1869. Mr. Webster was
president of the Nebraska State Historical Society for six
years.
Mrs. G. Fred Elsasser died August 14; born
in Omaha in 1857; is survived by her husband, who was twice
county treasurer of Douglas county, and nine of her fourteen
children.
Mrs. Mahala Pearl Graves died August 27 in
Peru aged 98 years and 11 month; born in Knox county,
Tennessee, September 24, 1820; married to William Graves in
1837; settled in Plattsmouth, Nebraska in 1863; a few years
later removed to Rock Bluffs. She was the mother of eleven
children.
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Mrs. Mary Garvey died august 28;
resident of Omaha since 1857.
F. M. Scoggin, Beatrice, died August 29;
resided in Nebraska over sixty years, most of that time in
Gage county; for some years carried mail between Beatrice
and Lincoln before the railroads were built.
Thomas Weatherhogg, born in England, May
2, 1829, died in Douglas, Nebraska, August 31; emigrated to
America in 1857; settled in Nebraska in 1865 and lived an
extremely active life until only a few weeks before his
death at the age of 90 years.
Mrs. Orpha Hoschour, wife of Abraham
Hoschour, of Friend, Nebraska, died September 2; born in
Girard township, Branch county, Michigan, February 3, 1842;
settled in Saline county in 1863 and became the mother of
thirteen children.
Charles Perky, Wahoo, born in Georgetown,
Ohio, December 17, 1841, died September 5; served fifteen
months in Company H, Seventh Regiment Ohio Volunteer
Infantry, reenlisted in Company A, 104th Regiment; mustered
out at close of war with rank of lieutenant; came to De
Soto, Nebraska, in 1866; in 1868 moved to Saunders county,
where he continued to reside; deputy county treasurer and
county treasurer for several terms; also mayor of Wahoo.
Edward Oliver died in Shelton, Nebraska,
September 6; born in Manchester, England, June 3 1836, in
1860 settled in Buffalo county at Wood River Center, now
Shelton, and remained during the Indian trouble of 1864 when
almost all settlers were driven out; county treasurer in
1879-1881, also held public offices in Shelton at various
times.
Jacob Hunzeker, pioneer of Richardson
county since 1857, died in Falls City, September 9. He was
the father of ten children.
Mary Frances Carter Brunton died in Blair
September 10; born August 12, 1853, in Adams county, Ohio;
came with her parents to Nebraska in 1856. She was the
mother of fifteen children. Her mother, Mrs. Jacob Carter,
91 years old, is living in Blair.
Mrs. Juliane D. Sierk, a resident of
Washington county since 1865, died September 17.
Lewis Wladter, of Wymore, killed by a
train September 18; settled in Brownville, Nebraska, in
1854; moved to Humboldt, later to Wymore. He was a soldier
in the Civil War.
Lucinda Billis Loomis, pioneer teacher in
Nebraska schools, died September 18, age 76; daughter of
Israel Loomis, who settled in Nebraska City in 1856. Miss
Loomis began teaching in that city, later was instructor in
Brownell Hall of Omaha. She taught continuously in Nebraska
for sixty years.
Robert Emmett Countryman, for sixty years
a resident of Cass county, died in Weeping Water September
24, aged 86 years.
Henderson W. Ward, Cass county pioneer,
died in weeping Water, September 24; born near Plattsmouth,
January 16, 1862.
William Frederick Malchow, pioneer Cuming
county since 1864, died September 24, aged 86.
Hiram S. Barnum, resident of Gage county
since 1859, died in Beatrice, September 30, aged 82; he was
a veteran of the Civil War.
DEATH OF MORMON HISTORIAN
Heman Conoman Smith, general historian of
the Reorganized Church of Latter Day Saints, Lamoni, Iowa,
died at Independence, Missouri, April 17, 1919. Though born
in the South, in Gillespie county, Texas, on September 27,
1860, he was of New England stock and Mayflower
ancestry.
Heman C. Smith was a recognized authority
upon the history of the Mormons, having been identified with
the Reorganized Church of Latter Day Saints from the age of
twelve. He devoted his life to the work of the church and of
recent years to its history, as editor of the Journal of
History. He was the author of the Church History, Truth
Defended, The True Succession in Church Presidency, also
many articles of general historical interest. Since the
history of the Mormon church is closely connected with the
early history of Nebraska, Mr. Smith's work was of value
outside of his own denomination.
A FINE HISTORICAL ALBUM
On the wall of the public library in the
city of Kearney is a beautiful case with folding leaves,
containing the photographs of 387 of the early settlers of
Buffalo county and attached to the case for reference is a
brief biographical sketch of each person whose photograph is
in the case, these arranged in alphabetical order. This
collection of photographs of early settlers of the county
was made by Robert Haines, who settled in the county in
1872, both the case and collection being presented to the
library by Mr. Haines. This is an exceedingly valuable
historical collection and Mr. Haines is entitled to great
credit for this public spirited effort on his part.
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