NSGS - NE Ancestree, Vol 16, no 1

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NEBRASKA ANCESTREE

VOLUME 16, NO. 1
SUMMER 1993


TABLE OF CONTENTS

FRONTIER CO. Register of pioneers 2-4
MADISON CO. St.John's Lutheran Church Confirmands 5-6
SHERMAN CO. Sherman County Cemeteries 7
NUCKOLLS CO. The Nuckolls County Herald, 29 Apr. 1938 8-10
GAGE CO. Center Sicily School, District 23, 1904 10
LINCOLN CO. Records from North Platte Cern. Office 11-12
LINCOLN CO. The Semi-Weekly Telegraph, 3 June 1902 13-17
GAGE CO. Hunt School, Beatrice--27 May 1904 17
CLAY CO. 1889 Roster of Clay Co. Resident Ex-Soldiers 18-22
CLAY CO. Clay Co. Homesteaders in 1888 22
NUCKOLLS CO. Biographical & Historical Memoirs 23
SALINE CO. 1860 County Census 24
SALINE CO. 1884 Saline County Divorces 24
SALINE CO. 1885 SALINE COUNTY Divorces 24
SALINE CO. 1886 Saline Co. Divorces 24
CHEYENNE Co. Cheyenne County Sheriffs 25
KEARNEY Co. The LOWELL REGISTER, 1875-1877 26-27
WEBSTER Co. Senior Class, Cowles, 19 May 1920 27
JEFFERSON Co. The Little Blue Newspaper, 1869-1870 28-30
CUSTER CO. Longwood School, District No. 6, 16 May 1930 30
NEW BOOKS IN THE LIBRARY 31-34
TREE STUMPS 35-39

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NEBRASKA ANCESTREE SUMMER 1993 Vol. 16, No. 1 Page 2

FRONTIER COUNTY REGISTER OF PIONEERS

NAME
ADDRESS
DATE OF
FROM
No. in
PRECINCT
arrival
Family
Opal SHEFFIELD Orafino, NE 30 Jan 1882 b. in co.
Logan
W. D. NEWCOMB Cambridge, NE b in Co. 1890
Grant
Emma GREEN Moorefield 10 Sept 1897 wallace NE.
Moorefield
James HINTON Stockville Mar 1884 Fillmore Co.
Sherman
Ella HINTON
Ed GROVS Stockville 3 Apr 1893 Lincoln, NE
3
 Stockville
Mary GROVS Stockville 3 Apr 1893 Lincoln, Ne
3
 Stockville
Fannie HAMPSON Farnam 4 Mar 1885 Illinois
1
 Russell
May MARCELLUS Stockville Nov 1889 Pawnee Co.
Garfield
mon COLE Stockville Oct 1888 b. in co.
North Star
Julia H. WEST Stockville Aug 1886 Sheldon, Iowa
3
 Sherman
May RYAN Stockville 1886 Sheldon, Iowa
1
 Sherman
Mrs. Elusie PRICE Orafino 13 Apr 1894 Glenelder, KS
Logan
Cecil Logan SAWYER Moorefield 1889 Republican City
1
 Stockville
Earl WATKINS Stockville Dec 1890 Gosper Co.
Garfield
Sarah HILL Curtis Fall 1884
3
 Curtis
P. Edgar ADAMS Curtis Aug 1898 Iowa
5
 Curtis
J. HABLITZEL Eustis
A. A. DEATER Orafino
N. L. FULTON Moorefield 1883 Pa
E. w. TOWNE Maywood 1886 Iowa
3
 Laird
D. Q. TOWNE Maywood 1884 Iowa
1
 Laird
Wm. E. HOPEWOOD Curtis
Mrs. Lurie M. HINTON Stockville
Mrs. Refena STEWART Maywood
Mrs. Nancy BROWN
Mrs. C. A. HINTON Stockville
C. A. HINTON Stockville
Mrs. Mary E. DETTRA Stockville
J. H. HINTON Stockville Mar 1884 Fillmore Co.
2
 North Star
Wesley STEPHENSON Moorefie1d Mar 1893 Hamilton Co.
3
 Moorefield
John F. WALTHER Moorefield
W.J. ADKISSON Farnam
Mr Mrs. C. M. HILL Curtis
Viola Allen MECHAM Bartley, Ne
A.J. MECHAM Bartley, NE
C.F. SREBECKES Freedom
Mrs. Belle N. BROWN Maywood, Ne
Mr. S Frank MARSHALL Maywood
Mrs. GORDIN Curtis, Ne
S. E. GORDIN Curtis, Ne
J. W. GAMBLE Bartley
Edw. GROUS Curtis, Ne
Mrs. Ed GROUS
Rus; HEATON Curtis, Ne
T.O. BOYD Curtis
Sarah ELBY

NEBRASKA ANCESTREE SUMMER 1993 Vol. 16, No. 1 Page 3

Register of Pioneers continued:

NAME
ADDRESS
DATE OF
FROM
No. In
PRECINCT
ARRIVAL
Family
William ELBY
J. It. PALMER Hoidrege
Mrs. C.A. JEWEL Maywood
C.A. JEWEL Maywood
Henry UNDERWOOD
Mary E. HAGEBOOM Moorefield
Mr & Mrs W.G. THOMPSON Curtis
J. W. BARWN Bartley
L.C. WOOD Curtis
E.J. CARR Curtis
C.W. WOOD North Platte
A. F. SCHULTZ Moorefield
Mrs. Andrew WEBB Curtis
W. N. WEBB Curtis 10 Mar 1873 Iowa
4
 Curtis
Mary WEBB Craig 10 Mar 1892 Iowa
4
R.P. TRAPHAGEN Saint Ann
Anton KOTSCHWER Maywood
Franklin GARMAN Cambridge 1886 Indiana
3
 OROFINO
John HILL Curtis 1884 Missouri
4
 sheridan
S.O. RICHARDSON Cambridge 1878 Indiana
1
 Orofino
Otto GUGELMAN Curtis 1887 Kansas
4
 Orofino
Mrs. Blanche GILLILAND Curtis 1886 NE
4
 Sheridan
E.N. GILLILAND Curtis 1889 Iowa
6
 N. Star
B.T. SCHAFFER Curtis 1886 Ohio
1
 Curtis
H.O. FULLER Eustis 1884 Iowa
4
 Muddy
Henry OELKERS Eustis 1883 seward Co.
5
 Clear Water
Jesse G. Freedom 1896 Kansas
9
 Knowles
Homer C. VanBOSKIRK Lincoln, Ne 1884 Aurora
1
 Shernan
Mr & Mrs Stephen LaRUE 1876 & 1874 Wisc
5
 Garfield
Chas F. REED Stockville 1895 Saline Co
7
 Stockwell
H. D. ARNOLD Stockville 26 Mar 1884 Gage Co
2
 Laws
N.E. BLACKSTONE Curtis Feb 1899 W. VA
1
 Knowles
H. W. NEMAN Curtis 1883 Howard
1
Alta Molley Stockville 1884 Thayer Co.
4
 Stockville
Eva ROBINSON Stockville 1889 Frontier
Stockville
McLean GODDARD Freedom 8 Mar 1885 Kansas
1
 Sherman
Anna GODDARD Freedom 7 Aug 1885
Allen
Alma BUKER Freedom 1884 Gage Co
4
 Knowles
Allen ROSENFELT Freedom 1879
Knowles
W.C. ROSENFELT Curtis 1895 Lancaster
1
 Orafino
Catherine E. NEIMAN Curtis 24 Nov 1887 Sherman
2
Ella HINTON Stockville Mar 1884 Filmore Co.
4
 Laws
Edith POWERS Freedom 1885 Hamilton
4
 North Star
Bill HINTON Curtis 1881 Filmore Co.
2
 Knowles
Lena WEISS Stockville 1886 Kansas
11
 Sherman
N. R. TEEL Freedom Mar 1884 Cowles, NE
14
 Orafino
Ida Teel Freedom Mar 1884 Cowles, NE
1
 Harrison
F.A. DERRICK Freedom June 1884 Aurora, NE
4
 Harrison

NEBRASKA ANCESTREE SUMMER 1993 Vol. 16, No. 1 Page 4

Register of Pioneers continued:

NAME
ADDRESS
DATE OF
FROM
No. IN
PRECINCT
ARRIVAL
Family
James POWERS Freedom 1887 Illinois
9
 Knowles
J.H. HORACE Freedom 1891 Webster
3
 Harrison
W.J. SIEBEEKN Stockville Aug 1884
3
 Harrison
F.J. SCHROEDER Curtis Aug 1893
5
 Fairfield
Bertha FENTON BEARD Stockville 1880 Missouri
12
 Fairview
Letha FENTON MARCELLUS Fairbury 1885 Missouri
12
 Stockweli
Jrroel MOORE Maywood Aug 1880 MO
5
 Stockwell
W.R. DICKERSON Curtis Oct 1885 Kansas
8
 Laird
Mrs. Ida CASTER Farnam Mar 1885 Iowa
17
 Curtis
D. L. DUNN Curtis Dec 1885 Gage Co.
2
May C. DUNN Curtis 1884 Thayer Co.
3
 Harrison
J. A. HARRY Moorefield Nov 1883 Missouri
3
 Logan
Merrill P. CARANCE Fullerton Mar 1885 Vermont
3
 Russell
A.B. CARNANE Farnam Mar 1885 Vermont
3
 Stockville
F.E. DOWD McCook Apr 1907 Adams Co.
3
 Lincoln
S.B. CAMERON Farnam 1898 Penn
1
 Horrell
Wm. BASAEKMAN Lincoln Co. July 1884 Clay Co.
12
 Fox Creek
L. LaBOUNTY Moorefield 1884 Iowa
4
 Curtis
J.B. SPAHR Eustis 1891 Germany
1
 Fairview
G.W. P1MM Eurtis 1896 Polk
1
 Fairview
P.C. WEISSERT Eustis 1890 Germany
6
 Fairview
John KOCH Eustis born here 1884
6
 Fairview
John CURRY Stockville 1887 Gage Co
6
 Osborne
E. R. KEYES Cambridge 1873 Seward
7
 Cambridge
C. A. HARRY Moorefield 1888
Henry OELKER Eustis 1883 Seward Co.
6
 Clearwater
E.L. KEYES Cambridge 1873 Seward
6
 Cambridge
John BOAG Moorefield Sept 1895 Iowa
7
 Stockville
N. WENGER Orafine 1883 Iowa
4
 Earl
Dan GABENSTEIN Curtis 1883 Seward
9
 Fairfield
Thomas ANDREWS Cambridge 4 Aug 1899
H.L. MOUSEL Cambridge 1878
W. H. EVANS Freedom 1889 Iowa
9
 Earl
D. W. BROOKS Moorefield 1885 Webster Co.
6
 Russell
E.U. BARRETT Stockville 1878 Iowa
8
 Osborn
Nary E. DETTRA Stockville Mar 1886 Illinois
2
 Sherman
Mrs. Ezra HINTON Wichita KS Sept 1884 Illinois
10
 Horrell
Mrs. Katherine KESTER Cambridge Oct 1861 Iowa
6
 Earl
Mrs. Stella POTEET Wichita Ks 1892 born here
3
Mrs. John COLE Stockville Mar 1884 Fillmore Co
15
 Stockville
Fred C. STEVENS Wichita, KS 1893 Filmore Co
7
 Laird
W.W. McCABE Orlando, Fla 1888 Filmore Co.
5
 Sherman
Mrs. W.W. MCCABE Orlando, Fla 1893 Filmore Co.
9
 Laird
F. P. HICKS Jr
W. H. LATHAM Curtis Dec 1884 N.Y.
1
 Stockville
S.G. WYMORE Freedom Mar 1884 Gage Co.
5
 Knowles
M.A. WYMORE Freedom Mar 1384 Gage Co.
5
 Knowles
E. O. RILEY Freedom Mar 1913 webster Co.
9
 Sherman
Perry SHEPHERD McCook June 1878 Iowa
5
 Osborne

NEBRASKA ANCESTREE SUMMER 1993 Vol. 16, No. 1 Page 5

Submitted by Joyce L. Borgelt, 408 N. 5 St, Battle Creek, NE 68715

ST. JOHN'S LUTHERAN CHURCH, MISSOURI SYNOD, CONFIRMANDS
Battle Creek, NE, Madison County

1895
Wilhelm BIERNAN Nina MEISSNER 1900
Robert ZOHNER Mathilda JOST Selma HOFFMANN
Carl PRAEUNER Clara WENDT Julius HENSELEIT
George WERNER Mina MILLER Emil PREUSS
Wilh HOHENSTEIN Mrs. Anna PREUSS Otto PREUSS
Otto FUERST Mrs Nagdalena
TOMHAGEN Walther GARDELS
Ella FUNDUM Andreas TOMHAGEN Otto SCHOrI'
Ida BALE SKI Ida TOMHAGEN Otto SCHLIEN
Amanda SCHLACK Ada TOMHAGEN Friedrich NEUWERK
Alma HOBUS Lizzie TOMHAGEN Herbert HEUERMANN
Ida HENSELEIT Gustav RICKENBERG
Louisa WALTHER 1898 Walther TEGELER
Laura MANTEY Richard HEDMAN Herman WERNER
Ottilie WIENCK Job OTJEN Carl SCHEERGER
Louisa PREUSS Friedrich SCHLIEN Rudolph EDENS
B. Franklin LEE Ludwig HANSEN Hedwig PREUSS
Fredrich REEKER Carl DINKEL Bertha HANSEN
Carl LN4BERT Albert HOFFMAN Olga SCHROEDER
Joseph DIETERICH Rudolph FUERST Emilia REEKER
Heinrich PRAEUNER Carolina PRAEUNER
1896 Nina LINDEMAWN Augusta EYL
Wilh MILLER Ella HEUERMANN
Hermann EYL Elizabeth ZIMMERMAN 1901
Lina LINDENANN Nina ShERMAN Herman WALTRER
Emma LINDENAWN Emma TOMHAGEN Martin MANTEY
Bertha BLOHM Martha WOLFF George RIEKENBERG
Maria SECKEL Adelina WARNKE Emma WALTHER
Anna SCHLIEN Clara MANTEY Emilia PREUSKER
Clara WARNKE Frank FIX Gertrude KRAFT
Carolina BREDEHOFT Helena BEIRMAN
Bertha HEUERMANN 1899 Alma WARNKE
Nina ZIMMERMAN Adolph PREUSKER Elizabetha EYL
Maria PRAEUNER Wilhelm REEKER Ida LAMPERT
Emma SCHINKUS Edward JOST Wilhelmina NEUWERK
Ehrhard CLAUS Emma MILLER
1897 Heinrich REIF Louisa WIENCK
John FUNDUM Carl LANPERT Alma MERZ
Carl RUSCLERT Joseph MAAS Augusta PREUSLER
Martin WALTHER Mathilda FUNDUM Etta SCHLIEN
Edward WOLSKE Elsa PREUSKER Mrs. Jennie WURTZEL
Ernest ZOHNER Katharina SECKEL Heinrich BREDEHOFT
Carl SCHOTT Maria FENSKE
Carl BORCHERS Elfrieda WENDT 1902
Emma FUNDUM Emilia BREDEHOFT Johanna JUST
Nina FENSKE Maria EYL Emilia EYL
Emma SCHLACK Mrs. A. GARDELS Ida MAAS
Nelda HANS

NEBRASKA ANCESTREE SUMMER 1993 Vol. 16, No. 1 Page 6

St. John's Confirmands continued:

1902
Martha SCHOTT Lina RINKEL Rosa SCHROEDER
Margaretha MUELLER Wilhelm SEIFFERT Ella WENDT
Elsbeth SCHROEDER Carl PREUSS, Jr. Hulda RODEKOHR
Martha CLAUS Edward PREUSS Theresia NICOLAY
Lilia FENSKE George FENSKE Martha PENSKE
Bernhard WARNKE Carl ZOHNER Bertha BOTCHERS
Carl LUDWIG Edwin TEGELER Mabel FUERST
Wilhelm NICOLAY Otto EYL Selina CLAUS
Ernst EDENS Nina SCHILLING
1903 Hulda PRUESKER
Ernst HANS Maria SPICHER 1908
Wilh SCHIPMAN Maria MILLER Adolph KOESTER
Carl NEUWERK Paulina SCHOTT Wm. CLESSEY
George DOERING Anna BORCHEBS Walter SPICHER
Herman BIERMAN Rosina PRAEUNER Heinrich BIERMAN
Martin RIEKENBERG Margaretha NICOLAY George PRAEUNER
Jacob SCHLACK Maria NEUWERK Edward NAAS
Paul HOGREFE Anna KLEIDER Kinley HOGREFE
Gustav ZIMMERMAN Martin LANBERT
Anna BRAJE 1906 Walter SCHROEDER
Bertha SCHNEIDER Theodor OTT Leo WERNER
Mina LJ1/2MPERT Albert PREUSS Carl DITTERICH
Bertha NICOLAY Job BIERMAN Herman WERNER
Martha EDENS Heinrich STUCKWISCH Joseph ZIMMERMAN
Nina PRAEUNER Win. WEGNER Elmer DOERING
Emma STEFFENS Mn. RINKEL Albert MANTEY
Emma BORCHERS Victor HOFFMAN George FUERST
Mabel BRECHLER Carl ZIMMERMAN Margaretha WOLF
Metta BORCHERS Edmund DOERING Clara FUNDUM
Louisa JUST Fred PREUSKER Mathilda RINKEL
Mina HOFFMN4N Albert MERZ Maria SHIPMAN
Ernst SCHEERGER Maria EYL
1904 Carl BALEFSKI Anna HOFMANN
Heinrich STOLTENBERG Otto MANTEY Julia :ajr;IDER
Ernst KOESTER Emma PREUSS Maria SCHINKUS
Ernst HOFFMANN Hedwig CLAUS Edna MERZ
Edwin RODEKOHR Anna MUELLER Martha WERNER
August HEUERMANN Carolina MILLER Lena WERNER
Alfred DOERING Anna NEUWERK Mrs. Ema FUNDUM
Carl EYL Martha PREUSS
Vina FUNDUM Edward WEGNER
Carolina CLESSY
Leonora HANS 1907 1904 cont.
Elisabetha MULLER Paul SCHOTT Herman MAAS
Ema PLEKSNIES Alfred LAAS Rudolph MANTEY
Julie zniiizwi Carl SCHACHER Wilhelm ZIMMERMAN
Bertha LAMPERT John BREDEHOFT
Albert DINKEL
1905 Friedrich STUCKWISCH
Herman RINKEL Herman ZOHNER
Anna DINKEL

NEBRASKA ANCESTREE SUMMER 1993 Vol. 16, No. 1 Page 7

Submitted by June I. Hand, Pleasanton, NE
She has in her possession the tombstone inscriptions of Sherman County.

SHERMAN COUNTY, NEBRASKA CEMETERIES

BALSORA--Washington Township, 11-16-16. Est. ca 1882
MIZNER--Washington Township, 30-16-16. Est. ca 1905
LONE STAR--Elm Township, 8-15-16. Est. 1886
CLEORIA--Elm Township, 12-15-16, Est. 1884
MOON or SUNNYSLOPE--Webster Township, 10-15-15. Est. 1898
EVERGREEN--Loup City Township, 1-15-15. Est. 1883
(Protestant) Burials from bead Horse Creek, east of Loup City, were placed in Evergreen.
St. JOSEPH'S (Catholic)--Loup City Township. 1-15-15
UNION--Ashton Township, 34-15-15. Est. 1884
IMMANUEL LUTHERAN EVANGELICAL (Wilhelmshohe, Zeven, Glinsman)
Rockville Township, 4-14-13 Est. 1883
HAZARD--Hazard Township, 19-13-15. (originally Danish Lutheran)
NORWEGIAN TRINITY LUTHERAN--Hazard Township, 14-13-15. Est. 1889
HORAK (Bohemian)--Bristol Township, 28-13-14 Est. 1886
HAYSTOWN (Stine)--Bristol Township, 22-13-13 Est. 1887
SOULEVILLE, (Rockville) --Rockville Township, 24-13-13
FLETCHER--Clay Township, 8-14-14 (private cemetery)
AUSTIN--Loup City Township, 14-14-14 Est. 1886
VERDURETTE--Clay Township, 19-14-14 Est. 1882
St. MARY'S OF THE HOLY ROSARY--Rockville Township, 8-13-13
St. FRANCIS (Ashton)--Ashton Township, 27-15-13 Est. 1901
GEHRKE BURIAL PLAT--Rockville Township, 33-13-13
LEWIS BURIAL PLAT--Harrison Township, 34-14-16
FAIRVIEW (Gray)--Harrison Township, 4-14-16 Est. 1881
LITCHFIELD (one of the older cemeteries) --Harrison Township, 26-14-16 Est. before 1882

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