Nebraska State Genealogical Society Journals
NEBRASKA ANCESTREE
Volume 21, no. 2
Fall 1998
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MILLER RESIDENT FIGHTING TO CLEAN UP CEMETERY
Keamey Hub, Aug 3, 1998
By: Carol Fettin, Hub Regional Correspondent
Submitted by: Irene Mollard, Amherst, NE
MILLER - Folded between rolling hills of golden, green prairie grass, fields of hay, and the winding Wood River, rests the few tell-tale signs of an old pioneer cemetery. Within a quiet meadow off a county road stands a plum thicket filled with weeds and goose berries. The lump of growth, covered and surrounded by old hay mounds, hides tombstones that once marked the graves of the earlier pioneers. The stones covered with dirt and old trees bear the names of ARMSTRONG and BOYD. They are the stones of small children and old-timers; some can be read while others are lost to time.
Stories persist about how the tombstones came to be knocked over and piled up. Regardless of the accounts of how it happened, recent records indicate the cemetery should still be standing. In 1885, according to a deed, men named ARMSTRONG and BOYD, working under the Western Home Burying Association, started a cemetery on three acres of land near Miller. Records as recent as 1990 note a cemetery exemption on a nearby landowner's warranty deed. The 1997 Register of Deeds plat map book marks a cemetery in the same area. Yet, to pass the area today, the land bears no signs of the cemetery ARMSTRONG and BOYD established 113 years ago.
Neglected cemeteries around Buffalo County have upset genealogists. One Miller resident said he is equally concerned, particularly about the cemetery created by ARMSTRONG and BOYD near his home. "I've heard about this all my life," said 38 year old Charles DAY. "Is anybody ever gonna care? I think it's time to do something about these cemeteries."
While the three acres of ground designated for use as a cemetery was never given a name, residents in the area refer to it as Watertown Cemetery because it's located two miles north of a place once called Watertown. Once a thriving township, Watertown was established as a regular stopping point for the Omaha and Republican Valley Railway Company where steam locomotives could load-up with water. At one time Watertown was serviced by a post office, established in 1890, and a schoolhouse, formed in 1886. By the 1930's Watertown began to decline.
It's unknown when and how the cemetery was abandoned. Today the area neighbors remember little about the plot of land. Thorny rose bushes make a feeble attempt to rise above gravel and dust that once marked the entrance. Grass and weeds grow tall. With the exception of nearby land owners mowing and haying the field, little attention is given to the cemetery. David FRESE of Miller said he has never plowed up land near the plum thicket because he has heard a cemetery was once nearby.
DAY, who is a captain in the National Guard and active in the American Legion, said he has always known about the cemetery and decided to look into it last May. DAY said he looked through the plum thicket and found one buried headstone containing the names of two small children.
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WATERTOWN CEMETERY (continued)
Without knowing where to turn, DAY took the marker to the Buffalo County Veteran's Service Office. He said he now hopes to bring his concern before the Buffalo County Board of Supervisors. Whether veterans are buried in the cemetery can't be determined, DAY said. But he and 13 other veterans organized a memorial service in May in honor of the people buried there ....
According to historical records, there are approximately 42 cemeteries in Buffalo County, of which 10 are private or family owned. State law provides that counties must, under certain conditions, tend to neglected pioneer cemeteries. Counties can pay to keep up cemeteries if the cemetery:
1 - Was founded or land was deeded to cemetery founders prior to Jan 1, 1900.
2 - Contains graves of people who were homesteaders, immigrants from a foreign nation, prairie farmers, pioneers, sodbusters, first generation Nebraskans, or Civil War veterans.
3 - Has been abandoned and neglected for at least 20 years.
4 - If these conditions are met, the county must help if 35 adults county residents petition to request maintenance.
According to state law, a county can spend $350. a year if a cemetery meets the legal definition of "totally abandoned" or $300. a year for each cemetery deemed "partially abandoned."
In response to concerns about abandoned cemeteries, the county board set up a committee of three members in April to look into the issue. Supervisor Dick PIERCE of Miller already has looked into aspects of Watertown cemetery. Supervisor Jim Anderson of Kearney says we are ready and willing to do something. We just need to identify what needs to be done.
MILLER MAN FINDS SUPPORT TO RESTORE CEMETERY
Keamey Hub, Aug 12, 1998
By: Jeffrey ROBB, Hub Staff Writer
For three months, Charles DAY of Miller has tried to revive Watertown Cemetery, a three-acre burial plot whose headstones were pushed in a pile, hidden within a plum thicket, and covered with dirt and hay.
His efforts to right the situation are quickly gaining support. The Buffalo County Genealogical Society is backing DAY. Following a Kearney Hub article last week, DAY encountered a Bertrand woman whose homesteader relative is buried at Watertown. DAY found an ally Tuesday who is a descendant of a cemetery founder.
DAY made a plea for help Tuesday and found only welcoming supervisors. As a first step, the board agreed to have the county survey the land east of Miller. Records at the Buffalo County Register of Deeds office indicate the cemetery land was never sold, though it appears to be part of an adjacent farm. Land records spell out the three acres legal description.
After establishing the cemetery's boundaries, Board Chairman Tim LOEWENSTEIN said DAY can work with the board's cemetery committee on
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WATERTOWN CEMETERY (continued)
cleaning the area, bringing in a Highway Dept. crew to clear headstones and put up a fence.
Watertown cemetery was established in 1885. A revelation Tuesday provides records that a homesteader is buried there. Marcia DAHLKE of Bertrand, who was searching for informaton on her husband's deceased great-grandfather but hitting roadblocks until last week, was present.
DAHLKES relative, Wilhelm DAHLKE, came to the United States from West Prussia in the late 1800's and settled in Buffalo County. Marcia DAHLKE possesses a record of that action. An 1891 homestead form authorized by President Benjamin HARRISON turns over U.S. owned land to her husband's great-grandfather. DAHLKE said she also knew the late Wilhelm DAHLKE was buried in someplace called Watertown Cemetery. It says so on his 1912 death certificate from the state . ...After genealogical research and trips to the former Watertown, DAHLKE said she found no cemetery.
Kearney Hub, Aug 13, 1998
County Supervisor Dick PIERCE of Miller approached the Extension office about sending out a call for help from Buffalo County 4-H clubs. In response to PIERCE'S request, Janele SMITH, Extension assistant for youth, sent out letters to 56 4-H leaders asking for volunteers to help maintain rural cemeteries in Buffalo County.
Other cemeteries in the county are cared for by interested local residents, and 4-H clubs. A 4-H club near Poole cares for the Majors Cemetery located seven miles southeast of Pleasanton. A farmer, Brad ROHRICH, north of Riverdale mows Divide Pioneer and Fairmont Pioneer cemeteries four or five times a year. He has several relatives buried there and says his grandfather kept the cemeteries up for years. Earl and Wanola CLARK said they pledge to protect the Poor Farm Cemetery as long as they live. They would like to see a cemetery marker erected so future generations will know the cemetery is there. Marcia Dahlke of Bertrand said her husband, sons, and grandsons want to help in the restoration of Watertown Cemetery
Kearney Hub, Aug 14, 1998
A Buffalo County surveying crew visited the cemetery east of Miller Thursday and staked out the plot's four corners, County Surveyor Wayne HUMPHREY said. The crew based its work on an 1885 land deed pulled from the Buffalo County Register of Deeds office.
Editor's Note: I have followed these articles in the Kearney Hub with great interest. There is help out there if we know where to ask for it. Hopefully others in need of help in maintaining a cemetery will profit from this information.
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Source: Keamey Hub--Weekend Edition, Aug 1-2,1998
Rural Cemeteries Hard to Locate Among Fields By: Jeffrey Robb Hub Staff Writer
Submitted by Mary Bergsten, Minden, NE
Buffalo County's rural cemeteries are sometimes so invisible that visitors can drive by one time and time again without realizing it. The cemeteries' locations are often known only to a select few - the people who lived next to them for years. With the addition of street names throughout Buffalo County, cemetery sites can be found with less of a search. The following list provides the street locations of many rural cemeteries, so everyone can know where they are.
By no means is the list comprehensive. Historians have recorded 13 private burial grounds, mostly located amid fields. Others may be unknown.
*Amherst - Old Stanley--NE 145th and Odessa Road
Black Hills Creek - SE 385th and Comanche Road
Burgess - SW 235th and Maple Road
Divide Pioneer - 190th between Greenhill-YOC Road
Dove Hill -S 56th and Dove Hill Road
*Dow - East on access road 1/2 mile south of 235th on Keystone
*Elm Creek Catholic -S 56th and Highway 183
*Elm Creek - S 56th and Highway 183
*Fairmont Pioneer - NW Pole Line and Grove
*Fairview - SW 130th and Highway 183
*Gibbon Riverside - SW 85th and Navaho
*lmmanuel Lutheran - 235th between Daykin-Amherst
*Kearney - 44th Street and Avenue I
*Majors - SW 265th and Imperial
*MiIIer-Armada - SW 280 and Highway 183
Old Zion Lutheran - Willow between 280-295
*Peake Lutheran -- Riverdale between Husker-235
*Pleasanton - 310 between Grove-Highway 10
*Pleasant Valley - between Dove Hill-Riverdale
Poor Farm - 100th and Poole
*Prairie Center - NW 160th and Antelope
*Ravenna - NW 370th and Lakota
*Riverdale - Riverdale between 115-Shelton
*St John's Lutheran - SE Husker and Cherry
*St. Joseph - SW Grand Island and Maple
*St. Mary's Catholic of Prairie Center - 190th and Hawk-Antelope
*St. Wencelaus - SE Grand Island and Navaho
Shelton - Hall County
*Sodtown - NE 295th and Range
*Sweetwater - NW 370th and Cherry
Watertown - North on Watertown Road until road bends west. Cemetery is immediately north of turn
*Zion Lutheran - SE Grand Island and Sioux
* Denotes cemeteries with veterans
Submitted by: Doris Peters, DeWitt,
NE
Source: DeWitt Times, Aug 25, 1894
Teachers attending the annual Saline County Teachers' Institute held in DeWitt, NE in 1894. The meeting lasted two weeks, from Aug 20 thru Sep 1, and teachers were boarded in local homes.
SWANTON | ||
W G RIPPETOE | E C FROST | Daisy VAN METER |
Phebe RICE | E L KILMER | PLATO |
Annie ELLERMEIER | Mollie BROWN | Effie DEWEY |
George RICE | Bertha MORGAN | Sylvia VINCENT |
Daisy BROOKS | Estella HAMPTON | WYMORE |
Anna RICE | Hepsie ALLPRESS | Emma SHALLA |
W H MILLS | Rose FITZGERALD | PLEASANT HILL |
TOBIAS | B F HOUSTON | Merta McCLURE |
Laura CRAYS | Lillie HICKS | Pearl WALKER |
Frank WALLACE | Paul GOOS | Anna LANE |
Chas SHIREY | L W WHEELER | Jennie THOMAS |
Annie CLAARK | G A GROFTON | Lillian TRACE. |
S W WITMAN | J SCHWINKER | Marian TRACE |
Mrs Hattie MEAD | Lula SAWYER | Myrtella MONEYPENY |
Anna AINSWORTH | J J MURPHY | DE WITT |
Anna KRISL | Dora STORMS | C S VAN DYKE |
Pearl HADSELL | Reuben SAMPSON | W I STOUT |
Bertha WALLACE | WILBER | Mattie CHESNEY |
Louis UPTON | A H KUHLMAN | Minnie LINDLEY |
R M TYSON | Ethel KILGORE | Gusta PLUCKNETT |
Belle HENRY | Agnes BARTA | Clora KRIEG |
Minnie WILKINSON | Lily RUZICKA | W D GREEN |
Mrs WITMAN | Emma LOVE | Mary FITZGIBBON |
Mora GRIFFETH | Beatrice TUCKER | Nellie FERGUSON |
Alice HANSON | Joseph HONZIK | Blanche NORTON |
Hattie HADSELL | Mamie ALLSMAN | Grace HOLLINGWORTH |
J F NOTTINGHAM | Emma MADEEN | Adah DAUGHERTY |
OHIOWA | Mary PACKARD | Lelia CHESNEY |
Carrie PATTERSON | Lillie WEHN | Alice MILLIE |
NORMAL | Grace COMSTOCK | Agnes MOORE |
W T RYMER | Bertie KILGORE | Carl KENT |
WESTERN | Addle ROBERTSON | Jennie CLAIR |
Lucy BOWEN | Chas M TURNER | Mrs E VAN DYKE |
Bessie ALLPRESS | Pearl TUCKER | D R SMITH |
Mamie MURPHY | Claudia TUCKER | Clemie DULIN |
Ruby STEVENS | Libbie ALLSMAN | Mattie CARMICHAEL |
A J STORMS | Emma SLOAN | Mary RODABAUGH |
L DOANE | Nellie ELLIOT | W C FARRAND |
C J MATHER | Hattie PACKARD | Gertie DOERING |
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SALINE COUNTY TEACHERS' INSTITUTE (continued)
DE WITT | ||
Vera PEARCE | Mayme KENTNER | R H DIXON |
Bessie DAVIS | Map PHELPS | Luella HARRIS |
J C WILD | M J REGON | Mary COOLEY |
Clara DANN | Emma MARSHALL | Ida M JONES |
Sadie RUPERT | Rose HURLBURT | W H MERRILL |
Mollie HUNT | Pearl ANDREWS | Sarah R HUNTER |
Berdie ARMSTRONG | Mrs Mattie DERBY | Clara MULLIN |
Robt ANDERSON | E H DILLEY | Belle ATWATER |
Judson DANN | Mamie MOORE | Edith BINGAMAN |
Jessie HOWLETT | Bertha MOON | Minnie PROCHASKA |
EXETER | Libbie HUMPHREY | Carrie M FISH |
Ida WALTON | Maggie SULLIVAN | W J WAUIKE |
IOWA | Mrs E G WEAVER | Mabel GREGORY |
William CHRISTIE | Lulu MOEHLER | Olive HARRIS |
FRIEND | Libbie DORWART | Lillian MULLEN |
G T LANGOON | Nellie CROWLEY | Mae PHELPS |
E O OWENS | Amy WELLINGTON | Mabel BRICK |
Lillian MARSHALL | CRETE | DORCHESTER |
Kitty GULLY | Carrie MATHEWS | Louie DAINTON |
Mary MILLER | Nellie RHINE | R D DEEMS |
Bessie FERGUHARSON | Clara BULLOCK | Gertie MORLEY |
Cora BOYNTON | Louise WENG | Luella HOOVER |
Rotta WORK | J R ELBRON | Nellie STEWART |
Mrs ANDREW | OIia ROBINSON | Flora ARMSTRONG |
Nellie MARSHALL | Emliy AKSAMIT | S H SELL |
Nellie FLETCHER | Carrie COOPER | Mary BEARDEN |
Jessie DREHER | Alice F SHERRILL | L E WHITNEY |
Phronie McCROSKEY | Loretta LOVELL | Minnie DOAN |
Jessie B KEPLER | ||
N L CURTIS | ||
Clara C JONES | ||
Maggie HYPOLIGHTNER |
We have been constant in asserting that DeWitt was just about the most highly favored (not flavored) spot in a radius of many miles. Substantial proof of this fact is now before us, aye, actually with us and many of her citizens are realizing and appreciating the truth we have so frequently uttered. It is safe to say that 200 schoolma'ams, at least an overwhelming majority are ma'ams are now ensconced within her borders and the pleasant smiles from their beaming countenances are reflected on the faces of our citizens, especially the male portion. As to the work these teachers are doing, it can not be overestimated. Just think! Every little youngster in Saline county, over five years of age, will, no preventing providence, spend the greater portion of his or her young life under the immediate direction and influence of some of these teachers. When we consider that in the public schools of our land, the character of the young, the very man and woman as the future is developed, there must surely come to these young instructors a sense of vast responsibility, the future success or downfall of a grand republic depends to a great extent upon them ....
Comstock High
School Alumni, Comstock (Custer County), Nebraska 68828
Compiled by Terry Drake, Deb Kallhoff, and Janet Gibbons for the reunion in 1995.
Submitted by Margaret Bader, Lexington, NE July, 1997
Comstock High School
1900-1965
At the beginning of the 20th century, when a Burlington Railroad branch was new in the Middle Loup Valley, pioneer W. H. Comstock helped found a village near the eastern edge of Custer County. In time the village grew to 500 residents. School District 28 began with elementary students only, then gradually expanded with the addition of the 9th and 10th grades to become Comstock High School.
By school year 1911-12 Comstock High had all 12 grades under Supt. G. E. Livermore. One of the best-known early four-year high school graduates was Eddie Krikac (Class of 1922), later longtime editor of The Comstock News. The Comstock School reputation for athletic success was matched by a more durable emphasis on academic accomplishment. In 1924-25 Supt. F. E. Brown was one of four faculty members providing instruction to a student body of 80 at Comstock High. The home economics teacher was Paulilne Emily Bergersen; English and Latin instructor was Jessie Marie Cripe; science and math teacher was Elmer Lee Miller. Alva B. and Erabel Cavett taught at Comstock from 1930 to 1934; after which they moved to Gibbon where their son, Dick, the television personality, was born.
The powerful blue and gold clad Comstock Pirates did well in every sport they attempted. In 1939, Coach Earl Dasher led the football team to an undefeated 10-0 season and a No. 1 ranking in Class C. In 1947 Virgil Ferguson helped Comstock claim the No. 1 gridiron ranking again, this time in Class D, a feat also achieved in 1952. Certainly a candidate for one of the best all round squads in history would be the Comstock boys who won the 1940 Class D State Track Meet.
True grit was displayed during the crippling snow storm of 1948 when Dr. Glen Auble of Ord, director of the Red Cross and also Comstock music teacher, flew into the stranded village and conducted band practice in the midst of his other duties. After 1965, when falling enrollment and economic realities dictated closing of the Comstock High School, District 28 teenagers then went to high school at neighboring Ord or Sargent. But great memories remain open, just one of many being the sight of Comstock star Gene Gilmore hurling the javelin to a new state record in 1929. Other outstanding Comstock athletes: the Wells brothers, Lenstrom brothers, B. Griebel, and Walt Gibbons. 1948 Regent Scholarship winner, Laddie Duryea is now a business executive of a large corporation in Atlanta.
"How times have changed," may be one of the exclamation which you have heard made about many of the changes which have taken place since "the good old days." This saying may be applied very emphatically when reisidents of the community are exclaiming about the changes which have taken place since they attended school in the old wooden high school building in Comstock.
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Comstock High School Alumni (continued)
In 1882 the first school building was erected in Comstock on the present site of the V. Krikac home. This frame building consisted of one room and from ten to twelve pupils began their education here.
In 1907 a frame high school and grade school combined was erected by John F. Westcott. Four teachers were employed to educate the 155 students enrolled. This building was constructed for $10,000. The building consisted of 6 rooms, four of which were used for classrooms. Beginning with 1915, six instructors were hired.
In 1923 the present school building began to take form and was constructed at a total cost of $57,000.
The new brick building housed many improvements not boasted by the old one. It contained a gymnasium, a modern metal fire escape, fireproofing between the walls, and a water system. (The old school used an outdoor pump.)
The change in the variety of subjects offered has also been great. In the old days they offered only brain-exerciser subjects which consisted of English, mathematics, science, Latin and history. The various subjects that are offered at present are: English, mathematics, biology, general science, physics, American history, world history, modern problems, junior business, consumer economics, typing, bookkeeping, homemaking, shop, commercial courses, economic geography, world geography, music, dramatics, journalism, driver training, and athletics, including sports for both boys and girls
Classes of CHS | ||
1913 | ||
Emma Ellersick Dixon | Marvin Gilmore | Bertha Shepperd Combs |
Jessie Forte Eickenburg | Catherine Bangs Boyer | Evelyn Stone Stroup |
Eva Gibbons Brown | Charlotte Bartholmew Peters | John Stone |
1922 | Leonard Comstock | John Waldmann |
Bernice Brecken Comstock | Fern Donahue Nabb | 1926 |
Lilas Cleveland Brandhorst | William Dowse | Adolph Bartu |
Harold Dowse | Leonard Dye | Milton Brecken |
Edward Krikac | Howard Granger | Angie Cleveland McIntosh |
Earl Shafer | Charles Krikac | Martha Comstock O'MalIey |
Don William | Edward Rejda | Bernice Devore Mattox |
1923 | Frank Wagner | Ellen Fisher Patton |
Warren Apperson | Minnie Woracek Seig | Helen Kamarad Maruska |
Myron Comstock | 1925 | Claude Lewin |
Alton Donahue | Joanna Allen | Theodore Nelson |
Opal Dunbar | Viola Allen O'Keefe | Ray Roth |
Lamere Dworak | John Cleveland | Emma Rousek |
Agnes Miller | Nettie Hale Apperson | Helen SkoIil |
Elvin Wait | Violet Hovie Thorne | John Smolik |
1924 | Albert Kamarad | Marie Smolik Vancura |
Evelyn Myers Wilson | John Dunbar | Leta Wait Ilg |
Virginia Apperson Mattox | Verna Fretz Holeman | Eva Weak Eckert |
Luella Granger Travis | Eva Woracek Lunberg |
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Comstock High School Alumni (continued)
1927 | |
Edna Allen Moore | |
Vivian Allen Hall | |
Bernice Bennett | |
lola Caddy | School Song as recorded in 1931 annual |
John Emry | |
Harold Gehre | Pep is the password of Comstock, |
Leonard Gehre | Of dear old Comstock High, |
Gerene Glovere | Where the girls are the fairest, |
Faye Hale Smith | The boys are the squarest, |
Edward Klima | Of any old school 'neath the sky, |
Ruby Matheson Higgins | There is no place like old Comstock |
Leona Speer Sleight | Where they're all so true, |
Edythe Stone Gilmore | We'll all stick together |
Marion Willard Baker | In all kinds of weather, |
1928 | For colors old gold and blue. |
Rosetta Apperson Morrison | |
Jerry Bartu | School Song as recorded in 1944 annual |
Helen Cleveland Myers | |
Phillip Dowse | Pirates stand together, |
Leona Dye Bressley | Don't give up the ship. |
Teresa Erikson Dunbar | Fair or stormy weather |
Edwin Leep | We won't give up, |
Eugene Matheson | We won't give up the ship. |
Kenneth Myers | Friends and pals forever, |
Rachel Olms Arnold | It's a long, long trip. |
Loretta Roth Waldmann | If you have to take a lickin' |
Emil Sedlacek | Carry on and quit your kickin' |
Marion Stevens Sorenson | Don't give up the ship. |
Donald Straight | |
Rudolph Vodehnal | School Song as quoted by Dennis Krikac |
Margaret Heaps Moore | |
1929 | Comstock High School, |
Opal Alexander | Hats oft to thee, |
Frances Ayres Johnson | To our colors, |
Charles Bach | True we shall ever be, |
Evelyn Cleveland Forsyth | United as we, |
Ivan Conway | Rah, Rah, Rah, Rah, |
Marion Crawford | Rah, Rah, Rah, Rah, |
Berta Emry Kromberg | Three cheers for Comstock High. |
Clara Mathauser Mutter | |
Irene Panowicz Myers | |
Ralph Piersol | |
Alvin Nabb |
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Comstock High School Alumni (continued)
Wayne Stone | Beulah Luedtke Hines | Catherine Emry Phelps |
Gene Gilmore | Irene Pliva Moravec | Pauline Florida Waldmann |
1930 | Gertrude Prettyman | Raymond Jarusek |
Alma Allen | Rowene Prettyman Smith | Martha Kluna Bursik |
Leonard Bennet | Edward Skolil | Maurice Konvalin |
Charles Brandt | Zelma Stone Brandenburg Veltz | Laura Land |
Doris Dye Campbell | 1934 | Anita Straight |
Eleanor Erikson Dowse | Margaret Arthur Meyers | 1938 |
Glen Granger | Evelyn Bussell Bass | Robert Bruner |
Joyce Havlik Bartu | Willard Hill | Roger Dowse |
Lumir Klima | Wendell Hovie | Lola Fretz Welte |
Wayne Lewin | Blanch Luedtke Coakley | Robert Haynes |
Alice Rousek Bartu | Sherman Matheson | Jean Herring Smith |
1931 | Vera Matheson Plock | George Hosek |
Katherine Arthur George | Dan McVay | Lydia Hvezda Gregory |
Clayton Bishop | Arthur Roth | Orval Lindell |
Wayne Brecken | Irene Shepperd Dockhorn | Floyd Roth |
Marshall Fuller | Virginia Shepperd Marsh | Darlene Shanks Foresburg |
Alice Hvezda | Raymond Waldmann | Vesper Smith Jarusek |
Agnes Hvezda Buckowsl | 1935 | Walter Tvrdik |
Kathleen Morris | Kenneth Brecken | Josephine West Dowse |
Donald Myers | Joe Chalupsky | 1939 |
Woodrow Packard | Wayne Conaway | Dorothy Allen Wells |
Mamie Stone Castle | Eunice Fowler Wagner | Blanch Aubert Barowski |
Frank Weverka | Joyce Hovie Matheson | Sylvester Boro |
1932 | Edward Hvezda | Helen Carpenter Hamilton |
Everett Bussell | Mildred Luedtke | Kermit Dowse |
Esther Brecken Covey | John Matheson | Marjorie Dye Hagopian |
Lillian Chalupsky Ruzicki | Arnold Berk | Curtis Egly |
Ellen Dowse | Carolilne (sic) Rickett Ayres | Opal Fuller Hayden |
Lorraine Dowse | Eldon Skolil | Marjorie Helmick Shore |
Marguerite Emry Caudle | Anna Weverka | Johnny Lukesh |
Mae Granger Voss | 1936 | Lucille Wait Stone |
Edythe Kluna Klanecky | Leroy Ayres | Lucille Roth |
Clinton Leep | Leslie Shepperd | Ted Setlik |
Virginia Mutter Fuller | William Chalupsky | Mildred Stefka Klapal |
Paul Waldmann | Edna Fisher Livermore | Calvin Strickland |
1933 | Margaret Roth Lorensen | 1940 |
Alvin Ayres | Engbert Reudink | Robert Brandt |
Henry Bartu | Gertrude Smith Piersol | Doyle Bruner |
Elizabeth Carpenter | Heber Stone | Darlene Chilewski Visek |
Cash Comstock | lola Straight | Walter Haynes |
Elna Emry Brady | 1937 | lnez Hovie Padham |
Goldie Grim Pirnie | Lillian Bussell Stewart | Alberta Janulewicz Coble |
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Comstock High School Alumni (continued)
Verna Oxford | Doris Shepperd Marsh | 1946 |
Dick Rasplicka | Irene Visek Ellersick | Geraldine Chilewski |
Jay Rasplicka | 1943 | Gerald Dockhorn |
Merola Rickett Sorg | Audrey Emry Jones | Dorothy Drake Manning |
Dorothea Stone Eliassen | Richard Kamarad | Eric Erikson |
Robert Smith | Evelyn Kamarad Proskocil | Richard Erikson |
Elwood Speer | Joan Rasplicka Wilson | Marilyn Krlkac Laird |
Curtis Wells | Jean Rousek Marsh | Marvin Setlik |
Willis Wells | Emanuel Sedlacek | Marcille Speer Harris |
Nathan Leach | Richard Stone | Wilma West Erikson |
Antonia Lebruska | Calvin Treptow | Betty Plock Hruby |
Homer Matheson | Robert Tvrdik | 1947 |
Capt. E. L. West (Ret) | Eldon Urban | Phyllis Chilewski Plock |
Jean Janulewicz Hovie | 1944 | Paul Fisher |
1941 | Howard Applegarth | Darwin Higgins |
Verl Ackles | Dale Coakley | Leonard Kamarad |
Arthur Chalupsky | Louise Drake Wilson | Myron Kamarad |
Jacob Drake | Ethelyn Hosek Baumeister | Elaine Oschner Englert |
Wilma Drake Mattox | Edwin Hruby | Frank Pesek |
Keith Dye | Donald Leui | Twila Reckling Lenstrom |
Mark Dye | Leonard Moudry | lone Sestak Gilham |
Dorthea Edwards Vanek | Phyllis Packard Johnson | Bessie Shepperd Hulinsky |
Ted Erikson | Mary Plock Brass | Ruth Land Applegarth |
Velma Florida Chalupsky | Marvin Reckling | Gayle Lenstrom |
Adelaide Leach Ackles | James Riddle | Wanda Undell |
Carolene Leach Braker | Robert Sestak | Norma Skolil Hunt |
Eric Olson | Adrian Setlik | Betty Petet Duryea |
Evelyn Skolil Kriss | Iris Wells Tvrdik | 1948 |
Evelyn Strickland Wells | Leroy Wells | Maxine Anderson Montanye |
Emery Treptow | Lorraine Zurek Ipson | Evelyn Applegarth Cooper |
Leroy Visek | Vernon Erikson | Charles Chilewski |
Velma Wagoner Powers | Louis Dockhorn | Anson Dockhorn |
1942 | 1945 | Jurene Drake Holmes |
Charles Ackles | Eva Chalupsky Wells | Ladd Duryea |
Al Boro | Robert Edwards | Ernestine Gawrick Egger |
Leatrice Comstock Quick | Doris Ellersick Needlecove | Walter Gibbons |
Norma Chalupsky Panowicz | Shirley Florida Uphoff | Bernard Griebel |
David Egly | Doris Kamarad Hurlburt | Daryl Lenstrom |
Anton Hvezda | Gerald Morris | Clayton Montanye |
Rex Morris | Ruth Packard Brown | Alvin Moudry |
Glen Nelson | Hollis Reckling | Ethel Plock Fechner |
Florence Setlik Zadina | Donald Smith | Shirley Tobin Land |
Clarence Fisher | Evelyn Treptow Ritz | 1949 |
George Haynes | Donald Waldmann | Phyllis Ayres Bowling |
Jim Gupton |
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Comstock High School Alumni (continued)
Dwain Bartu | Ethel Nunn | Irene Leska Ellersick |
Kathleen Chilewski Mickel | David Erikson | Lorabelle Minar Kugler |
Joan Dockhorn Weber | Maxine Gawrick Maret | Ted Nunn |
Richard Ellersick | Raymond Setlik | Daniel Setlilk |
Donald Griebel | Irene Snyder Fisher | Leo Zikmund |
Dennis Krikac | 1953 | 1956 |
Robert Nedbalek | Arvilla Amos | Marvin Bilka |
Dixie Packard | Bryce Bartu | Duane Ash |
Elaine Reckling Hyde | Dean Brown | William Burt |
Arwilda Roessler Dockhorn | Dyle Buckbee | Darr Dockhorn |
Joe Setlik | Kelvin Dowse | Ernest Moravec |
Alice Gawrick Applegarth | Phyllis Fisher Bartu | Carolyn Ritz Moravec |
1950 | Shirley Griebel Diefendorf | Jerry Sestak |
Leona Anderson | Delores Kinish Amos | Laverne Shepperd |
Donald Bartu | Richard Kirkpatrick | James Waldmann |
Virginia Chilewski Walker | Norman Kriss | 1957 |
Donald Edwards | Victor Lenstrom | Maxine Bartu Brass |
Marian Hovie Ritz | Dale Maruska | Lewis Dowse |
Gordon Hyde | Clifford Snyder | Shirley Dowse Lein |
William Kirkpatrick | Hilda Visek Knick | Byron Lewin |
Gerald Lenstrom | David Waldmann | Donald Marsh |
Betty Packard Schafer | JoAnn Waldmann Dehart | Einer Nelson |
Shirley Plock Hill | 1954 | R. J. Peterson |
Arthur Ritz | Joyce Drake Dickman | Karen Erikson Waldmann |
Thelma Moudry Barnes | Dale Dowse | Sharon Erikson Setlik |
Jim Foral | Alvin Nelson | Larry Fisher |
Bonnie Lee Amos Hanten | John Nelson | Debris Foster |
Morris Fisher | Roscella Snyder Baker | Barbara Plock Jones |
George Land | Raymond Stone | Jo Ann Sell Bunch |
Midge Amos Nelson | Larry Waldmann | Ray Taylor |
1951 | Royal Drake | Donald Janulewicz |
Lois Aubert Ducker | Dan Marsh | 1958 |
Milo Dockhorn | Rose Lee Visek Novotny | Wanda Curlile Rodd |
Pearl Dockhorn Norton | Darlene Paider Bruha | Rose Marie Janulewicz McKeever |
Roberta Dowse Hyde | 1955 | Lana Hall Baillie |
Richard Gawrick | Vera Marie Bartu | Douglas Higgins |
John Gibbons | George Chilewski | Millie Nordstrom Slagle |
Gerald Griebel | Carol Dowse Dellevoet | Richard Rhoades |
Bernard Kamarad | Dianne Dowse Horst | Alvin Zikmund |
Evelyn Visek Lenstrom | Rosa Drake Edwards | Eldon Zikmund |
1952 | Jerry Gawrick | 1959 |
Doyle Dowse | Evelyn Hruby Erikson | Keith Copp |
Ella Drake Cross | John Kolar | Verlaine Curlile |
Louis Kinish | Wanda Kriss Erks | Janice Dockhorn Sutton |
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Comstock High School Alumni (continued)
Donna Fisher Olson | Joe Minar | Dana Morse |
Charlotte Fricke Carry | Norma Nelson Marsh | Verlene Snell |
Norma Hovie Darnall | Alan Waldmann | Gaylene Drake Vasten |
Sheila Krikac Martin | Gary Wells | 1967 |
John Marsh | 1963 | Judy Riddle Zikmund |
Lois Nelson | James Babcock | Dan Drake |
Marianne Lewin Davis | Marlene Ayres Amos | Pat Waldmann |
Maxine Ritz Lewin | Eileen Kriss Van Zandt | Bernard Kowalski |
Shirley Shepperd Barrows | Edwin Leska | Eileen Erikson Hovie |
Judy Waldmann Meadows | Ronald Tvrdlk | Leslie Manning |
Frances Zikmund Stone | Angie Kowalski Marsh | Cynthia Griebel |
1960 | Frank Lewin | 1968 |
Sherill Ayres Dory | Terry Nordstrom Drake | Robin Erikson |
Glen Dockhorn | James Granger | Karen Pesek Borgmann |
Raymond Dowse | Robert Drake | Bob Hruby |
Glen Hovie | Leah Dowse Crook | Janet Lenstrom Regher |
Neva Nelson Mattox | Karen Leui Dowse | Velma Snell |
Alvin Leska | 1964 | John Hovie |
Wilma Paider Nagorski | Gale Marsh | |
Leroy Peterson | Janice Radil Arnold | |
Nancy Nelson Jewell | Judy Peterson Conder | |
Gary Radil | Louis Ritz | |
Barbara Waldmann Leska | Charles Pliva | |
Connie Waldmann Cormany | Ronald Waldmann | |
Margaret Waldmann Bader | Beverly Shepperd Kiesow | |
Shirley Hunkins Evans | Eugene Vodehnal | |
1961 | Larry Zikmund | |
Beverly Ash Johnson | 1965 | |
Gary Dowse | Connie Pesek Hulinsky | |
Carl Fricke | Bill Drake | |
William Granger | Eugene Pesek | |
Marvin Peterson | Bruce Hovie | |
Larrry Shepperd | Jimmy Sorenson | |
Jasper Slagle | Diane Hruby Hunkins | |
1962 | Lyle Hunkins | |
Cleo Anderson Peterson | Dennis Morse | |
Ronald Dowse | 1966 | |
Alan Drake | Duane Shanks | |
Kay Ritz Schuchman | Cheryl Glover Thompson | |
Karen Shepperd Glather | Donnie Tvrdik | |
William Slagle | Richard Johnson | |
Patricia Gitchel Peacock | Lyn Wagner | |
John Glover | Tom Drake | |
Susanne Griebel Schleiger | Cynthia Ritz Ogle |
ALBUM OF BIOGRAPHIES FOR BUTLER, FILLMORE, POLK, SEWARD & YORK COUNTIES
Submitted by: Rose Marie Hulse
The following names of Fillmore County pioneers was taken from this book, published in 1900. The book is in very fragile condition, unable to be sent through the mail. The page number follows the name.
NOTE: The book is now posted on-line - Memorial & Biographical Record ... Butler, Polk, Seward, York & Fillmore Counties ...
ALDRICH, CHARLES 1039 | JACOBSON, THOMAS 816 | RUSHTON, J. H. 1020 |
ALDRICH, P.M. 918 | JENKINS, JOHN D. 1058 | SANDBERG, CHARLES 806 |
ANDERSON, NELS 794 | JOHNSON, CHARLES H. 673 | SAWYER, SIMEON 980 |
ANDERSON, NILS 838 | JOHNSON, SWAN A. 1091 | SCHMIDT, JOHN 960 |
ARCHER, ELIJAH 341 | KAUFFMAN, JOHN B. 1000 | SCHWARZ, FREDERICK 965 |
ARCHER, JOHN 426 | KEEGAN, JAMES A. 1046 | SHEREONDY, J.W. 858 |
ARCHARD, JOHN W. 978 | KEIM, GEORGE W. 628 | SHREFFLER, EDMUND 577 |
ARMSTRONG, EDWARD 995 | KING, ANDREW 747 | SKIPTON, FRANKLIN 306 |
ASHBY, S.F. 884 | KRON, PETER 1068 | SLOAN, CHARLES H. 376 |
BADGER, HENRY L. 1098 | LABART, JACOB 939 | SLOAN, FRANK 813 |
BADGER, LEWIS H. 1099 | LANGHORST, HENRY C. 1116 | SMITH, GEORGE W. 614 |
BAIR, SAMUEL 901 | LARSON, SWAN 929 | SMITH, HIRAM L. 270 |
BAKER, FRANCIS A. 775 | LEFEVER, D.M. 878 | SMITH, WILLIAM E. 1025 |
BAKER, O.P. 986 | LINDGREN, JOHN 1068 | SMITH, W.T. 792 |
BEACH, LYMAN B. 1019 | LOGHRY, JAMES 732 | SMRHA, CHARLES 1107 |
BECHTEL, MARY E. 347 | MANSFIELD, JOHN 968 | SPROUT, WILLIAM F. 664 |
BELL, JAMES H. 438 | MARSH, GEORGE F. 1062 | STINES, HAL P. 1100 |
BENDER, THOMAS J. 1049 | MARTIN, E.L. 882 | STINES, SHELLY 1036 |
BENNETT, FREDERICK 1108 | MARTIN, HENRY H. 701 | STOLLDORF, AUGUST 898 |
BIVENS, WILLIAM A. 949 | MARTIN, JOHN JR. 1075 | STOVER, CALVIN S. 1005 |
BORTNER, JAMES C. 690 | MILLER, CHARLES S. 942 | STOWELL, RALPH W. 945 |
BOSSERMAN, WILLIAM H. 1110 | MILLER, VALENTINE 920 | STRICKLAND, ALVIN N. 290 |
CARNEY, JOSEPH 1113 | MINNEY, CHARLES 965 | SWARTZ, GEORGE W. 1088 |
CHESNUT, LINCOLN 731 | MOSHER, JEPTHA 496 | SWARTZ, J.A. 1101 |
CHRISTIE, J.W. 1117 | MOOR, JOSEPH P. 744 | TALMAGE, Joseph W. 1053 |
CORY, J.B. 1112 | MOUNTS, HENRY C. 872 | TAYLOR, CHARLES W. 1017 |
COON, GEORGE 952 | MOZEE, GEORGE 645 | THEOBALD, GEORGE 1083 |
COX, C.W. 821 | McCURDY, WILLIAM 957 | THOMPSON, CYRUS B. 928 |
DENMAN, FRANCIS M. 751 | McCASHLAND, BENJAMIN C. 390 | THOMPSON, NOAH N. 1069 |
DIXON, N.J. 1093 | McFADDEN, JOSEPH 936 | TOMLIN, EDWARD A 836 |
DDMEIER, WILLIAM F. 973 | NIPPERT, HENRY W. 735 | TUTTY, KIRKMAN 915 |
DuBOIS, WILLIAM 512 | NORTON, FRANCIS W. 969 | VENELL, N.J. 904 |
DURHAM, FRANK 889 | OATES, HENRY E. 984 | WARD, JOHN N. 450 |
EASTWOOD, ISAAC 997 | OGG, BRIGHT B. 267 | WARNER, CHARLES A. 224 |
FISHER, OLIVER P. 1056 | OWEN, J.E. 1002 | WARNER, DAVID 323 |
FLETCHER, DEAL 748 | PARDUE, L.F. 1118 | WARTHEN, W.E. 785 |
FRAZIER, JOSEPH 895 | PATTERSON, FRED C. 1033 | WEIS, JACOB 284 |
GARRISON, M.F. 769 | PERKINS, J.M. 1029 | WEIS, PETER D. 406 |
GARRISON, WILLIAM H. 958 | PETERSON, A.W. 987 | WELLS, OLIVER C. 763 |
HAFER, JOHN W. 472 | PHILLIPS, CHARLES N. 935 | WHEELER, WALLACE 1094 |
HAINEY, WILLIAM G. 1073 | PLAMBECK, FERDINAND 1114 | WILSON, OWEN D. jr. 257 |
HILL, JAMES M. 514 | PLUMB, JAMES N. 1051 | WITTER, JACOB M. 909 |
HOEPPNER, JOSEPH 727 | POST, WARREN 845 | WOODARD, WARREN 1007 |
HOKOM, JOHN 925 | POST, WILLIAM D. 512 | ZIMMERMAN, JOHN 831 |
HORNER, A.M. 982 | PROBST, MORGAN 534 | 0-0-0-0 |
HORTON, JONATHAN 907 | PUTLITZ, HEJJ,4UTH F. 238 | |
HUSTON, ARMSTRONG 365 | RIPPE, ERNST 976 | |
HUSTON, THOMAS A. 549 | ROBBINS, F.F. 1065 |
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Butler (sic) County Pioneer Biographies Continued:
Hahn, George 573 | Mahoney, Michael 854 | Roberts, Aurelius 248 |
Hale, Edwin 246 | Maine, Albert W. 407 | Rochan, William B. 1099 |
Hall, Adam 427 | Marshall, James S. 670 | Roche, Father 837 & 840 |
Harriger, William G. 933 | Martin, Jonathan F. 851 | Royce, Philander B. 1022 |
Haynes, William 921 | Matousek, Joseph 639 | Sheldon, Charles M. 943 |
Herrington, John B. 975 | Meysenburg, John 492 | Shields, William T. 817 |
Hilger, John 927 | Meysenburg, P.N. 626 | Shotwell, Eli L. 430 |
Holderness, Thomas N. 961 | Miller, George H. 398 | Shrader, Solomon 653 |
Hookstra, Gayette 294 | Miller, Matt 296 | Sisty, James H. 900 |
Hookstra, Tennis 295 | Miller, Nicholas 717 | Smith, Philip 954 |
Housel, Josiah V. 553 | Miller, William P. 962 | Sowers, Lafayette 1070 |
Howie, Thomas M. 1018 | McCoy, James F. 668 | Spring, William M. 605 |
Johnson, Al G. 455 | McCoy, William S. 1085 | Steiner, Frank 485 |
Johnson, Frederick C. 750 | McDonald, Edward C. 350 | Towner, Abraham 981 |
Johnson, Harman 1004 | McKellips, Darwin 567 | Trowbridge, A.H. 523 |
Johnson, Leonard A. 461 | McKnight, George W. 381 | Turpening, Alfred F. 985 |
Judevine, Josiah J. 767 | McKnight, John T. 787 | Vincent, Allen 950 |
Kaempfer, Albert J. 795 | Nichols, George N. 475 | Vonderkolk, Sipke 859 |
Klein, Alois J. 1076 | Oehme, Ferdinand A. 998 | Walden, Nathaniel J. 826 |
Knepper, Andrew J. 288 | Osterhout, George 537 | Walker, John J. 740 |
Kosch, Louis 756 | Palmer, James H. 413 | Warren, Lucius 392 |
Koza, Frank 336 | Perkins, Benjamin O. 236 | White, Charles D. 312 |
LaMunyon, Weston W. 331 | Reichenbach, S.A. & J.A. 1037 | Wolfe, Thomas 326 |
Lichliter, John J. 698 | Ren, Louis C. 524 | Wood, Henry 611 |
Lockwood, Robert 585 | Reynolds, Foster M. 1084 | Wood, James V. 696 |
Long, William 884 | Richardson, George E. 865 | Zahler, George 442 |
Loomis, Frank F. 263 | Rising, Albert W. 974 | Zeman, FRank J. 269 |
Luebker, G.F. 447 | Rising, Samuel W. 644 | |
Newspaper abstractions
from "THE OPPOSITION" Wilber, Saline County Nebraska dated 3 January 1884
submitted by Rose Marie Hulse, Exeter, NE.
Dudek, Frank--saloon | Gouff, J.N.--carpenter |
Montgomery, T.G.--windmill salesman | Hardy, J.H.--blacksmith |
Forbes, John-shoemaker | McGregor, C.B. --hair dresser |
Hayes, W.L.--dry goods | Grumm, J.H.--attorney |
Thayer, F.E.--meat market | Alley, S.S.--attorney |
Willeford, J.H.--butcher in Western | Parker, B.C.--doctor |
Castor, B. L. -dry goods in Castor | Percy, W. H. --painter |
Waldorf, William--hardware | Breitling, John--bakery |
Jones, B.J.--drug store | Hanys, A.J.--tailor |
Clark, G.-general merchandise | Graham, Dr.--dentist |
Davis, S.D.--loans | Paddock, Dr.--physician & surgeon |
Taylor, H.A.--confections & shoes | Wilson, Nellie--millinery |
Shearer, D.H.--livery barn | Hammond, C.M.--paints, varish & wallpaper |
Meisenbach D. & C.--meat market | Rodgers, W.F.-Clara Hyatt married |
Early, J.F.--insurance & jeweler | Mendenhall, Lemuel-Nora Wilson married |
Hunt, J.S.--selling sand | Meisenbach, Charley & wife born a son |
Voiland, Thomas--dry goods | Beck, Ed & wife born a child |
Ferguston, Ed--stock feed | Patterson, Alvern-Nora Dixon married |
Luse, S.N.--blacksmith | Patton, Jacob died at Garrison, IA |
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