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- Mother's Jewels Home, Lincoln, NB
I am looking for family members of children and teachers that lived at the Mother's Jewels Home in Lincoln Nebraska in the early 1900's. I have pictures and letters written to my grandmother, and thought that family members would appreciate having things in their family members handwriting. Please contact me. - McKinnin James Marriage
Tryon Graphic Files, McPherson County, Nov 18, 1937
On Sunday, November 14, Miss Louise McKinnin of North Platte became the fride of Mr. Floyd James eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. Ed James of Tryon. - Shimmin Patchen wedding
Tryon Graphic Files, McPherson County Nov 18, 1937
Miss Mattie Shimmin recently became the fride of Buster Patchen of Hooker Co. Mis Shimmin is the daughter of R.A. Shimmin. - Humphrey Nebraska
Hi I am looking for ANY information on what I think was the "Kruse Maternity Hospital" located in Humphrey. I have been told that is in fact the house I now own. Our address is 401 Pine Street and it is also know as "the big house" (although it isn't the biggest house in town). Many people tell me they were born in my house but their parents are either deceased or can't remember much details(just that they are certain it was my house). I love history and would like to gather as much information as I can so if anyone knows anything please contact me. Thank you!!!! - Visit: Eggers family, Oct. 1909
Ashland Gazette; Oct. 29, 1909
Messrs. Henry Prinz, George H. Heldt, Willie Prinz, Herman Heldt, john Wicht, John Heldt, Otto Matzen, and Miss Anna Heldt spent Sunday with Dave Eggers and family.
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Happy Holidays
I'm hoping someone can find a couple newspaper articles in the archives of the OMAHA WORLD HERALD
"Mysterious Kidnapings in This Country Fred Hans' Baby Brother Stolen by Indians in Washington County-an Interesting—“
Date: January 13, 1901
Paper: Omaha World Herald
“Is He John W. Hart or John L. Hans?===A Question That Means Much to--”
Date: March 29, 1903
Paper: Omaha World Herald
SINCERELY GRATEFUL
Please reply to; dadbrown_99@yahoo.com - David Myers, b.1831-d.(1899-1911)
I'm searching for information on David Myers, born March 23, 1831, Mercersburg, Pa., married Anna McCune April 20, 1852, moved to Illinois then to St. Joseph, Missouri. They lived there until he disappeared Oct., 1876. Anna filed for divorce in 1879 and was finalized in 1880. Daivd's brothers' obituary revealed he was living in Nebraska in Jan.,1899. The 1880 census has him living in Lincoln, Lancaster Co., Nebraska. When another of David's brothers passed away in 1911, David in not listed as a survivor, therfore I think David died between 1899-1911, somewhere in Nebraska, possibly Lincoln, Lancaster Co., Nebraska. In every census I've found for him, his occupation has been "Printer".
If anyone has any idea as to where he may be buried, I would appreciate the information.
Thanks for your help,
David M. Myers
dmyers_49@juno.com - NICHOLS, John Wesley and President Abraham Lincoln
I am trying to identify the source of this news article:
Omaha, Nebraska, newspaper (unnamed, undated) article.
John W. Nichols of Omaha Helped Guard Martyred President for Three Years During the Civil War.
“I don’t want any guard tonight. If you want to go to the theater you may.”
Those were the words Abraham Lincoln spoke to his guard shortly before he left the White house on April 14, 1865, to attend the Ford theater, where he was shot by J. Wilkes Booth.
J. W. Nichols of 2814 North Twenty-eighth avenue was one of those who heard the words uttered by the martyred president an hour or so before the fatal shot was fired.
Mr. Nichols met he president on numerous occasions at the White house and at the Soldiers’ home, which latter place was the president’s summer residence. Mr. Nichols was not on any particular intimate terms with Lincoln, but his recollections are such as to make a chat with this venerable citizen interesting.
Personally Lincoln looked with disfavor on the idea of having a personal guard, but sch were the times and so earnest were the entreaties of his advisors that he consented to have the guard.
The presidential guard of 100 men was known as the One-Hundred Fiftieth Pennsylvania volunteers, Company K. They were mustered at Crawford county under Captain V. D. Derickson, September, 1862, and immediately ordered to Washington. Lincoln frequently visited the guards and it was the wont of Mrs. Lincoln to minister to any of them that happened to be in hospital quarters, as Mr. Nichols states.
And after bidding his guards adieu, for the last time it proved, by giving permission to attend the theater, word came soon that the president had been assassinated.
“Turn out quick, boys, the president is shot!” was the manner in which a member of the guard rushed into quarters. That member happened to have been at the theater and saw the terrible tragedy which struck terror to the heart of the nation.
Mr. Nichols heard the somber message which his comrade bore and with the others quickly got into formation under Captain Getchell. The guards went to the theater and later to the Peterson house across the way, whence the wounded man had been borne.
The guards were in attendance at the White house and at the funeral. Mr. Nichols says he looked upon the face of the president before the end came the next morning at 7:22.
Mr. Nichols, on one occasion, stopped Lincoln’s runaway horse, leaving the distressed rider without hat or coat.
“I was standing near the gate of the White house when the horse came along,” Mr. Nichols recalled. “The president found peace of mind in a horseback ride during the days which tried his and other men’s souls. On this occasion the animal came along at a mad pace. Lincoln was holding on for dear life.
“I grabbed the rein of the animal and checked its speed. Lincoln remarked to me that the horse nearly got away with him. Of course, it just happened that I was the one standing near the gate at the time, but I was pleased in having had the opportunity.”
Lincoln spent the summer months at the soldiers’ home, where he lived in a marble cottage. An ambulance and mules were used at the place. Mr. Youkum drove the ambulance. Mr. Youkum died at Lexington, Neb., a year ago. Illustrative of the democratic ways of Lincoln, Mr. Nichols tells of an incident in which Youkum was frightened and Lincoln rather amused him.
The story is that Lincoln had occasion to order the ambulance to convey him to the city, his regular equipage having been disabled. Lincoln got inside the ambulance and Youkum directed the mules toward the city. Not long after the start was made a burr fell off and a wheel dropped to the ground. Youkum was in a dilemma.
“Never mind, my boy, I’ll hold the mules while you go back and find the burr. I’ve ridden in an oxcart,” Lincoln remarked to Youkum. In the barracks that night the laugh was on Youkum.
Mr. Nichols had nothing but sweet things to say of Mrs. Lincoln, who sympathized with her husband during his trying war days. Mr. Nichols saw Mrs. Lincoln at many of te Friday evening functions in the White house. He can look back and in his mind’s eye can see her in white gown, with flowers on her head. To Mr. Nichols she was “pretty as a picture.”
Mr. Nichols recalls the family coachman remarking on several occasions, when asked where he might be going, that he was going to take “the Queen of America out for a ride.” Mrs. Lincoln ingratiated herself into the hears of the guards. She had a kind word for them and there is at least one Omaha man who cherishes the memory of having been neath the spell of her influence. Mr. Nichols declares that many stories told of her are not based on fact.
“As homely as a rail fence,” is the way Mr. Nichols describes Lincoln’s face, but he says he is second to no one in attesting to his great character. He says there was something in the man’s personality which compelled admiration and respect. He had occasion to notice the lines of care grow on Lincoln’s face as news of one battle chased upon the heels of another report. He saw Lincoln walk between the White house and the war department on many occasions. In connection with these official walks of the president Mr. Nichols relates an incident which may have escaped the historians.
Through some mere chance the guard had been stationed near the walk along which the president walked on a