This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: LindaRuff45 Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.iowa.counties.fremont/7412/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Can someone tell me where Levi Hurst is buried he was born around 1831 died I think 1876 in Tabor Fremont Co. Iowa and also how many times was he married I have two Levis with different wives Thanks Linda Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: farwellwalter Surnames: LaFromboise, Waubonsie, Peltier, Chevalier, Bourbonais, LaBarge, Shaw-we-no-qua, Wicks, Beaubien, Vassow, Hoecken, Hardin, Johns, Jauns, Watkins, Classification: biography Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.iowa.counties.fremont/1713.1.3.2.1.1.1.1.1.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: ALEXIS LaFromboise: Was between 10 and 40 years old in 1842, and had a family. Married Angelique on Dec. 30, 1838. Was a member of Waubonsie's band. AMBROSE LaFromboise: Had two daughters baptized on the Kansas River in 1849. ANGELIQUE LaFromboise: Was sponsor at the baptism of a son of Joseph LaFromboise and Theresa Peltier on DEc. 12, 1839. ANTOINE LaFromboise: Was 17 years old when he attended the Choctow Academy in Kentucky in 1843. His mother was Marianne Chevalier. He was 3/4 blood. CLAUDE LaFromboise: Various treaties granted his family land, money. A daughter was born opposite Fort Leavenworth on Sept. 16, 1835. Was over 40 years old in 1842, and had seven children. In the 1842 annuity payments he is shown as a member of Waubonsie's band. (N.B.: I believe this family accompanied the Stephens-Townsend-Murphy wagon train to the Pacific coast in 1844.--W.F. JOHN LaFromboise: In 1839 was assistant blacksmith for the Potawatomie. "On July 30, 1847 Joseph LaBarge put Baptiste LaFromboise off his boat at Francis Boubonnais woodyard some 15 miles below the agency at Point aux Poules." (N.B.: If this be correct, John Baptiste LaFromboise did not remove to Kansas when most of the Potawatomie did!--W.F.)Was a 1/2 breed. In 1849 and 1850 had children baptized on the Kansas River. JOSEPH LaFromboise: In 1817, was was amongst the Sioux in the Dakotas. In 1826 was issued a license to trade with the Indians on the Des Moines River. In 1827, the Indian Agent at Mackinac granted Joseph LaFromboise a license as fur trader on the 'Riviere des Moines'. Is said to have had a license for fur trade at Fort Confederation at the second Forks of the Des Moines River, with the Yancton Sioux. In 1842 was over 40 years old. Chief Joseph was the son of Shaw-we-no-qua. His name in French means "the raspberry". In 1840, the buildings of the St. Joseph Mission were sold to him.--Stutley E. Wicks. By 1844 he was keeping a boarding house at Point aux Poules. In 1863 he was 65 years old. While living in Kansas he was a reader of the "Ohio Cultivator". JOSETTE LaFromboise: Born 1796 and a sister of Claude LaFromboise. She married Jean Baptist Beaubien in 1812; she died in 1845. LORETTA Glaud LaFromboise: Married August Vassow in Atchison county, Missouri, on Jan. 10, 1846. PETRUS LaFromboise: Monica, born March 5, 1838, daughter of Petrus LaFromboise and Lucinda Jauns was baptized on Jun 9, 1838 at The Council Bluffs. On Sept. 10, 1843, William, aged one month, son of Joseph (sic) LaFrombois and Lucinda was baptized at The Council Bluffs by Father Hoecken. On Aug. 17, 1849, on the Kansas River, Magdaline, born Sept. 18, 1846, was baptized. THERESE LaFromboise married (1) Thomas Watkins in 1836; their daughter Marie Louise was baptized in Oct. 1843. Married(2) John Alton Hardin; their daughter Marie was baptized on Nov. 7, 1840. Married (3) Madore Beaubien. She was the daughter of Chief Joseph LaFrombois. Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: apsaroke Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.iowa.counties.fremont/1713.1.3.2.1.1.1.1.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: I've looked in Oregon and California in 1850 and can't find him under any reasonable misspelling, even if I drop the "La" from the start. The 1850 California Census is incomplete. I think part of it was lost on the way to Washington, and that includes areas where Greenwoods were as well. I also checked the 1852 Gold Census and did not find him. From experience these particular census records are hit and miss. Any number of people known to be out here were not enumerated, so he could be one of those, but it seems more likely that if it was the same fellow he went back as per the reference below. I found a reference to John in 1848 at the Ft. Leavenworth Agency. He was "appointed June 19" as an "assistant blacksmith" and "suspended Sep 12" of that year "for the Pottawatomies" if that's of any help. There was an "interpreter" Joseph LaFramboise "appointed June 19 for the Pottawatomies" the same place that year. Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: farwellwalter Surnames: LaFromboise, Stockton Classification: lookup Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.iowa.counties.fremont/1713.1.3.2.1.1.1.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: I see that I have posted on Rootsweb's Fremont county site two items which show John Baptiste LaFromboise as having been in Kansas in 1849 and 1850. And because of the make-up of the Commodore Stockton party, I doubt that he would have been a member of that group returning in 1847, although, there appears to have been a gap in his Fremont county time line from between the Stephens-Townsend-Murphy wagon train in 1844 and 1849. I wonder if there is a LaFromboise shown on the index of the 1850 California or Oregon federal census? Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: apsaroke Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.iowa.counties.fremont/1713.1.3.2.1.1.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: It could be the same person in 1844 or perhaps a relative. Kelly and Morgan also include a list of people on the trip that came out of somebody's account in the SF Call. In that list what would seem to be a reasonable match is listed as John LaFlumbo. There are probably other lists floating around as well. Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: apsaroke Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.iowa.counties.fremont/1713.1.3.2.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Hi Walter, Thanks. I did not mean to criticize and hope that you did not take it as that. I meant only to point out that Sonoma is the correct word there. I think it's important that this be correct, and sometimes a second pair of eyes is helpful. You may want to have another look at the document. I have a good copy of it, and it is quite clearly written there as Sonoma three times on the page. It does not conflict at all with the timeline that includes John's marriage in Missouri. He got out of the Calif Battalion in spring 1847, went to Sonoma, then went to Missouri, and he left Missouri in the fall of 1848. His marriage in Dec 1847 fits perfectly. What do you mean by a faulty timeline? Sonoma was the place where his father Caleb was based. This guy guided Stockton and was on his way to Missouri to help retrieve the rest of the family. I believe that his father Caleb and brother Britton were with him as well, as they all returned together to California in 1848. It would make no sense that John would stop at some point near to Missouri, acquire horses and cattle at this stop, continue the short distance on, only to return and presumably sell them or pick them up and haul them on to California. It is true that John mis-stated "San Jose" Missouri, but the mere fact that he mis-stated the name of one town he'd been in 15 years before doesn't taint the rest for me. Virtually then entire document relates to California places with which he was well familiar. I've seen many documents where people say they were born in "Tennessee" and go on to describe their lives. The fact that they were really born in Virginia doesn't suggest to me that their whole life stories are suspect. On the 1844 trip, I agree with you completely as I noted in another post. I'd be interested to know what source DOES think that he had kids with him in 1844. As I noted there, if it was me it was in error, as I know these kids remained behind. Only three that I know of came to California at any time prior to 1848. At least three and my great great grandmother came for the first time in 1848. It is not clear whether the last one may have come before, but in any case none other than John and Britt came prior to 1845/6. What I don't know is whether some/all of these kids ACTUALLY stayed with Gemecker and, if so, for how long. I realize there is a source document, but I have not yet seen it. From your posts my understanding is that it relates to an arrangement Caleb made for Gemecker to keep some/all of his kids. The document undoubtedly will show this, but depending on what it actually says it may not prove at all what actually transpired. By way of example, I have marriage licenses for people that never went through with the marriages. Though these are obviously outliers, they prove only that a license was taken out, not that the marriages occurred. Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: farwellwalter Surnames: Greenwood, Gemecker, Everman Classification: lookup Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.iowa.counties.fremont/1713.1.3.2.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: I did not mis-transcribe Sonoma as Sonora: I believe you may be guilty of a faulty time line for John Greenwood -- and please note his confusion with San Jose and St. Joseph. (This throws a shadow on the remainder of his recollections.) He clearly left California for the Missouri River Country during 1847 where he married Frances Everman in Dec. 1847. Then he must have returned to California, taking the children with him then......Nor, do I believe any guide in 1844 of a wagon train would have had small children with him, which means the children would have been left at Gemecker's from 1844 to 1848 (?), just aS THAT PRIMARY source of county court records state. Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: farwellwalter Surnames: Classification: lookup Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.iowa.counties.fremont/2794.1.1.2.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: The record which I recall was recorded in the County Court Book for the county. I think it was more in the nature of just a statement of fact than anything else....However, the county judge who headed the Court was not present at the meeting when this was entered on the record, and ruled all business done without him was invalid, and ordered that the court held on HIS date of present take precidence. and struck out the business taken up on the day of his absence. Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: apsaroke Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.iowa.counties.fremont/2794.1.1.2/mb.ashx Message Board Post: >From your recollection do you think that Caleb ever gave any affidavit in Holt County in any legal matter, or are the records more in the nature of "contracts" regarding the keeping of his children by others? Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: apsaroke Surnames: Greenwood Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.iowa.counties.fremont/1713.1.3.2/mb.ashx Message Board Post: I've transcribed these documents as well. The missing words are "on Feather River" Fremont on Feather River was also known as Fremont Landing and was just below where the Feather River dumps into the Sacramento River. In those days it might have been described as a sort of transportation hub, and it was there that John left his belongings. You've also mis-transcribed Sonoma as Sonora. Sonoma is a town and county north of San Francisco, and this is the place being referenced. The Greenwoods lived there off and on in the 1840s from the time of the Grigsby-Ide Party that they were involved with. It is the same area that Caleb was in when he was asked to assist in the Donner Party rescue. Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: apsaroke Surnames: Greenwood, Gemecker, Hitchcock Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.iowa.counties.fremont/7407.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: I'd be interested to know the source of this, as you are correct that it is untrue. If you got it from me it was either an error on my part or misinterpreted. James first came to California in the 1848 journey. He was in Coloma from late 1848 until about 1852 and was present when Caleb died in about 1850. The diarist in 1844 was correct in counting only John and Britton. William came on a later trip, as I believe it was stated that he was with his father at a base camp during the Donner Party rescue while Britton continued on to the lake with the 2nd relief. Boggs may have been there as well, but at the moment I don't recall any reference to him at that time as of this point. It would seem odd that William would have come out while Boggs, who was older, would have remained behind. The diarist on the 1848 trip, Rufus Burrows, DID neglect to mention some of Caleb's kids. I think these diarists paid little attention to kids unless they were teens or perhaps babies born on the trip or perhaps died, so an ommission really does not prove much of anything anyway. James' aunt stated that she lived with Mrs. Nancy Hitchcox [sic, Hitchcock] (Rufus' wife) from the time her sister died [1843] until they (all) left for California in 1848. James stated that his aunt had lived with the family from infancy and left his [James'] father's house to be married in 1849. I cannot reconcile this with the account of kids living with Gemecker. Perhaps girls stayed with Hitchcock and boys with Gemecker, but without seeing the actual reference it's hard to say. Caleb and I believe John signed up for some military unit at Sutter's Fort in 1845, but I don't believe either actually served in that. As you know, John did later serve in the California Battalion from 30 Oct 1846 to 20 Mar 1847. Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: cathair4 Surnames: Spicer Thorp Bell Lindley Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.iowa.counties.fremont/7411.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: My grandfather James A. Spicer was the foster child of James M. Spicer and Asenath Parker Spicer. He died in 1955. Id like to find out who his real mother was and or father. They lived in Hamburg, Iowa.Reply to cathair4@msn.com Thank You Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: mrgreentoe Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.iowa.counties.fremont/7411.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: i USED TO GO TO SCHOOL WITH A mARGERY SPICER in L.A. Virgil Jr. Hi 1939-1941. Hope this helps Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: carolwarren94 Surnames: WEEDEN Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.iowa.counties.fremont/7410/mb.ashx Message Board Post: I too, am working on the WEEDEN surname, w/little success in resolving some mysteries. Believe that my WEEDENS are connected to the Narragansett Indians, but need more input. I am finding that the WEEDEN surname in TN and KY somehow connects also, but again, at a loss to know how. Can you be of help? Most sincerely, carol wheeldin warren. Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: farwellwalter Surnames: Fleury, Borchers, George, McPherson, Woerlen, Martin, Bernard, Faw Faw, Luce, Huntsucker, Classification: biography Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.iowa.counties.fremont/7409/mb.ashx Message Board Post: 1836.-- "Letters from Council Bluffs Indian Agency", 1836 - 1843, Roll No. 215: (1) Requisitions for Upper Missouri Indian Agency, March - June 1837 (sic): Simon Fleury was assistant blacksmith for the Omaha Indians. (2) June 30, 1837: People employed at the Council Bluffs Agency and date of service: Simon Fleury, Sept. 15, 1836 (sic), striker for the Omahas. (3) June 7, 1838: Pay for the fourth quarter of 1837 and first quarter of 1838: Simon Fleury as assistant smith of the Omahas. 1840.-- "History of Atchison County, Missouri", page 872: Simon Fleury settled here in 1840; afterwards he moved to Oregon State. 1841 - 1845.--COUNTY COURT RECORDS for Bluff township, Holt county, Missouri: June Term 1841: The election on the first Monday in August is to be held at Simon Flurees in Nishnebotany township. July Term 1842: (Same as June 1841). June Term 1843: (The election is to be held at Daniel Huntsakers in Bluffs township.) May Term 1844: George Borchers, Simon Flury and Monroe George are appointed to view road from Woerlen's Ferry up to William McPherson's. (N.B.: Woerlen's Ferry was at The Narrows, and McPherson's woodyard was on the bank's of the Missouri river, four miles north of present Nebraska City, NE......William McPberson had married a Potawatomie woman, but since he lived outside the Potawatomie Indian Country, his family was not entitled to any annuity payment.--W.F.) February Term 1845: Their road report was turned in. 1842.-- "Holt County, Missouri, Circuit Court Records", March Term, 1842.--Simon Flurey applies for citizenship. He arrived in United Sttes from Canada about January 1836. Has lived in Holt County since it was established in 1841. (N.B.: One needs to look for Simon Fleury in the very earliest records of the Platte Purchase, first; then he would have been found in the attached portion of Buchanan county, Missouri, called "Neatawah Territory"; and this became Holt county, Missouri in 1841.--W.F.) 1842.--JESUITS OF THE MIDDLE UNITED STATES. Gilbert J. Garaghan. Vol. II, page 230.--Father Hoecken married Simon Fleury and Catherin Martin on May 3, 1842 at English Grove, Missouri. July 1842.-- Simon Florey bought goods at the estate farm sale of Joseph Bernard. (N.B.: Bernard was called "Faw Faw" by the Otoe Indians.--W.F.) 1843.--John B. Luce, sub-agent at The Council Bluffs Indian agency incurred an expense at Fleurys while traveling the Council Bluffs road. (Did Fleury have some kind of public accommodation that Luce took advantage of?--W.f.) 1845.--Surveyor's Map, for township 66 range 42: Locates "Flora's" along the road to Couoncil Bluffs, in section 2. EDec. 11, 1847.-- Plattsburg, Missouri, Land Abstract Book: Simon Flerry entered the SE quarter of the southwest quarter of section 2 township 66 range 42. (N.B.: Hamburg, Iowa is in township 67 range 42, so this puts Fleury just below the Iowa-Missouri border, at The Narrows, where the Nishnabotna and the Missouri rivers were but a few hundred feet apart.--W.F.) 1848, 1850 Atchison County, Missouri, Deed Books: (1) Vol. 1, page 135, Sept. 27, 1848: Simon and Catherine Fleury sell to John Woerlen the southeast quarter of the southwest quarter of section 2 township 66 range 2. (2) Vol. 1 page 294, March 2, 1850: Simon and Catherine Fleury sell to John Woerlen the southwest quarter of the northwest quarter of section 2, township 66 range 42. May 1850.-- Is Simon Floury concealing estate papers of Joseph Bernard? Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

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This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: farwellwalter Surnames: Flaure, Phillips, Towle Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.iowa.counties.fremont/1750.4/mb.ashx Message Board Post: TO the Probate Court of the County of Richardson, Nebraska Terr. (Dated May 8, 1866.).-- Your petitioner represents that he is the duly appointed and qualified guardian of John Flaure, now of the age of 18 years and residing with John B. Flaure his father in Fremont county, Iowa. THAT said ward is the owner of the fee simple of the following described Real Estate situate in Richardson County, Nebraska, and described as follows, to wit: (1).-- The NW 1/4 of Sec. 24 Town. 1 Range 17 (2).-- The NE 1/4 of SE 1/4 of Section 24 Town. 1 Range 17 (3).-- The NW of SSW (sic) of section 24 Town. 1, Range 17 (4).-- The S 1/2 of NE !/4 of section 23 town. 1 Range 17. which is wild land and yields no income. That the sale of said Real Estate is necessary for the maintenance of said ward and the cost of past maintenance. SIGNED "Territory of Nebraska, Richardson County...I, Lewis Phillips being duly sworn, says that the statements in the foregoing petition are true to the best of my knowledge and belief. -- LEWIS PHILLIPS "SWORN and and subscribed beforeme and in my presence this 8th day of May 1866.--Edwin S. Towle, N. R. Rich. Co., N. T." N.B.: (For Your Consideration.--W.F.) HOLT COUNTY, MISSOURI, CIRCUIT COURT RECORDS; March term, 1842.-- Simon Flurey applies for citizenship. Arrived in United States from Canada about January 1836. Has lived in Holt county since it was established (in 1841). Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: farwellwalter Surnames: Flaure, Fleury, Phillips, Sharp, Freniere Classification: deed Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.iowa.counties.fremont/1750.3/mb.ashx Message Board Post: NATIONAL ARCHIVES, Washington, D.C.: "LIST OF HALF BREEDS AND MIXED BLOOD INDIANS OMAHAS, IOWAYS, OTTOES, YANCTON AND SANTEE BANDS OF SIOUX ENTITLED TO PARTICIPATE IN BENEFITS OF HALF BREED RESEVATION....Under Act of Congress approved July 31, 1854.": FLAURE: Louise, 1/2 breed; 13 years old. TO Lewis Phillips, husband--320 acres: W1/2 Section 28 Township 2 Range 17 John, 1/2 breed; 8 1/2 years old. To Jno. B. Flaure, father--320 acres: (1) N 1/2 SW 1/2 and the NW 1/2, all in section 24 township 1 range 17. (2) S 1/2 NE 1/4 in section 23 township 1 range 17. "John B. Flaure is their father and is French. Their mother is a full blood Yancton." N.B.: This list was prepared by J. L. Sharp, and must date about 1857. It concerns the Half Breed Reservation located on the Nemaha rivers in southeastern Nebraska. Margie Sobotka in her "The Tepee and the Church" shows that Jean (sic) B. Fleury was married to Margaret Freniere on Dec. 29, 1850 at The Nishnabotna by Father Christian Hoecken, S.J. "The Nishnabotna" refers to that strip of country along the Missouri stretching from present Peru, Nebraska up to Pecival, Iowa. IT DOES NOT REFER TO THE "Nishnabotna river" itself! --W.F. Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: farwellwalter Surnames: Phillips, Fleury, Floura Classification: marriage Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.iowa.counties.fremont/1750.2/mb.ashx Message Board Post: SUPERVISOR'S JOURNAL NO. 2., for Fremont county, Iowa: Lewis Phillips and Louisa Floura were married on Sept. 27, 1858 by Thomas Farmer. Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: farwellwalter Surnames: Fleury, Flora, Butler, Irwin, King, Bailey, Huff Classification: biography Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.iowa.counties.fremont/1750.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: THE NEBRASKA CITY NEWS. June 30, 1877. 3-3. "ATTEMPTED SUICIDE. Mrs. Lucy Irwin Tries to Shuffle off this Mundane Sphere." (From the Brownville Adertiser.)--On last Saturday morning about five o'clock, a woman, who has been about town for several months, by the name of Mrs. Lucy Irwin, attempted to drown herself in the Missouri river. At the hour named she went upon the old steamboat LIVINGSTON, tied up at this place, and jumped into the strong current from the seaward side of the boat. Mr. Thomas King, watchman of the boat, was present, and gave the alarm. John Flora, who was near by, at once divesting himself of most of his clothing, swam out to save the woman, who by the time he reached her, had sunk once and been carried out and down the river quite a distance. Flora kept her head above water, but she being a heavy woman was hard to manage in making headway for the shore. It was fortunate for the woman, and probably also for Flora, that he had had hold of her but a short time when William and Till Bailey -- sons of B. M. -- who had hastened to the river on hearing the alarm, swam into the rescue, and the three succeeded in bringing to the shore the half-drowned woman. After resuscitation she was taken to her boarding place, Mr. Huff's, in the northwest part of the city. For a while after her bath it was thought that she would not survive its effects, but we learn that she is now in a fair way of recovery. She had for some time previous to her rash act been contemplating it--so say those who are acquainted with her--and declared she would put an end to her life, and we understand she still declares she will drown herself the first opportunity. As to the cause, or causes, which have led her to become tired of life, we are not well informed, and do not know that she has confided to anybody, here; but from what we learn from gossip she has been unfortunate in her marriage relation, and led for some time a dissolute life. She is a rather stout blond, about thirty years of age. Her father is said to be a respectable business man of Tabor, Iowa, by the name of Butler. Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.