This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Hill Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/ok.2ADE/4192 Message Board Post: Looking for Obit for Johnathan or Jonathan Frank Hill born 12-22-1872 and passed 10-2-1958 lived in Sidney most of the time he Went by Frank Hill also looking for Obit of his son Robert Hill lived in the Fremont Co. Area wife name was Daisy Franks father was William J. HIll Thank You

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: DeFreece, Furbush, Pullman, Laird Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ok.2ADE/4191 Message Board Post: THE SIDNEY ARGUS - HERALD. February 18, 1943. "Lifelong Resident of County Passes".-- Mrs. Luella May DeFreece, 77, a resident of this community all her life, passed away at the Hamburg hospital last Monday, February 8, after a short illness. Funeral services were held at the Crawford Funeral home Thursday afternoon, February 10, conducted by Rev. J. M. DeBerg of the Sidney Presbyterian church. Interment was made at Sidney. Luella May Furbush, daughter of John B. and Emma Furbush, was born May 31, 1865. Her parents and six brothers and one sister preceded her in death. Her entire life was spent in the Sidney community. She attended the Sidney Public schools and Oxford College for Women at Oxford, Ohio. She later taught in the rural schools in Fremont county and in Kansas. She was united in marriage to Dr. S. O. DeFreece on March 26, 1890. To this union six children were born, one daughter and five sons, two of whom preceded her in death--an infant son in 1901 and Lyman in 1938. Dr. DeFreece passed away March 4, 1908. Mrs. DeFreece was a member of the Presbyterian church of Sidney, the Research Club and the Order of the Eastern Star. She is survived by a daughter, Mrs.J. H. Pullman, of Sidney; three sons, Dr. Austin B. DeFreece of Seattle, Wash.; Dr. Gerald A. DeFreece of Long Beach,Calif.; and Hobart DeFreece of Sidney; also eight grandchildren, Austin, Jr., of Seattle; Gerald and Ann, of Long Beach; Jane of Shenandoah; James, Jr., Jeane, Norman and Irene Pullman of Sidney. Out of town relatives attending the services were Dr. Gerald DeFreece of Long Beach, Calif.; Jerry DeFreece of IowaCity; Norman Pullman, of Omaha; Mrs.Ida Furbush, of Woodbine, Iowa.; Mrs. Effie Furbush, of Kansas City, Mo.; and Mr. and Mrs. Charles Laird, of Kansas City, Mo.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Foster, Athey, Darnold, McNatt, Gibson, McWilliams Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ok.2ADE/4190 Message Board Post: THE FREMONT COUNTY HERALD. October 19, 1922. "John W. Foster".--Following a lingering illness covering a period of many months, John Foster passed to his reward on Sunday October 15. John was a man of a bluff exterior which hid his qualities undreamed of except by those who knew him best. He was what has been called a "diamond in the rough." He has been a resident of this section for a number of years and his living has been full of usefulness to his fellow man. John Wiley Foster was born February 23, 1853, the son of Joseph and Mary Foster and passed away October 15, 1922 at the age of sixty nine years seven months and twenty two days. On February 26, 1876 he was united in marriage to Miss Ellen Athey and to this union were born two children, a son and daughter. The daughter preceded her father in death three years ago. The deceased leaves to mourn his death a wife, son, three brothers, three sisters, five grandchildren, one great grandson and a great many friends. Funeral services were held from the Baptist church Monday afternoon in charge of Rev. Thomas J. Beese, Baptist pastor. Interment was made in Sidney cemetery. N.B.: His daughter, Nellie M, born in Boulder, Colo., married E. L. Darnold on August 3, 1902 in Fremont county; he was the son of J. W. and Elizabeth (Mullinex) Darnold.....His son Lemuel Foster, born in June 1882 in Colorado; married Edith M. McNatt of Lacy Grove, daughter of Porter N. McNatt and of his second wife, Amanda Caroline (Gibson) (McWilliams) McNatt.--W.F.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Foster, Nichols, McWilliams, Athey, Darnold, Rawlins, Mason Classification: Death Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ok.2ADE/4189 Message Board Post: FREMONT COUNTY HERALD. June 28, 1904. "Joe Foster Dead. Died at His Home in Prairie Township. Was an Old Settler. Member of Joe Ross Post."-- Joseph Benjamin Foster died at his home in Prairie township Sunday morning at five o'clock. He has been sick for sometime. He was born in the state of Kentucky Feb. 14, 1830 and was united in marriage to Mary E. Nichols January 9, 1851. To this union nine children were born, five boys and four girls,seven of whom are now living. In 1853 he moved to Iowa from Kentucky and in 1863 he enlisted in Company "A", 33d Iowa Infantry and served to the close of the war. He moved to Colorado in 1874 remaining there until 1884 when he returned to Iowa and located in Fremont county which has been his home since. He was a man of strong convictions but rather rough in his address, but withall an honorable man. He made his home with his son Joe, Jr. The funeral was held from the Baptist church in Sidney on Monday morning at eleven o';clock, conducted by Rev. O.W. Lippincott. He took for the basis of his text a portion of scripture found in Job 14:14. Deceased was a member of the Joe Ross Post No. 209, G. A. R., of Sidney. A number of his comrades attended the funeral in a body, and the pall bearers were the sons of veterans. Burial took place in the Sidney cemetery. N.B.: His children were (1) James Allen Foster, d. Feb . 28, 1940; (2) Joseph Foster, Junior, d. 1951; (3) George E. Foster who married Eliza McWilliams of Lacy Grove; (4) John W. Foster, d. Oct. 15, 1922, who married Lavina E. Athey; (5) Julia Ann Foster who died unmarried on Feb. 24, 1947; (6) Lucinda Frances (Foster) (Darnold) Rawlins, who died Jan. 8, 1927; (7)Nancy Mason who lived in Jamestown, Colorado.--W.F.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Foster, Shilling, Mortimore, Baker, Cook, Hanisen, Martin, Nichols,Roberts, Van Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ok.2ADE/4188 Message Board Post: THE SIDNEY ARGUS - HERALD. March 7, 1940. "Obituary of James Allen Foster".-- Funeral services for James Allen Foster, who died suddenly last Wednesday evening while attending the wedding supper of his grandson, Millard Foster, and bride, after he had attended the wedding at Shenandoah in the afternoon, were held Saturday afternoon from the Crawford Funeral Home. Rev. Lyerla of the Shenandoah Christian church, officiated. Burial was in Sidney cemetery. James Allen Foster was born in Barron county, Kentucky, Oct. 28, 1851, and came to Iowa with his parents at the age of seven years, the family settling in Marion county. He was married at Knoxville on March 18, 1877 to Nancy Alice Shilling. To this union were born six children, four sons and two daughters. One son and one daughter died before their father. Mrs. Foster died April 1, 1929. He is survived by his sons, Jesse of Sidney, Hamilton J. of Farragut and Archie C. of Los Angeles, California; one daughter, Mrs. Lavern Mortimore of Omaha; 17 grandchildren; 10 great grandchildren, one brother and two sisters living in Council Bluffs,one sister at Jamestown, Colo., and one sister of Sidney. Present for his last rites were: Mr. and Mrs. Harry Baker of Omaha Mrs. Ella Cook of Council Bluffs Frank Foster of Council Bluffs Mr. and Mrs. Hamilton Foster and three sons of Farragut Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Foster and family of Sidney Lee Foster of Shenandoah Mr. and Mrs. Millard Foster of Shenandoah Mr. and Mrs Ray Foster of Shenandoah Mrs. Vida Hanisen of Council Bluffs Miss Martin of Malvern Mr. and Mrs. Everett Mortimore of Omaha Mr. and Mrs. Thad Nichols of Omaha Mr. and Mrs. Lee Roberts of Malvern Mr. and Mrs. Charley Van of Sidney Mrs. Nellie Van (sic) of Hamburg

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Foster Classification: Death Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ok.2ADE/4187 Message Board Post: THE SIDNEY ARGUS - HERALD. February 27, 1947. "Julia Ann Foster Dies at County Home".-- Miss Julia Ann Foster, 81, died at the county home Monday where she has made her home since 1904. She was the daughter of the senior Joe Foster, an old time resident and early settler of the county. She is survived by an only brother, Joe, Jr., aged 86, now a resident of Council Bluffs. Interment was made at Sidney Tuesday, beside her father.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Foster, Darnold, Rawlins, Mason, McWilliams, McNatt Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ok.2ADE/4186 Message Board Post: THE SIDNEY ARGUS. January 13, 1927. OBITUARY.--Lucinda Frances Foster was born at Knoxville, Iowa, December 27, 1855 and died at her home in Sidney on January 8, 1927 aged 71 years 11 days. At the age of 16 she went with her parents to Gilpen county, Colorado. In 1876 she was united in marriage to Edward L. Darnold and to this union one child was born which died in infancy. She returned with her husband to Fremont county. The following year they adopted a child. Mr. Darnold departed this life on July 26, 1901. On January 27, 1909 she was married to George W. Rawlins at Sidney. She leaves to mourn her passing her husband, three brothers James Foster of Sidney, Joseph H. Foster of Council Bluffs, George E. Foster of Carson; and two sisters, Nancy Mason of Jamestown, Colorado and Julia Ann Foster of Sidney. Funeral services were held Monday afternoon from the Sidney Baptist church, conducted by Rev. Walter Mead, pastor. Interment was in Sidney cemetery. N.B.: Lucinda Frances (Foster) (Darnold) Rawlins was the daughter of Joseph B. and Mary E. (Nichols) Foster. Her brother George E. Foster married Eliza McWilliams; Eliza's half-sister Edith M. McNatt, married Eliza's nephew--Lemuel Foster, son of John W. Foster (d. 1922).--W.F.

Do you have families who were living in the southwest corner of Iowa? If you are a researcher with family ties to this area then you will want to check out the new items that have been added to the Fremont County & Montgomery County IAGenWeb sites in the month of February! And while you are in Fremont and Montgomery counties, don't forget to check out our neighboring counties. You may find records in neighboring counties for families that lived in Fremont and Montgomery county communities located close to county lines. You will finds links or a map on the main index page to all of our neighbors. http://iagenweb.org/fremont/ http://iagenweb.org/montgomery/ A Big Thank-you to these generous and hard-working volunteers: John, Hal Hatcher, Sharyl Ferral, Walter Farwell, Dave Guiel, Joey Stark-Je, Mary Ann Dunkin. Your time and efforts are appreciated more than you know. Please visit the "Whats New" pages to find the links to the new information of each county website: Fremont Co.: http://iagenweb.org/fremont/whatsnew.htm Montgomery Co.: http://iagenweb.org/montgomery/whatsnew.htm Don't forget to check out our neighboring counties while you are in Fremont and Montgomery. You may find records in surrounding counties for families that lived in communities close to the county lines. Constance Fremont Co. & Montgomery Co. IAGenWeb http://iagenweb.org/fremont/ http://iagenweb.org/montgomery/

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Culp Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ok.2ADE/4185 Message Board Post: We're looking for a possible birth record for Frederic Lee Culp in Fisher, Fremont, Iowa. All we know is he was born circa 1908-1909. Also there is the possiblity that he was adopted to the Culp family immediately after his birth, how would I go about finding info on that as well? Any ideas where we may find a record of this online? Thanks!

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Furbush Butts Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/ok.2ADE/925.2 Message Board Post: Walter, do you know anything else about the Luella May Furbush and her family? I know her parents were John B. and Emma Furbush and her sibblings names from census records, but not much else.

Hi all, I'm wondering if there is anyone on this list actively researching the Hall line in the Fremont County area. This family came originally from Pennsylvania, and I while I have considerable information about it from that end, I have little on those settling in the Iowa and Nebraska area. Thanks for any information. -- Steve Hall [ digitect mindspring com ] :: My HALL Genealogy :: http://dancingpaper.com/hall/

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Darby Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ok.2ADE/4184 Message Board Post: THE FREMONT COUNTY SUN. June 27, 1895: 1. -- Prof.D.D. Darby, the penman and teacher, of Northboro, Iowa, is in attendance at the Normal Institute here this week. Mr. Darby has been secured by County Superintendent Simons to do the artistic lettering and manuscript work on the diplomas for the rural district graduates. The superior penwork done by the Prof. on these diplomas show him to be one among the finest penmen in the state of Iowa. 2.--(ADVERTISEMENT): D. D.DARBY, penman, NORTHBORO, IOWA. Graduate of two penmanship schools. Plain and ornamental writing. Flourishing. Lettering. Drawing, etc., etc........Card writing a specialty. Send stamp for estimates. THE FREMONT COUNTY SUN. July 25, 1895.-- Prof. D. D. Darby of Northboro, was in Sidney a part of last week looking after a fall and winter term of school. Mr. Darby visited Tabor, Anderson, Bartlett and Thurman while in the county and the interesting and well written correspondence from those places appearing in THE SUN this week are from the pen of the wide awake professsor. He departed for his home in Page county Tuesday but we understand he expects to return and teach near Sidney the coming fall and winter. N.B.: While Darby was teaching the Lacy Grove school during the winter and spring terms, he was the FREMONT COUNTY SUN correspondent for the "Lacy Grove News" from December 1895 through May 1896. I am using the names of residents of Lacy Grove which he mentioned, to make up the "Darby's List" of people who lived in the Lacy Grove Neighborhood. Never before have I seen any listing of those people who lived in that neighborhood between Sidney and Thurman. To access the names of those living in Lacy Grove, use the SEARCH SPACE and type in "Darby Outline".--Walter Farwell

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Bechtel, Liggett Classification: Lookup Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ok.2ADE/4183 Message Board Post: THE FREMONT COUNTY SUN. July 18, 1895. "IOWA APPLES".-- M. J. M. Bechtel has received a sample shipment of fruit grown upon his orchard near Hamburg, Fremont county, this state, which establishes the fact beyond question that Iowa is a fruit growing state of the first class. The consignment includes Red June, Dutchess of Oldenburg, Early Harvest and Red Astrchan apples and a peach, named unknown, of fine color and appearance. 1891 is the last year that Iowa produced a heavy fruit crop. In that year there were shipped from points along the Burlington route 249,758 barrels or 1,665 car loads of apples. In 1894 there was a small crop, amounting, according to the shipments, to 68,205 barrels. This year the harvest is expected to equal, if not exceed, that of 1891, and the quality of the fruit as shown by the samples received is of the very highest. The Burlington road has done everything in its power to encourage fruit growing along its lines, and those who have pursued this course are in a fair way to reap handsome rewards.--Burlington Hawkeye. N.B.: My grandfather, Walter Scott Liggett (1869 - 1959), told of how the loess bluffs around 1900 were nicknamed "The Apple Hills". As I remember, he said the idea of growing apples died out because the ground used for orchards turned in a greater profit when used for growing grain.--W.F.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Abbey, Polk, Lowery Classification: Marriage Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ok.2ADE/4182 Message Board Post: THE FREMONT COUNTY SUN. June 27, 1895. "MARRIED".-- At the home of the bride's parents in Lacy Grove, at 8:30 P.M., Wednesday, June 26, 1895, Miss Jessie Polk to Mr. Lucius J. Abbey, Rev. W. F. Bartholomew officiating. Very handsome invitations had been issued for the occasion and a large company of selected guests were present at the ceremony. At the hour appointed an appropriate wedding march was played by Miss Maud Lowery, when the bridal party took their position surrounded by a display of laurel wreathes, and the reverberation of the music ceased, the solemn and impressive words of the minister bound them together. A costly display of presents were generously bestowed by loving friends and an elegant supper gave dignity and grandeur to the occasion. The bride is in posssession of the all the qualifications of a noble young lady and needs no introduction as all know her especially from her quiet manner and gentle dispositon, and she has also for the past two years been one of our most successful school teachers. Mr. Abbey is our county Recorder, a quiet, unassuming, Christian young man, strictly attentive to his official duties and in no way lacking those charctersitics which constitute the elements of true manhood. The best wishes of friends go with them as they pass from beneath the parental roof, and enter in the practical reality of the estalishment of a home of their own with the people of Sidney. Rev. D. A. Allen, pastor of the M. E. church at Hamburg, was present on the occasion and assisted Pastor Bartholomew in the performance of the marriage ceremony.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Yowell, Mullen, Kilpatrick, Martindale, Sewell, Birkby Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ok.2ADE/4181 Message Board Post: THE FREMONT COUNTY HERALD. February 26, 1925. "A PIONEER CALLED".-- Josephine Yowell was born May 19, 1839 in Lincoln county, Kentucky. In 1846 her parents moved to Macoupin county, Illinois. She was married to John Mullen September 25, 1856 and came to Sidney,Iowa, in 1865 where her husband died in April 1871. Her home has been in Iowa since then, the latter years of her life having been spent with her daughter,Mrs. F.D.Kilpatrick, of Malvern,Iowa, where she died, February 19, 1925. She is survived by three daughters, Mrs. F. D Kilpatrick of Malvern,Iowa; Mrs.J.P.Martindale of Bridgeport, Connecticut; and Mrs. Leona Sewell of Brooklyn, New York, and one son John Mullen, of Inola, Oklahoma. There are three sisters and three brothers living: Mrs. Mary Birkby, of Arnold, Nebraska; W.J. Yowell of Sidney, Iowa; JamesYowell of Springfield, Missouri, and George Yowell of Phillipsburg, Kansas; Misses Ann and Emmer Yowell of Denbigh, North Dakota. She has fourteen grandchildren and fifteen great-grandchildren. She was united with the Christian church when a child and has been a faithful member all her life. She has belonged to the Malvern Christian church for the past fifteen years. Those from out of town who attended the funeral at Malvern were Mrs.J. P.Martindale, W. J. Yowell, Misses Ann and Emmer Yowell and Mrs. and Mrs. W. L. Faubion of Anderson. She was brought to Sidney cemetery for burial.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/ok.2ADE/4005.1 Message Board Post: Walter Rebecca (Williams) Miller McNealy/McNeeley was my husband's gg-grandmother and we have been looking for information on her. Do you know who originally posted the email to you? We would love to contact that person and see if there would be more information available to us. I, also, came across your posting of the "Mc" deaths in connection with Fremont County. Are there records available to check or was this listing from a cemetery book? Also, is the "Rector Graveyard" where she appears to have been buried the same as the present day Grandview Cemetery? We have visited that lovely cemetery in the past. If Rebecca died in 1883, could you tell me if there would have been a local newspaper that may have had an obituary? I appreciate all the information you have shared with those of us searching for our ancestors. Thank you, Judy Miller

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Cowles, Rowe, Moore, Wolverton Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ok.2ADE/2974.2 Message Board Post: This couple is listed in the 1900 Census for Otoe County, NE, in which it notes they'd been married 37 years, i.e., since about 1863 or so. Was this later marriage to satisfy the county or some such thing? This Nancy also seems as though she must have been divorced, as her first husband did not seem to die until about 1866 or so, 3 years after she seems to have married Rowe. She and James Rowe were in the 1870 census together and had several children, the first born in about May 1867. Can you shed any light on this mystery? Thanks.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Wauhob, Atkinson, Van Scyoc, Singleton, Hedges, Taylor, Belcher, Larimore, Rice, Webster, Clem, Smith, McCartney, Griswold, Elder, Frederickson, Blair, Richards, Wilson, Spangler, Trudeau Classification: Lookup Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ok.2ADE/4180 Message Board Post: Several e - mails have contained a request for a description of the Fremont county neighborhood in which a person's ancestor had lived. (No, I do NOT think it "too much", in fact I often have driven around my own old neighborhood and have been surprised by the forgotten things that suddenly come to my mind during these trips.) But, instead of addressing each of your e - mails individually, I have determined to try to give a "catch all" approach which might help each of you in creating your own scenario: FIRST: Besides the Fremont county atlas's, the 1885 Iowa State Census shows that part of the section upon which people in the country lived. For the roads of that date, in your part of the county, be sure to look at the Fremont county map in the 1875 Andreas Atlas. Also, look for the location of the district school in your area, and associate the two locations -- (1) Where your family lived and (2) Where the district school stood. That road between the two would be a part of your old neighborhood! SECOND: One of the county atlas's outlines the district encompassed by each country school. (Was it the one dated about 1910?) I wished I had thought of looking at Fremont county's "THUMBPRINTS", because as I remember, that book copied the map for each township from that atlas. THIRD: Another possibility would be to look at the 1921 atlas which shows the rural routes in Fremont county. The roads used by each route had to be kept up in good shape, or the local post master could order a change in that route. SO, these rural route roads were undoubtedly good ones to take if you ancestor were going somewhere. And they had to be adequately,safely bridged. FOURTH: Keep in mind that many of the creeks and the East Nishnabotna, the West Nishnabotna, the Nishnabotna, as well as the Missouri river had to be crossed on a bridge or ferry. The streams had not been straightened and this meant that the water ran off much more slowly, resulting in deeper water. Thus, all roads "across the river" had to converge on that particular point where there was a ferry or a bridge. FIFTH: Entrance into the loess bluffs could not have been had just any place, especially from the Missouri bottom. Access via Waubonsee Creek, Green Hollow, Plum Creek, Possum Creek, Horse Creek, Coopers Creek, Neeley Hollow, Militia Hollow -- those are "about it". Roads would have been forced to head for those places. SOME OF THE OLD BRIDGES IN FREMONT COUNTY: By 1857: Wauhob's ferry had been used by the Sidney - Quincy State Road to cross the West Nishnabotna before 1857. But by 1857, the Van Scyoc covered bridge had been built; Hiram Atkinson appears to have been the builder. It crossed the river just below the mouth of Walnut Creek. If you happen to read that a person in Sidney took the road to A. J. Singleton's, this would have been the road which was being referred to. In 1857: In 1857, County Judge E. S. Hedges called for two bridges to built: ONE was to cross the West Nishnabotna at the mouth of Camp Creek. This bridge was referred to as the Taylor Covered Bridge, or, as the "Upper Bridge", since it was north of the Van Scyoc bridge. .........The SECOND was to cross the Nishnabotna in the area of the Old French Bridge (which was located near the northeast corner of present day Hamburg.) This second bridge became known as the Belcher Bridge and was built by J.C.Larimore near the site of the old Rice ferry almost straight west of Riverton. 1858: The East Nishnabotna Bridge on the old South Tier State Road, northwest of Farragut, was called one of the best of the covered bridges in southwest Iowa. It had been built by one Mr. Webster. However, two years after it was built, strong winds blew it down in 1860. It was replaced immediately by an iron bridge. It, too, lasted but two years before a flood wrecked it in 1862.....If you remember that the pioneers who lived in Singleton Grove and all along Walnut Creek would have crossed the East Nishnabotna River here, it should not come as a surprise to you to read that the iron and steel from this wreck that could be salvaged, was taken to Walnut Creek and used to build the Clem Bridge over Walnut Creek. By 1861: A bridge over the West Nishnabotna on the South Tier State Road had been built by 1861 by Mr. Webster. It lasted until an 1865 flood wrecked it. After this, the Story Ferry crossed the traveler.......I can remember an old iron bridge at this site during the l930: I do not know how old it was, nor when it was torn down (although it seems to me to have been during the 1940's.) COVERED. IRON, PONTOON BRIDGES IN FREMONT COUNTY: (See the Sidney Argus - Herald of Sept. 1, 1983 for a more extended account.) --From a very early date, there was a covered bridge over Pleasant Grove Creek in Sidney, where the street west from the square crossed it enroute to the town school house. Isaac Smith was paid by the county for covering bridges in Madison township. The county stepped in to help townships only where larger expenditures were involved. 1863: Milton McCartney oversaw the covering of the Plum Creek Bridge within the town of Plum Hollow (Thurman). 1868: John Griswold supervised covering the bridge over the Nishnabotna on the east side of Hamburg. 1874: The Board of Supervisors helped pay A. Elder for covering the slough bridge located on the line between sections 12 and 13, township 68 range 43. 1875: The Board of Supervisors stepped in to help Ross township pay Porter Frederickson for covering the bridges on the Sidney - Tabor road. --Sept. 7, 1876: The Board of Supervisors Journal shows William Blair supervising the covering of the bridges over Plum Creek on the Thurman - Tabor road. Milton Richards oversaw covering the bridge over Pleasant Grove Creek where that road crossed to the south, just east of the old County Home. Sept. 6, 1888: George Borchers of the firm of Birkby & Borchers of Nebraska City was in Sidney in the interest of the PONTOON bridge over the Missouri at that place. January 12, 1893: W.M. Wilson and J. A. Spangler have formed a partnerhsip in the bridge building business and we have an order from them for a nice lot of stationery. We understand they have the bridge work to do this year in both Jack Focht's and Tom Rhea's districts. Feb. 16, 1893: William Wilson and J. A. Spangler, bridge builders, jusst finished a large 100 foot bridge across Walnut Creek called the Tompkin's Bridge. May 18, 1893: Did your ancestor take the train to or from Hamburg? Norris Trudeau (1857 - 1917) had been hired to extinguished any fires on the covered railroad bridge northeast of Hamburg, caused by passing trains. In 1893, this bridge was replaced by a new iron bridge over the Nishnabotna. July 18, 1895: A new iron bridge north of Riverton is being completed. 1901: It was casually mentioned that there was once a red covered bridge over the Militia Hollow stream where the Bluff Road crossed it. Sept. 11, 1902: A PONTOON bridge will soon open at Plattsmouth. Nov. 27, 1908: "The bridge at Hamburg that spanned the slough has been removed and a great fill levels Main street and makes the passing even more acceptable than when the bridge had to be crossed. The bridge was one of the old landmarks of the city and doubtless it will be greatly missed as the ring of hoof and tire could constantly be heard and, also, the pedestrian will no more stand on the walkway of the structure with his hands resting on the railing and cast his eyes toward the waves that were going by." Apr. 18, 1929.--Page county has constructed the first suspension bridge in this area. May 12, 1932: "Another landmark gives way to the march of progress. The old wooden trestle across the ravine near the J. W. Egloff farm house, two miles northeast of Sidney, has been torn out and a modern concrete fill constructed to take its place. The work was done by the county's road forces......(John Ross of Walnut township put in many concrete bridges during his term on the Board.) Dec. 1939: The Brownville Bridge was dedicated Dec. 11, 1939. March 1983: Construction on the new Nebraska City bridge over the Missouri was to begin in 1984.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/ok.2ADE/4173.1.1 Message Board Post: Yhank you, I have been aware of the younger Waterman for some time. Dan

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: McIntyre Classification: Lookup Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ok.2ADE/4173.1 Message Board Post: Dan: One "Waterman H. McIntyre" is shown in the family history book published on the descendents of Philip McIntire, but the man in the genealogy is much younger than your "Waterman H. Mc Intyre". I couldn't make out any connection between the two. It is strange, because such an unusual name would likely have some connection.--W.F.