This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Allison, Jordan, Jones, Evans, Passavant, Carter, Hanley, Peterson, Warner, Jobe, Wilson Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ok.2ADE/1486.2 Message Board Post: THE FREMONT COUNTY HERALD. May 19, 1924. "VIRGINIA CLINTON ALLISON".--Virginia Jordan, daughter of Nathaniel and Hannah Jordan, was born in Park county, Indiana, July 3, 1840, and died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Corwin Jones, in Council Bluffs, Iowa, April 25, 1924, aged 83 years, 9 months and 22 days. She was married to Frank Allison in 1858 and was the mother of nine children, only one of whom survives her. She leaves a brother, Steve Jordan, of Riverton, Iowa, and five grandchildren, Virginia Evans and Mary Passavant, Montana, and Chester Carter, Wilbur Hanley and Wauneta Peterson, of Council Bluffs. The deceased lived in Sidney forty-nine years and was well known to the older residents of this community. The body was brought to Sidney Saturday afternoon and funeral services were held Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock at the Baptist church conducted by the pastor, Rev. L.W. Ross, after which the remains were laid to rest in Sidney cemetery beside the husband who died forty-one years ago Mr. and Mrs. Corwin Jones, Chester Carter, Wauneta Peterson, Mrs. S.E. Warner and Thomas Fisher, of Council Bluffs, Mrs. Chas. Jobe of Omaha, Mr. and Mrs. Bert Wilson of Shenandoah and Mr. and Mrs. Milt Jordan were out of town people who attended the funeral.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Jobe, Jordan, Allison Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ok.2ADE/1486.1 Message Board Post: THE FREMONT COUNTY HERALD. Nov. 30, 1916.--The funeral of Mrs. Thomas Jobe, who died at her home in Sidney last Wednesday, was held Saturday afternoon at the Baptist church. The services were conducted by Elder J.P. Lucas, pastor, of the Christian church of Riverton, assisted by Rev. J.P. Thomas of Sidney. May (sic) Jordan was born in Ohio April 27, 1838, and came with her parents, Nathaniel Jordan and wife, to Jackson county, Iowa, when but a small child. When the gold excitement of '49 swept over the country her father went among the first gold seekers to California, the new Eldorado, where he died of mountain fever the following year. On February 7, 1961, Miss Jordan was married to Thomas H. Jobe of Sidney. The next year the young husband, leaving his wife and a little son three months old, enlisted in Company E, 29th Iowa infantry, and served as a soldier in the Civil War for 18 months. He then returned to Sidney, where he spent the remainder of his life, dying Febraury 26, 1898, at the age of 64. Mr. and Mrs. Jobe were the parents of five children, three of whom are still living: Charles M. of Omaha, Elmer A. of Macedonia, and U.V. of Detroit, Michigan. There are nine grandchildren and three great grandchildren, nearly all of whom were present at the funeral, also the two sons, Charles and Elmer, Mrs. Jobe also leaves two brothers, Nathaniel and Steve Jordan, who live here, and a sister, Mrs. Allison, of Council Bluffs. Another brother, Ike, went west 50 years ago and has not been heard from for some time. Mrs. Jobe's intimate acquaintances speak of her as one of the best of women and the best of neighbors. Her path was not always smooth and easy. She had her share of life's stormy weather, but she was always cheerful and courageous, and always looked on the bright side. She was very industrious and was noted for her generous and unselfish spirit--always doing something for others. She was a member of the Christian church ever since her girlhood days, and a constant reader of her bible and of religous papers, and always interested in church work. She was a lovable character and will be mourned by real friends.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Boulware, Winkler Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ok.2ADE/1504 Message Board Post: During her retirement, Mabel Bridges (4/6/1891 - 4/18/1976), using a card file, gathered notes on the earliest of the pioneers in Fremont county. I'm copying the following from Mabel's notes: (1).--1846: John Bowler (sic) to have license to keep ferry on the Missouri River opposite Ft. Kearney.--Atchison county Court, June term, 1846. N.B.: Records of Old Fort Kearney (now Nebraska City, Nebr.) make it very clear that John Boulware, indeed, was the ferry operator at that site.--W.F.) (2).--1850: John Boulware appointed supervisor of Road District #4.....ORDERED that John Boulware receive license for ferrying across the Missouri River opposite Old Fort Keanry for three years.--January 1, 1850.--Minutes. N.B.: For the first years after its organization in 1849, Fremont county had a three-member panel called the Board of Commissioners which governed its affairs. Mabel must be referring to the records of this panel. I know that she and Pauline Winkler rummaged around in the basement of the Court House at Sidney so that they might find county records prior to the time that all Iowa counties were ruled over by the County Judge system, beginning with Judge Greenwood in 1851.--W.F.) (3).--1852: Fremont county Census: "Fulton township". John Boulwar.....2m....1f (4).--1854: Fremont county Census: "Fulton township". John Boulware, Sr....1m...2f...1voter...no militia...no alien John B. Boulware, Jr...1m...1f...1 voter...1 militia...no alien George W. Boulware...1m...no f...1 voter...1 militia...no alien (5).--1856: No found in the Iowa State Census. N.B.: When Nebraska Territory was opened later in 1854 for settlement, John Boulware, Sr., crossed the river and founded the town and post office of Kearney City, Neb., but kept his farm on the Iowa side of the Missouri.....His youngest son, George W. Boulware laid out the town of Eastport, or as Nebraska City perferred to call it, East Nebraska City, in Fremont county. For about twenty years, Eastport occupied the Military Forest Reservation of Old Fort Kearney without authorization from the United States government. This was corrected by special legislation in the 1870's.--W.F.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Borchers, Everly, Worlan Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ok.2ADE/1503 Message Board Post: During her retirement, Mabel Bridges (4/6/1891 - 4/18/1976), using a card file, gathered notes on the earliest of the pioneers in Fremont county. I'm copying the following from Mable's notes: (1).--1843: John Everly sold unsurveyed government land and improvements to John Worlan for $800; Augustus Borchers was security; Aug. 7, 1843.--Atchison county, Missouri, County Court Records. (2).--1850: Born in Hanover, Germany, 1817; in Mexican War; came to Fremont county in 1850; located at Sidney. Purchased land on which Hamburg was built, 1857. Indian trader at Watson, Misssouri, in 1839.--Hist. of Fremont county, 1881, page 629. (3).--1852: Fremont county Census: "Sidney township". Augustus Borchers....1m....3f (4).--1853: Land Entry dated January 23, 1853 by Augustus Borchers for the south half of the southwest quarter of Section 7 township 69 range 41 at the Kanesville Land Office.--1881 History of Fremont county, page 401. (5).--1854: Fremont county Census: "Sidney township". August Borchers....4m....3f....2 voters...2 militia...no aliens (!!! Where and when had he been naturalized?)

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ok.2ADE/1455.1.1 Message Board Post: Thanks again for the info on my relatives Walter! Steve

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Cheney, Forsman, Inman Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ok.2ADE/273.261.3 Message Board Post: Hiram Edwin Cheney and Sarah Jane Inman are my gggrandparents. Their daughter Mary Esther married Goran Benjamin Forsman, and their son, my grandfather Marion Edwin Forsman, died last month in Gainesville, Florida. I have had other contact with Cheney descendents. Please contact me if you want more info. How are you related to this line?

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Bonwell, Rector, Collins, Sanders, Hinsdale Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ok.2ADE/1502 Message Board Post: During her retirement, Mabel Bridges (4/6/1891 - 4/18/1976), using a card file, gathered notes on the earliest of the pioneers in Fremont county. I'm copying the following from Mable's notes: (1).--1850: Federal Census for Fremont county, Iowa: Bordwin Bonwell....61....b. Va. Charlotte...............49........Ky. Augustus C...........25........Ohio Emeline.................20.......Ohio Ermina..................19........Ohio Martha...................17........Indiana Alfred.....................10........Indiana George....................8........Indiana (2).--1850: Augustus C. Bonwell, 26, married Eliza F. Brubeb, 20, at her father's house in Fremont county on Nov. 14, 1850. (3).--1852: Fremont county Census: "Franklin township" B.R. Bonwell.....4m....4f (4).--1852: Marriage license issued to Armina M. Bonwell and William Rector of June 21, 1852.--Judge Greenwood record. (5).--1853: Augustus C. Bonwell made a land entry for NW quarter of Sec. 9 Township 68 Range 42 on Sept. 5, 1853. (6).--1854: Fremont county Census: "Franklin township: Charlotte Bonwell....4m....2f....1 voter...1 militia...no aliens (7).--1856 Iowa State Census, "Fremont county" A.C. Bonwell........29.....Ohio....6 years in Iowa Charlotte..............54.....Ky......6..........................Widow Elizabeth Collins...57.....Ky......5 Emeline Bonwell...23......Oh.....6 Martha A..............20.....Oh......6 William T..............18.....Ind......6 Alfred...................16.....Ind......6 George.................14.....Ind......6 William Sanders....23.....Mich...2 Barney Hinsdale....33.....Ire.......2...........teacher

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/1501 Message Board Post: Elizabeth Fowler Weidner, married Thomas Jefferson Weidner, Morgan Co. Indiana, 1844, and died Sidney Iowa 1851. Charlotte Fowler Spencer and Samuel Spencer, married Morgan Co. Indiana, 1840. Charlotte died 1862, Sidney Iowa. Searching for burial place of Elizabeth Fowler Weidner. Could Thomas Weidner have been buried between his wives? Thomas and Elizabeth Weidner also lost an infant daughter, between 1845-1850.

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/936.1 Message Board Post: RECENTLY RAN THROUGH THESE POSTINGS, AND FOUND 1853, AS DATE PLOTS LAID OUT IN THIS CEMETERY. WERE THERE PEOPLE BURIED HERE PRIOR TO THAT DATE? ELIZABETH FOWLER WEIDNER, FIRST WIFE OF THOMAS JEFFERSON WEIDNER, DIED 1851. IS IT POSSIBLE FOR THOMAS WEIDNER TO BE BURIED BETWEEN HIS WIVES? ELIZABETH AND THOMAS WEIDNER ALSO LOST AN INFANT,WHO MAY ALSO BE BURIED WHERE SHE IS. ELIZABETH FOWLER WEIDNER WAS A SISTER TO CHARLOTTE FOWLER FLETCHER. THE JAMES FLETCHER MENTIONED AS CARETAKER, WOULD HAVE BEEN A RELATIVE?

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ok.2ADE/1487.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Thank you for your suggestions and prompt answer. donna

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ok.2ADE/1487.1.1 Message Board Post: Donna: It seems I have given you a bum steer: There is no newspaper called the THURMAN NEWS. Newspapers published in rural counties needed subscribers from all over the county if they desired to achieve any measure of financial success. In 1897, Sidney had two newpapers, "The Fremont County Herald" and the "Fremont County Sun". Each paper employed 'correspondents' (1) from various towns in the county, or, (2) from the rural neighborhoods in the county, and , sometimes had a 'local editor' for the town in which the paper was published. Since the first paper published in Thurman was put out from about 1900 up to 1905, you are out of luck when looking for something with an 1897 time-line. Your only hope is to find a paper published elsewhere which had hired a 'correspondent' from Thurman. Cross you fingers and hope that the correspondent was a good one, because some are so frustrating inasmuch their "news" consists of saying that Mrs. Smith visisted Mrs. Jones, period. One hundred years later, you haven't the slightest idea of whom they are. May I suggest you visit a large library which has a bibliography of Iowa newpapers, showing all that have been published and which are still available, where you might be able to read those which are available,-- and-- thus start the slow process of newpaper research. I've been doing this for forty years, probably, and have piles and piles of notes on people to whom I'm not even related. (I get easily side-tracked when I am looking at old newspapers!).....GOOD LUCK. I would think the sexton of the cemetery would have the plot of where there are graves, and who is buried there. Could the mayor of the town tell you who the sextion is?

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Pierce, Clapper, Welcheron, Weston, Wyant, Forney Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ok.2ADE/1455.1 Message Board Post: THE SIDNEY ARGUS - HERALD. Feb. 1, 1940. "Thurman News".--John Pierce, pioneer resident, passed away Tuesday at his home north of town at the age of 75 years. He was the father of 11 children, two of whom preceded their father in death. The nine living children are: Mrs. Bertha Clapper, Luke, John, Paul, Murle, Tom, Raymond, all living near their father's home; Mrs. Alvina Welcheron of Riverton; and Warner of Lincoln, Nebr. Besides his immediate family he leaves three sisters, Mrs. Lillie Weston of Nebraska City, Mrs. Ada Wyant of McPaul and Mrs. Rosa Forney of Thurman; and two brothers, George, living in Montana and Joe, who lives north of town. Funeral services were held at the King Chapel last Thursday afternoon and burial was in thethurmancemetery.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Martin, Chambers, Crouse, Surface, Stanley, Davison, Ewell, Keefer, Wilson, Buckikngham, Maxwell, Hill, Leeka, Hansen, Dunsdon, Jackson, Chizum Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ok.2ADE/1500 Message Board Post: THE SIDNEY ARGUS - HERALD. Feb. 1, 1940. "Thurman News": (1).--Cecil Martin took some hogs to the Omaha market Thursday, but was too late to have them sold that day. (N.B.: Earlier in Fremont county, farmers were marketing the animals they raised in the Chicago markets.)....(2).--Mr. and Mrs. Harold Chambers of Barlett visited Wednesday with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Crouse.....(3).--Wallace Surface and family were Sunday dinner guests at the home of his mother, Mrs. Alice Surface and daughters in Glenwood.....(4).--Mrs. Glen Stanley and children who have been staying with his mother, Mrs. Lucy Stanley, moved to rooms at the hotel Friday.....(5).--Roland Davison and family and Mr. and Mrs. Oren Ewell drove to Treynor Sunday to spend the day with the latter's daughter, Mrs. Don Keefer, and family....(6).--Mrs. T.E. Wilson received word last week that her sister, Mrs. Emma Buckingham, of Council Bluffs was very ill from an attack of heart trouble....(7).--Mr. and Mrs. Ear! l Maxwell drove to Hamburg Sunday to spend the day with their daughter, Mrs. Joe Hill, and family who moved from this vicinity a few weeks ago.....(8).--Mr. and Mrs. Madison Leeka, Mrs. Paul Hansen and Jay Leeka attended the funeral of Susie Dunsdon at Tabor Saturday. Mrs. Hansen and Jay Leeka assisted with the music.....(9).--Mr. and Mrs. John Jackson were pleasantly surprised Friday night when the member of the Country club and their families came in to spend the evening and before leaving the guests presented them with a gift. The Jackson family has lived for about 14 years on the same farm and because of the high esteem they hold in this community the farewell party was planned by their neighbors who wanted to wish them well in their new home in New Haven, WY, where they are moving this week.....(10).--Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Stanley attended church services in Shenandoah Sunday and remained to spend the day with her parents, Mrs. and Mrs. Roy Chizum.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Bobbitt Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ok.2ADE/1499 Message Board Post: During her retirement, Mabel Bridge's (4/6/1891 - 4/18/1976), using a card file, gathered notes on the earliest of the pioneers in Fremont county. I'm copying the following from Mabel's notes: 1. 1850: ORDERED to serve as grand juror in the first District Cout.--Minutes, Feb. 4, 1850. 2. 1850 Federal Census for Fremont county, Iowa: James Bobbitt....54....b. Va. Margaret............51........Ky. Martha...............24........Ky. Eliza..................19........Ky. Alfred.................17........Ky. Joseph...............11........Ind. Matilda...............15........Ind. Mary....................7........Ind. Bemjamin.............5........Ind. 3. 1852 Fremont county Census: "Franklin township" James Bobbitt....5m....5f 4. 1854 Fremont county Census: "Sidney Township" James Bobbitt....4m....4f....2 voters.....1 militia...no aliens 5. 1856 Iowa State Census, Fremont county, "Sidney township" James Bobbitt......56....b. Va.....6 years in the State Margaret..............56.........Ky....6 Martha.................29.........Ky....6 Joseph.................16.........Ind....6 Mary.....................13........Ind....6 Bemjamin..............11........Ind....6

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ok.2ADE/1482.1 Message Board Post: The source for this posting was THE SIDNEY ARGUS - HERALD of September 23, 1-9-3-7 and NOT the year of 1927.--Walter Farwell

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/1498 Message Board Post: Seeking information on Hattie M. Torrence, b. 1856 IL. She is listed with her parents and siblings on the 1880 US Fisher, Fremont Co., IA Census. Parents were Daniel Torrence b. 1832 NY and Perlina b. 1835 NY. Siblings were: Arvilla b. 1866 IL; Riley b 1867 IL; Lowisa b. 1870 IL; and Agnes May b. 1874 IL. Hattie M. Torrence m Walter A. Reese, b. 1855 NY d: 1921 Sterling NE. They had 5 children, only have names for 2: Myron Reese, he m. Daisy; and Joan Reese, she m. Edwin Hamilton. Her sister Arvilla Torrence m. Hiram Nelson Reese, brother of Walter A. Reese. Arvilla and Hiram had at least 3 children, a son, an infant daughter, and Frank Reese. Any information will be appreciated. Thank you.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ok.2ADE/495.490.1.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: I am looking for information about my ggrandmother-Hannah Rita Thomas who lived in Sidney,Fremont co,Iowa . I thought that she had an older sister,Elizabeth,and that their parents were Jacob Thomas b abt 1800 Indiana and Melinda b abt 1802 Tenn. Hannah was b abt 1831 Tenn. Please,email me directly if you have any information to share. The rest of the family-surnames Blackburn,Reed-lived in Shenandoah. marge

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/1186.1.4 Message Board Post: The dates I have on Melissa Wade,daughter of Silliam Wade, was born 1874 and died 1958. She had a sister Ollie. Is this the same family.

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/1186.2 Message Board Post: Stephen and Mahala Wade md 11-25-75;they had 4 children Johnny, Nellie, A. Nell as we called her, married Stanley Richmond; Rose and Alice, my grandmother. Melissa was William Wades daughter.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ok.2ADE/1488.1.1 Message Board Post: Thank you for this obit, as it is apparent that this is the second wife of Levi. The date on Levi's tomb stone lists his date of death as 1897. His son Silas (died in Nemaha Co., NE)is buried beside him, son John (died in NE) married Elizabeth McKissick, and daughter Amanda (died in OK) married Nathan Chaney, whom we are pretty sure is one of the sons of John A. & Martha Clark Chaney. Levi and his 3 youngest sons are in the Fremont county census for 1870 and I think there are a total of 8 children from his first marriage to Mary Woolsey. I would appreciate it if you could tell me if any mention of Levi's death would be in a Fremont County paper.