This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Sheer, Brown, Stephenson, Kirkpatrick, Hanson, Cox, Jacobson Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ok.2ADE/20.229.231.1.3.2 Message Board Post: THE SIDNEY ARGUS - HERALD. January 19, 1939. "Obituary - G.W. Sheer".--George William Sheer was the oldest of eight children of John and Lucy (Brown) Sheer and was born March 2, 1851, at Mt. Vernon, Ohio. When he was three years old the family came in a covered wagon to eastern Nebraska (sic), now what is a part of Council Bluffs. Becoming discontented the family moved back to Indiana but the call of the young and growing West was too strong and they again came west in 1865, settling this time in Cass county, Nebr. In 1867, they moved to Fremont county and this community has ever since been his home. On Jan. 17, 1878, just 61 years from the date of his burial, he was married to Mary Alice Stephenson also a daughter of Fremont county pioneers. The next year this happy couple moved on a farm southwest of Thurman where they spent their entire lives. Mrs. Sheer preceded him in death on Sept. 15, 1937. To this union ten children were born, Robert dying in infancy. The other nine grew to manhood and womanhood on the home farm, becoming respected citizens in their own commnities. They are: Perry of Camas, Wash.; Mrs. Naomi Kirkpatrick of Council Bluffs; Mrs. Mabel Hanson of Clarinda; Orville and Mrs. Margaret Cox of Thurman; Clayton of Tabor; Herschel of Ida Grove and Mrs. Juanita Jacobson, who with her husband came to few years ago to care for her aged parents in their home. Beside these children, he leaves 15 grandchildren and five great grandchidren. Mr. Sheer was a charter member of the Mersaill Lodge No. 341, A.F. & A.M. of Thurman and has been loyal to this organization for 63 years. Funeral services were held on Tuesday afternoon at the M.E. church and burial made beside his wife in Thurman cemetery.