Thursday Feb. 19, 1925 Passing Of An Honored Citizen Hon. R.B. Windham, Lawyer, Soldier and Statesman. Former Glenwood Resident Dies at Plattsmouth. Many of the older residents of this community counted as one of their personal friends the Hon. R.B. Windham of Plattsmouth, Nebr., who spent his early boyhood years in this community and who through- out the major portion of his life has visited here at frequent intervals with his brother, B.K. Windham, who made this his home up until about two years ago. Mr. Windham was one of those rugged, pioneer characters, a man of tireless energy and keen intellect and contributed a full measure to the development of the community and state just across the river where he cast his lot as a young man, lived many years, participating actively in business and governmental affairs and where he passed peacefully away last Thursday evening. The Plattsmouth Journal gives the following interesting sketch of this and useful life of one who was a former resident of Glenwood. Calmly and peacefully facing the breaking lights of the distant shores of the land of everlasting day, Robert Baxter Windham, pioneer soldier, lawyer and statesman, passed on Thursday evening and with his going there passed on of the best known and distinguished residents of Cass County and Nebraska. The story of the life of Mr. Windham is a part of the history of Nebraska, as he has taken part in the making of the great deal of historical development of his adopted state and given to the people of the community a service that is without price and unselfishly he has served to do all that was possible to make the land that he loved worthy of the highest levels. Robert Baxter Windham was born in St. Joseph, Mo., July 5, 1846, and spent a few years of tender childhood there, being taken when a child of nine years by his parents to Glenwood, Iowa, then one of the outposts of the great unknown west. In the quiet little Mills county city he grew to manhood and received his education in the schools of that place. There was received the basis of the ideals that were to quide him through life and enable him to give to his state and community his splendid service. When seventeen years of age Mr. Windham entered the Iowa State Militia and served in for some time in the outbreaks that followed the drafts ordered by the government. In 1864 Mr. Windham enlisted in Company K 46th Iowa Infantry, serving under Col. David B Henderson later congressman from that state and speaker of the national house of representatives. The military service of Mr. Windham covered the campaign in western Tennessee and northern Mississippi. After the close of the Civil War, Mr. Windham returned west and in 1867 came to Plattsmouth, Nebr., to cast his lot with the little frontier town and where the rest of his life time was spent, a great part in public service. In the year 1879 Mr. Windham married to a Miss Jennit Campbell Patterson, daughter of Hon. James M. Patterson, long a prominent figure of Cass County. To this union there were five sons and three daughters, one son Jamie, and the wife of preceding Mr. Windham in death. The surviving children are Wade W Windham, Lincoln; Robert Windham, Plattsmouth; Benjamin Windham, residing in California; Samuel C Windham of Cedar Rapids, Iowa; Miss Hermie Windham of Plattsmouth; Mrs. Ellen Sturgess of Omaha and Mrs. Kathryn Riddle of West Palm Beach, Fla. All of the children were here for the final services with the exception of Samuel, who is at the hospital in Omaha recovering from an operation. Anne Marie Black Ryan Council Bluffs, IA mailto:anneryan@cox.net mailto:tupidtator@yahoo.com Home Page for Genealogy and SW Iowa & NW MO Information: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~anneryan/ Always Searching For These Surnames: Anderson Ashley Babbitt Babcock Bellows Black Bracee Brewington Brown Bobet Cole Cook Corbit Cottrell Crandall Culp Dean Fairbanks Faukner Fuller Hazard Hooker Hurst Jones Kathan Kier King Lawton Long Mann Mellor Moore Nash Parish Peckman Pendleton Platts Powers Prescott Rankin Rose Saunders Schafer Scott Shepard Smeltzer Smith Tarne Taylor Thayer Thrasher Vandal Victor Welling Westlake Wood Yates Young