This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Holmgren Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/AQB.2ACI/140 Message Board Post: Sorry, all - I had forgotten about the burning of the 1890 National Census. Has anyone access to the Nebraska 1895 Census for Cass County? Still looking for the Holmberg family in Plattsmouth. Best Regards, Cinda in CO

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Holmberg Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/AQB.2ACI/139 Message Board Post: Does anyone out there have access to the Cass County 1890 Census? I'm looking for the Eric Holmberg family who appeared in the 1885 NE Census in Plattsmouth, 3rd Ward, ED 192. Any help at all would be greatly appreciated. Best Regards, Cinda Marsh, CO

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/AQB.2ACI/138 Message Board Post: In search of the parents of Lorenzo Dow Cole. He was born in Pickaway County, Ohio in 1847. He moved to Cass County, Ne, with his parents in 1864. Lorenzo (my ggrandfather) married Juliett M. Lemon in 1870. In 1872 he filed on a homestead in Reading Township. I have no names or dates of the parents my Lorenzo. Any help would be appreciated.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Wehr Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/AQB.2ACI/137 Message Board Post: I am a professional genealogist hired to locate possible living relatives of Venus Wehr who died in Lincoln, Nebraska in April of 1985. There is some property with mineral rights in Alberta, Canada to whom there are possible beneficiaries if we can locate them. All the information I have at present is that Venus is deceased as is his wife. No name for his wife. They had no children so we are looking for nieces or nephews of Venus Wehr. The file indicates that there is possibly a Nephew who lives in Iowa but again we have no name. If you are related in this way or know anyone who could help please email Beverley A. Rees at: ancestor-find@familyhistree.com

FYI, anyone looking for the George Washington CURYEA family--son Clarence Eldridge CURYEA m. Libbie Ethel WOOD, 1901, of Cass county--can find them in the online 1880 Census at FamilySearch as "George W. CUSSYEA" household, Serena, La Salle, Illinois, FHL film # 1254224, NA Film # T9-0224 page 690C. Dave Tyson in Colorado

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/AQB.2ACI/21.1.1.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Thanks, will keep in touch.

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/AQB.2ACI/21.1.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: I said George's brother was Edward but I found them on the census and it's Edgar J. Mark. 1920 Census Cass Co NE Weeping Water TS 261-265 (Dwelling) William J. Partridge - Head 41 b:OH f:OH m:OH Daisy " Partridge - Wife 39 b:OH f:OH m:OH Leona M. " Partridge - Daughter 13 b:NE Bernice " Partridge - Daughter 10 b: NE Edward M. Partridge - Son 8 b: NE Edgar J. Mark - Uncle 53 - WD b:OH f:OH m:IR William and Edgar are Blasters in a Stone Quarry Thanks Elizabeth

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Mark Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/AQB.2ACI/21.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Hi, I know Elsie and have been in contact with her. I don't have much on the Partridge's. Just William J's b. Oct 1878 d. 1961 and Lilly Daisy b. Feb. 12, 1880 d. 1962 children: Leona, Mark, Bernice, and George Wesley. Selma

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/AQB.2ACI/21.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Hi I don't know anyone researching the Mark Family but Elsie might. I will contact her and see if she has any more info. I don't have pictures of any of them. I do have a Caleb Wood on the family tree - married to Anna Kathryn McDowell and their son David is married to Sarah Electa Foley, mother Katherine Mark. That is all the info I have on them. I've mostly been searching the Wood Family. We had two Wood Families from Meigs Co. that joined but were not related before. Caleb's sister, Elizabeth Wood, married our g.g.uncle Ira Wood, both of Meigs Co. I'm also interested in William J. Partridge who is married to George Mark's daughter Daisy as we have some Partridges on my family tree. Do you have any info on him? Thanks Elizabeth

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Mark Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/AQB.2ACI/21.1.1 Message Board Post: Hi, Do you know anyone working on the Mark family? Do you by chance have a picture of George or his folks? Also, do you have a David Wood and Sarah Electa Foley from Meigs in your Wood family? Sarah's mother was Catherine Mark..am looking for info on them and a picture as well. Thanks, Selma

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/AQB.2ACI/21.1 Message Board Post: I Have this family on our family tree but we are not a direct line. James Ellison Mark and Jennie Askins Mark are the parents of George Martin Mark and Edward J. Mark. George married Eliza Jane Wood who was born in Meigs Co. OH. Hope this helps, Elizabeth Wood

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/AQB.2ACI/136 Message Board Post: I am looking for family members of the William S. and Annetta Hart family who were living on Lincoln Avenue in Plattsmouth as of 1930. They had one son, Robert who was born sometime around 1909. Does anyone know if these people are buried in Plattsmouth? Thanks Tammy Russell

Go to the following website to learn what the Nebraska Masonic Home in Plattsmouth is all about. Good luck finding information on your great grandfather! http://www.thenebraskamasonichome.org/ Happy Hunting, Mary Joan Geist geist007@umn.edu ----- Original Message ----- From: <whybrown@cox.net> To: <NECASS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, February 22, 2003 12:57 AM Subject: [NE-CASS] what is "Masonic Home" Plattsmouth > 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/AQB.2ACI/135 > > Message Board Post: > > My g grandfather has an address listed as Masonic Home, Plattsmouth in 1918. Wondering if anyone knows what that is/where. I've been trying to find where he's buried and death certificate, my records show he died approx 1924. b 20 May 1855 > > Have numerous addresses for him in Nebraska (from postcards from his son fm WW1) > > Hope to locate his parents also. Any help appreciated. > > ______________________________

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: ALLEN, TIMMERMAN Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/AQB.2ACI/135.1.1 Message Board Post: His name was Charles Allen dob 20 May 1855 (exactly 100 years before my husband's!) place of birth unknown, parents unknown at this time. Died approx. 1924

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/AQB.2ACI/135.1 Message Board Post: The Masonic Home is still located in Plattsmouth. It is an assisted living home or managed care home. It has been there since I believe the early 1900's. Also, what is your great grandfather's name?

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/AQB.2ACI/135 Message Board Post: My g grandfather has an address listed as Masonic Home, Plattsmouth in 1918. Wondering if anyone knows what that is/where. I've been trying to find where he's buried and death certificate, my records show he died approx 1924. b 20 May 1855 Have numerous addresses for him in Nebraska (from postcards from his son fm WW1) Hope to locate his parents also. Any help appreciated.

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/AQB.2ACI/134 Message Board Post: I have a picture which says "Taken in Eagle at the Mr. Allaway home", it is on a postcard and names listed are: "Hazel Burns, Laura (Louva?) Chidester, Aunt Elvah Allen and yours truely E.K.H." A gathering of mostly women and small children, probably 1890-1910. On the front is written "Nebraska's products--find me." I'd be happy to send scanned picture to anyone who would like it. whybrown@cox.net

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/AQB.2ACI/48.1.2.2.2 Message Board Post: If your ancestor came from Rimhorn, Hessen-Darmstadt, please contact Mrs. Ella Gieg, Goldbachstr. 3 in 64750 Luetzelbach-Rimhorn

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/AQB.2ACI/82.2 Message Board Post: "Nebraska Farmer" magazine January 15, 1999 Stockyards to leave South Omaha after 115 Years by Beverly Todd Nolte , Murray, NE Omaha, Nebraska -- for the last 115 years it has been home to one of the world’s largest and most famous livestock markets. By the end of 1999, this Midwestern community will say good-bye to the landmark operation that helped the city grow from a dusty cow-town to an international leader in the livestock and meat-packing industry. With the land sold out from under it, United Market Services, the company that owns and operates the Omaha Stockyards, is looking for a new location to continue bringing together farmers, ranchers, commission men and meat packers. United Market Services learned it lost its lease Dec. 10, 1997, when Omaha Mayor Hal Daub held a press conference in the Livestock Exchange Building lobby and announced the city would buy the property the stockyards operates on and turn it into a business park. The announcement came as a surprise to Carl Hatcher, operations manager of the stockyards. “It has been a very disappointing and upsetting situation,” Hatcher said. “We’ve been here for 115 years and were given very little consideration. We’re still viable, but the city government has a lot of influence over whether we stay open or close.” City officials say the livestock market was left out because it would not be compatible with the redevelopment plan and is a dying business. “Their numbers are declining. We believe their operation would cease anyhow,” said James Thele, Real Property Manager with the City of Omaha. “When we reached an impasse with the city, we started looking for a new location,” Hatcher said. By early fall, Hatcher hopes to move the livestock market to one of four sites that are under consideration. The sites, two in Iowa and two in Nebraska, have current livestock operations and are within 40 to 50 miles of Omaha. “This is a good location for our Iowa and Nebraska customers and we wanted to maintain it,” Hatcher said. United Market Service tried to negotiate with the city to maintain the stockyard operation by consolidating the facilities from the current 15 acres it operates on to 5-6 acres. The best the city offered was a lease extension to January 1, 2000, when the Omaha stockyards must be fully vacated. By March 31, 1999, the office facilities must move from the Livestock Exchange Building to space across 29th Plaza in the Auto Park. Keeping 3,500 customers updated about the situation is a priority for Hatcher. He assures customers that the stockyards is still an ongoing, viable and profitable business, and that it will continue operating during the move across the street in March and relocation to a permanent site later in the year. Nearly 30 other livestock-related businesses also are relocating, including the USDA’s market news service. The office, which has produced market reports for sellers and buyers since 1917, moved to a new office in Kearney, Nebraska. The City of Omaha and the nonprofit South Omaha Industrial Park Development Corp. took possession of the 57-acre property Sept. 10, 1998. It purchased the property for $900,000 from Canal Capital Corp. in New York. With a price tag of $8.2 million, the redevelopment plan calls for the purchase and demolition of property, which will begin this summer, followed by the development of streets and utilities in 2000. The city expects to begin selling parcels of property in 2001. The only structure that will be saved is 73-year-old Livestock Exchange Building. Thele says the city is working with the Nebraska Historical Society and the National Parks Service to restore the building as a National Historic Site. The Livestock Exchange Building is the last reminder of the golden days when the Omaha Stockyards was the jewel in Omaha’s crown. It was built by Peter Kiewit and Sons and was the company’s first $1,000,000 project. When the Livestock Exchange Building opened its double set of brass doors in 1926, seven floors were dedicated to 60 commission firms and eight order buyers. Fitted with mahogany, the Stockyards National Bank took its place on the second floor. Hand- painted murals featuring farm and ranch scenes ringed the cafeteria. By 1950, more than 1,000 people a day crossed the Italian marbled lobby. The building boasted a first-aid room with full-time physician, a clothing store, barber shop, cleaners, a market newspaper and two radio studios. Market reports were broadcast live from KFAB’s studio daily. A soda fountain, telegraph office and a cigar stand, that sold more than 1,500 cigars a day, also served the livestock industry. The tenth-floor ballroom was the scene of the 1955 annual dinner celebration of the Union Stock Yards Company (the founding company) when it marked the first of 18 consecutive years that the Omaha Livestock Market held the title of the world’s largest livestock market. From 1955 to 1973, a billboard on the edge of the stockyards proclaimed “Omaha, the largest livestock market and meat packing center in the nation.” It’s a sign that would have put a smile of the face of founder Alexander “Alec” Hamilton Swan who had the vision to transform the South Omaha whistle-stop for livestock on its way east into a thriving city and leading center for the livestock market and meat-packing industry. In 1882, this Wyoming cattle baron, along with six Omaha businessmen, put together the capital and land and formed the Union Stockyards Company of Omaha. The entranapuners included John A. Creighton, whose family founded Creighton University in Omaha. At the time, cattle were shipped to market in Chicago. Swan was looking for a closer market. He realized Omaha’s railroad lines, abundant water and grain supplies and location in the middle of cattle country could make it a leading livestock market. By 1883, the new business had accumulated nearly 2,000 acres of land – 200 acres were set aside for stockyards and packing house, leaving 1,800 acres for the development of South Omaha. The first shipment of 531 cattle arrived August 13, 1884, from Medicine Bow, Wyoming, in 25 rail cars. Besides cattle, hogs, sheep, buffalo, deer, horses, mules and chickens were sold on the market in early years. Growth came phenomenally quick to the livestock market, packing houses and community. By 1888, the “big four” packing companies – Hammond’s, Fowler Brothers, Swift and Company, and Armour-Cudahy – were slaughtering more than 1 million cattle, hogs and sheep each year. By 1892 the packing plants employed 5,000 people in “Packingtown.” And in 1897 Armour’s South Omaha plant was the nation’s largest.By 1934, the big four included Armour, Cudahy, Swift and Wilson. In 1955, Omaha was the only city in the world where Armour, Swift, Cudahy and Wilson each slaughtered all three types of animals. And it was Armour who supplied the American fighting forces and their allies with canned meat during World War II. South Omaha’s 150 residents of 1885 quickly grew to 8,000 people by 1890. The first businesses were 15 saloons; churches, schools, hotels, general stores, blacksmiths and butcher shops soon flourished in South Omaha. By 1908, 35,000 people lived in South Omaha with one-fourth employed by the stockyards or packing houses. In 1916, Omaha became the 16th largest city in the nation with the annexation of South Omaha. The city and the stockyards worked together to improve conditions for the people who lived and worked there. The famous “O” Street viaduct took foot and car traffic up and over the dangerous rail road tracks was one joint improvement. Two second-hand bridges – one from Idaho and the other from Wyoming – were purchased from railroads and spliced together to span the rail yards. The narrow bridge still ferries traffic from “O” Street into the stockyards. Redevelopment plans call for its demolition. According to the Omaha Daily Journal-Stockman of June 6, 1957, fully one-half of Omaha was employed in some facet of the livestock industry. And the Omaha Chamber of Commerce said “Livestock is Omaha’s lifeblood.” The claim didn’t seem an exaggeration, as food processing had become Omaha’s number one industry, employing 13,000 people. By 1959, the Omaha World Herald declared the stockyards “the backbone of Omaha’s economy ever since the first steer trotted into its pens in 1884.” The growing industry called for expanded and improved facilities. The stockyards were under constant renovation. At the turn of the century, new pens with concrete floors and watering troughs were added. New scale houses were built. Elevated catwalks above the pens offered a better view of livestock without having to thread through the maze of pens. A sheep barn was rebuilt to hold 100,000 animals. In 1914, the new two-block horse and mule barn was hailed as “the largest and best single barn in the world.” It housed the largest ranch horse market in the world drawing European nations that outfited their armies with American horses. In 1910, 20,000 animals arrived at the market each day from farms and ranches in 20 states (mainly Nebraska, Colorado, Wyoming, Idaho, Montana, Utah and South Dakota) and Canada, and 10 slaughtering house/packing plants were in operation. “Floggers” drove cattle, hogs and sheep through the alleys and great maze of pens. It was said that if all the cattle, hogs and sheep that came in 1950 were lined up, the whole column, walking by a certain point at the rate of one animal per 12 seconds, would take almost two years of constant marching to get the last animal past the point. It was calculated that the stockyards did $4,000 of business every minute. The livestock business overall was so large that the profits from the manure alone rivaled the value of the Florida citrus crop in 1951 (South Omaha Sun, October 18, 1951). The 1960s brought change to the livestock market and packing industry. Cudahy Packing Company stopped production at its South Omaha plant in 1967. The following year Armour and Company, then Swift, followed suit. In 1968, receipts and revenue were down for the Union Stockyards Company. The industry faced major changes in the way livestock were marketed from the central location of a public livestock market to “direct selling” from the feedlot. Smaller, decentralized packers were putting livestock buyers on the road. Smaller farmer-feeders were soon competing with the large feedyards that found benefits in selling direct to the packers. More change awaited the Union Stockyards Company in 1973. It lost its title as the nation’s largest livestock market. Then, the 89-year-old company was sold. It would change hands two more times in the next 15 years. United Market Service has owned the company since 1989. “While our numbers have dwindled, we still provided a much needed service,” says Hatcher, who oversaw the marketing of 197,575 animals in 1997. “We offer a service where people can bring livestock -- where sellers can get a competitive bid and buyers can see a large number of livestock. We are the starting point for negotiations.” Hatcher, who began working for the stockyards in 1955 while in high school, has seen the Omaha Stockyards through extreme change. He believes his company will continue to be a player in the livestock market of the next century by mixing business with tradition. “This is the only business in the world where millions of dollars change hands only by a gentleman’s agreement,” Hatcher says. “It has worked for 115 years and is still working today.” ### Reference: Historical data from:“A Century of Marketing Commemorative Book,” Omaha Stockyards 1884-1984, published by United Stockyards Corp. Material obtained from the Nebraska State Historical Society.

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/AQB.2ACI/133 Message Board Post: Todd Family Reunion, Sunday, June 29, 2003, at Todd Farms, Union, Nebr. For more information: http://toddreunion.20m.com. Celebrating the 150th Anniversary of the arrival of the first Todd in Nebraska & Cass County. All Todd family & friends welcome. Especially searching for descendants of Levi Goodsil Todd Sr. & Lydia Jones (who had 8 children). Levi arrived in Nebr. the summer of 1953, and claimed his farm in 1984. In the next 2-3 years uncles and brothers followed, including: Thomas Jefferson Todd, Edwin Todd, Marquis De Lafayette Todd, A.B. Todd, F.P. Todd, and E.R. Todd.