Plattsmouth Journal, Monday, April 2, 1917 {Weeping Water Republican] Mrs. I.J. WEHRMAN and Mrs. Ja[blur] WEHRMAN of Nelson were over Sunday visitors with the former�s brother, Dr. M.U. THOMAS, and her sister, Mrs. John MC GRADY, and her many old friends here. --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Search - Faster. Easier. Bingo.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Rainey, Ranney, Smith, Parriott Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/AQB.2ACI/4.1 Message Board Post: Plattsmouth Journal, Thursday, April 20, 1916 Sherman RAINEY has been numbered with the sick the past few days. Plattsmouth Journal, June 12, 1916 Professor SMITH and L.R. PARRIOTT of Peru motored to this city yesterday and spent the night with W.H. RAINEY and family. Professor Smith is the manual training instructor of the state normal school at Peru. Mr. Parriott is the brother of Mrs. RAINEY. They motored to Omaha this morning and will return to this city this evening. Plattsmouth Journal, Monday, October 1, 1917 Mrs. J.M. RANNEY is recovering from a serious attack of ptomaine poisoning. At present she is feeling much better. Plattsmouth Journal, February 14, 1918 >From Wednesday’s Daily. James RAINEY, who has been in the west for the past few days returned this afternoon from Grant, in Perkins county, where he has been looking after some business and reports that things are looking fine out that way. In going out he left here while there was a covering of snow on the ground, but said that snow ran out at about Grand Island. James says that the wheat is looking fine in the west growing and looking green like spring. With nothing to prevent from this out he looks for a fine crop in the west. Plattsmouth Journal, October 31, 1918 Wood RAINEY departed this morning for Dixon, where he goes to pick corn. The matter of gathering the corn in this section is not so much of a job as it has been heretofore. Plattsmouth Journal, Monday, July 21, 1919 Mrs. J.M. RANNEY returned Saturday night from a three day visit with home folks in Illinois.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Speck, Kuhney Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/AQB.2ACI/171 Message Board Post: Plattsmouth Journal, Thursday, June 22, 1916 TAKEN TO HOSPITAL. >From Wednesday’s Daily. Harry H. KUHNEY departed this morning for Columbus, Neb., where he was called by a message announcing the serious illness of his daughter, Mrs. Henry SPECK, and the fact that it was necessary to take her to the hospital to take treatment. Mrs. Speck has not been well for the past few weeks and her condition has become so critical as to make it necessary to have her taken to the hospital. Plattsmouth Journal, Monday, June 26, 1916 CLAUS SPECK DEPARTED THIS MORNING FOR COLUMBUS [front page] >From Friday’s Daily. A message was received in the city last evening from Columbus, Neb., announcing that Mrs. Henry SPECK, who is at the hospital in that city, had experienced a sinking spell and her recovery was despaired of by the attending physicians and her family. Mrs. SPECK was taken to the hospital on Tuesday for an operation as she has been in very poor health for several months and continued to grow worse until it was decided that an operation was necessary to give her relief. Mr. and Mrs. Harry KUHNEY of this city, parents of Mrs. Speck, were called at once to Columbus and have remained there at her bedside since that time. This morning Claus SPECK left for Columbus to be present at the bedside of his sister-in-law. Mrs. Henry Speck was formerly Miss Hazel KUHNEY of this city. [same page, the following story] MRS. CLAUS SPECK, SR., INJURED FROM A FALL ON THE STAIRS [front page] >From Friday’s Daily. Mrs. Claus SPECK, Sr., is confined to her home by very serious injuries which she sustained a few days ago when she fell on the stairs in her home and as a result was very badly bruised and shaken up. At first it was feared that she had sustained the breaking of one of her lower limbs but examination failed to show any such injuries, although she was badly bruised and finds great difficulty in getting around the house. Her friends will learn of the accident with great regret and trust that she may soon recover without any serious effects from the fall. Plattsmouth Journal, Thursday, June 29, 1916 MRS. HENRY SPECK IN CRITICAL CONDITION [front page] A message from the hospital at Columbus, Neb., where Mrs. Henry SPECK has been in a very critical condition the last week, and which was received here last evening states that the patient is still in a very serious condition and it is feared that lockjaw may now be added to the complications that has brought Mrs. Peck [sic] almost to death’s door and if this fully developes [sic] her recovery is very doubtful. The many friends of this estimable lady are hopeful that the battle that is being put up for her [article cut off]. Plattsmouth Journal, Thursday, August 3, 1916 AMPUTATION OF LIMB BECOMES NECESSARY >From Tuesday’s Daily. A message was received here last evening by the relatives announcing that it had been found necessary to amputate one of the lower limbs of Mrs. Henry SPECK at the hospital in Columbus where she has been for the last few weeks. Blood poison has set in on the limb and in the very serious condition of the patient, it was found necessary to amputate to save the life of Mrs. Speck. She has been operated on some time ago for appendicitis and her condition has been very serious since that time caused by the complications of the case. Her friends will regret greatly to learn of her serious condition and trust that she may recover from the ordeal.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Tewksbury, Walker, Wooley, Hoopes Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/AQB.2ACI/170 Message Board Post: Plattsmouth Journal, Thursday, May 25, 1916 MRS. ELVIRA TEWKSBURY’S 86TH BIRTHDAY It Is Quite a Distinction When a Citizen Can Show Such a Record – A Real Daughter of the American Revolution. >From Wednesday’s Daily. The distinction of being a descendent of the American families whose founders served in the early struggle for the independent of the country is highly prized by a great many, but the honor of being a real daughter of the American revolution is held by a pioneer Cass county lady, Mrs. Elvira C. TEWKSBURY, who will celebrate her 86th birthday tomorrow, and in the pleasant event will be showered with good wishes by her many friends, both in this city and in Omaha, where she is at present enjoying a visit with her great niece, Mrs. Grace M HOOPES. “Auntie” Tewksbury, as she is known to the many warm friends, came to Cass county many years ago in company with her husband, John S. TEWKSBURY, from the state of New Hampshire, where they had spent their happy younger days, and they settled at Weeping Water, and then at Plattsmouth, making their home here for a period of time. While a resident of this city the husband was engaged in the grain business and was one of the most highly esteemed residents. Later Mr. Tewksbury engaged in railroad construction work and assisted in the building of the St. Louis & Iron Mountain railroad, south of St. Louis. The family moved to Omaha in the nineties, and has since made their home for the greater part of the time in that city. Mr. Tewksbury passed away some fifteen years ago, and since then the widow has made her home with her niece, Mrs. Anna Maxwell WOOLEY, and her great niece, Mrs. Grace Maxwell HOOPES, with frequent visits back to the old home in Plattsmouth, and ! the past winter was spent here by Mrs. Tewksbury. The recollection of Mrs. Tewksbury of her father, James WALKER, is rather distant, as she was but 6 years of age in 1837 when he passed away after a long and eventful life, leaving the little girl, the subject of our sketch and a son, Isaac F. WALKER, of the age of 9 years, and who, like Mrs. Tewksbury, is still living, back in the old New Hampshire home, where the father had first heard the call to arms to free his country from the oppressors’ wrong. The exact age of the father at the time of his death is not known, but it was fifty-nine years after the close of the war before he was called home. He is mentioned in the revolutionary records at the office of the adjutant general in Concord. A payroll of Colonel Jonathan CHASE’S regiment of New Hampshire militia, which was commanded by Major Francis SMITH and marched from Cornish, N.H., and adjacent towns to re-enforce the garrison at Fort Ticondergo [sic], shows James Walker as a private, enlisted June 27, 1! 777, and discharged July 20 of the same year. A payroll of Captain Samuel MC CONNELL’s company, General STARK’s brigade, which marched in July, 1777, and joined the northern Continental army at Bennington and Stillwater, shows James Walker as a private who was discharged September 18, 1777. A muster and roll call of a detachment of men under Lieutenant GEROULD, which marched to Saratoga in September, 1777, shows that James Walker was a private, engaged September 22 and discharged October 22 of the same year. Another payroll for Captain James AIKEN’S company, in Colonel Moses KELLY’S regiment of volunteers, which marched from New Hampshire and joined the Continental army in Rhode Island in 1778, shows that James Walker was a private engaged August 7, and discharged August 27. The Walkers referred to in these enlistments is without doubt one and the same man, and the father of Mrs. Tewksbury and Isaac F. Walker, as the records show him to have enlisted each time at New Boston, N.H>, where the records show that the parents of these worthy people resided. Mrs. Wooley is at present making her home in this city and will be able to join in the celebration of the birthday anniversary of her aunt, with whom she has made her home since childhood, as her father, Isaac F. Walker, brother of Mrs. Tewksbury, sent her west while a little child to make her home with the childless aunt, and here she has spent the greater part of the time since. The distinction that is possessed by Mrs. Tewksbury has frequently been mentioned in the leading papers of this part of the west, and throughout the state as she is well known as Nebraska’s only real daughter of the revolution. It is to be hoped that this grand old lady will live many years to enjoy her honors and to be with her friends on many more birthdays.

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/166.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Perhaps this is your William Reed's son? I have another article in my "stack" about George C. Reed, of Weeping Water. He was a minister who was giving a talk about something so stay tuned. :-))

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/166.1.1 Message Board Post: Thanks - and that is great reading. But I doubt this is my William as he would have been about 53 yo at the time. I was reying to connect this Reed family to mine who also were born in Ohio. Will E looked good until I found on your Cass resource page that he was reported to have gone east to college. My ancestor was a coal miner. But it could be. Those "turn of the century" authors knew how to put a favorable spin on most everyone, especially if it meant selling a few books. Thanks a lot and please keep me in mind. John Hollingsworth San Antonio, TX

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Buskirk Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/AQB.2ACI/112.1 Message Board Post: Plattsmouth Journal, Monday, October 7, 1918 Dode BUSKIRK had two carloads of cattle on the Omaha market on Thursday of last week, 84[?] head in all. He says that he has done exceptionally well on these two car loads. Aside from these he has 75 head of cattle. His greatest trouble is to get enough hay and pasture for them on account of the dry weather but is well pleased with the way they are doing under the circumstances.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Chappell, Blake Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/AQB.2ACI/169.2 Message Board Post: Plattsmouth Journal, Monday, April 28, 1919 Lou CHAPPELL returned Friday from Boulder, Colo., where he went to visit his sister, Mrs. James BLAKE, who is there on account of her health. James BLAKE, who has been at Boulder, Colo., the past few months was back to Nehawka latter part of this week. He took his wife there for her health and the high altitude caused Mr. Blake to have a severe attack of rheumatism and her illness which forced him to leave. The wife is slowly improving but is not yet able to be up.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Chappell, Wolfe Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/AQB.2ACI/169.1 Message Board Post: Union Ledger, December 23, 1910 John CHAPPELL and Matt WOLFE were business visitors in Plattsmouth yesterday afternoon. NOTICE. After Jan. 1 I will charge 10 cents per load for weighing on my scales. JOHN CHAPPELL.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Chappell Classification: Marriage Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/AQB.2ACI/169 Message Board Post: Plattsmouth Journal, approximately August 31-September 4, 1916 The friends of Miss Emma CHAPPELL and James were greatly surprised when the word leaked out that they had been married in Nebraska City, Monday. The will make their home on the Carl Balfour farm, known as the Griffith place. Note: It looks like the paper did not know James' last name at the time of this article. Sorry I did not get the exact date - this page got by me but is definitely within the given dates.

Plattsmouth Journal, February 11, 1918 Miss Marjorie CARR, who is teaching in Aurora, spent Sunday last with her parents near Eagle. --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Search - Faster. Easier. Bingo.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Holmberg Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/AQB.2ACI/140.2.1.2 Message Board Post: Plattsmouth Journal, Thursday, June 26, 1916 Carl HOLMBERG was an over-Sunday visitor in Lincoln where he attended a great Swedish festival in that city where a number of the Swedish singing association were [cut off]. The returned home on the No. [illegible] last night.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Renner, Hudson Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/AQB.2ACI/152.2.3 Message Board Post: Plattsmouth Journal, Monday, November 19, 1917 [Eagle] Mrs. Mamie HUDSON, saleslady at Yoho’s store, is taking a two weeks’ vacation. Her place at the store is being filled by Miss Lottie RENNER of the Beacon force.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Pankonin, Wood Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/AQB.2ACI/163.1 Message Board Post: Plattsmouth Journal, Monday, july 21, 1919 Mr. and Mrs. C.J. PANKONIN and children and Mr. and Mrs. C.E. WOOD and children, drove to Omaha last Sunday to spend the day in Riverview Park. They report a delightful outing.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Renner, Swanson Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/AQB.2ACI/152.2.2 Message Board Post: Plattsmouth Journal, Monday, March 19, 1917 Miss Lottie RENNER of Eagle, sister of Mrs. H.L. SWANSON, has accepted a position as a clerk in the Morton store. She commenced work on Monday. Plattsmouth Journal, Monday, November 19, 1917 [Union] Miss Lottie RENNER OF Eagle, was visiting with her sister, Mrs. Herman SWANSON a few days last week.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Reed, Welch, Nailor, Kirkpatrick, Tefft, Miller, Philpot, Ashley, Ragosa Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/AQB.2ACI/166.2 Message Board Post: Plattsmouth Journal, Monday, May 21, 1917 Drs. Fred REED and M.G. WELCH were in Lincoln Monday, where they took the examinations for service as U.S. army surgeons and were accepted by the government examiners. They stated that they probably will not be called before September 1st. Dr. Reed will go as a first lieutenant in the medical officers’ reserve of the national guard, and Dr. Welch will go as a first lieutenant in the regular army surgeons’ corps. Plattsmouth Journal, Monday, June 4, 1917 Miss Helen REED accompanied her brother, Robert, to Crete Friday morning for a few days’ visit. She will attend school there next year as she received the four-year scholarship given by the Weeping Water Academic Scholarship Committee. Plattsmouth Journal, Monday, October 29, 1917 [Eagle] Garth REED, the new sect[cut off] man, is moving his family h[cut off] Auburn. Eagle welcomes [cut off] to our midst. Plattsmouth Journal, November 18, 1918 [Louisville] Mrs. NAILOR was a visitor at the H.D. REED home last Thursday night while on her way home from Nehawka to Bassett where she will spend the winter with her daughter. Plattsmouth Journal, December 19, 1918 ___ KIRKPATRICK of St. Joe., Mo., his aunt Mrs. REED, were here ____ trains Monday, visiting _____ his cousin, C.E. TEFFT. [sorry, it was chopped off] Plattsmouth Journal, Thursday, February 13, 1919 Peter MILLER, who recently bought the B.L. PHILPOT house on the hill near the railroad cut in the southeast part of town, and 20 acres of land of H.D. REED, will start a Plymouth Rock chicken ranch there in the spring. Nothing but Plymouth Rock chickens will be kept. Plattsmouth Journal, May 28, 1919 Capt. F.P. REED and wife arrived Tuesday evening from Portland, Maine, where the doctor had [cut off] Plattsmouth Journal, Monday, July 21, 1919 George C. REED and mother, of Weeping Water, and Mr. and Mrs. Henry ASHLEY, of California, were in town last Sunday and were supper guests at the home of Henry RAGOSA in the country. Mr. Reed and Mr. Ragosa being old time school friends. The horseshoe pitching is __ on considerable interest these ___ and we understand Isaac ___ and H.D. REED showed them how to pitch Tuesday.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Krecklow Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/AQB.2ACI/167.2 Message Board Post: Plattsmouth Journal, May 28, 1919 [Louisville] W.F. KRECKLOW, ___ blacksmith, was at Omaha today.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Krecklow, Koop Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/AQB.2ACI/167.1 Message Board Post: Plattsmouth Journal, November 18, 1918 Mrs. Harold KOOP and little son have been making an extended visit in Plattsmouth with her brother, William KRECKLOW and family.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Reed Classification: Military Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/AQB.2ACI/166.1 Message Board Post: Plattsmouth Journal, January 9, 1919 WILLIAM REED WRITES HOME FROM FRANCE TELLS OF EXPERIENCE GOING OVER THE SEA ON THE TRANSPORT WAS GREAT. PASSED THRU ENGLAND ON WAY. Thinks France Looks Strange In Comparison to the Bigness Of America. Sunday, December 1, 1918 Dear Mother: Will write you a few lines to let you know I am well and arrived safely overseas. I got sea sick the first two days, but I wasn’t very sick; fed the fish a couple of times. We were 11 days sailing across and was on the ship 13 days. We got on at New York, November 11th, and got on this side November 24th. Our ship was not alone. There were 8 other ships that came across with us. We had lots of hiking after we got to England. We came across from New York to Liverpool and then hiked about one mile to the train, road about two days, then we got off and hiked about two miles to a camp and stayed all night. Then the next morning we hiked back to the train and went to another town and took a ship across the English channel. Then we hiked to another camp with those heavy packs on our backs. It was about three miles and they sure seemed like days and long ones too. Then we stayed there all night and the next day we took a freight train to this town where we are now. We rode! in box cars, 33 of us in one car and the cars are about half as large as the ones in the states. So you can imagine how crowded we were. We are in a camp close to a town by the name of Bordeaux. I don’t know how long we will be over here. They seem to think we won’t be here very long. I hope not anyway. They got food enough to last 10 days at this camp, so I guess we will be here 10 days anyway. We haven’t done any work yet, don’t know whether we will or not. It has rained every day since we got here. It is clear this afternoon. It isn’t very cold here. Well there is some nice looking country and nice big towns. Did you get the letter and picture I sent from Camp Upton? Well I think the war is all over with. They are sending lots of the boys home already. Well I am enjoying good health and hope you folks are all well. I won’t write to Florence I don’t suppose. So when you write to her, you tell her the news. If I don2��t write to you any more, you don’t need! to worry. Because I don’t like to write over here. Well I will close with lots of love to all. Good-bye. >From your son, WILLIAM READ [SIC]

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Inhelder, Walradt, Ahl Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/AQB.2ACI/168 Message Board Post: Plattsmouth Journal, Thursday, March 15, 1917 Henry INHELDER, of Moorefield, Neb., came in Friday evening to look after some matters of business and visit old friends. Plattsmouth Journal, Monday, February 4, 1918 George WALRADT and wife, of Stanton, and Mrs. Walradt’s mother, Mrs. Minzie INHELDER, arrived recently to visit Mr. Walradt’s sister, Mrs. Henry AHLand family and other relatives and old-time friends. They are on their way home from Wichita Falls, Texas where Mr. Walradt invested in the oil fields.