Plattsmouth Journal, Monday, March 18, 1918 FORMER MINISTER VISITS PLATTSMOUTH >From Saturday�s Daily. Rev. J.H. SALSBURY, formerly pastor of the Presbyterian church of this city, but now located at Aurora, was a visitor in this city last evening and today. He returning to Omaha this afternoon where he will spend the Sunday. Rev. Salsbury was in Omaha for an operation of his nose, and after having been given his liberty come down to Plattsmouth to see his many friends. In speaking of a former Plattsmouth citizen, W.E. COPELAND, who is now making his home at Aurora. Rev. Salsbury said he was getting along fine and prospering. WERE ENTERTAINED. >From Saturday�s Daily. The members of Intermediate Society of Christian Endeavor were very pleasantly entertained at the home of Miss Muriel STREIGHT on Thursday evening. The house was impressively decorated in Irish green out of deference to St. Patrick. The Irish talent of those present was brought into active service by games that called for a knowledge of Ireland Romance. A progressive game of stabbing peanuts created much merriment and dexterity on the part of the participants. To rebuild the lost energy used in the intense interest of the games the hostess served the guests with delicious refreshments. Thus revived, a new outburst of youthful life was heard in singing all the popular sons found on the piano. As the time for leaving demanded to be heard each took his departure feeling grateful to the genial hostess for affording him an evening filled with such happy association and pleasant amusements. WILL MOVE FIRST OF WEEK. >From Saturday�s Daily. The last finishing touches are being applied to the building to be occupied by the Ladies Toggery and the first of the week this establishment will move from its present location in the Riley hotel block to the new store room. The back part of the building will house the cleaning and pressing paraphernalia of the Busch Tailoring company, out of which has grown the business in ladies wear. The new fixtures are not yet completed and cannot be shipped before the latter part of the month, but the concern has promise they will be forwarded promptly as soon as done. The new store room presents a very good appearance and is well located. Upon the arrival and installation of the fixtures its appearance will be further added to and the arrangement will be so made as to facilitate the handling and sale of goods in the most approved style. BROUGHT HOME A NEW CAR. >From Friday�s Daily. This morning Ray HITCHMAN, better known as �Brownie� went to Omaha and returned at about noon with a touring car of the Ford variety which goes to the George A. Dodge, who recently purchased through the T.H. Pollock Auto Company. __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - File online, calculators, forms, and more http://tax.yahoo.com

Plattsmouth Journal, Thursday, June 7, 1917 CONRAD VALLERY PASSES AWAY Deceased Bore the Distinction of Being One of the First White Children Born in Cass County. >From Tuesday�s Daily. Death has again entered our community and taken from the circle of the home and friends Conrad H. Vallery, one of the pioneer residents of Cass county, and a gentleman well known and very highly respected throughout the entire county. Mr. Vallery passed away last evening at his home southwest of this city after a long and lingering illness, suffering from cancer of the throat, and although all possible in medical skill and tender care was given to him it was impossible to check the progress of the malady that finally resulted in his death. Conrad H. Vallery enjoyed the distinction of being one of the first white children born in Cass county, having saw the light of day April 26, 1858, in Plattsmouth precinct, where his parents, Theobalt Vallery and wife, had been among the earliest settlers in the county. The Vallery family came originally from Germany, but located in early life in Pike county, Ohio, where they resided until 1855, when Mr. and Mrs. Vallery removed to the new territory of Nebraska and became numbered among the pioneers of Cass county, where they made their home in the then wild and unsettled country of the west. Mr. C.H. Vallery was reared to manhood in the vicinity of Plattsmouth and experienced the hardships and toil of the youth of early days in assisting in the work of forming a great agricultural empire, and through his efforts he had won for himself a part in the history of the county, and through careful management had made a success of his farming life and possessed one of the fine farms of this portion of the county. On October 29, 1877, Mr. Vallery was united in marriage to Miss Frances Sprague, at Plattsmouth, and for the past forty years the happy ties of love have been kept as tender as when plighted at the altar in their youth. To bless the union of Mr. and Mrs. Vallery five children were born, who with the widow remain to mourn the death of the husband and father, Mrs. Myrtle Marks of Omaha, Ed and Albert W. Vallery of Grass Range, Mont.; Jesse Vallery, residing at home, and Mrs. W.K. Shepherdson of Grass Range, Mont., and Mrs. Henry Meisinger of Plattsmouth. Mr. Vallery also leaves to mourn his death the following brothers and sisters: Jacob R. Vallery, Mynard; Mrs. George Sigler of Custer county; Peter Vallery of near Deadwood, S.D.; T.W. Vallery of Murray, and Henry Vallery of Ruby, Alaska, and Mrs. Mary Wright of Deadwood, S.D. Plattsmouth Journal, June 11, 1917 FUNERAL SERVICES OF LATE CONRAD VALLERY >From Friday�s Daily. The funeral services of the late Conrad H. Vallery was held yesterday afternoon from the Liberty church south of this city and was one of the most largely attended that has been held in this section of the county in years. For many miles around the old friends and neighbors gathered to pay their last tributes of love and respect to the one who for his entire lifetime had made his home in their midst. The services were conducted y Rev. Pontius of the United Brethren church, who spoke of the life of the departed and held out to those who mourned the hope of a meeting in another world where the grief of parting should be unknown. The friends present were so numerous as to fill the church to its utmost capacity, and a very large number remained without the building to pay their tribute of esteem to their friend, gone from them for a little while. The body was laid to rest in the Horning cemetery. CARD OF THANKS. We wish to express our sincere thanks to our many friends who, with willing hearts so ably assisted us during the illness and death of our beloved husband, father and brother, Conrad H. Vallery; also, for the many beautiful floral offerings. Mrs. C.H. Vallery and Family J.R. Vallery and Family T.W. Vallery and Family __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - File online, calculators, forms, and more http://tax.yahoo.com

Plattsmouth Journal, May 19, 1919 TWO MORE OF OUR BOYS RETURN HOME CHAS. R. KUSHINSKY AND EARNEST MUTCHELOTT DISCARGED FRIDAY HOME LOOKS GOOD TO THEM And They Are Glad to be Relieved of the Routine of Army Life After Long Months of It. >From Saturday�s Daily. Two more Plattsmouth boys arrived home this morning, they being Charles R. Kushinsky and Earnest Mutchelott. Both of these young men were mighty glad to see the old town and home folks again. Each has seen considerable service overseas. Mr. Kushinsky enlisted at Alliance and sailed from Newport News, being in Europe for some seven months. In order to keep his people from knowing he changed his name around and made it read Robert C. Kushinsky. He arrived last night in Omaha from Camp Dodge and at that early hour in the morning (one o�clock) called his sister up telling her to come down to the Burlinton station this morning to get a bird which he was sending her, but the bird proved to be himself and she was sure pleased that it was. From off the same train stepped Earnest Mutchelott, looking like a giant which he very nearly is, and without ever awaiting for the not of a friend, made tracks toward Winterstein hill and the home over there where his mother, whom he had not seen for months, was waiting patiently her boy�s return. We could hardly stop him long enough to get a meager amount of information in regard to his return, so anxious was he to reach home. Both boys arrived in the United States on May third and were discharged at Camp Dodge yesterday. Both they and their friends and relatives here are glad they are home once more. One buy one the boys are coming back and soon the Plattsmouth circle of service men will be as complete as it will ever be possible to make it. Those who have paid the price in full by giving up their very lives, will be missed, honored and revered, while those who return will {article cut off}. __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - File online, calculators, forms, and more http://tax.yahoo.com

Plattsmouth Journal, November 4, 1918 A LETTER FROM FRANCE Somewhere in France October 8, 1918 Dear Web: I thought I would drop you a line or so to let you know I am on the top shelf, which I hope you are the same. Well Web, how�s old Plattsmouth? Are they still drafting the young fellows? Has any of the Newmans� been drafted yet? Well, how�s the old hang out place, Arries� pool room. Is it still running? I sure would like to be there to beat you a game of pool. Say Web, have you ever heard of Emil Finder? I sure would like to see him but I�ve only run across one of the fellows I knew and that was in Presidio, Johnny Wickman, if you know him. Well, give the boys my regards. I am in a town that was bombarded once and is shot to pieces. We�re not very far from the front line trenches. I can see the big guns firing at the aeroplanes, what they call air craft. It gets up so far and busts. Its fun to see airplanes fighting in the air. All I could see was smoke. It�s getting kind a cool here in the evening but isn�t as bad as I expected it to be. Well, Web, will close, hoping to hear from you soon. Your friend, BOB KUSHINSKY Address: Park Battery C.A.A.P. 1 S.S. Army, Am. E.F., France, via New York, A.P.O. 728. __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - File online, calculators, forms, and more http://tax.yahoo.com

Plattsmouth Journal, Thursday, June 28, 1917 LETTER FROM ONE OF OUR NAVY BOYS Joseph Smetana [sic], one of our patriotic young men of this city, who enlisted in the United States navy at the break of the war with Germany, and who is now stationed at the Great Lakes, Illinois, training stations, writes to the Journal a very interesting letter describing the routine of training to which the young sailors of the nation are put before being sent out to service. In part, he says: �Some of the boys in Plattsmouth that would like to join the navy would probably like to know what we have to do from 5 o�clock in the morning until 9 at night, so I will write a few lines to tell of some of the work. On rainy days we have very little to do at this station. While here I have met only one boy from home, that being young Hartman, but would be glad to see them all. �Camp Paul Jones is the name of our camp and it is about one mile from the main training station. There are about thirty streets here and some 8,000 in training for the service. They are a fine bunch and come from all sections of the country and are assigned to different companies. We arise at 5 o�clock a.m., swab and sweep the deck, as they call it; roll the sides of our tents up; lift up the floor to dry out; go take a bath and come back to go to mess or breakfast for Uncle Sam feeds his old jackies well. When we come back to breakfast the bugle sounds sick call, and those who are ailing can go to the doctor. We then shine our shoes and brush our clothes, for we have to be clean as a whistle; we then go to muster and after muster to drill for about two and a half hours. After we drill we come back, sit down awhile and in about two hours go to doctor�s inspection. From there we march to dinner and we sure don�t forget to fill up. Today we had steak, spuds, gravy, cooked turnips, beans, watermelon, bread and peach jam and coffee. That isn�t a bad dinner, is it? After dinner we drill for awhile, come back, wash our clothes or do what we please. About 5 o�clock we go to mass and afterwards play ball or read or got to the Y.M.C.A., which they have here. Sometimes in the afternoon we watch ball games and boxing matches. About 8:30 we have muster and at 9 o�clock, when the big gun is sounded, the lights go out and everybody has to hit the hay, then taps and we dream of home or your girls. You certainly get to like it and the longer we stay the better it gets to be.� Plattsmouth Journal, August 9, 1918 TELLS OF TRIP WITH CONVOY JOSEPH SMITANA [sic], TELLS OF TRIP ACROSS THE OCEAN, GIVING DETAILS OF TRIP. SUBMARINES TACKLE HIS SHIP With the Engine Disabled in War Zone, There is Grave Apprehension of Danger. >From Tuesday�s Daily. The following diary furnished by Joseph Smitana, son of Alois Smitana, of this city tells of his trip, in a letter written to his sister, Blanche Smitana. �On August 9th, we left New York Harbor, with Convoy, on the 10th, 11th, 12th, and 13th, we had fair weather, and everything went fine, nothing out of the ordinary. On the 14th and 15th we had heavy seas, with considerable wind, and the waves rolling. On Monday evening, the 16th, at 8145 we had a skirmish with a submarine, and when General Quarters was sounded the next morning at 1:50, we found we had lost a portion of the starboard propeller, one of the torpedoes missed the buoy only ten feet while a portion of the propeller was carried away on the stern. They boys were at their guns all day Tuesday but the submarine did not show up again. Thursday 19th, we passed one British liner and one tramp steamer. Friday, Aug. 20, a heavy fog set in at about 2:30 in the morning and [illegible] through. A convoy of a [illegible] missing one by about forty feet head on, and warning signals, with whistle and siren, giving a hard right turn. At 5 a.m. sighted an iceburg [sic], about a mile in length. At 11 that night had a breakdown on our port engine, disabling us for six hours in the war zone. In the meantime we received a message by wireless to look out for a submarine, by the destroyer Phillips. About twelve hours later we heard flying off the stern. The following morning the Phillips came up with us and convoyed a day, then left us for the yards. We did not get to have a face wash for nearly a week, then we received ten buckets of water for a division. In this we washed and then washed our clothes. Saturday 21st, we were with the Phillips in the morning, in the afternoon a storm came up and we bailed water out of the J.O. Quarter for an hour. Sunday 22, we had no water to wash our faces or our clothes. The following day Monday 23rd, we received 10 buckets of water in the afternoon with four men washing in one bucket. On Tuesday 24th, we met two Argentine battle ships, and about 11:00 a.m. a destroyer headed our way and fell in with us, and took us near the beach waters, where we picked up a pilot, then we headed up the Delaware and made for the Philadelphia Navy Yards about four o�clock in the afternoon. Then it was sure war work, first mooring the ship to the dock, and the starboard watch getting ready for Liberty.� This is the experience of a trip, to mid ocean and return, as the convoys do not go across. Joseph Smitana is on the U.S.S. South Carolina, and is captain of the gun crew. __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - File online, calculators, forms, and more http://tax.yahoo.com

Plattsmouth Journal, Monday, March 18, 1918 ANOTHER LETTER FROM FRANCE >From Thursday�s Daily. Somewhere in France. February 10, 1918 Dear Mamma and All, Today is Sunday and a long lonesome day, so will try and write some letters. I received your letter of December 31, some two weeks ago, and the one of Dec. 24, that you and Papa both wrote, yesterday, so you see how irregular our mail comes. I was sure glad to get them. We all like to get mail from home. If you could see us when the bugle blows mail call you would think so. You are always kicking about me not writing much and you never write more than three pages. I owe every one a letter now, so will try and answer them today. I got a letter from Thor. He was back in Chicago on a visit, got one from Omar and received the $5.00 for the camera. American money sure looks good and every one in the company had to have a look at it. French paper money looks like some of our soap wrappers. The French sure are fine people and will do anything they can for us. Any of them will do our washing for a couple of franks which amounts to 40 cents in our money. I am learning to talk a little of their language, am visiting with them this morning and am writing on a real table by a fire place. Everything is old fashion over here and reminds me of stories I have read of olden times. The buildings are all made of stone and they say they are from eight to ten hundred years old. We have only been in this camp one week. We hiked from the other place to here in two days, it was about 35 miles. My feet stood the trip fine. The first camp were were in I was on military police duty for 18 days, was on at Christmas time. The cooks sure fixed us up a fine dinner. We had fig pie and turkey, mashed potatoes, gravy and coffee. We all had a good time, but once in a while we would think about where we was last year and about the dinner that mother could make, was glad to hear that you and papa belonged to the Red Cross. Yes, I was remembered by them. I got a sweater, a pair of wool socks and a pair of gloves. Yesterday afternoon I took out $10,000.00 of war risk insurance. If I get totally disabled, I will draw $57.50 a month as long as I live and if I get picked off you will draw $57.50 a month for 20 years. It is a pretty good thing and after the war I can drop it or keep it up just as I please. I could have my policy kept at Washington D.C. or sent to you so I ordered it to be sent to you but it will be quite a while before you get it, maybe a month. The allotment I made to you was not made out right so it did not go, so I will make out another. An allotment is having so much of our pay sent home. I don�t need all of mine over here, so I will have some of it sent to you to take care of for me, so when I get back I will have enough to buy a new suit anyway. I got a letter from Wayne the other day. He seemed to be pretty well worked up, he said for me to hold out as long as I could and wait till company C got over here with their six-inch guns. He said that they would blow them all to ----. Well this is all the news I can think of for this time. I think I will quit writing letters and mail cards from now on and if you don�t hear from me as often as you think you ought, don�t worry and don�t think that I have forgotten you. With love from, RALPH ALLEN. O.K. F.D. Logan [censor] 1st Lieut. 168th Inf. Plattsmouth Journal, Monday, April 29, 1918 BOYS FROM HERE HAVE BEEN IN BATTLE OVER THERE LETTER FROM RALPH ALLEN WRITTEN APRIL 3 TELLS OF EXPERIENCES. Eight Plattsmouth Boys are Seeing Active Service in the World�s Greatest of Battles. >From Friday�s Daily. A letter received yesterday, written on April 3rd, from just behind the lines in France, tells of how the boys from here are faring. The letter was from Ralph Allen, and tells of their having been at the front and having served their stated time in the trenches, being at the time of writing in the resting camps behind the lines while others took their places in the trenches. At the time of writing but minor engagements had been had in this sector, but since then and within the past week it has been one of the places picked out by German generals to share the heavy brunt of the terrific onslaught of the German troops and without doubt the boys have had a real taste of what it all means ere now. In the letter, Ralph states that the boys from here are all well and feeling fine. His own birthday occurred on March 22, and he said he would tell his mother when he returned how he spent the day. He also said he had received a present on that occasion but it was not like the cake which had been given him a year ago. It is a matter of great satisfaction to the many friends and relatives of the boys from here, to know that they were all feeling well and enjoying life in France at such a late date as April 3 and it is probable they all continued in that state as no word has been received to the contrary. They boys from here who are serving with Iowa companies at the front are Ralph ALLEN, Ralph LAIR, Hugh KEARNES, Albert KEARNES, Eddie RIPPLE, Wm. HOFFMAN, Earl MURRAY and Alfred WILSON. Plattsmouth Journal, Monday, June 17, 1918 LETTER FROM RALPH ALLEN IN FRANCE WRITES TO MOTHER HERE UNDER DATE OF MAY 23RD. � IN FRONT LINES. ALL PLATTSMOUTH BOYS WELL And Glad to Be Able to Do Their Bit Toward Licking Army of the Kaiser. >From Friday�s Daily. France, May 21, 1918 Dear Mother, Tuesday morning, will drop you a line. I got back from the front a few days ago, got a few good nights sleep, took a bath and am boiling up now to get rid of some coolies, have been up four times now and am feeling fine. We are not camped in a timber and its sure a beautiful place. You have to hand it to France for being a beautiful country. Its enough to make a fellow home sick for old Nebraska. Your last letter received while I was in the front line trench. The hash carriers brought it out to me one evening about 6 o�clock. It sure is great to get a letter from home at that time. That shows what Uncle Sammjy does for us over here. I got a letter from aunt Mittee but she never said much, only that they had moved to town and that Harry and Ern were away working on the railroad. I suppose you have heard about our service stripes. We get a service stripe for every six months service on foreigh soil and in the [illegible] half an inch wide and in a V shape, to be worn of the left arm at the cuff point down, and the wounded stripes are to be worn on the right. When they are a strait gold stripe, we will get our service stripe the last of this month. Some of the boys have them now, that beat us over. After dinner. Will finish this letter up and get it off. It has to be censored by one of our officers, but the ones you send are never censored. Well its about time you are receiving my allotment. It started the first of February. Will soon be four months. I also took out $10,000.00 insurance. The policy will be sent to you. Did you ever hear from Milo? I wonder if he has come over here yet. The last time I heard from Wayne he was expecting to come over soon. Well I will close for this time. If anyone wants to know how the other Plattsmouth boys are, tell them they are all well and feeling fine. Answer soon, as ever, RALPH H. ALLEN Here is a sample of some of my shooting, 15 shots at 50 yards with my Springield rifle. Do you think they would count? Plattsmouth Journal, Monday, November 4, 1918 CORPORAL WAYNE ALLEN IS NOW IN ENGLAND. >From Saturday�s Daily. Corporal Wayne Allen, who has been at Camp Cody and later at Ft. Sill, Oklahoma, and still later at Camp Dix, N.J., where for the past year he has been engaged mnost of the time teaching drilling instructions to troops, has arrived at England where he is with the other troops and is safer for the fray. He is also eager to get over [illegible] and meet with his brother Ralph Allen who has been there and is in the thickest of the fray for many months. Plattsmouth Journal, December 23, 1918 [ Ralph Allen�s letter appeared with Henry Lamphaer�s letter on this date] Ralph Allen Writes �Dad�s� Letter November 24th Dear Dad, Mother and All: Sunday evening, still at the hospital, but feel fine. Well they tell us not to write where we have been and the battles we were in, but I do not think the red Cross has paper enough for all that. The last front I was on was Verdun and the Argone [sic], and where some of the hardest fighting took place of any place in the war. Before the Armistice was signed we had them out in the open and running, and many down on their knees begging for mercy, others had thrown their guns and helmets away and were running like jack rabbits. The hardest battle we were in was at Chateau Thierry, you know all about that so I do not need tell you, only to recall what Sherman said, �War was Hell,� but let me tell you he did not know anything about war then, it has changed so. We had just taken a town on the Toul [sic] sector, about the size of Plattsmouth when the civilians came out of their cellars, and crawled out from under their house, the women coming and kissing our hands and crying for joy, while the old gray headed men would hobble around and hollow for Americans. If you did not watch them they would cut buttons off your clothes for souvenirs. The Red Cross has set today for �Dad�s Xmas Letters.� I am sending you a map of the Mihial drive, the dotted lines where we started, and the heavy link where we stopped, and I want to say, we did not stop because we could not go any farther, but because we had orders not to go farther then. I believe we could have taken them to Mets. the way we had them going. We were three days making the drive, we had told around we were going to make the drive on the 15th but pulled it off on the 18th, and this surprised the helmies. We hiked about 5 miles the night before in the rain, and went into the trenches at about midnight at Breassette [sic] ; we had some good artillery behind us, the 151 Minnesota light, the 150 Indiana heavy, some French Naval guns 16 and 18 inches, all of them opened up at one o�clock, and kept up the bombardment until five in the morning, when they lifted the barrage and �Over the Top� we went. The Germans had held the trenches since the beginning of the war, and that was to be an active front. There was a large hill two miles from the line of the German side. It was called Mt. Sank, the French tried to take the hill in 1915; they took the hill and held it twenty minutes and lost 35,000, and then fell back. That did not sound right to us, but the French told it themselves for an absolute fact. We and the 167 infantry, the Alabama boys took the hill and had the �Botche� going down the other side by ten o�clock. When we got over the hill we believed what the French had said, for we found piles of bones, French helmets and rifles scattered everywhere. Then, the evening of the 14th of September, we took the little town of Bine, advanced about a mile, then dug in for the night. This is where we stopped, and held the line. About 12 o�clock that night the cooks seat us up a feed, boiled beef, potatoes, and bread and coffee, and say, you ought to have seen us eat. We held that line for about seven or eight days and were relieved by the 83 brigade. Went back then, and got some new clothes, a bath and a pay day, and had a few days to ourselves and then went to the Verdun front,, where we stayed until the finish. Well I suppose you are tired of reading war news by now. I know I am tired of writing it and I will ring off. I wrote Wayne a letter today. I was talking to a fellow out of the 100th engineers that was down at Deming, N. Mex., he told me that 137th artillery had just come over, so I addressed it over here. If I knew just where they were I would try and get a pass and go see them. Well I will close now with the same address, wishing you all a Merry Xmas and a Happy New Year. Your son, RALPH H. ALLEN __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - File online, calculators, forms, and more http://tax.yahoo.com

Plattsmouth Journal, Monday, December 17, 1917 87 YEARS OLD, YET HALE AND HEARTY IS THIS GOOD LADY MRS. MARIA GAPEN CELEBRATES HER 87TH BIRTHDAY WITH MANY MEMBER OF HER FAMILY. >From Friday�s Daily. Yesterday were gathered a large number of the family of Mrs. Maria Gapen, at the home where she has lived for much more than a half century, to celebrate the passing of another milestone, in the journey of life by this good lady. Miss Maria Eikenberry was born December 13th, 1830, in Union County, Ind., just a few miles from the Ohio state line, and when about six years of age removed to near Burlington, Iowa, where she lived until 1856 when she with her family removed to Plattsmouth and settled near this city. The following year she was united in marriage with Joshua Gapen, it being Jan. 8, 1857. They settled on the home where she lives at this time and during her life in Nebraska has maintained this as her home. Here the large family which now number with their children and childrens� children a large number were raised. The children of this good woman are Samuel Gapen now living at Manderson, Wyo. The eldest son and who is farming there, Mrs. Martha Wiles, living northwest of Mynard, where she has lived for nearly forty years, and mother of four sons, all excellent young men. Elbert the oldest, Ralph, Glenne and Myron, all making their home near dinner which was partaken of by those in attendance and wishing Grandmother Gapen much joy in passing her 87th milestone, and that she may enjoy many more. __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - File online, calculators, forms, and more http://tax.yahoo.com

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Barker Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/AQB.2ACI/46.1.1 Message Board Post: I have a complete list of Samuel Barker's 17 children and their dates of birth...If you would like to contact me at Betsya@Ellipse.net I would be happy to help.

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This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Barker Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/AQB.2ACI/46.2 Message Board Post: Crystal...I am a great-great-great-granddaughter of Samuel Barker. (of Eight Mile Grove) He is my grandmother's great-grandfather. My grandmother, Leota Moffett, is the grandaughter of Sarah Rosella Barker (married Anthony Howard) and has a complete list of all 17 children, including dates of birth, in her family bible. If you are still interested in this info I would be happy to get it from her and send you that info. I also have some sweet stories that my grandmother has told me of life in the grove. If you really want to get into the family history, I know a woman whose home has become a museum of the Barker family. Her name is Mary Easteridge in Murray NE. This number is quite old but I hope it is still current. (402) 235-2688. She has much info and will be able to answer many questions. I hope this is helpful. Nicole Shulde

Plattsmouth Journal, Thursday, June 28, 1917 MISS MILDRED ALLEN CELEBRATES HER SIXTH BIRTHDAY >From Wednesday�s daily. Monday afternoon the little friends of Mildred Allen gathered at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. M.B. Allen in South Park, to assist her in celebrating her sixth birthday anniversary. The children spent the afternoon in various games and other amusements, which afforded them much pleasure. There were also entertained with several selections of the victrola, which they enjoyed very much. At a suitable time dainty refreshments, consisting of ice cream and cake, were served. Little Miss Mildred was made the recipient of many handsome and useful gifts, which will be constant reminders of her sixth birthday. It was a late hour when, after wishing Mildred many more happy birthdays, the little ones wended their way homeward. Those in attendance were: Mildred MURRAY, Katherine WYNN, Lorena WYNN, Mable SHELDON, Edna STEVENSON, Edna RUMMERFIELD, Mildred ELLIOTT, Gladys PRICE, Daisy and John STEUCKLIN, Kenneth POISAL, John HALE, Donald and Glen ALLEN, Mildred ALLEN and her teacher, Miss Anna RYS, and sister, Josephine RYS. __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - File online, calculators, forms, and more http://tax.yahoo.com

Plattsmouth Journal, Thursday, July 19, 1917 DEATH OF ANOTHER PIONEER CITIZEN Francis Marion Kouble [sic], Commonly Known as �Uncle Frank,� Passed Away at Early Hour This Morning. Francis Marion Kauble [sic] was born January 31, 1838, in Shelby county, Indiana. Died July 19, 1917, at Plattsmouth, Neb. Death has claimed another of the men who for more than half a century has helped make history for Cass county and the sate of Nebraska. Francis Marion Kauble first saw light in Shelby county, Indiana, but when a small boy with his parents went to Savannah, Mo., where he lived for some time, and in the early fifties came to southwestern Iowa, locating at Sidney, where he lived until in 1857, when he came to Rock Bluffs, then a very new town, and since then has made Cass county and Nebraska his home. In Rock Bluffs, on July 27, 1865, just after the close of the civil war, Mr. Kauble was united in marriage to Miss Marietta Bradford, from which union there were four children born, Mamie, who died when but an infant; Henry B. Kauble, now residing in Omaha; Frank B. living here with his parents, having been engaged with the mercantile firm of A.W. White for some years, and Lillian Caldwell, of Bancroft, Neb. Mr. Kauble, after coming to Nebraska purchased a small farm near Rock Bluffs, living on it for some time, when he came to Plattsmouth, and after making this city his home for a short time returned to the farm, but later sold it, making Plattsmouth his permanent home, and had lived here over thirty years. During the past few years Mr. Kauble has been in the employ of A.W. White. Some three months or more since Mr. Kauble was taken ill, and for a while fought against the malady which finally claimed his life. Mr. Kauble, or �Uncle Frank,� as he was known, had been confined to his bed for the past eight weeks, and during the past two weeks has been so low that he did not know any one except at intervals. The funeral will occur from the home on Friday afternoon at [illegible] and will be conducted by the Rev. H.G. McCluskey of the First Presbyterian church, of which the deceased was a member. The interment will be at the Young cemetery south of the city near Murray. __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - File online, calculators, forms, and more http://tax.yahoo.com

Plattsmouth Journal, February 24, 1919 [from] Boullionville, France, Dec. 11. Dear Sister Edythe: Received your and mother�s letter the other day and as it is raining and no place to go will try and drop you a few lines. We are now ready to take a vacation. We have started twice and they canceled it, so we are still living in hopes of going. There are 28 of us out of our company scheduled to go at one time. Well, Sis, I sure would have liked to been in the state and saw the excitement, but in another way would not take anything in the world for the experience that I have had and the things I have seen. But so far as we boys celebrating when the armistice was signed, why there was nothing to it. The only difference was in the noise from the guns, as everything was quiet and the boys could walk up and down the road without keeping close to cover. But I suppose that away from the front they had a big time. But as you know when a bunch of men lay in the trenches all the way from thirty to sixty days it does not make much difference. We had been in the trenches 37 days and when the armistice was signed we were in the woods near Fay-an-Hay. But we were all around between Fay-an-Hay, Pon-a-Mousson and also the St. Marie farm. We are now in billet that the Germans built along the side of a hill so were are living like humans instead of living in dugouts 45 feet under the ground. But I think I heard as many G.I. cans or big six shells as any of the rest. We headed the third army into Metz. Well, Sis, I suppose that it will be some time before I will get to come back again, as we have been drawn in the army that will proceed to German, so I presume that then next letter you receive from me after I return from my furlough will be mailed inside of German soil. Well, will close, as they are calling us out again to proceed on our furlough. With love, from your brother. ERNEST F. WALLENGREN. __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - File online, calculators, forms, and more http://tax.yahoo.com

Plattsmouth Journal, December 16, 1918 WRITES PARENTS FROM WEST. Chester B. Briggs Writes His Folks, Regarding Doings At Naval Station. >From Friday�s Daily A few days since M.S. Briggs and wife received a very interesting letter from their son who is in the Signal School of Goat Island, in San Francisco Bay, where he is just completing his course in the signal school, in Wig Wag and Blinker Telegraph. He writes as follows: [from] U.S.N.T. Station S.S. San Francisco, Cal., Dec. 7th Dear Folks, I have not written for so long. I suppose it will be quite a shock to receive this letter. I am getting along all right. I am stationed at the signal tower and if my luck holds out I will probably be drafted to Norfolk, Hampton Roads, or Asiatic waters, in about three weeks. Mearle RAINEY will probably be up at the tower in a couple of weeks. He will be very likely discharged as he has not finished the high school. As things look now I will not get out, and moreover, I am not so awful anxious to do so. Any one who desires a furlough, can get it at Christmas time, providing they have enough money to pay their fare home and return to the station, which is one cent per mile and Pullman fare. It costs a little over fifty dollars. Some of the boys are thinking of coming home for Christmas. I do not know how many will come as yet. All the boys here getting along fine. The furlough begins on December 18th and continues ten days and has four days traveling time besides. It is assured that a number of us will rate as first class seamen on the first of the month, nothing sure who all will get it, though. I was out at the Golden Gate Park last Sunday, and I will say that I never saw a nicer place. Everything was pretty, from the museums to the Japanese Gargons. I am out at the very top of Goat Island hill, now and on a clear day. I can see most of the bay, the Golden Gate, San Francisco, Oakland, Berkley, Alameda, and a half dozen smaller places spread around the bay. We have to keep watch, day and night, and report all ships coming into bay or leaving those anchoring, and weighin anchor, in fact we keep regular shop watch. I am writing this from the YMCA at �D� Camp. I go on watch at 8 bells and off at 12 bells, or from 8 o�clock until 12 o�clock, or in seagoing terms the First Watch. I get Liberty tomorrow, and my tent mate is going to take me out to see some of his friends and stay for dinner. Well, as I have to write some more letters I will close. Hope mother is better by this time. BURDETTE. __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - File online, calculators, forms, and more http://tax.yahoo.com

Plattsmouth Journal, December 16, 1918 RETURNED YESTERDAY FROM HOSPITAL >From Friday�s Daily. Yesterday afternoon Fred Kissling and wife returned from Kirksville, Mo., where Mrs. Kissling has been for several weeks, and where she went for treatment at the hospital at that place, and where she underwent an operation. Her health has been improved greatly by her treatment at the hospital, and returns home in much better health. Mr. Kissling has just been over to Kirksville to return with his wife. __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - File online, calculators, forms, and more http://tax.yahoo.com

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This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Polin/Stokes Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/AQB.2ACI/66.1 Message Board Post: I don't know if this helps but I'm looking for decendents also of my grandpa who was Jay Stokes (Jay Polin) adopted by James C Stokes & Nancy A Ballard in 1902. His natural parents were Rebecca Ballard & John R. Polin of Avoca, Iowa. Last known address of his brother Edgar was in Lincoln, NE per letter he wrote in 1942. Jay (my grandpa) lived in Blair NE, had 9 sons & daughters. One of which was my dad Jay Jr. and he had 9 sons & daughters. Let me know if you want to know more. I would like to know more about the Polin side.

For anyone interested in the Ambrose BICKERT family of Cass county, the surname has been transcribed as "BICKARD" in the recently released 1880 Census online at familysearch.org. Ambrose BICKARD, Self, married, age 45, born GER, Farming. Father born GER, mother born GER [Ambrose BICKERT, son of George J. BICKERT and Elizabeth FAUST b. 20 Nov 1835, Hessen, Germany, d. 20 Jun 1915, Exeter, Fillmore, NE; buried Catholic cemetery, Cass Co. m. 22 Jul 1860, Marietta, Washington, Ohio] Magdalene BICKARD, Wife, married, age 44, born GER, Keeping House. Father born GER, mother born GER [nee Magdalena SCHEUTELHURD d/o Adam SCHEUTELHURD and Elizabeth EISNACH b. 28 May 1836, Hessen, Germany d. 19 Sep 1908, Elmwood, Cass, NE; buried Catholic cemetery, Cass co. ] Henry BICKARD, Son, single, age 16, born Ohio [Henry BICKERT, farmed in Colorado] John BICKARD, Son, single, age 14, born Nebraska [John BICKERT, farmed in Colorado] George BICKARD, Son, single, age 12, born Nebraska [George BICKERT b. 1867 d 20 Nov 1949, Elmwood, Cass, Nebraska] Lizzie BICKARD, Dau, single, age 10, born Nebraska [Elizabeth BICKERT d. 1907] Mary BICKARD, Dau, single, age 8, born Nebraska [Mary Ann BICKERT b. 11 Aug 1871 d. 24 Mar 1964, Lincoln, Lancaster, NE; buried Ashland Cemetery - Saunders County, Nebraska m. 28 May 1895, Greenwood, Cass, NE, Carl Martin STANDER] Terressa BICKARD, Dau, single, age 7, born Nebraska [Theresa BICKERT b. 15 Apr 1873 d. 20 Apr 1965, York, York, NE] William BICKARD, Son, single, age 5, born Nebraska [William Ambrose BICKERT b. 29 Sep 1874, Elmwood, Cass, NE d. 9 Jul 1953, Exeter, Fillmore, NE mabt. 1899, Mary DALTON, Palmyra, Otoe, NE] Robert BICKARD, Son, single, age 2, born Nebraska [Robert L. BICKERT b. 5 Jun 1878 d. 26 Jun 1935 1896 Graduate, Elmwood High School: "Robert Bickert, Priest"] Dave Tyson, Colorado John BICKARD

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/140.1 Message Board Post: Cinda, go to the Cass County Historical Society website at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~necass/histsoc.htm There you will see all the resources they have available for lookups. They will do the research for a fee, or hopefully you will find someone locally in Cass County who can do it for you for free. The Historical Museum in Plattsmouth is a wonderful source, with very helpful staff. There is an 1886 and an 1890 Plattsmouth City Directory you might want to have checked for your family. Good luck in your search.

If it is online, this site would have it: http://www.rootsweb.com/~necass/dataint.htm Paul of San Diego