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