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/SRB.2ACE/12173 Message Board Post: Lorenzo DEMOTT son of John and Susan SKINNER DEMOTT who are buried in Red Bird Cemetery Chautauqua Co NY had 2 ch, NORMAN and Orry who d in 1850 ae 3; Lorenzo m to Almina or Elmina wh o d in 1884 is buried in Red Bird Cemetery Lorenzo then went to Nebraska with his son Norman DEMOTT and is there in 1900 census ae 81 Lorenzo DeMott homesteaded the land where the grave of Rebecca WINTERS stands. He included a provision that the grave would not be disturbed when he sold the Burlington Railroad Co. a right of way through his land, but the 1899 survey would have taken the line directly over the grave. DeMott spent a great amount of time legally fighting the railroad which was required to survey again. read the story of a "Real Daughter " http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Plains/8019/nerw.html Rebecca Winter's Grave site (rural Scottsbluff) - Mile 591 R 2 1/2 Rebecca Winters, member of a Mormon handcart company, died enroute to Salt Lake City. She was buried in Scottsbluff on 15 August, 1852. Her grave is marked by a wagon wheel. Winters' grave was discovered in 1887 on the homestead of the Norman DeMott family, not far from the North Platte River. When DeMott sold the right-of-way across his land to the Burlington Railway Company, he stipulated in the sale that the lines through his property should not run over or disturb the grave. Addison T. Smith, Congressman from Idaho, continues the story in 1925. "As the Burlington Northern was building its line along the Platte, a crew of engineers stumbled upon a lonely little grave in the sagebrush and across it was a wagon tire, rusted and crusted with time, and on it rudely carved was these words: 'Rebecca Winters, age 50 years' 'Boys, said the leader, we'll turn aside Here, close by the trail, her grave shall stay For she came first in this desert wide Rebecca Wright holds right of way.' And so the line of a great railroad was turned to the west that she might lie in peace in the little grave she had occupied these many years, for she was one who came with the Morman migration in 1847." However, her grave was relocated in 1996 1/4 mile (400 m) east near the state historical marker, between Highway 26 and the railroad, 3 miles (4.9 km) east of Scottsbluff. NORMAN c 1842 m to FLORENCE who also had CLIFTON in 1867 Ellery d after 1910 Scotts Bluff NE m FEODORA nee PICARD Birth Date:16 Nov 1873 Birthplace:NEBRASKA Death Date:4 Feb 1962 Death Place:MADERA CA ch Harold DEMOTT, HAROLD CLIFTON Birth Date:16 Jul 1896 Birthplace:NEBRASKA Death Date:23 Apr 1951 Death Place:LOS ANGELES Mother's Maiden Name:PICARD and Wilma DEMOTT Clifton was named Street commissioner in 1919 Scotts Bluff VICTOR in 1872 and nothing further found PARKS in 1877 Parks Earl Demott b Dec 26 1877 in Ellery wife is Ida Registered for the WWI draft in Scotts Bluff Nebraska, ae 41 Son of Norman, Son of Lorenzo Son of John Demott of Ellery wife of Parks is Ida Margaret Andrews Birth: 5 NOV 1880 in Washington, Adams Co., IA Death: JAN 1977 in Gering, NE Children Florence Ida DeMott b: 25 OCT 1900 in Scottsbluff, NE Henrietta Alice DeMott b: 27 DEC 1901 Infant DeMott b: 6 JUN 1911 in twin Infant DeMott b: 6 JUN 1911 in twin Parks d after 1930 in Nebraska DANIEL Demott 1800-1851 son of John and Susan m Celia in 1850 ch were TRUMAN 23 and BYRON 4 Celia probably a 2nd wife; in 1870 Truman DEMOTT ae 43 INSANE and Unmarried and mother Celia DEMOTT ae 60 lived in Ohio > Ashtabula > Kingsville he may have been retarded, he is a laborer too