Union Ledger;
excerpts from a 1905 issue (exact date unknown)

Not Here Today The approach of the dates of the old settlers' re-union each year reminds us that the pioneers are being called away, and at every reunion we miss familiar faces. The past few years the death record includes a number of the old settlers as well as some of middle age, and from the old settlers' register and The Ledger files we find the following record of deaths of people who had resided in or near this village, also date of death:
Joshua Lynn	Feb. 29, 1896
John Ervin	Mar 13, 1896
Fleming W. Robb Sr.	Apr 10, 1896
Silas Sherwood	Aug 27, 1896
Mrs. Jane McCarroll	Aug 29, 1896
Mrs. Mareta Du Bois	Mar 25, 1897
Abram Hathaway	April 9,1897
Milton Wolfe	Dec 20, 1897
Mrs Laticia Engell	Mar 4, 1898
John O' Donnell	July 4, 1898
Mrs Catherine Hargus	Jul 29, 1898
Mrs Maria Young	Sept 3, 1898
Mrs Nancy Burris	Sept 22, 1898
David Hickman	Sept 25, 1898
Isaac Dye Sr.	Oct 6, 1898
Mrs Sarah J Davis	Nov 2, 1898
Mrs Emily Garrison	Dec 13, 1898
Evander W Barnum	Dec 26, 1898
Simon Young	Jan 14, 1899
Mrs Ravina Ervin	Mar 8, 1899
Claiborne F Davis	Mar 27, 1899
Aquilla D. Johnson	May 4, 1899
Wm J Young	Oct 12, 1899
Jacob Surface	Dec 12, 1899
William A Pell	Jan 1, 1900
Mrs Eva Dysart	Feb 26, 1900
John Everett Sr	Mar 21, 1900
Mrs May McClaflin	April 15, 1900
Harrison McClaflin	Sept 14, 1900
Arthur A Gifford	Sept 16, 1900
Ezekiel P Davis	Oct 2, 1900
Robt O Hoback	Oct 26, 1900
Albert Eaton	Oct 30, 1900
John Smith	Nov 8, 1900
Barnett L Reynolds	Nov 19, 1900
Mrs Sarah Hickman	Jan 23, 1901
Geo W Pell	Jan 27, 1901
Eleazer Bales	april 3, 1901
Mrs Sarah A Johnson	April 9, 1901
Soloman L Comer	June 281901
John F Buck	Sept 1, 1901
Dr Robt B Wallace	Sept 16, 1901
Eugene Pickett	Jan 15, 1902
Mrs Sarah McQuin	Mar 24, 1902
Thomas Lindsey	Mar 26, 1902
Mrs mary Chilcott	July 23, 1902
Arthur Shoemaker	Oct 16, 1902
Hiram DuBois	Dec 15, 1902
John Stine	Jan 19, 1903
James Chase Sr	Mar 28, 1903
Mrs Ann Hathaway	June 5, 1903
Nicholas Trook	July 7, 1903
Mrs Theodora Taylor	Nov 6, 1903
Henry F Taylor	Dec 4, 1903
Mrs Lottie Barkhurst	Feb 10, 1904
Mrs Annie Austin	Mar 5, 1904
Mrs Sobrina Rose	May 22, 1904
Glenn Douge	June 18, 1904
Mrs Emma J mills	Aug 29, 1904
Franz Bauer	Sept 18, 1904
John Eaton Sr	Nov 2, 1904
Mrs Jane Folden	Nov 25, 1904
Mrs Arella Bramblet	Dec 14, 1904
J I Simmons	Jan 26, 1905
Henry Wolfe Sr	Mar 10, 1905
Walker Jones	Mar 27, 1905
Henry J Davis	May 9, 1905
Nathaniel Harless	April 17, 1905
Mrs Ellen Trook	May 11, 1905
Nicholas Young	July 13, 1905
Mrs Catherine Wilson	Aug 6, 1905
Perhaps a few names may have been omitted in making the above list, and for the purpose of having ing [sic] it accurate and complete it will be published again next week with such additions as may be reported.

 

Union Ledger, August 26, 1910

          The annual business meeting of the Old Settlers Association was held Monday evening, at which time much enthusiasm was on tap and everything indicated that this year we are to have a splendid celebation on Friday and Saturday, August 19 and 20. W.B. Banning was chairman of the meeting and C.L. Graves was secretary. There was some difficulty in finding a gentleman who was willing to accept the position of president of the association this year, as it is well known that that officer has a heavy load to carry, but after several had pledged their best efforts to assist in the work the following officers were elected:

• President - W.R. Cross
• Vice Presidents - John B. Roddy and Al E. Stites
• Secretary - Charles L. Graves
• Treasurer - L.R. Upton

          All the above officers are enthusiastic and propose to take hold of the business with a view of making this the best re-union ever held here, and if they succeed in doing this they will be "going some" from start to finish. It is desired that every citizen now get busy and "boost" right along to help in the work as well as encourage the officers. These re-unions have done more than anything else to make a good name for our village, and every business man profits by the advertisement it gives it, and we should all unite forces to make this a record-breaker in the way of a celebration. Everybody get busy and be a "booster."
[Submitted by Becky Applegate, July 2001]

 

Tell of Early Days

        Mrs. Minnie Anderson, who is a native born Cass county pioneer, having been born at Plattsmouth on October 16, 1856, reached her 80th birthday last October, and is able to recount many incidents of early Cass county history, having resided in the county throughout the years of her life. Her parents were Rev. and Mrs. A. L. Folden, the father being an early day circuit riding minister, who made the rounds of his parishioners on horseback, preaching in homes and pioneer schoolhouses. Mrs. Anderson well recalls the days when Indians were plentiful about Plattsmouth and over-land trains were being outfitted there to make the trip to California, where gold had been discovered.
        She is happily located in a small apartment in the east part of town, where she does her own housekeeping. She has made brief visits outside the county and lived for a short time in California, but to her, Cass county is and always has been home. She likes it here better than anywhere else she has ever been and is happy and contented among the old time friends and acquaintances of this vicinity.

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