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While obits appear on the Merrick County website - we've decided it will be safer to reproduce them here as well. Eventually other volunteers will be taking over Merrick and Nance County sites of NEGenWeb Project. It has been our experience that files get lost when a website changes coordinators.
Central City Democrat- 15 Dec 1904
Delbert Evans
TORN TO FRAGMENTS
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First Authentic Account of the Horrible Death Last Week of Delbert Evans.
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Blast in Stone Quarry Explodes Prematurely, Mangling Him Beyond Recognition.
---------------As noted, in last week's issue, Mr. Samuel Evans, of this city, was called to Montana by a brief telegram informing him of the death of his son Delbert. The meager details contained in the telegram were all the information obtainable here up to Tuesday, when full particulars reacher relatives in this city.
The deceased was foreman in a rock quarry at Whitehall, Mont., about thirty-five miles east of Butte, on the Burlington. On December 4, while Evans and another man were placing a blast of dynamite and tamping it in place, it was prematurely exploded. The explosion literally tore Mr. Evans into fragments. The other man was lifted bodily to the height of about forty feet, and landed upon a shelf of rock, escaping with comparatively little injury. Such fragments of the body as could be found were gathered up and the funeral was held Thursday, the father arriving there Wednesday.
Delbert Evans was about thirty-five years of age, and had been in the West some ten years. He formerly lived near Clarks with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Evans, now of this city, and was not generally known in this immediate vicinity. His brother Edward, who has been teaching in Montana for the past three years, is a son-in-law of Jas. Stephen. Edward was well known here, having graduated from the academic course of the college. The message conveying the news of the accident came from him. The deceased was married in Montana, and leaves a wife and one child. The quarry in which he met his death belonged to his father-in-law.
Four former Merrick County boys, Thomas Hays, Charles Edward, Delbert Evans and Harry Strickler, have met with violent deaths in the West within the last four months, and a feeling of dread hovers over every family with some loved one out there.
Note: Our thanks to Nancy who spotted this while doing research and sent us word by email just as we were planning a trip to NE.
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From "Clarks Enterprise"? Death Notice
in column titled "Pierce Chapel" - Dec 1914
Lillie (Evans) Miller"The Clarks News, page 1 col 4" written on the margin with the date of her Mother's obituary penciled in!
Mrs. Lille Miller was laid to rest in Bureau cemetery Sunday morning at 11 o'clock. The deceased was brought up in this neighborhood having lived in the house now occupied by Will Grant. She was laid to rest by the side of her father, Mr. S. Evans.
Stapled to the above, and origin uncertain (may be different page of same newspaper?) -
Mrs. Lillie Evans Miller, a former resident of this vicinity passed away at her home in Iowa, Thursday December 3rd. The remain (sic) were brought here and interred in the Bureau cemetery at Pierce Chapel; Rev. W. Sanders conducting the services.NOTES: Lillie Evans Miller died 3 Dec 1914 at Villisca, Montgomery, Iowa , and was buried 6 Dec 1914. Her husband was Charles Miller and they had divorced. Lillie had gone to Iowa to live with her brother Otis Samuel Evans, died there.
"The Clarks News" was NOT established until 1950, so the margin reference must simply mean it was from a Clarks newspaper, probably the Clarks Enterprise. We were fortunate with this death date - most issues of that newspaper published 1903-1914 were lost.- - - - - - - -
1919 OBITUARY (from Fullerton News-Journal, no date)
Mrs. W. L. Shively
Mrs. W. L. Shively, daughter of Mr and Mrs. Eli Jameson, was born September 16, 1885 near Sargent Nebraska and died at her home near there, April 11, 1919, age 33 years, 6 months and 24 days. Maude Ethel Jameson of Fullerton, Nebraska, was united in marriage to Willis Lafayette, son of Mr. and Mrs. T. A. Shively, of Fullerton, Nebraska, March 20, 1907. To this union were born four children, two girls and two boys, Irene, Nona, Leonard and Baby, who passed away with his mother. Deceased became a member of the M.E. Church in early girlhood, and lived a true Christian life up to the time her Master called her home. She was a loving and devoted wife, mother, daughter and sister and loved by all who knew her.
She leaves to mourn her loss a husband, three children, father, mother, three sisters and five brothers and many relatives and friends. Father, mother and sister Viola of Bellingham, Wash., Mrs Blanche Carter of Julesburg, Colorado, Flora Deal and brother Robert and Charles of Elsie, Nebraska, Fred and Ralph of Thedford, Nebraska and Edward of Sargent, Nebraska. All were present. (poem omitted)
Funeral services were held in Pierce Chapel on Tuesday afternoon, April 15th. Rev. William VanBuren had charge of the service and preached the sermon, and the mortal remaines of Mother and Babe were laid to rest in the cemetery in the presence of relative and many friends.
Obit from Lois Miller Lindholm Dawson.
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Feb 1920 - Obit from Nance County Journal?
Old Citizen Passes Away
Albert Miller, son of Almon and Mary A. Miller, was born in Portville, Cattaraugus County, New York, January 3, 1842, and died in Fullerton, NE February 14, 1920, at the advanced age of 78 years, one month and 11 days. He was the oldest child of a family of ten children, and was the last of the family but one, a sister, Mrs. A. S. Updike of Olean, New York. He grew to manhood at the place of his birth.
In 1861, when in his nineteenth year, he enlisted in the U.S. Army in Company A 85 New York, under General McClellan. He saw much hard service. He fought a number of battles, among them were Fair Oaks and Chicohomany. He was in the grand review at D.C. At the close of the war, he was honorably discharged and returned to his father's home in New York.
He was married near his parental home October 29, 1864, to Miss Lovica Silloway. To this union, sixteen children were born, nine of whom died in infancy. Edna, the youngest daughter, was deceased at the age of 22 years.
In April 1871, he came to Nebraska and homesteaded a farm near Pierce Chapel, 7 miles southeast of Fullerton. He was one of the first settler in Merrick County. Mr. Miller, with his faithful companion, underwent many privations and hardships. To subsist and keep the wolf from the door, he traded with the Indians in and near where Fullerton is now located. He,with the early settlers, lived here during the grasshopper year and through several severe droughts, and like others received food and clothing from the home mission fund for the frontier settlers. Thru it all, he staid and made good.
During the spring of 1889, he moved to Fullerton and for some years was engaged in the implement business, and with the exception of a brief duration, he resided in Fullerton until his death.
The deceased was reared in a Methodist home. Frequently ministers were entertained and lodged in the home of his parents, which experience remained with him through his life. When at the age of twenty-five years, he was converted in New York state and united with the Methodist church, and on coming to Nebraska transferred his membership to Pierce Chapel and later to Fullerton where he remained an active member until the day of his death.
Brother Miller was a sturdy and loyal citizen and of Christian character. He endeared himself into the life of the community and was greatly loved by the family and his many friends. For the past thirty five years, he had been a member of the G.A.R. and for the past twenty-eight years, a member of the Modern Woodman.
He leaves behind a sister, a wife, three sons and three daughters, seventeen grandchildren and six great-grandchildren with many other relatives and a host of friends who will deeply feel his loss. The sons and daughters are W.R., C.A., and A.R. Miller and Mrs. Joe Snodgrass, Mrs. D.D. Miller of Fullerton and Mrs. C.A. Wellman of Fleming, Colorado.
A bereft family have the tender sympathy of the entire community.
A funeral service, that was largely attended, was held at the Methodist Church Monday, February 16, at 2:30 P.M., Rev. A.D. Davis officiating. The body was buried in the family lot in the Pierce Chapel cemetery, eight miles southeast of Fullerton.
IN MEMORY OF AL MILLER
He served the country and served it well.
As all his comrades are wont to tell;
He has now gone to reap his reward,
And sit on the right hand of the Lord,
His mortal remains are beneath the sod,
His spirit has soared to dwell with God.By a Comrade
CARD OF THANKS
We wish to thank our many friends for their many acts of kindness and thoughtful assistance at this time of our great bereavement, also for the many beautiful floral offerings.
Mrs. Albert Miller and familyNOTES: His Mother's maiden name was EVANS. He married at "Punchire, NY". Surviving children were Warren "Ray" Miller, Charles Albert Miller, Arthur Adelbert "Bert" Miller, Grace Snodgrass, Hattie Miller, and Mae Wellman. Deceased child Edna was Mrs. Walter Headlee at time of her death.
Obit from Lois Miller Lindholm Dawson.- - - - - - - -
Obituary from The Clarks Enterprise, 9 Apr 1920
Elnora (Smith) EvansElnora A. Smith was born in New York State May 1846 and was married to Samuel C. Evans in may (sic) 1880, to this union three children were born, two daughters and one son. Mr. and Mrs. Evans came to Nebraska in 1886 taking up their residence in the Pleasant Hill neighborhood for a number of years, only one of her children surviving, Otis Samuel of Grand Island at whose home she died on March 30 1920 age 73.
Suffering is over,
All sorry is passed
And she is in God's care
With those she loved.She joined the Presbyterian church in youth. The funeral services were held at Pierce Chapel April 2, conducted by W. T. Taylor and J. H. Kraemer. Interment in the Pierce Chapel cemetery.
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Clarks News? Aug 1921
(newspaper not identifed, only the year written in margin)
MRS. THOMAS A. SHIVELY.
Indiana Violet Richards was born in Wabash county, Indiana, Septermber 11, 1857, and departed this life on August 4, 1921 at the Methodist hospital in Omaha, as the age of 63 years, 10 month and 24 days.
When but 15 years of age she moved with her parents to Merrick county Nebraska, where on July 12, 1877, she was married to Thomas A. Shively. To this union were born seven children, three daughers, Mrs. Vern Porter of North Star, Mrs. Charles A. Miller of Fullerton and Mrs. Clarence Lawson who preceeded the mother to the Great Beyond in 1906. Four sons, Charley of this neighborhood, Lafe of Sargent, Lawrence of Fullerton and Klar who was still at home, besides two sisters, Mrs. John Anderson of St. Joseph, Mo., and Mrs. Frank Sowl of Fullerton, two brothers, Will Richards of South Bend, Neb., and Jay Richards of Fullerton, and eleven grand children are left to mourn her loss.
For several months, Mrs. Shively has been in failing health and in spite of all that loving hands and physician's care could do, she grew gradually worse until at her request she was taken to the Methodist hospital in Omaha, where her spirit took flight.
Mrs. Shively's going is felt as a personal loss by the whole neighborhood, although having gone thru all the hardships of the pioneer, her disposition was always genial with a smile and kindly word for every one. No matter what the weather was she was always at Pierce Chapel for worship and did much for the up-builidng of the church -- her loss is keenly felt by every family in the neighborhood and her life has been a worthy example to all who knew her. Had the writer been choosing the text for the funeral sermon, it would have been, "She hath done what she could."
The sympathy of the entire community is extended the bereaved ones.
Funeral services were held at Pierce Chapel on Saturday afternoon conducted by Rev. Taylor, pastor of the church, asisted by Rev. Kramer of Clarks.Obit from Lois Miller Lindholm Dawson.
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July 1928 - Nance County Journal?
Francis Edward Satterlee - image
Obit from Lois Miller Lindholm Dawson
Feb 1929 - Nance County Journal?
Mrs. F. E. Satterlee - image
(Lovica Sillaway Miller, first married to Albert Miller. She was third wife of F. E. Satterlee)
Obit from Lois Miller Lindholm Dawson
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Grand Island Independent - Thurs. 2 May 2002
Paul L. WAIT, 90
CENTRAL CITY -- Paul L. Wait, 90, of Central City, formerly of the Fullerton area, died Wednesday, May 1, 2002, at Mary Lanning Memorial Hospital in Hastings.
Services will be at 2 p.m. Friday at the chapel of Solt Funeral Home in Central City. The Rev. Valjean Warman will officiate. Burial will be in the Pierce Chapel Cemetery near Clarks.
Visitation will be from 5 to 8 p.m. Thursday at the funeral home.
Memorials are suggested to the Pierce Chapel United Methodist Church.
Mr. Wait was born on June 3, 1911, in Merrick County to Floyd A. and Jessie LaRena (Hober) Wait. He attended rural Merrick County School and Fullerton High School.
He married Christena Mary Luft on June 26, 1935. In their early years, of marriage they lived in Nance County where they farmed, raised livestock, and he worked for the Nance County Roads Department. They returned to Merrick County, where they farmed and raised livestock in the Fairview area, then to the Loup River area. In 1949, they moved to their farm 10 miles north of Central City. Mrs. Wait died in October 1989 and he moved to Fullerton in 1992. In January 2000, he moved into the nursing home at Palmer and then to the Central City Care Center.
He was a member of the Pierce Chapel United Methodist Church. He had belonged to the Merrick County Saddle Club, was named Stockman of the Year in the 1970s, and his family received the Aksarben Pioneer Farm Family Award in 1997. He enjoyed breaking horses and ponies to be used for work, to drive, and to ride.
Survivors include two sons and daughters-in-law, Paul D. and Chris Wait of Fullerton and Floyd A. and Carol Wait of O'Fallon, Mo.; four grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.
Other than his wife, he was preceded in death by one infant daughter, Patricia Pauline, and three sisters, Ruth Townsend, Pearl Ferguson, and Ruby Marlowe.
Note: Paul Wait's grandparents were George V. Wait and Louisa Ellen Miller. Louisa was a sister of Albert Miller.
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