Cass County

Barbara J. Linville was born in Gentry county, Missouri, July 7, 1848. At the age of four years she moved with her paretns to Mills county, Iowa, where she grew to womanhood. On January 2, 1868, she was married to Thomas Wiles, the companion and playfellow of her girlhood, thus consumating a mutual admiration and attachment of many years standing. The young bride and her husband came to Plattsmouth, Nebraska, where, with the exception of three years spent in Frontier county, they have always lived. Four children were born to them, three of which are living. Sometime during the great civil war she gave her heart to God and during a meeting held at the old home church in Mills county, Iowa, under the preaching of James Conoran, a minister of the Church of Christ, she confessed her faith in the Saviour and with her Lord was buried in baptism. For a period of about forty-five years she has lived a faithful Christian life, so ordering her daily walk as to possess the love of all who knew her and in a way being used of God in winning many others to his service. As a wife an mother the scriptures have been fulfilled again and again in her life. For to her husband she was a treasurer above the price of rubies, having done him nothing but good all the days of her life and to her children she was a benediction in that they rise up and call her blessed. Possessing with a most tender heart a mind endowed with a rich fund of strong common sense, her advice and council in the home was invaluable and a decided acquisition, both in and outside of the church; being a teacher in the Bible school, a member of the C. W. B. M. and vice-president of the Benevolent Association of St. Louis, Missouri. Her sickness and subsequent death were sudden, and the sorrow occasioned as crushing, as her life of faith and love was sustained and beautiful. Returning from a visit to her daughter and son, Mrs. Charles A. Finch, of Topeka, Kansas, and Rev. L. M. Wiles, of Burlington, Kansas, she was stricken by an attack of typhoid fever which from the first seemed little hope of her recovery. All that love and skill could do was lavished upon the sufferer but to no avail, and the sweet spirit of Saviour, as the morning rushes forth to greet the sun, pasing into eternal life Wednesday morning, March 3rd, at 3 a. m., at the age of 58 years 8 months and 8 No greater testimony of her faith and trust in God could be presented more than the song, "Saviour More Than Life to Me." which was on her lips so frequently during her sickness and even, when she seemed oblivious to all else, the sweet notes of the haunting melody of this old hymn, seemed to sooth and comfort her heart, guiding her spirit into momentary rest and sleep. Thus passed away Barbara Linville Wiles, who, respecting her Christian steadfastness, was "Oak and Rock," but in the sweet tender graces of the adornment was "Vine and Flower".

The community was inexpressibly shocked this morning by the news of the death of Mrs. Henry McMaken. Quite a number of her friends knew of her illness, but few realized that she was seriously ill or that her condition was at all critical. Mrs. McMaken had a large circle of friends, who today mourn with the family her sudden death. She was born in Cleveland, O, Jan. 2, 1840; her maiden name was Catherine Mannering. She was married to Henry C. McMaken at Nebraska city in September, 1861. Nine children were born into this home. Six are still living - Edward, Joseph, Guy, Mrs. Harry Reese of North Platte, Mrs. Walter Scott of Omaha and Harriett McMaken. Mrs. Lockhart, who is at present in California, was Mrs. McMaken's only sister and her only near relative. Mrs. McMaken was a conscientious Christian woman - a member of the Episcopal church - a member who was always willing to give and to do that the kingdom of our Lord might be extended in this world. She was a member of the Knights and Ladies of Security, of the Royal Neighbors, of the Degree of Honor and of the Plattsmouth Woman's club. She was a charter member of McConihe W. R. C. No. 50. For many years she was president of the corps and had filled nearly every office in this organization. At the time of her death she was acting secretary. A few days before her death she was trying to plan for a "rest room" where farmers wives might eath their lunch and care for their little children while waiting for other members of the family to finish their shopping. In this brief sketch justice cannot be done to this loving wife, devoted mother and kind friend. For many years in this community she has kept her face toward humanity and held a torch, not to guide her own steps higher but always to show better ways to some one far behind. Whatever she did she always mentioned some other life that had inspired her best thought. If she sat night and day working out the details of some trying task you only heard how good some other woman had been to help; in fact she was always trying to make her halo fit some other woman's head. Never a night too dark, or distance too great to go to a sick person or to one in need, and many a person today will rise up and call her blessed. The body will lie in state at the residence from 3 to 5 tomorrow afternoon, and the funeral will take place form the Episcopal church at 5 p.m.

The following sketch of the life of the late Mrs. Laura Sophrona McMaken Sprague is taken from the Buffalo Gap Gazette of Buffalo Gap, South Dakota, and will be of much interest to the old resident of this county. Mrs. Sprague was the last surviving sister of the late H. C. McMaken and the last of the immediate family to be called away. The news of the death of this estimable lady came as quite a blow to the members of the family in this city:
After a brief illness, Mrs. Laura Sophrona McMaken Sprague passed away at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Sylvia Breshnen, at Hot Springs, S.D., January 5, 1916, at the age of 79 years, 4 months and 1 day. She was born at Fort Wayne, Indiana, September 4, 1836. On reaching young womanhood she attended Fort Wayne college, going through the entire course from the academy and on up, and graduating June 24, 1856. At this college she learned to speak and write four languages (cut off) territorial capital, so he had the priviledge of helping frame the constitution of the new state of South Dakota. Mrs. Sprague heroically passed through all the vicisitudes of the life of a pioneer's wife. One day Mr. Sprague walked to Rapid City over the very trail where an hour later the Indians massacred a number of men in charge of a freighting outfit. Mrs. Sprague united with the church in her young womanhood, being a member altogether 61 years. Forty-five years ago with her husband she joined the Methodist church and died in that faith. She was a very active woman in temperance and ladies' aid work. She leaves to mourn her loss six children, twenty grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren, with a host of friends and neighbors who will miss her friendship. The remains were brought from Hot Springs, and the funeral services were held in the Baptist church, Rev. H. L. Case, the M. E. pastor of Hot Springs, preaching the sermon. The remains were tenderly laid to rest in the Buffalo Gap cemetery. Mrs. Sprague was a resident of Buffalo Gap for thirty years and a large number of her old neighbors and friends were present to pay the last tribute.

Last evening as the day was drawing to a close, Mrs. Elizabeth Reese, known affectionately to large circle of warm friends as "Grandma" Reese, was called from the scenes of her earthly activities to her final rest after a very short illness. The death of this splendid pioneer lady occurring at 6:30. The life of Mrs. Reese had covered eighty-seven years and for fifty-six years of which she has been a resident of Plattsmouth. The deceased lady was born at Dayton, Ohio, May 7, 1830, and spent her girlhood days in the place of her nativity, being hoined in marriage there in May 1849 to Richard J. Reese. The family came west to Illinois where they made their home for a number of years an in the year 1865 they arrived at the then frontier settlement of Plattsmouth, Nebraska, then a mere cluster of houses and a few stores of the pioneer trading post nestling among the hills along the banks of the lordly Missouri, they making the trip by steamboat from Illinois to the new home. Since that time the Reese family have made their home in this city and it was here that the husband and father passed to his reward a number of years ago and since which time Mrs. Reese has made her home with her daughter, Mrs. Alice Eaton. In her early life Mrs. Reese was affiliated with the United Brethren church and during all the years of her long and useful life she has lived a pure and upright christian life that has served as an example to the family and friends. Kind and loving in her dealings with her fellowmen, the deceased lady has won a host of friends who will miss greatly her gracious presence, now that she has gone from them. Mr. and Mrs. Reese were the parents of three children, Mrs. Alice Eaton of Plattsmouth, Will Reese of Hartless, Washington, and Harry Reese, whose death occurred two years ago at North Platte, Nebraska. One sister residing at Dayton, Ohio, is also left to mourn the passing of this estimable lady. The funeral services were held this afternoon at 4 o'clock from the late home conducted by Father W. S. Leete of St. Luke's Episcopal church and attended by a large number of friends of the family. The burial was at Oak Hill cemetery, where the husband lies his long rest.

It was with saddened hearts that it was learned yesterday morning that Mrs. Jennie Schildknecht had passed away at her home in this city, where she resided for almost half a century, and the community sincerely grieves that this good, kindly Christian lady (part of article cut off) Grass state, where they were very prominent in the early life of the young commonwealth. When the daughter was quite young the McCormick family moved to Springfield, Kentucky, and here the subject of our sketch passed her girlhood days, and on September 25, 1856, she was united in marriage to Mr. Jesse C. Fox, the wedding ceremony being performed by Rev. B. H. Charles. Mr. and Mrs. Fox, after their marriage, took up the work of teaching in the schools at Taylorville, Kentucky, while Mr. Fox was studying law. They later emigrated to Portland, Callaway county, Missouri, where they resided during the trying period of the civil war, and at its close moved to Rushville, Illinois. On November 14, 1870, Mr. and Mrs. Fox arrived at Plattsmouth to make their future home, and where the husband engaged in the practice of law until his death on November 14, 1872, leaving to mourn his death the widow and one son, William Kelley Fox, the present county treasurer of Cass county. Mrs. Fox was united in marriage on October 14, 1873, at Plattsmouth to Dr. W. H. Schildknecht, the wedding being performed by Rev. Charles McElvey of the Methodist church at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Morgan Waybright. The family has since made their home here continuously and their married life was one of much happiness, terminated only by the death of the husband in this city on February 21, 1907. Mrs. Schildknecht was a lifelong member of the Church of Christ, having been baptized in that faith when only 15 years of age, at Louisiana, Missouri, by Rev. Joseph Erritt, one of the founders of the church in the west, and whose preaching won the heart of all who heard him, and Mrs. Schildknecht, who was on a visit at Louisiana at the time, was so impressed with his appeal that she united herself with the church and remained firm in the faith until death. The funeral will be held tomorrow afternoon at 2:30 at the Christian church and will be conducted by Rev. C. E. PerLee, pastor of the church.

Mrs. Curtis Moore, aged 77 years, passed peacefully and quietly away in her home in this city Friday morning at 4:30 o'clock after a short illness. Miss Emily G. Garwood was born in Logan county, Ohio, June 17, 1832, and was united in marriage to Mr. Curtis Moore in Milford Center, Champaign county, Ohio, February 22, 1854, and they came to Plattsmouth, Nebraska, in October, 1856, where they have since resided. Mrs. Moore became a member of the First Presbyterian church in this city, when the services held in the old church where the Hotel Riley is now situated, and has lived a faithful and Christian life and was loved and highly esteemed by all who knew her. The deceased is survived by her husband and one son, Llewellyn, who have the sympathy of the entire community in the loss of a kind and loving wife and mother. The funeral services will be held at her late home Saturday afternoon at 2 o'clock, and Dr. John T. Baird will conduct the same.

The death of Mrs. Ursula Linville Saturday afternoon at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Isaac Wiles in this city, came as a great shock to the friends, who had grown to love and respect this most worthy lady during the years she had made her home here. Mrs. Linville retained her mental powers to the last, and although her age was close to the century mark, her memory was clear and the events of her long and useful life were fresh in the mind until the last moments of her life. The years of her life lay along the most eventful in the history of the country, and she saw the hardships of pioneer days blossom into the fruits of modern day conditions and she was able to appreciate to the fullest extent the advantages we enjoy today. The funeral services were held yesterday afternoon at the home of Captain Isaac Wiles, and were conducted by Rev. D. L. Dunkleberger of the Christian church, and were largely attended by friends of the family, who gathered to pay their last tribute to this most worthy lady. Rev. Dunkleberger spoke very feelingly form the text taken from the fourth chapter of Thessilanains 14-16, as follows: "For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with Him." A choir composed of B. A. McElwain, Dr. O. Sandin, Misses Golda and Florence Dunkleberger, sang several hymns that had been favorites of the departed lady, and which better than words told of her Christian, upright life. The floral tributes were numerous and very beautiful and silently attested the high regard felt for this lady. The funeral of this worthy pioneer lady was held today at the old home in Glenwood, Iowa, and the body laid to rest beside that of her husband in the cemetery south of that city. The casket was accompanied by Mr. and Mrs. L. L. Wiles, Thomas Wiles and Miss Ursula Harmer. Ursula Sublette Day was born in Lincoln nounty, Kentucky, April 15, 1823. She was married to Henderson Linville in June 1840, and died in Plattsmouth Neb., at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Isaac Wiles, March 1, 1913. After the death of her husband, which occurred December 27, 1899, she came to Plattsmouth, where she resided until she was called to her final home. Two of her five children preceded her to the Better Land. They were Dawson and Barbara J. The three living are Mrs. Isaac Wiles of this city, Mrs. Minerva Harmer of Weeping Water and Frank Linville of Carson, Iowa. Grandma Linville was a woman of rare quality and sterling worth and so much in her life was worthy of imitation. At an early age she confessed her faith in Christ, and her last words - "Oh, Lord, come" - proved her faith unbroken. What comfort to feel that our loved ones have only that our loved ones have only journeyed on before. That they are waiting for us beyond the veil.

After six weeks of treatment at the Immanuel hospital at Omaha occurred the death early Sunday morning of Mrs. W. F. Gillespie, one of the long time resident of the community and a lady loved and esteemed by a large circle of friends over this section where she has so long made her home. The death came as the result of an injury received eight weeks ago and which was not regarded seriously at the time but later developed an infection and poisoning of her blood stream that resulted in her death. Mrs. Gillespie had a small wire from a screen penetrate her right thumb and this later apparently healed over and it was not until later when a splinter was lodged in the same thumb that the infection appeared and which in a few days grew so bad that six weeks ago Mrs. Gillespie was taken to the hospital and where is was found necessary to amputate the right arm in the hope of checking the infection, but this proved unavailing as the patient continued to grow worse and despite all that the medical skill could command or loving hands administer, the suffering lady continued to grow worse until the past week when hope of her recovery was definitely abandoned and she gradually sank into the last long rest and which brought the relief from the weeks of suffering and as the day was breaking Sunday morning she received the call to the last long journey and the relief from her suffering. In the weeks that Mrs. Gillespie has been ill the friends here have anxiously awaited word from her bedside and while encouraged by apparent rallies, these were followed by relapses, each more serious than the last, until the end. Mytle Ida Henton, daughter of one of the pioneer families of this part of the west was born at Plattsmouth October 7, 1868, her family having been early settlers in this vicinity, here she grew to womanhood, attending the local schools and this community has been the scene of her entire lifetime. On August 15, 1886, Miss Henton was united in marriage to William F. Gillespie at Mynard and at which place the family made their home until ten years ago in 1919 when Mr. and Mrs. Gillespie moved to Plattsmouth and have since made their home in this community and where they have enjoyed the love and esteem of a very large circle of warm friends. The deceased lady was a member of Home chapter No. 189, Order of the Eastern Star for a great many years and active in the work of this order. She is survived by the husband, and one sister, Mrs. Allie Adams of this city, as well as a number of nieces and nephews.

Mrs. Margaret Mougey, 70, one of the long time residents of Cass county, passed away at her home in Union on Christmas afternoon at 5 o’clock. Her death followed an illness of some five weeks. Margaret, daughter of Lewis and Emeline Bird, was born May 6, 1866, at Mt. Pleasant, Iowa, but has spent the greater part of her lifetime in the Union community. She was married on December 8 1887, to Edward J. Mougey, who survives her passing. In her early years she joined the Methodist church and in which faith she remained a member until death. Surviving are Mr. Maugey (sic) and five children, Iva Mougey, Omaha; Blanche Cross, Union; Grace Cross, Arriba, Colo.; Lewis Mougey, Union; and Naomi Rankin, Whitney, Neb. Mrs. Mougey’s father, Lewis Bird, was a prominent early settler in Cass county. Born in New Jersey, he moved with his parents to the wilds of Indiana when he was a boy of three, came on west to settle in Cass county in 1863 when he was 30 years old. Mrs. Maugey’s (sic) mother, Emeline Current Bird, was a school teacher in Indiana before she was married. Mr. and Mrs. Mougey lived on the original Bird farm in Cass county. The funeral services were held on Sunday afternoon a short service at the Mougey home and at the Methodist church in Union at 1:30. The Rev. E. P. Boenuer, pastor of the church, conducted the services. The interment was at the Mt. Pleasant cemetery and the pall bearers were old time neighbors and friends of the family, John Christianson, Melvin Todd, Ed Morris, Charles Green, A. M. McCarroll and Ben Neal.

Born Feb. 4, 1848, in Sweden, Died at 6:30 p. m. Monday, Feb. 14, 1910, at his home on H. W. Lloyd's farm three miles southwest of Union.

Henry Petersen was quite well known in this village and vicinity, where he had made his home for about thirty years, and all his acquaintances regret to learn of his death. Mr. Petersen's health had been failing the past year, but his condition was not regarded as serious, although for two months he had failed rapidly, His nephew, Albert Petersen, of Polk, Neb., came last Friday to take him home with him, but Monday afternoon Henry suffered a stroke of paralysis and expired before medical aid could reach him.

Brief funeral services were held Tuesday afternoon at the residence of H. W. Lloyd, conducted by W. A. Taylor, after which the remains were brought to this village and taken on the evening train to Polk, Neb., for interment. Deceased was a member of the A.O.U.W., and a number of the members of the local lodge assisted in the services here.

Andrew Henry Petersen came from his native country in early manhood and located near Stromsburg, Neb., and a few years later he came to this vicinity and ever since engaged in farming, and having no family he lived alone. His only near relative in this country is his nephew Albert Petersen, who came from Polk, Neb., last Friday and took the body home with him Tuesday evening.

The deceased was a very sociable man and well known to be strictly honorable in all transactions, attending to his own affairs and gaining the friendship of all with whom he associated. This community loses a good citizen in the death of Henry Petersen.

I desire to thank the good people of Union and vicinity who were so kind and generous to my uncle Henry Petersen during his illness, and I appreciate the evidence of friendship shown after his death.

PLATTSMOUTH, Neb. Oct. 21. – Mrs. Calphurnia Furlong, wife of Samuel Furlong, living south of this city died at her home yesterday morning after being ill several months. She was in her seventy-third year and was married to Samuel Furlong at Delphi, N.Y., in December, 1860. Mr. and Mrs. Furlong came to Nebraska in July, 1870, and have resided south of this city ever since. Mrs. Furlong is survived by her husband, one brother, five sons and three sisters.

Calphurnia Law Furlong was born Dec. 6, 1837 in Greene Co., New York, daughter of Samuel A. Law and Paulina Holmes. She married Samuel Lawrence Furlong on December 31, 1860 in Delhi, Delaware Co., New York and had nine children. Surviving brother was William Sanford Law of Delaware Co., NY; surviving sisters were Mary Adaline Law Holmes, widow of John B. Holmes, of Cass Co., NE, Sarah Eliza Law Young, wife of Francis Marion Young (1841-1912), of Cass Co., NE and Harriet Pauline Law Peake, widow of Ira R. Peake, of Delaware Co., NY; four of the five sons were Marcus L. Furlong of Cass Co., NE, Edward Oscar Furlong of Routt Co., CO, James Wesley Furlong of Denver Co., CO, and Albert Chester Furlong, later of Multnomah Co., OR.

PLATTSMOUTH. July 24. – Mrs. John Holmes, Sr., who for more than fifty years lived near Murray, this county, but who recently moved to Hartington, Neb., died at the home of her son, John Holmes, Jr., the remains to arrive in Murray today, with the funeral at that place, and burial at the Young Cemetery, near that city Tuesday.

(Special to The Star) Avoca, Neb. July 26. – Mrs. John Holmes, Sr., died at the home of her son, John Holmes, Jr., at Hartington. Mrs. Holmes had resided near Murray for over fifty years. The body was brought to Murray Tuesday and interment made in the cemetery there.

Mary Adaline Law Holmes was born Dec. 18, 1830 in Greene Co., New York, daughter of Samuel A. Law and Paulina Holmes. She married John B. Holmes on January 3, 1855 in Delaware Co., New York and had seven children, including William A. Holmes of Furnas Co., NE, John H. Holmes of Hartington, NE and later Idaho and Washington.

Another of the pioneers has been called to the other world in the person of Mrs. George Amick, her death having taken place Saturday and the funeral yesterday. The deceased was seventy-eight years of age, and had been twice married. Judge Archer of this city being one of her children by a former marriage. She removed to Cass county in 1856 and resided here continuously up to the time of her death. Her death was rather unexpected, the deceased having been in good health until about a week ago, when she was suddenly attacked with inflamation of the bowels, and passed away Saturday evening. She was the mother of five children, two by her first husband and three by her second, all of whom live to mourn her loss. The interment took place yesterday afternoon at Eight Mile Grove cemetery, the remains were followed to their last resting place by a large number of friends and relatives, the funeral being one of the largest ever held in Cass county.

One of the Early Pioneers of Cass County Passes to His Reward

At his home near Murry, Cass county, Nebraska on Tuesday, March 17, 1903, at 8 o'clock a.m., of a complication of diseases, supplemented by advancing age, George Davis Amick departed this life, aged 71 years, 11 months and 27 days.

George Davis Amick was born March 20, 1831 in Bedford county, Pennsylvania, and at the age of seven years, his parents removed to Gurnsey county, Ohio, where on a farm he developed into a robust, manly and industrious young manhood, early mastering the details of successful farming and stock raising. In 1850 he was united in marriage to Mrs. Mary Archer, a widow with four children. Mrs. Archer was a native of Pennsylvania, but the couple located for awhile in Noble county, Ohio, where they were married. Of Mr. Amick's four step-children but two are now living - Judge Michael Archer, of this city, and Charles Archer, of Lincoln, Nebraska. In 1854 Mr. Amick removed to Des Moines county, Iowa, and located on a farm near Burlington, where he was engaged in farming and stock-raising for two years. Like many other energetic and ambitious young men of a half century ago, he caught the Nebraska fever and in 1856 removed to Cass county. On October 14, 1856, in the company with his father Joseph Amick, Judge Archer, then a young man, William Amick, a brother of the deceased, William Young, then a county surveyor, a Mr. Lamar and a Mr. Russell, George D. Amick marked the boundaries around that pre-emption - that quarter section of land near Murray, Cass county, Nebraska, upon which he planted his home, and improved and beautified into one of those beautiful farms for which Nebraska has become so famous.

Here in the incipient life of a great state Mr. Amick and family braved all the perils and dangers, the inconveniences and discomforts of pioneer life, courageously facing danger from roving, thieving and murderous bads of Indians as well as the almost equally dangerous "claim jumper;" but for nearly a century he lived upon that homestead to witness the marvelous growth of a great state - first the velopment of a territory and then its formation into a state, and the transformation of bleak prairie and sandy plain into beautiful farms with teeming industry and higher civilization everywhere.

As a reward for the industry and toil of Mr. Amick he succeeded from time planted the stakes around his "pre-emption." Carefull management enabled him to add to his pioneer farm, and finally become the owner of nearly five hundred acres - nearly all fo which is in a high state of cultivation, beautiful here and there with forest tree and productive orchard.

To Mr. and Mrs. Amick five children were born. A son, Joseph, died when two years and four months old and another son, James, died when three weeks old. The surviving children consist of Mrs. Minerva Slocum, who with her family reside near Murray, Cass county, Nebraska; John W. Amick resides at Stockton, Rooks, Kansas; david L. Amicks, the baby of the family, with his family, resides on his father's pre-emption, near Murray, and thus occupies the old patrimonial homestead. The wife and mother preceded her husband into the Great Hereafter, having died August 1895, and now by her side, in the beautiful cemetery at Eight Mile Grove, beneath oak and elm, evergreen and rose, repose in quiet, eternal, dreamless sleep, all that is mortal of him with whom she had traveled earth's pilgrimage for more than forty-five years.

George D. Amick was a man universally respected. Scrupulously honest, his word was to him as sacred and binding as his bond or his oath. His neighbors and all having any business transactions with him would accept his word as readily as his bond. Generous, considerate, sympathetic, he was never known to press or oppress a debtor, and was never known to sue a person in his life. He was most genial and companionable, and exceptionably hospitable and entertaining in his beautiful home. He was of that peculiar character, so seldom seen, that always made and had friends without a single enemy.

As a citizen he was a model - Promptly meeting his obligations, never avoiding duty, when called him to act. During his long life, in politics he was an ardent democrat and considered it one of the first duties of a good citizen to exercise the right of sufferage at every election no matter what political preference the citizens might have.

Mr. Amick during his long life belonged to that class of christian characters, which by daily walk, exemplary habit and a conscientious observance of the biblical injunction, "do unto others as ye would that others do unto you, " more nearly and truthfully illustrates the true christian character than the mere observance of church ritual and outward form. Yet at the time of his death and for a long time previous, he was a professing christian, being, at the time of his decease, a member of the Methodist church at Eight Mile Grove, thus passing away in the arms of the church with implicit faith in immortality in the Great Beyond.

On Wednesday, March 18, 1903, at 2 p.m., the funeral services were held in the Methodist church at Eight Mile Grove coinducted by Rev. R. G. Carter, the Eight Mile Grove choir rendering suitable and appropiate selections. The pall bearers consisted of ex-Sheriff W. D. Wheeler, John Thomason, James Root, Benjamin Beckman, C. Bengen and Louis Crabtree. A large concourse of people were in attendance, a number being from Plattsmouth, the church being inadequate to accommode all, thus leaving many to gain admittance. The large number present, consisting of relatives, neighbors and friends fully and most impressively attested the very high esteem and love for the deceased and his family.

Thus among the many during the last year and a half, has passed away another pioneer of Cass county. Seventy years ago, a twining tendril at mother's knee - passing along through boyhood - through young manhood - through middle age, yet onward still beyond the bibbical life span of threes score and ten, and then , typical of autumnal decay and death, silently and quietly lay down life's burdens and sank to a quiet rest beside the ashes of the life partner - the loved one, and into the bosom of the land he loved so well, and to the advancement and upbuilding of which he had given nearly half a century of his life.

George D. Amick will not soon be forgotten. His memory will remain entwined around child, grandchild, neighbor and friend. The grave will not be forgotten, but willing hands prompted by loving hearts will keep memory green and fresh, with flower, vine and rosebush, the tributes of love from child, grandchild and friend to father, grand father - departed friend.