A Collection of Memories 
of DeWitt, Nebraska
by Frank F. Nicholas

 

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Part 2

73 Location of many old settlers

74
Piety Ridge

74
J. R. Nelson and site for Beatrice

75
Blue Valley Record
 
76
G.A. Hunt 

76
Mysterious deaths 

77
John Gilbert and Hosea Ramey horse race
 
77
Horse racing 

78
Wm Schmidt Sr and family story 

79
Philip Kreuscher's integrity never questioned 

79
Gage County School Dist. 39 

79
Henry Rhurup, DeWitt first jeweler 

80
H. M. Lull and J. B. Kesterson families 

80
Dr. L.J. Cross comes to town 

81
1888 fire destroyed Masons charter 

81
Thomas U. Whiffen 

82
Easter blizzard of 1873 

82
More story by T. U. Whiffen and DeWitt 

83
Civil War

84
Grand Army of the Republic (GAR)

85
Curtis Post No 89, GAR, DeWitt

85
Charles Harvey Buck

85
T. U. Whiffen

85
William Jerome Burgess

85
Charter members Curtis Post 89, GAR 
  86 Civil War veterans buried at Oak Grove

88
How DeWitt named
 
90
First settlers in DeWitt - Haveland 

91
First permanent settlers

91
William Wall, blacksmith 

91
DeWitt Postmasters

92
George W. Hill-last homestead in Saline Co 

93
George E. Lemmon, Lemmon SD

93
McCumpsey family

93
Kilpatrick family

94
First piece of land recorded in Saline Co

94
Breaking Texas steers to pull wagons

94
Lou Shamp family

95
John Wilburn furniture store

95
Joseph Green, unlucky businessman 

96
Green family

97
Business history of the Hunt block

98
William J. Dunn family

99
G. E. Lemmon about the Eubanks children

100
Remington family

100
Lemmon remembers "Wild Bill"

100
Laura Roper lived near DeWitt, Mrs. Soper
 
101
More Remington family

101
Iowa House

102
Alexander Stevens & Granny Stevens

102
2nd hotel and history

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