B.F. Young Came in '69, - And Byron A., A Year or Two Later
Meridian the Nearest Trading Point
The Names of Some of His Schoolmates
Hebron, Nebraska
February 7, 1921Editor Journal:
In the year 1869 my father, Byron F. Young, homesteaded on the farm just across the Little Blue River, now known as the Ellison place, who, with the aid of his brother-in-law, M.E. Armstrong, built a log house, after which they built another log house for my uncle on his homestead, which joins the corporate limits of the city of Hebron on the northeast. The nearest trading point at that time was Meridian, just east of the Town of Alexandria, and the nearest grist mill was Beatrice, where the early settlers had to take their wheat and corn, with ox teams, to have it ground into flour and meal.
In 1873 my father built one of the first frame houses in Hebron, on the site where Mr. Colson the druggist now resides, and a number of years later built the square house just north (now owned by Charles P. Schorer), hauling the lumber from Belvidere, Nebraska.
My first school teacher was Martha Ann Vermillion, who taught the primary classes in the old brick school building now used as the Hebron Journal printing office, the second story of which was used for church services and entertainments in those days. Among my former classmates who have now become non-residents or deceased were: Cassius Phinney, Harry Phinney, Dora M. Rudd, Bertie Edmunds, Will Knox, Jas. Rorspaugh, Frank Kingsley, Mary Kingsley, Alma Kingsley, May Kingsley, Joe Willy, E.E. Correll and scores of others whom I do not recall at present.
B.A. Young
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