The Columbus Journal, January 31, 1919
MARRIAGE LICENSES
County Judge Gibbon issued marriage licenses during the past week to the following named couples: Arthur Baue and Mabel Ditter, of Monroe; Earl E. Hatton, of Chambers, and Margaret E. Cavanaugh, of O'Neill; Christian J. Ramaekers and Louisa M. Beller, of Lindsay. He also tied the nuptial knot for Mr. Baue and Miss Ditter, Mr. Hatton and Miss Cavanaugh.DIED
HANSEN--Stricken with uremia Monday afternoon, Mrs. Otto C. Hansen, bride of less than a year, passed away at the home of her mother, Mrs. Verena Schad, Tuesday morning at 3:50 o'clock. Her illness was so brief, and her death so unexpected that it came as a grievous shock to the many friends. As Anna Margaret Seipp, Mrs. Hansen was born in Columbus August 3, 1889, and here her entire life was spent. On May 12, 1918, she was married to Mr. Hansen at Fremont. He was about to enter the army, so she retained her position as clerk in Galley's store until the first of this year, continuing to make her home with her mother during her husband's absence. Mr. Hansen, who is stationed at Ft. Bayard, N.M., was advised by wire of her death and is expected to arrive in Columbus today. Besides her husband and her mother, she leaves six brothers--Henry, John, Carl and Walter, all of Columbus; Fred, of Portland, Ore., and Will, residing at Tacoma, Wash. Mrs. Hansen was for some years a member of the choir of the German Reformed church. Funeral services will be held at that church Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock, Rev. R. Neumarker officiating. The body will be laid to sepulchre in Columbus cemetery.SCOTT--John Scott, son of Mrs. W.W. Scott, died last Saturday afternoon in the orthopedic hospital at Lincoln, where for six years he had been under treatment for tuberculosis of the bones of his legs. He was born in Columbus March 3, 1896, and attended school at St. Francis academy until the development of the tubercular trouble rendered him an invalid at the age of 14 years. The body was brought to Columbus Sunday and funeral services were held at St. Anthony's church Tuesday morning, Rev. Fr. Dennis Czech officiating. A sister, Mrs. Ralph Curtis, of Muscatine, Ia., was here to attend the funeral.
HALL--After suffering five months with heart trouble and complications, Mrs. George M. Hall passed away at the family home at 2315 Twentieth street at 9:45 p.m. Sunday. Her condition was critical for a period of three weeks before death came. Mrs. Hall was a member of a family long prominent in the vicinity of Monroe. As Amelia A. Matson, she was born in Knox county, Illinois, September 6, 1857. Forty-eight years ago this spring she came with her parents, the late Mr. and Mrs. W.A. Matson, to Platte county, her father homesteading two miles west of Monroe. There she was married to George M. Hall November 11, 1891. They lived in and near Monroe until fifteen years ago when they moved to Columbus. Mrs. Hall became a member of the Congregational church at Genoa about the time of its organization in the '80s, transferring her membership to the Federated church in Columbus a year or two ago. She leaves her husband, two sons and three daughters--Roy, an expert mechanic with the field artillery in France; Frank, who came home last week Thursday from Camp Lee, Virginia, on a furlough; Miss Enola, who teaches school at Duncan, and Misses Ione and Cora, at home. Other immediate relatives are her three brothers and four sisters--A.P. Matson, of Elgin; A.E. Matson and F.A. Matson, of Monroe; Mrs. A.N. Hollingshead, of Carlisle, Ark.; Mrs. C.H. Lindberg, of Polk; Mrs. H.W. Vore, of Omaha, and Mrs. H.C. Lindberg, of San Francisco. Funeral services were conducted by Rev. Thomas Griffiths at the family home at 11 a.m. Wednesday and at the Presbyterian church in Monroe at 1 p.m. Burial was made in the Friends cemetery, near Monroe. Among the relatives who were here for the service were her three brothers and members of their families; Mr. and Mrs. C.H. Lindberg, and Floyd Hedberg, of Polk, and Mrs. Vore, of Omaha.
FITZSIMMONS--Lawrence Fitzsimmons, a resident of Platte county twenty-eight years, and father of Mrs. P.J. Schaecher, of Columbus, died at St. Mary's hospital at 8 p.m. Tuesday. He had been in feeble health ten years, the last six of which he spent in the hospital under the care of the Sisters. Mr. Fitzsimmons was born in County Mead, Ireland, October 13, 1830. He came to this country when he was sixteen years old, locating in Illinois. There, in 1856, he married Bridget Rilley. They made their home on a farm in Iowa some years, and then came to Platte county about twenty-eight years ago, buying a farm west of Platte Center. Mrs. Fitzsimmons passed away sixteen years ago, and three years later her husband retired from the farm, moving to Lindsay. He leaves eight daughters and four sons--Mrs. John Donnelly, of Alexis, Ill.; M.G. Fitzsimmons, of Butte, Mont.; Mrs. John McGuire, of Ottumwa, Ia.; Thomas Fitzsimmons, of Des Moines, Ia.; Mrs. P.J. Schaecher, of Columbus; Mrs. John Ratliff, of Hedrick, Ia.; Mrs. J.E. Sweeney, of Prescott, Ariz.; John Fitzsimmons, of Ainsworth, Nebr.; Mrs. H.B. Smith, of Omaha; Will Fitzsimmons, of Ottumwa, Ia.; Mrs. Henry Rogan and Mrs. Maurice Langan, both of Platte Center. Funeral services will be held at St. John's Catholic church in Joliet township this morning at 10 o'clock, with burial in the parish cemetery there.
GOODRICH--C.C. Goodrich received a message Tuesday that his father, N.W. Goodrich, had passed away at his home in Whittier, Calif. Mr. Goodrich was absent from the city when the message came and received it too late to go to California to attend the funeral. His father was one of the early residents of Cedar Rapids, Nebr. Locating there in 1884, he was in the livestock business for many years. Failing health caused him to move to California in 1913. He was 76 years of age at the time of his death, and leaves his wife, three sons and one daughter.
The Columbus Telegram, August 1, 1919
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BLESSEN--Platte Center - Obituary. Frederick Blessen passed away Sunday July 27, at his home three miles southeast of Platte Center at the age of 52 years, 2 months and 27 days. He had been in failing health for the past two years but no one suspected that the end was so near as he was able to be out in the yard the previous day. Mr. Blessen was born in Germany and came to this country in 1884. In 1896 he was united in marriage with Miss Minnie Myer, who, with three sons, William, George and Chris, is left to mourn his departure from this life. He is also survived by a brother, who resides in St. Louis. Funeral services were held Wednesday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock at the Baptist church in Platte Center, and burial was made in the cemetery southeast of town. The sympathy of the community is extended the bereaved family in their hour of sorrow.
The Columbus Telegram, September 26, 1919
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CARRIG--David Carrig, age about 62, was born in Freeport, Illinois. He came to Platte County at age 3 with his parents. On April 14, 1885, he married Miss Ellen Perkinson. They had five children: Edward Carrig of Lindsay; Don Carrig; Mrs. Leo Lachnit; Miss Mary Carrig and Miss Sarah Carrig. Pallbearers were Robert Wilson, William Soullier, William Shea, R. M. McGuane, D. P.Mahoney, and Patrick Fuller. Those attending from a distance were: Richard Perkinson of Denver; J. F. Perkinson of Milford; Mrs. C. C. Carrig and son, Early, of Kearney; Mrs. Mary Gentleman of Denver; and Miss Mary Dineen of Alliance. [Abstract]MILLER--Death in Wake of Auto Smash - Norfolk Man Fatally Hurt When Car Turns Turtle in Collision With Another at Cross-Roads - Too Fast to Avoid Accident
Injured internally when his car and another driven by Vaughn Hurst, of Silver Creek, collided at the corner of the White and Monastery roads north of Columbus about 3:30 p.m. Tuesday, Cecil H. Miller, Norfolk garageman, died in St. Mary's hospital at 4:15 p.m. Wednesday after twenty-four hours of intense suffering.
Miller was driving a new 1920 Chandler touring car east on the White road, and witnesses say, he was going at a terrific speed. Hurst was northbound on the Monastery road in a Hup touring car. Neither driver saw the other until they were near to the intersection, because of the trees along the White road. Hurst, however, heard the approaching machine, and realizing from the sound of the engine that it was going fast, clapped on his brakes. It is said that he had nearly come to a standstill when the two cars met.
The Chandler swung around at right angle to the road and rolled over two or three times. Miller was thrown fifteen feet into the air and fell in the road, clear of his machine. He was dazed, but not unconscious, and when several men who saw the crash ran to his assistance he complained of pain in the abdomen. A physician was called and had him removed to St. Mary's hospital. No bones were broken, but he was injured internally, and measures to assuage the pain as much as possible were all that could be done for him.
Miller was foreman for the Whitehouse & Brooks Motor company, of Norfolk, a partner in the service department of the concern, and the car he drove belonged to the company. Except for the frame and engine, it was practically a total wreck. At the time of the accident he was en route to Schuyler to get his wife and children, who were visiting there with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. George Welch.
The bumper was torn off the Hup-mobile, the frame was warped, the left front fender crushed, and minor damage done. Hurst escaped injury.
An expert mechanic and electrician, Miller went to Norfolk about two years ago to associate himself with the Whitehouse & Brooks company. Prior to that time, he lived for some years in Schuyler where he met and married Miss Hazel Welch about ten years ago. She and their three little children, two boys and a girl, survive him. He was 31 years of age. Mrs. Miller and her parents came to Columbus at once upon receipt of the message advising them of the accident. They took the body to Schuyler last evening and funeral services will be held at the Methodist church there at 2 p.m. today.