Colfax County, Nebraska

Posted Queries for June 2005 thru May 2011



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FINEGAN, HIGGINS, SCANLAN posted by David Richards on Thursday, June 30, 2005

One branch of my family tree arrived in Schuyler in the 1870's and most had left between 1900 and 1910. The family names are FINEGAN, SCANLAN, and HIGGINS.The first family members in Colfax Co. were Patrick and Mary (nee Higgins) Finegan and John Scanlan and his brother Cornelius. If anyone is interested, I have gathered some information about their ancestors and descendants. I do not have a web site. I also have information on the siblings for the some of the generations.

BOWMAN posted by Robert Houser on Monday, February 13, 2006

I am trying to locate any information on a Teresa Bowman who was living in or around Leigh Nebraska in 1910.

SEDLACEK posted by joyce crawford on Thursday, February 16, 2006

Need info on Joseph SEDLACEK (1851-1933), born Austria/Boh, lived in Midland Twp.

FROST posted by Joyce Klintworth on Friday, July 21, 2006

Frederick Mathew FROST was born June 10, 1861; died May 05, 1894; buried in Leigh Cemetery, Leigh, NE. They moved to Leigh in 1888.

SCHULTZ, SHULTZ posted by Carolyn Lubker on Friday, August 11, 2006

1880 U S Fed Census, NE, Colfax, Midland, District 79
Shultz, John Self M W 42 b. Mecklenburg Occ. Farmer
Anna Wife F W 33 b. Bohemia
Sophia Dau F W 13 b. Prussia F. b. Mecklenburg
Ricca Dau F W 8 b. WI F. b. Mecklenburg
Query: Is there any further information on this family in Colfax County? His dau. Sophia married Henry Lubker of Platte Co. in 1884. The dau. Ricca (Fredricka) mar. Patrick Murray, of Platte County in 1892. John Shultz first wife was Fredricka (Holman) who died abt. 1875 & was mother of Sophia & Ricca. Does anyone know anything about this Schultz/ Shultz family? Sophia was my husband's grandmother. Thank you, hoping....

PESHEK, VAVRA posted by Nancy Hartman on Saturday, March 24, 2007

Would like to make contact with descendants of this family: Adolph VAVRA born 1852 in Bohemia and his wife Marie PESHEK born 1851 Bohemia. They came to Schuyler 1873. Adolph was a Saloon Keeper in 1880. They also had a farm. Adolph was living near the Wells Post Office in Colfax County at the time of his death in 1902. Children were Fannie (died unmarried); Jennie married Henry L. Briggs (they lived in Canada and Oregon); Joseph married Anna Skarda; Lucille married John R. Mulloy (they lived in Fremont, Nebr. where she died in 1912); Carrie (not married). Joseph and Anna Skarda Vavra had Joseph, Lucile who married a Hrabek, Phyllis who married a Johnson, Charlotte who married a Walla, Marie Jean who married an Eller.

DILDI, GELDER, LAUR, WILLIAMS posted by Jack Williams on Wednesday, January 2, 2008

Ottillia Anna LAUR, daughter of John Henry Laur and Kathryn DILDI. Ottillia was born about 1892 in Howells, Nebraska. She married Leo Lloyd Williams (b. 10 Oct 1890, Norfolk, NE) in Norfolk, Nebraska, on 10 Oct 1911. Source for this is: The State of Nebraska, Madison County, Office of the Judge, Marriage Record, Madison County, Nebraska (Source includes marriage Application, Marriage License and Certificate of Marriage). Marriage Application, license, and Certificate of Leo Lloyd WILLIAMS and Ottillia Anna Laur. I obtain this document from the Madison County Court House when I was visiting Norfolk in November 2007.

Leo was my paternal grandfather. Question is what happened to Ottillia? I have several pieces of correspondence from Leo to his sisters and grandmother (his mother died in 1912) between November 1911 and 1920 and there is no mention of Ottillia. Leo married my grandmother, Ethel Agnes Van GELDER, in New Jersey in 1919.

Can anyone help me find Ottillia? About a month ago I sent a request to the state for a death certificate and they came up empty. Is it possible she and Leo divorced or since there was no death record, could the marriage have been annulled. Ottillia was 20 years old at the time so I don’t think an annulment was it.

FETIG, GUIDINGER, SCHMIDT posted by Jim Neiers on Tuesday, April 7, 2009

Does anyone know of and have access to an obituary for Carrie or Frank FETIG. Carrie L (GUIDINGER) FETIG died Jul 1970 and is buried at Schuyer Cemetery. Her husband, Frank L. FETIG died 1972 and is also buried at Schuyler Cemetery. Would like to learn of any family.

DANIELS posted by Jessica Wilson on Sunday, July 5, 2009

Am looking for the family of George and Rachel (Von Ohlen) Daniels. Rachel died before the family moved to Colfax county. Children were: Fred, Albert, Anna, Lena, Henry, George, Bertha, Mattie, Jennie, and Kate. The family moved to Colfax around 1904.

ZURCHER posted by Dave Johnson on Wednesday, November 4, 2009

I am looking for information if any on John Henry ZURCHER Jr., who is my biological grandfather. He was KIW in Okinawa May 7, 1945. His hometown was listed as Howells NE in the military death records. I have a copy of his obituary with photo from the local paper at the time. DOB, pictures from school, etc, anything would be extremely helpful.

HERINK, HYNEK, KASIK posted by Julia Hynek on Monday, May 9, 2011

I am looking for descendants of the Vaclav KASIK b.1860 at #28 Zajecov, CZ Republic. ( Wife was Maria HERINK b.1867) Their children: Joseph, James, Mary, Josephine, Emma and Emil. Vaclav, Maria and older son Joseph are buried in Wilson cemetery. His older sister "Rosie" married my husband's grandfather, Frank HYNEK and lived in Saunders Co. Thank you

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