The Columbus Daily Telegram, March 12, 1928
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SCHAAD--Mrs. Schaad, Early Nebraska Pioneer, Claimed by Death - Headed Family of Five Generations; Leaves 112 Direct Descendants
    Mrs. Mary Schaad, 87, pioneer Nebraska woman and head of a family of five generations, who homesteaded in Polk county 54 years ago, died yesterday at 3 p.m. at the home of her son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Coolidge, 1624 Eighth street. She had been gradually failing in health for the past two years, and has been bedfast since last October. Death was due to the complications of her advanced age.
    A native of Austria, Mary Gabriel was born in Schoenwaldt on Apr. 24, 1840. There she grew to womanhood and was married in 1860 to Frank Haney. Fourteen years later, in 1874, Mr. and Mrs. Haney and their children came to America and homesteaded on a farm in Polk county, 18 miles southwest of Columbus.
    During those early years, they endured the hardships known to most pioneer families. Immediately after their arrival, they erected a sod house, which served as the family dwelling while they struggled to make the prairies produce a livelihood. Mrs. Schaad often recalled the building of that home, in the erection of which she, herself, had assisted. They did most of their trading in Columbus. The trip to town over the 18-mile stretch of prairie was then a long, tedious day's task and was made no oftener than necessity demanded in their only means oc [sic] conveyance--a wagon hitched to a yoke of oxen.
    Mr. Haney passed away in 1877. Mrs. Schaad was later married to Carl Langhoff, shortly after which they and her family moved to a farm eight miles north of Columbus, where they lived for a few years. From there she moved into Columbus and was married to Robert Schaad in 1887. His death occurred seven years ago, and Mrs. Schaad has been making her home with her daughter, Mrs. Coolidge, for the past five years.
    She was a devout member of the German Methodist church in Columbus until the congregation disbanded a few years ago. She was an active worker in the German Methodist missionary society for many years. Of late she had been attending Grace Episcopal church. Always of a generous, kindly, hospitable disposition, her friendship was ever treasured by all who knew her.
    Mrs. Schaad was the mother of 10 children, and has 112 living descendants. Two sons and two daughters have preceded her in death--Frank Haney, Mrs. Henry Baumann, Mrs. Mary Haney Novell and Mrs. August Roos. The surviving sons and daughters are: Adolph Haney, Eustis, Neb.; Mrs. Fred Seigenthaler, Puyallup, Wash.; Lee Haney, Lexington, Neb.; Raymond and Joseph Haney and Mrs. Ralph Coolidge, all of Columbus. She also leaves one step-son, Fritz Schaad, of Columbus. There are 41 grandchildren, 70 great grandchildren and one great great grandchild.
    Funeral services will be held at the Coolidge home at 2:30 Tuesday afternoon, Rev. W. H. Talmage, rector of Grace Episcopal church, officiating. Burial will be made in Columbus cemetery, six grandsons acting as pallbearers.

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The Columbus Daily Telegram, March 14, 1928
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SCHAAD--Funeral of Mrs. Schaad--The funeral of Mrs. Mary Schaad, 87, Nebraska pioneer and head of a family of five generations, who died Sunday, was held at 2:30 p.m. Tuesday at the home of her son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Coolidge, 1624 Eighth street, with whom she had made her home for several years. Rev. W. H. Talmage, rector of the Grace Episcopal church, conducted the services, and burial was made in Columbus cemetery beside the body of her husband, the late Robert J. Schaad. The grandsons bore the body to the sepulture [sic], Dave and Gus Coolidge, Howard Haney, Ralph Haney, Theodore Haney, and Fred Novell, the latter of Bellwood. Miss Pauline Coolidge, of Lincoln, and Miss Louise Novell, of Fullerton, granddaughters of Mrs. Schaad, were here to attend the funeral. The large number of friends who attended the services bore testimony to the high esteem in which she was held in the community which was her home for more than 50 years.

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The Columbus Daily Telegram, April 12, 1928
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GUTZMER--Mrs. J. A. Gutzmer, resident of Platte county for nearly a half century, died at St. Joseph's hospital, Omaha, at 1 a.m. today. Mrs. Gutzmer had been in declining health since November due to complications and had been a patient at St. Joseph's hospital for the last two weeks. The members of the family were at her bedside at the time of her death and accompanied the body to Columbus this morning. Mary Borowiak was born in Posen, Poland, Feb. 2, 1857 and came to America with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Martin Borowiak, when she was 11 years old. The family located near Morrison, Ill., for a few years, moving to Platte county about 1870 to establish their home here. In 1879, she was married to J. A. Gutzmer, who survives her. She also leaves five sons and two daughters, A. J. Gutzmer, of Norfolk; J. B., Basil, A. E., Louis and Miss Rose Gutzmer, all of Columbus, and Miss Frances Gutzmer, of Billings, Mont. Mrs. Barbara Kryzcki, of Omaha; Mrs. Joseph Chlopek, of Columbus; L. M. Borowiak, of Denver, and M. S. Borowiak, of Boston, Mass., are sisters and brothers of Mrs. Gutzmer. Four sons have preceded her in death. Funeral services will be held at St. Bonaventure's church 10 a.m. Saturday. Rev. Fr. Wencil Kryzcki, of Omaha, nephew of Mrs. Gutzmer, will be celebrant at a solemn requiem mass and burial will be made in the parish cemetery. Mrs. Gutzmer was a devout communicant of the Catholic church. She was a member of the Third Order of Franciscans, St. Anne's Altar society and of the Franciscan Missionary Union.

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The Columbus Daily Telegram, September 10, 1928
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MAHOOD--Samuel Mahood Called by Death
    Long Illness Fatal to Pioneer Farmer and Business Man
    Samuel Mahood, 80, well known pioneer of Platte county and former prominent Columbus business man, died at his home, 2504 Twenty-third street at 1:45 a.m. Sunday. He had been in failing health the last year because of infirmities incident to his advanced age and had been bedfast two weeks.
    Mr. Mahood was a native of County Down, Ireland, where he was born, Feb. 29, 1848, and as a young man clerked in a store in Belfast. In May 1870, he came to America with his parents, the late Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Mahood, who settled on a farm a mile and a half west of the Loup river railroad bridge. He entered the employ of the Union Pacific railroad and helped with the construction of new roads for a time. In 1876, he homesteaded in Joliet township, hauling his farm produce from there to Columbus, which was, at that tie, the nearest trading point.
    In 1891, he left the farm and came to Columbus to enter the hotel business from which he retired 10 years later. For three years, he was owner and manager of the Lindell hotel, which he sold in 1893, when he bought the Grand Pacific hotel which he operated seven ears. Of late years, Mr. Mahood has devoted a part of his time to the real estate business.
    On March 26, 1879, Mr. Mahood married Miss Sib Davis, a daughter of David H. Davis, one of the Welsh pioneers of Joliet township. To them were born nine children, two of whom, David and Clinton, passed away in childhood.
    Mr. Mahood is survived by Mrs. Mahood, one son and six daughters--Samuel Arthur Mahood, professor of chemistry at Tulane university, New Orleans, La.; Miss Amy Mahood, principal of the high school of Plainview; Mrs. C. E. Scace, Lusk, Wyo.; Mrs. E. V. Sucha, St. Louis; Miss Jean Mahood, principal of the high school at Wood River; Mrs. H. G. Person, Greeley, Colo., and Miss Grace Mahood, who is a member of the nurses' staff of the Columbus hospital.
    He leaves also a brother, George Mahood, of Genoa; two sisters, Mrs. Margaret Olin, of Tilden, Mrs. Sarah Harris, of Brunswick, and a sister-in-law, Mrs. Ellen Mahood, of Neligh.
    Funeral services will be held at the family home at 2:30 p.m. Tuesday. Rev. Roy M. Lewis, pastor of the Baptist church, of which Mr. Mahood was for many years an active member, will conduct the services, and burial will be made in Columbus cemetery.

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The Columbus Daily Telegram, November 2, 1928
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STEWART--MRS. G.W. STEWART, EARLY-DAY RESIDENT OF PLATTE, SUCCUMBS
    Boone, Nov. 2--Mrs. Lois Gage Stewart wife of G. W. Stewart, passed away at her home in Boone, Neb., on Oct. 26 after a lingering illness of several years.
    She was a beautiful character, always kind and sympathetic, a dedicated wife and mother.
    Mrs. Stewart was born in Smithfield, N. Y. Dec. 14, 1845 and was 83 years old at the time of her death. She was married to George W. Stewart Mar. 14, 1866 at Binghampton, N. Y. by Rev. Lothroup. To this union five children were born.
    She came west with her soldier husband with a party of other married couples to make their home in the golden west. They came to St. Joseph, Mo. by railroad, then by steamboat to Omaha, then only a small village. From there they rode on th first train running from Omaha to Fremont, at that time the end of the road.
    From there they came by stage coach to Columbus, where there was one little hotel, the Whaley house, Mr. Becker’s store and Mr. Rickley’s store and a mill owned by Hr. Hoffman.
    They settled in the valley of the beautiful Platte, five miles west of Columbus. They broke the land, planted trees and shrubs, built a home, a little paradise on the barren prairie. The Union Pacific built on west and crossed Mr. Stewart’s farm.
    Mr. Stewart was a bridge carpenter fOr the Union Pacific for a number of years, coming home at the week ends, and his little wife holding the claim. Those trees planted by Mr. and Mrs. Stewart grew to large saw-logs and were used to replank the bridge across the Loup river many years later.
    Mr. Stewart is the last survivor of the colony that came from New York in the early days.
    The children are: Arthur E. Stewart, of Lance Creek, Wyo.; Mrs. Charles Kerns, of Seneca, Nebr.; Mrs. Alice Bell of Grandview, Wash.; Mrs. Mae C. Saunders, of St. Edward, Nebr.; and Mrs. Edith E. Tomlinson, at home in Boone, all of whom were here to attend the funeral of their mother, with the exception of Mrs. Bell.
    Mr. and Mrs. Stewart have lived in their present home in Boone for the past 23 years. A wealth of floral offerings bore evidence of the high esteem they are held by their many friends here.