Aged 76 years 11 months 18 days
DEATH OF A PIONEER OF BUFFALO COUNTY
Mrs. Emily H. Carpenter of Cedar Township, Passes to Her Reward
Ravenna News: Mrs. Emily Carpenter died at the home of her son, Stephen Carpenter, in Cedar Township, Saturday morning, April 13, 1907, age 77 years.
Mr. and Mrs. Carpenter moved to Nebraska in 1872. They reached the frontier village of Gibbon on September 19, 1872, and moved to their homestead in Cedar township the following spring, and it was here that Mr. and Mrs. Carpenter made their home until the time of their death. Mr. Carpenter died June 17, 1903, and was buried in the United Presbyterian cemetery at Majors, and the remains of Mrs. Carpenter were laid beside him on Monday afternoon.
The seven children of the family are all living. John W. Carpenter lives at Whitman, Neb.; Hulda Carpenter McCool lives at Emmett, Idaho; while all the other children, Stephen B. and Cyril Carpenter and Mrs. Marion Schwasinger, Mirandy Whittaker and Lydia Whittaker, make their home in the vicinity of the old homestead in Cedar Township.
The Carpenter home, built on the old homestead, at what was for many years known as Majors' post office, was probably one of the very first frame buildings built in the county, north of the Platte River. It was a house of the style known as a "story-and-a-half" and in the upper rooms of this building Mrs. Carpenter taught the two first terms of school in Cedar Township. The school was attended by fifteen pupils, besides her own children. At night the school room was utilized by the Carpenter family as a sleeping room and it is related of this pioneer school, that when her younger pupils would grow sleepy Mrs. Carpenter would put the little fellows to bed, and let them sleep unit school was out. When a new sod school house was finally built in the district, the pupils expressed great dissatisfaction because the new school room contained no beds.
The Carpenter home was for more than a quarter of a century a United States post office. Mr. Carpenter being one of the oldest postmasters in the state in point of continuous service at the time he resigned on account of age and disability. This fact compled with the genial and hospitable nature of the Carpenter family made their home the social center of the a large territory during the early days, and it is doubtful if there were two more widely known and popular persons in the county than Mr. and Mrs. Carpenter.
Mrs. Carpenter had been failing rapidly during the past two or three years. A few days before her death she fell while passing through a doorway, the fall aggravating a hernia trouble from which she had suffered for many years and it was trouble arising from this source which resulted in her death at the time stated.
Kearney Daily Hub
April 22, 1907
page 3
Note: obit provided by Pritch # 47028758
DEATH OF A PIONEER OF BUFFALO COUNTY
Mrs. Emily H. Carpenter of Cedar Township, Passes to Her Reward
Ravenna News: Mrs. Emily Carpenter died at the home of her son, Stephen Carpenter, in Cedar Township, Saturday morning, April 13, 1907, age 77 years.
Mr. and Mrs. Carpenter moved to Nebraska in 1872. They reached the frontier village of Gibbon on September 19, 1872, and moved to their homestead in Cedar township the following spring, and it was here that Mr. and Mrs. Carpenter made their home until the time of their death. Mr. Carpenter died June 17, 1903, and was buried in the United Presbyterian cemetery at Majors, and the remains of Mrs. Carpenter were laid beside him on Monday afternoon.
The seven children of the family are all living. John W. Carpenter lives at Whitman, Neb.; Hulda Carpenter McCool lives at Emmett, Idaho; while all the other children, Stephen B. and Cyril Carpenter and Mrs. Marion Schwasinger, Mirandy Whittaker and Lydia Whittaker, make their home in the vicinity of the old homestead in Cedar Township.
The Carpenter home, built on the old homestead, at what was for many years known as Majors' post office, was probably one of the very first frame buildings built in the county, north of the Platte River. It was a house of the style known as a "story-and-a-half" and in the upper rooms of this building Mrs. Carpenter taught the two first terms of school in Cedar Township. The school was attended by fifteen pupils, besides her own children. At night the school room was utilized by the Carpenter family as a sleeping room and it is related of this pioneer school, that when her younger pupils would grow sleepy Mrs. Carpenter would put the little fellows to bed, and let them sleep unit school was out. When a new sod school house was finally built in the district, the pupils expressed great dissatisfaction because the new school room contained no beds.
The Carpenter home was for more than a quarter of a century a United States post office. Mr. Carpenter being one of the oldest postmasters in the state in point of continuous service at the time he resigned on account of age and disability. This fact compled with the genial and hospitable nature of the Carpenter family made their home the social center of the a large territory during the early days, and it is doubtful if there were two more widely known and popular persons in the county than Mr. and Mrs. Carpenter.
Mrs. Carpenter had been failing rapidly during the past two or three years. A few days before her death she fell while passing through a doorway, the fall aggravating a hernia trouble from which she had suffered for many years and it was trouble arising from this source which resulted in her death at the time stated.
Kearney Daily Hub
April 22, 1907
page 3
Note: obit provided by Pritch # 47028758
Aged 76 years 11 months 18 days
DEATH OF A PIONEER OF BUFFALO COUNTY
Mrs. Emily H. Carpenter of Cedar Township, Passes to Her Reward
Ravenna News: Mrs. Emily Carpenter died at the home of her son, Stephen Carpenter, in Cedar Township, Saturday morning, April 13, 1907, age 77 years.
Mr. and Mrs. Carpenter moved to Nebraska in 1872. They reached the frontier village of Gibbon on September 19, 1872, and moved to their homestead in Cedar township the following spring, and it was here that Mr. and Mrs. Carpenter made their home until the time of their death. Mr. Carpenter died June 17, 1903, and was buried in the United Presbyterian cemetery at Majors, and the remains of Mrs. Carpenter were laid beside him on Monday afternoon.
The seven children of the family are all living. John W. Carpenter lives at Whitman, Neb.; Hulda Carpenter McCool lives at Emmett, Idaho; while all the other children, Stephen B. and Cyril Carpenter and Mrs. Marion Schwasinger, Mirandy Whittaker and Lydia Whittaker, make their home in the vicinity of the old homestead in Cedar Township.
The Carpenter home, built on the old homestead, at what was for many years known as Majors' post office, was probably one of the very first frame buildings built in the county, north of the Platte River. It was a house of the style known as a "story-and-a-half" and in the upper rooms of this building Mrs. Carpenter taught the two first terms of school in Cedar Township. The school was attended by fifteen pupils, besides her own children. At night the school room was utilized by the Carpenter family as a sleeping room and it is related of this pioneer school, that when her younger pupils would grow sleepy Mrs. Carpenter would put the little fellows to bed, and let them sleep unit school was out. When a new sod school house was finally built in the district, the pupils expressed great dissatisfaction because the new school room contained no beds.
The Carpenter home was for more than a quarter of a century a United States post office. Mr. Carpenter being one of the oldest postmasters in the state in point of continuous service at the time he resigned on account of age and disability. This fact compled with the genial and hospitable nature of the Carpenter family made their home the social center of the a large territory during the early days, and it is doubtful if there were two more widely known and popular persons in the county than Mr. and Mrs. Carpenter.
Mrs. Carpenter had been failing rapidly during the past two or three years. A few days before her death she fell while passing through a doorway, the fall aggravating a hernia trouble from which she had suffered for many years and it was trouble arising from this source which resulted in her death at the time stated.
Kearney Daily Hub
April 22, 1907
page 3
Note: obit provided by Pritch # 47028758
DEATH OF A PIONEER OF BUFFALO COUNTY
Mrs. Emily H. Carpenter of Cedar Township, Passes to Her Reward
Ravenna News: Mrs. Emily Carpenter died at the home of her son, Stephen Carpenter, in Cedar Township, Saturday morning, April 13, 1907, age 77 years.
Mr. and Mrs. Carpenter moved to Nebraska in 1872. They reached the frontier village of Gibbon on September 19, 1872, and moved to their homestead in Cedar township the following spring, and it was here that Mr. and Mrs. Carpenter made their home until the time of their death. Mr. Carpenter died June 17, 1903, and was buried in the United Presbyterian cemetery at Majors, and the remains of Mrs. Carpenter were laid beside him on Monday afternoon.
The seven children of the family are all living. John W. Carpenter lives at Whitman, Neb.; Hulda Carpenter McCool lives at Emmett, Idaho; while all the other children, Stephen B. and Cyril Carpenter and Mrs. Marion Schwasinger, Mirandy Whittaker and Lydia Whittaker, make their home in the vicinity of the old homestead in Cedar Township.
The Carpenter home, built on the old homestead, at what was for many years known as Majors' post office, was probably one of the very first frame buildings built in the county, north of the Platte River. It was a house of the style known as a "story-and-a-half" and in the upper rooms of this building Mrs. Carpenter taught the two first terms of school in Cedar Township. The school was attended by fifteen pupils, besides her own children. At night the school room was utilized by the Carpenter family as a sleeping room and it is related of this pioneer school, that when her younger pupils would grow sleepy Mrs. Carpenter would put the little fellows to bed, and let them sleep unit school was out. When a new sod school house was finally built in the district, the pupils expressed great dissatisfaction because the new school room contained no beds.
The Carpenter home was for more than a quarter of a century a United States post office. Mr. Carpenter being one of the oldest postmasters in the state in point of continuous service at the time he resigned on account of age and disability. This fact compled with the genial and hospitable nature of the Carpenter family made their home the social center of the a large territory during the early days, and it is doubtful if there were two more widely known and popular persons in the county than Mr. and Mrs. Carpenter.
Mrs. Carpenter had been failing rapidly during the past two or three years. A few days before her death she fell while passing through a doorway, the fall aggravating a hernia trouble from which she had suffered for many years and it was trouble arising from this source which resulted in her death at the time stated.
Kearney Daily Hub
April 22, 1907
page 3
Note: obit provided by Pritch # 47028758
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