Emma Lela (Troyer) McCandless was born June 9, 1886 at Callaway, NE and died October 7, 1977 at the Callaway Hospital at the age of 91yr and 4mo. Her Parents were Jacob D. Troyer born 4/23/1846 - died 10/09/1931 and Susanna (Yoder) Troyer born 9/15/1845 - died 3/14/1919, both buried in Rose Hill Cemetery Callaway, NE.
She lived her entire life in Custer Co. growing up and going to school in Pine Canyon Community, north of Callaway.
She married Joseph W. McCandless September 3, 1904. They lived around Callaway until the Spring of 1908 when she and her husband homesteaded a place 17 miles north of Arnold. The suffered many hardships there. They were burned out by prairie fires, lost most of their cattle due to cornstalk disease, and lost a daughter with scarlet fever and a baby son. Her husband died of the Spanish Flu Jan. 25, 1917.
She lived her entire life in Custer Co. growing up and going to school in Pine Canyon Community, north of Callaway.
She married Joseph W. McCandless September 3, 1904. They lived around Callaway until the Spring of 1908 when she and her husband homesteaded a place 17 miles north of Arnold. The suffered many hardships there. They were burned out by prairie fires, lost most of their cattle due to cornstalk disease, and lost a daughter with scarlet fever and a baby son. Her husband died of the Spanish Flu Jan. 25, 1917.
Emma Lela (Troyer) McCandless was born June 9, 1886 at Callaway, NE and died October 7, 1977 at the Callaway Hospital at the age of 91yr and 4mo. Her Parents were Jacob D. Troyer born 4/23/1846 - died 10/09/1931 and Susanna (Yoder) Troyer born 9/15/1845 - died 3/14/1919, both buried in Rose Hill Cemetery Callaway, NE.
She lived her entire life in Custer Co. growing up and going to school in Pine Canyon Community, north of Callaway.
She married Joseph W. McCandless September 3, 1904. They lived around Callaway until the Spring of 1908 when she and her husband homesteaded a place 17 miles north of Arnold. The suffered many hardships there. They were burned out by prairie fires, lost most of their cattle due to cornstalk disease, and lost a daughter with scarlet fever and a baby son. Her husband died of the Spanish Flu Jan. 25, 1917.
She lived her entire life in Custer Co. growing up and going to school in Pine Canyon Community, north of Callaway.
She married Joseph W. McCandless September 3, 1904. They lived around Callaway until the Spring of 1908 when she and her husband homesteaded a place 17 miles north of Arnold. The suffered many hardships there. They were burned out by prairie fires, lost most of their cattle due to cornstalk disease, and lost a daughter with scarlet fever and a baby son. Her husband died of the Spanish Flu Jan. 25, 1917.
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