MRS. TROW OF WISNER ALERT, ACTIVE AT 89
AS CHILD SHE SAW NORFOLK FOUNDERS' CARAVAN PASS HER HOME
Wisner, Neb. special to The News: Mrs. C.E.Trow, a resident of this community for more than eight years, observed her eighty-ninth birthday anniversary Saturday, March 16, by entertaining a group of relatives and friends at her home in the afternoon.
Born in Richland county, Wisconsin, she came to Nebraska in 1865, with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Emley. .
In 1884 she was married to Charles E. Trow, who died several years ago. She is the only living member of a family of eleven children. Since the death, last year of her younger sister, May, who had made her home with her, Mrs. Trow has lived alone most of the time.
SERVICES HELD FRIDAY FOR AGED WISNERITE
Funeral services for Mrs. Matilda Ann Trow who passed away last Tuesday were held at 2:30 Friday afternoon at the Sultzer Funeral Home with the Rev. William Wilson of Coleridge , a former Wisner pastor in charge assisted by Rev J.E. Aeschbacher, pastor of the Congregational Church.
Wisner Star Chapter No. 149 OES of which she was a member attended in a body.
Burial was in the Wisner Cemetery with the Easter Star funeral service presented by the Wisner Chapter.
Pall bearers were Otto Paege, Norman Oleson, Harry Pumphrey, H. M. Nicholson, H.A. Heyne and L. J. Jensen.
Two numbers were sung by Mrs. H. M. Nicholson and Mrs. Ernest Gaither with Mrs. L.J. Jensen as pianist.
Matilda Ann Emley was born March 16th, 1857 in Muscoda, Wisconsin on of a family of eleven children and came to Nebraska in 1865 with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Emley and settled on a homestead three miles east of Wisner six years before the townsite was located.
They traveled overland with covered wagon and ox team, the older boys walking to drive the cattle which they brought with them arriving here on June 18th, 1865. Eighty four years ago. They first lived near the river in a log cabin which they built, later building a house on what is now Highway 275. In the passing years this home might have been the House by the Side of the Road.
All immigrants going West followed this road among them the early settlers of Norfolk from Wisconsin.
At one time a great many squaws and their papooses passed along moaning and lamenting the loss of their warriors in the Indian wars. Often these travelers stopped at this home always receiving a friendly welcome and given shelter, food and rest, to white people and Indians alike.
Ann Emley with brothers and sisters attended a rural school and later the Wisner school.
On March 6th, 1884 she was united in marriage to Charles E. Trow of Beemer and they came to Wisner to make their home. Mr. Trow becoming a member of the Emley Lumber Co. Mr. Trow passed away in July 1933. This has been Mrs. Trow's home through the years. She was interested in good things for the community enjoyed her friends interested in their welfare and gave a helping hand when needed. Were always welcomed to her home. She was a life member of the Congregational Aid Society and was initiated into the Eastern Star Chapter June 20, 1902.
She died June 14th, at the age of 92 years and 3 months. Her passing marks the loss of another Wisner pioneer women last member of a large pioneer family
She is survived by nieces and nephews:
AS CHILD SHE SAW NORFOLK FOUNDERS' CARAVAN PASS HER HOME
Wisner, Neb. special to The News: Mrs. C.E.Trow, a resident of this community for more than eight years, observed her eighty-ninth birthday anniversary Saturday, March 16, by entertaining a group of relatives and friends at her home in the afternoon.
Born in Richland county, Wisconsin, she came to Nebraska in 1865, with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Emley. .
In 1884 she was married to Charles E. Trow, who died several years ago. She is the only living member of a family of eleven children. Since the death, last year of her younger sister, May, who had made her home with her, Mrs. Trow has lived alone most of the time.
SERVICES HELD FRIDAY FOR AGED WISNERITE
Funeral services for Mrs. Matilda Ann Trow who passed away last Tuesday were held at 2:30 Friday afternoon at the Sultzer Funeral Home with the Rev. William Wilson of Coleridge , a former Wisner pastor in charge assisted by Rev J.E. Aeschbacher, pastor of the Congregational Church.
Wisner Star Chapter No. 149 OES of which she was a member attended in a body.
Burial was in the Wisner Cemetery with the Easter Star funeral service presented by the Wisner Chapter.
Pall bearers were Otto Paege, Norman Oleson, Harry Pumphrey, H. M. Nicholson, H.A. Heyne and L. J. Jensen.
Two numbers were sung by Mrs. H. M. Nicholson and Mrs. Ernest Gaither with Mrs. L.J. Jensen as pianist.
Matilda Ann Emley was born March 16th, 1857 in Muscoda, Wisconsin on of a family of eleven children and came to Nebraska in 1865 with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Emley and settled on a homestead three miles east of Wisner six years before the townsite was located.
They traveled overland with covered wagon and ox team, the older boys walking to drive the cattle which they brought with them arriving here on June 18th, 1865. Eighty four years ago. They first lived near the river in a log cabin which they built, later building a house on what is now Highway 275. In the passing years this home might have been the House by the Side of the Road.
All immigrants going West followed this road among them the early settlers of Norfolk from Wisconsin.
At one time a great many squaws and their papooses passed along moaning and lamenting the loss of their warriors in the Indian wars. Often these travelers stopped at this home always receiving a friendly welcome and given shelter, food and rest, to white people and Indians alike.
Ann Emley with brothers and sisters attended a rural school and later the Wisner school.
On March 6th, 1884 she was united in marriage to Charles E. Trow of Beemer and they came to Wisner to make their home. Mr. Trow becoming a member of the Emley Lumber Co. Mr. Trow passed away in July 1933. This has been Mrs. Trow's home through the years. She was interested in good things for the community enjoyed her friends interested in their welfare and gave a helping hand when needed. Were always welcomed to her home. She was a life member of the Congregational Aid Society and was initiated into the Eastern Star Chapter June 20, 1902.
She died June 14th, at the age of 92 years and 3 months. Her passing marks the loss of another Wisner pioneer women last member of a large pioneer family
She is survived by nieces and nephews:
MRS. TROW OF WISNER ALERT, ACTIVE AT 89
AS CHILD SHE SAW NORFOLK FOUNDERS' CARAVAN PASS HER HOME
Wisner, Neb. special to The News: Mrs. C.E.Trow, a resident of this community for more than eight years, observed her eighty-ninth birthday anniversary Saturday, March 16, by entertaining a group of relatives and friends at her home in the afternoon.
Born in Richland county, Wisconsin, she came to Nebraska in 1865, with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Emley. .
In 1884 she was married to Charles E. Trow, who died several years ago. She is the only living member of a family of eleven children. Since the death, last year of her younger sister, May, who had made her home with her, Mrs. Trow has lived alone most of the time.
SERVICES HELD FRIDAY FOR AGED WISNERITE
Funeral services for Mrs. Matilda Ann Trow who passed away last Tuesday were held at 2:30 Friday afternoon at the Sultzer Funeral Home with the Rev. William Wilson of Coleridge , a former Wisner pastor in charge assisted by Rev J.E. Aeschbacher, pastor of the Congregational Church.
Wisner Star Chapter No. 149 OES of which she was a member attended in a body.
Burial was in the Wisner Cemetery with the Easter Star funeral service presented by the Wisner Chapter.
Pall bearers were Otto Paege, Norman Oleson, Harry Pumphrey, H. M. Nicholson, H.A. Heyne and L. J. Jensen.
Two numbers were sung by Mrs. H. M. Nicholson and Mrs. Ernest Gaither with Mrs. L.J. Jensen as pianist.
Matilda Ann Emley was born March 16th, 1857 in Muscoda, Wisconsin on of a family of eleven children and came to Nebraska in 1865 with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Emley and settled on a homestead three miles east of Wisner six years before the townsite was located.
They traveled overland with covered wagon and ox team, the older boys walking to drive the cattle which they brought with them arriving here on June 18th, 1865. Eighty four years ago. They first lived near the river in a log cabin which they built, later building a house on what is now Highway 275. In the passing years this home might have been the House by the Side of the Road.
All immigrants going West followed this road among them the early settlers of Norfolk from Wisconsin.
At one time a great many squaws and their papooses passed along moaning and lamenting the loss of their warriors in the Indian wars. Often these travelers stopped at this home always receiving a friendly welcome and given shelter, food and rest, to white people and Indians alike.
Ann Emley with brothers and sisters attended a rural school and later the Wisner school.
On March 6th, 1884 she was united in marriage to Charles E. Trow of Beemer and they came to Wisner to make their home. Mr. Trow becoming a member of the Emley Lumber Co. Mr. Trow passed away in July 1933. This has been Mrs. Trow's home through the years. She was interested in good things for the community enjoyed her friends interested in their welfare and gave a helping hand when needed. Were always welcomed to her home. She was a life member of the Congregational Aid Society and was initiated into the Eastern Star Chapter June 20, 1902.
She died June 14th, at the age of 92 years and 3 months. Her passing marks the loss of another Wisner pioneer women last member of a large pioneer family
She is survived by nieces and nephews:
AS CHILD SHE SAW NORFOLK FOUNDERS' CARAVAN PASS HER HOME
Wisner, Neb. special to The News: Mrs. C.E.Trow, a resident of this community for more than eight years, observed her eighty-ninth birthday anniversary Saturday, March 16, by entertaining a group of relatives and friends at her home in the afternoon.
Born in Richland county, Wisconsin, she came to Nebraska in 1865, with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Emley. .
In 1884 she was married to Charles E. Trow, who died several years ago. She is the only living member of a family of eleven children. Since the death, last year of her younger sister, May, who had made her home with her, Mrs. Trow has lived alone most of the time.
SERVICES HELD FRIDAY FOR AGED WISNERITE
Funeral services for Mrs. Matilda Ann Trow who passed away last Tuesday were held at 2:30 Friday afternoon at the Sultzer Funeral Home with the Rev. William Wilson of Coleridge , a former Wisner pastor in charge assisted by Rev J.E. Aeschbacher, pastor of the Congregational Church.
Wisner Star Chapter No. 149 OES of which she was a member attended in a body.
Burial was in the Wisner Cemetery with the Easter Star funeral service presented by the Wisner Chapter.
Pall bearers were Otto Paege, Norman Oleson, Harry Pumphrey, H. M. Nicholson, H.A. Heyne and L. J. Jensen.
Two numbers were sung by Mrs. H. M. Nicholson and Mrs. Ernest Gaither with Mrs. L.J. Jensen as pianist.
Matilda Ann Emley was born March 16th, 1857 in Muscoda, Wisconsin on of a family of eleven children and came to Nebraska in 1865 with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Emley and settled on a homestead three miles east of Wisner six years before the townsite was located.
They traveled overland with covered wagon and ox team, the older boys walking to drive the cattle which they brought with them arriving here on June 18th, 1865. Eighty four years ago. They first lived near the river in a log cabin which they built, later building a house on what is now Highway 275. In the passing years this home might have been the House by the Side of the Road.
All immigrants going West followed this road among them the early settlers of Norfolk from Wisconsin.
At one time a great many squaws and their papooses passed along moaning and lamenting the loss of their warriors in the Indian wars. Often these travelers stopped at this home always receiving a friendly welcome and given shelter, food and rest, to white people and Indians alike.
Ann Emley with brothers and sisters attended a rural school and later the Wisner school.
On March 6th, 1884 she was united in marriage to Charles E. Trow of Beemer and they came to Wisner to make their home. Mr. Trow becoming a member of the Emley Lumber Co. Mr. Trow passed away in July 1933. This has been Mrs. Trow's home through the years. She was interested in good things for the community enjoyed her friends interested in their welfare and gave a helping hand when needed. Were always welcomed to her home. She was a life member of the Congregational Aid Society and was initiated into the Eastern Star Chapter June 20, 1902.
She died June 14th, at the age of 92 years and 3 months. Her passing marks the loss of another Wisner pioneer women last member of a large pioneer family
She is survived by nieces and nephews:
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