[Courtesy of the Table Rock Historical Society, compiled by Sharla Cerra]
So much should be written of this brave, articulate, devout, and strong pioneer woman that to write just a little seems an injustice. Nevertheless, one must start somewhere.
Juliana Gere was born in Smyrna, New York in 1807, the daughter of Dr. Isaac and Hanna Grant. She was the youngest of 9 children.
She married Horatio Nelson Gere in 1834; he was 32, she 26. They had 7 children. Their first two died in infancy, Horatio Nelson in 1834 (one day old), and John Loring Gere (1836-1837). Their other five children were Charles Henry (1838-1904), Julia Maria (1840-1859), John Nelson (1842-1870), Hanna Jane (1845-1857), and George Grant (1848-1918).
In 1856, Juliana and H. N. Gere emigrated to Table Rock, Nebraska with their four youngest children, leaving their son Charles in the east to attend school, where he would remain for many years. Juliana and H. N. almost immediately lost two more of their children in Nebraska, to illness: Hannah at age 22 in 1857 and Julia at age 19 in 1859; poignant family memoirs tell the story of those early days and the deaths of these two beloved girls. John Nelson married Lydia Giddings and his story, too, is a poignant one; he fought in the Civil War; in 1870 he was murdered by a renegade band of Indians while working a homestead in Kansas where he apparently hoped to relocate his young family (a toddler and a pregnant Lydia). Charles had by then joined the family in Nebraska but was only briefly in Table Rock; he moved on to found an influential newspaper and was a person of repute in the state capitol; a library in Omaha is named after him. Little is known of the youngest, George; he moved to San Francisco, and he may have died in 1918 at the age of 70 according to some genealogy posts on ancestry that cite no sources.
After the death of Horatio, Juliana married Thomas McClure; their marriage is recorded in the county marriage records as having taken place on March 1, 1867. The witnesses were her son John and daughter-in-law Lydia. The only other information provided by the county record is that the license was taken out on February 27, 1867, and the ceremony performed by William Aikens, Probate Judge.
So much should be written of this brave, articulate, devout, and strong pioneer woman that to write just a little seems an injustice. Nevertheless, one must start somewhere.
Juliana Gere was born in Smyrna, New York in 1807, the daughter of Dr. Isaac and Hanna Grant. She was the youngest of 9 children.
She married Horatio Nelson Gere in 1834; he was 32, she 26. They had 7 children. Their first two died in infancy, Horatio Nelson in 1834 (one day old), and John Loring Gere (1836-1837). Their other five children were Charles Henry (1838-1904), Julia Maria (1840-1859), John Nelson (1842-1870), Hanna Jane (1845-1857), and George Grant (1848-1918).
In 1856, Juliana and H. N. Gere emigrated to Table Rock, Nebraska with their four youngest children, leaving their son Charles in the east to attend school, where he would remain for many years. Juliana and H. N. almost immediately lost two more of their children in Nebraska, to illness: Hannah at age 22 in 1857 and Julia at age 19 in 1859; poignant family memoirs tell the story of those early days and the deaths of these two beloved girls. John Nelson married Lydia Giddings and his story, too, is a poignant one; he fought in the Civil War; in 1870 he was murdered by a renegade band of Indians while working a homestead in Kansas where he apparently hoped to relocate his young family (a toddler and a pregnant Lydia). Charles had by then joined the family in Nebraska but was only briefly in Table Rock; he moved on to found an influential newspaper and was a person of repute in the state capitol; a library in Omaha is named after him. Little is known of the youngest, George; he moved to San Francisco, and he may have died in 1918 at the age of 70 according to some genealogy posts on ancestry that cite no sources.
After the death of Horatio, Juliana married Thomas McClure; their marriage is recorded in the county marriage records as having taken place on March 1, 1867. The witnesses were her son John and daughter-in-law Lydia. The only other information provided by the county record is that the license was taken out on February 27, 1867, and the ceremony performed by William Aikens, Probate Judge.
[Courtesy of the Table Rock Historical Society, compiled by Sharla Cerra]
So much should be written of this brave, articulate, devout, and strong pioneer woman that to write just a little seems an injustice. Nevertheless, one must start somewhere.
Juliana Gere was born in Smyrna, New York in 1807, the daughter of Dr. Isaac and Hanna Grant. She was the youngest of 9 children.
She married Horatio Nelson Gere in 1834; he was 32, she 26. They had 7 children. Their first two died in infancy, Horatio Nelson in 1834 (one day old), and John Loring Gere (1836-1837). Their other five children were Charles Henry (1838-1904), Julia Maria (1840-1859), John Nelson (1842-1870), Hanna Jane (1845-1857), and George Grant (1848-1918).
In 1856, Juliana and H. N. Gere emigrated to Table Rock, Nebraska with their four youngest children, leaving their son Charles in the east to attend school, where he would remain for many years. Juliana and H. N. almost immediately lost two more of their children in Nebraska, to illness: Hannah at age 22 in 1857 and Julia at age 19 in 1859; poignant family memoirs tell the story of those early days and the deaths of these two beloved girls. John Nelson married Lydia Giddings and his story, too, is a poignant one; he fought in the Civil War; in 1870 he was murdered by a renegade band of Indians while working a homestead in Kansas where he apparently hoped to relocate his young family (a toddler and a pregnant Lydia). Charles had by then joined the family in Nebraska but was only briefly in Table Rock; he moved on to found an influential newspaper and was a person of repute in the state capitol; a library in Omaha is named after him. Little is known of the youngest, George; he moved to San Francisco, and he may have died in 1918 at the age of 70 according to some genealogy posts on ancestry that cite no sources.
After the death of Horatio, Juliana married Thomas McClure; their marriage is recorded in the county marriage records as having taken place on March 1, 1867. The witnesses were her son John and daughter-in-law Lydia. The only other information provided by the county record is that the license was taken out on February 27, 1867, and the ceremony performed by William Aikens, Probate Judge.
So much should be written of this brave, articulate, devout, and strong pioneer woman that to write just a little seems an injustice. Nevertheless, one must start somewhere.
Juliana Gere was born in Smyrna, New York in 1807, the daughter of Dr. Isaac and Hanna Grant. She was the youngest of 9 children.
She married Horatio Nelson Gere in 1834; he was 32, she 26. They had 7 children. Their first two died in infancy, Horatio Nelson in 1834 (one day old), and John Loring Gere (1836-1837). Their other five children were Charles Henry (1838-1904), Julia Maria (1840-1859), John Nelson (1842-1870), Hanna Jane (1845-1857), and George Grant (1848-1918).
In 1856, Juliana and H. N. Gere emigrated to Table Rock, Nebraska with their four youngest children, leaving their son Charles in the east to attend school, where he would remain for many years. Juliana and H. N. almost immediately lost two more of their children in Nebraska, to illness: Hannah at age 22 in 1857 and Julia at age 19 in 1859; poignant family memoirs tell the story of those early days and the deaths of these two beloved girls. John Nelson married Lydia Giddings and his story, too, is a poignant one; he fought in the Civil War; in 1870 he was murdered by a renegade band of Indians while working a homestead in Kansas where he apparently hoped to relocate his young family (a toddler and a pregnant Lydia). Charles had by then joined the family in Nebraska but was only briefly in Table Rock; he moved on to found an influential newspaper and was a person of repute in the state capitol; a library in Omaha is named after him. Little is known of the youngest, George; he moved to San Francisco, and he may have died in 1918 at the age of 70 according to some genealogy posts on ancestry that cite no sources.
After the death of Horatio, Juliana married Thomas McClure; their marriage is recorded in the county marriage records as having taken place on March 1, 1867. The witnesses were her son John and daughter-in-law Lydia. The only other information provided by the county record is that the license was taken out on February 27, 1867, and the ceremony performed by William Aikens, Probate Judge.
Gravesite Details
Unknown burial plot; no burial record; there are many empty plots adjacent to her son John N. Gere, who died in 1870.
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