There is an article in the newspaper “Norfolk Daily News” Sat. September 4, 2004 on page 6 of the burials of 12 little babies who had no marker on their individual graves. This is in the Magnet, Nebraska cemetery.
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1947 “The Norfolk Daily News” Obits, Norfolk, Nebraska
The names that follow are not all that may have been in the paper at that time. The month that follows the name is a guide in locating the information. In most cases it is shown as a death date. If you have a name you want information on please contact Allied Genealogical Search. Please go back to our ‘main home page’ to see how to reach us. The names may or may not be misspelled as the hand writing was on 3 by 4 cards and in in some cases very difficult to dicepher.
The names cover not only Madison county but other parts of Nebraska and into other states.
Allen, Harvey, Mrs. Jul. 1947
Anderson, N. P. Nov. 1947
Arbogast, Fredrick Jul. 1947
Asher, Edward Sept. 1947
Baker, Franklin K. Dec. 1947
Bass, Harvey, Mrs. Jan. 1947
Bauer, Louis Dec. 1947
Berger, Fredrick Dec. 1947
Blank, Gottlieb Dec. 1947
Bloom, Joseph Mar. 1947
Boggs, William F. Dec. 1947
Born, Loretta, Mrs. Jan. 1947
Borton, Frank Jan. 1947
Bottorff, Effie, Mrs. May 1947
Bowers, Frank May 1947
Bowers, Gordon Mar. 1947
Bradley, Alfred Mar. 1947
Brande, Alfred, Mrs. May 1947
Brandt, William Feb. 1947
Breece, Earl, Mrs. May 1947
Bridgeford, Linda Apr. 1947
Brinkman, Elizabeth Apr. 1947
Brogren, Hans Dec. 1947
Brown, Flora Jan. 1947
Brown, Peter, Mrs. Feb. 1947
Brownfield, Elais Mar. 1947
Bruchman, William D. May 1947
Brundage, George Feb. 1947
Brunsbach, Edward Feb. 1947
Buhler, Frederick Apr. 1947
Burns, Fran Dec. 1947
Chamberlain, Farell David Dec. 1947
Cogshell, Olive, Mrs. Dec. 1947
Coleson, Earl Dec. 1947
Collins, Lawrence, Mrs. Dec. 1947
Copper, Wayne Jan. 1947
Crook, D. F. Mar. 1947
Diehle, John F. Aug. 1947
Dinklage, Fred Dec. 1947
Enloe, Frank Dec. 1947
Ferris, David Charles Jun. 1947
Foster, Ida, Mrs. Sept. 1947
Freeman, Lydia, Mrs. Jan. 1947
French, George Arthur Sept. 1947
Greeley, Annie, Mrs. Aug. 1947
Halsey, Delbert Jan. 1947
Hammerlun, Richard Dale Dec. 1947
Hansen, Dorothea Mar. 1947
Hansen, Marie, Mrs. Dec. 1947
Hansen, Peter May 1947
Harley, Harry Mar. 1947
Harsch, Rudolph Apr. 1947
Harstick, Theodore Mar. 1947
Hazelhorst, Wesly Edward Dec. 1947
Henke, Max L. Apr. 1947
Heser, Lena, Mrs. Dec. 1947
Hillbers, Larry E. Jun. 1947
Hinman, William W. Dec. 1947
Howell, Darsey Dec. 1947
Hult, August R. Nov. 1947
Jensen, Carl S. Sept. 1947
Jensen, George Mar. 1947
Jensen, John S. Jan. 1947
Jensen, Minnie, Mrs. Feb. 1947
Johnson, Morris, Mrs. Dec. 1947
Judd, Rebecca Ellen, Mrs. Jan. 1947
Kenaston, Maud, Mrs. Dec. 1947
Kennedy, William Jan. 1947
Kerler, John Jan. 1947
Kline, Henry Dec. 1947
Koopmann, Ernest Dec. 1947
Kune, Marvin Feb. 1947
Lewis, Michael Rodger Aug. 1947
Lindsay, T. H., Mrs. Dec. 1947
Mayo, Retha, Mrs. Jun. 1947
McDonald, Cecella, Mrs. Nov. 1947
Menebroken, Emma, Mrs. Dec. 1947
Mewis, Louis Dec. 1947
Miller, Emil, Mrs. Dec. 1947
Moenning, Edward, Mrs. Feb. 1947
Monnebroker, Will, Mrs. Dec. 1947
Morrison, James May . 1947
Mueller, Wm., Mrs. Dec. 1947
Nygren, Mathilda, Mrs. Jul. 1947
Pittack, Lyle Dec. 1947
Porath, Otto Dec. 1947
Prevaacha, Louis D. Jul. 1947
Prisbil, Casper, Mrs. Dec. 1947
Ptacek, William, Mrs. Feb. 1947
Radant, Norman Dec. 1947
Ramier, Amelia, Mrs. Dec. 1947
Rath, Chris, Sr. Aug. 1947
Rice, Charles Mar. 1947
Roberts, F. W., Mrs. Dec. 1947
Rodekohr, John Dec. 1947
Satchell, Marion, Mrs. Dec. 1947
Schafer, Harry Lester Nov. 1947
Schroeder, Gerhard, Mrs. Dec. 1947
Schulz, Mahala, Mrs. Nov. 1947
Schulz, Will May 1947
Schwede, Herman Dec. 1947
Sell, Fred Dec. 1947
Short, Sara, Miss Dec. 1947
Sievertsen, O., Rev. Apr. 1947
Speerman, C. C. Jan. 1947
Stark, William Dec. 1947
Stollar, Grace, Mrs. Jul. 1947
Stoller, J. W. Jul. 1947
Sullivan, Althea Jan. 1947
Sullivan, John Paul Mar. 1947
Swalls, S. W. Nov. 1947
Taylor, Homer, Rev. Sept. 1947
Tews, Erenest, Mrs. Dec. 1947
Thompson, Charles I., Dr. Jan. 1947
Toltz, V. J., Mrs. Mar. 1947
Upton, Mary, Mrs. Dec. 1947
VanOwens, Edward Sept. 1947
Vogel, Joseph Jan. 1947
Wacker, Dan Dec. 1947
Wayman, H. J. Jan. 1947
Westcott, Ross Oct. 1947
Wettlaufer, Pat May 1947
Wilton, George A. Oct. 1947
Yosten, G. J., Mrs. Jun. 1947
Warnerville
There is an article about Warnerville is in the newspaper “Norfolk Daily News” Oct. 2, 2015 on page 6. It gives a history of the hamlet and some of the people there, and the activities of that small community.
Rebekah Lodge
Deborah Rebekah Lodge 63 has 42 members, 36 women and six men. The Rebekah Lodge was founded on Sept. 16, 1851 by Schuyler Colfax. The Norfolk Rebekah Lodge was instituted on April 16, 1891. There have been four assembly presidents from the Norfolk Lodge, Cora Beels, Agnes Jewett, Vivian Jones and Myrtle Reinhold. The group meets the second and fourth Mondays of each month at 7:30 p.m. at the Odd Fellow Temple, 403 W. Norfolk Ave. To be eligible to join the Rebekah Lodge, a female must be over 18; a man must be a member of the Odd Fellow Lodge. Source: excerpts from Norfolk Daily News, Saturday, July 7, 2007 on page 14.
Madison County School Map
The date of the map shown below is unknown. Below the map is a listing (if known) of the school district number, name of school, and the township it was located in at the time of the map. Consolidations of schools, district number changes, and locations of the schools have changed over the years. Use this only as a reference until date of the map can be established.
| District No. | School Name | Township |
| 2 | Norfolk | Norfolk |
| 3 | Sunny Meadow | Norfolk |
| 4 | Valley View | Jefferson |
| 5 | Battle Creek | Battle Creek |
| 6 | Union Valley | Madison |
| 7 | Union Creek | Green Garden |
| 8 | Born | Valley |
| 10 | Deer Creek | Highland |
| 11 | Pleasant Valley | Union |
| 12 | Meadow Grove | Meadow Grove |
| 13 | Newman Grove | Shell Creek |
| 14 | Sunny Dale | Valley |
| 15 | Red House | Fairview |
| 16 | Stange | Warnerville |
| 17 | Stirk | Battle Creek |
| 18 | Meadow Grove | |
| 20 | Norfolk | |
| 21 | Sullivan | Deer Creek |
| 22 | Cunningham | Battle Creek |
| 23 | Hughes | Deer Creek |
| 24 | Dederman | Valley |
| 25 | Warnerville | Warnerville |
| 27 | Mt. Hope | Grove |
| 28 | Schoolcraft | Schoolcraft |
| 29 | Bell | Emerick |
| 31 | Happy Hollow | Deer Creek |
| 33 | Honeysett | Grove |
| 34 | Buffalo Creek | Grove |
| 36 | Jenkins | Kalamazoo |
| 37 | Reiche | Warnerville |
| 38 | Whitehouse | Highland |
| 40 | Iowa Valley | Kalamazoo |
| 42 | Muller | Green Garden |
| 43 | Norfolk | |
| 44 | East Emerick | Emerick |
| 45 | Shell Creek | |
| 46 | Dover | Union |
| 47 | Enola | Union |
| 48 | Good cheer | Union |
| 49 | Solso | Kalamazoo |
| 50 | West Emerick | Emerick |
| 52 | Hoffmann | Grove |
| 54 | Rose Hill | Emerick |
| 55 | Chloe | Shell Creek |
| 56 | Pleasant view | Fairview |
| 58 | Pleasant Hill | Shell Creek |
| 61 | Blakeley | Highland |
| 62 | Harbottle | Shell Creek |
| 64 | Alberry | Battle Creek |
| 66 | Roman Star | Fairview |
| 67 | Schmidt | Emerick |
| 68 | Simonson | Shell Creek |
| 69 | Tannehill | Warnerville |
| 71 | Enterprise | Meadow Grove |
| 75 | Simpson | Battle Creek |
| 76 | Rolling Prairie | Emerick |
| 77 | Pleasant Hill | Deer Creek |
| 79 | Sobotka | Highland |
| 80 | Tilden | Jefferson |
| 82 | Valley | |
| 83 | Liberty Consolidated | Madison |
| 85 | Upland | Schoolcraft |
| 86 | Brookside | Schoolcraft |
| 87 | Norfolk | |
| 88 | Fairview | Fairview |
| 94 | King Olson | Schoolcraft |
| Pleasant Valley | Grove | |
| Horn | Battle Creek | |
| Haskins | ||
| Plainview | Union | |
| Kalamazoo | Kalamazoo |
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1894 Marriages
Marriage licenses were issued today to Rudolph H. Dommer and Mary Kirbitz; and Wm. F. Haase and Mathilda R. Dommer. Source: “The Norfolk Daily News”, Friday, March 30, 1894 on page 3.
“The Scout”
Please contact the Boone-Nance Genealogical Society, P. O. Box 231, Belgrade, NE. 68623-0231 if you find anything on your family from the listing of information below.
This information comes from their publication “The Scout” in their Oct. 2013 publication. Mrs. David F. Carnahan { Maggie Jane (Scullen) Carnahan David F. Carnahan Volmer, Frank, Lucille, and Edna Galitz M. M. Hazel Eric Matison Richard Sexty Hope Compton Marsh Flinn Fred H. Young Mrs. John Maxwell { Anna Dobson } Mrs. R. M. Everett { Christian Larsen} Omar Gunderson Martin Zoucha Mrs. Mattie Vogt { Mattie Barch } Ernest Pickering Ralph E. Pickering E. E. Hall Mr. R. Warn James Good Sever Paulson Mrs. Mundshank E. L. Sargent Mrs. Fannie Brown { Fannie Long } Fid and Gwinnie Long E. T. Long Mrs. M. E. Phelps Mrs. J. W. Reynoldson A. C. Thompson Mrs. Geo. Strawn Mrs. Cleda Roberts
Names of School Districts and a map of Boone County School Districts
The following list is of weddings and anniversary in the paper: Miss Fern A. Hill and Mr. Charles W. Martin Miss Clara Kock and Sabastian Getzfreit Miss Maurine Aldea Barber and Harry Edw. Hart Miss Inga Nore and Mr. Christian Nelson Miss Alma Nelson and Mr. Iver Nore Miss Carrie Barnock and Chas. Zonna Betsey Caroline Haaver and Alvin David Freeburg Sophia Minnie Goehry and Arthur Vincent Swanson Cecilia Bessie Nerly and Peter Sandquist Miss Maude Wagman and Louis Schoenhen Mr. and Mrs. James McKinsie 25th anniversary Mr. and Mrs. Bruhman 25th anniversary Mr. and Mrs. George Bowman 60th anniversary Miss Amalia A. Reinwand and Vern E. Garten
The Lone Grave on the Hillside for Bill Delmar
Jefferson township 1918
JEFFERSON PRECINCT, Township 24 North, Range 4 West of the 6th P.M. Madison County, Nebraska. Names of persons living on or owning land in Jefferson Precinct extracted from the STANDARD ATLAS OF MADISON COUNTY OF 1918. Extracted by J. R.
Abel., W. L., Sec 33
Alkenburg, E., Sec 18
Ashcroft, Emerson, Sec 18
Baker, B. H., Est, Black Loam Stock Farm, Sec 4, 9
Baker, F. E., residence, Sec 4
Baker, W., Sec 32
Baker, Wm., Sec 28
Bartdoll, L. A., Sec 18, 19
Beatty, C. H., Sec 19
Beebe, O. W., Sec 19
Bliss, D. W., River Side Sheep Ranch, Sec 7
Bliven, Chas, Sec 18
Bohlsen, J. J., Sec 19
Carlisle, J. A., Evergreen Stock Farm, Sec 31
Carlisle, J. A., Sec 31
Cemetery, E. L. E. G., (Immanual Lutheran), Sec 19
Cemetery, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Sec 19
Cemetery, McCoy, Sec 33
Cemetery, Warren, Sec 9
Clausen, Fritz, Sec 19
Dahnke, Wm., Upland View Stock Farm, Sec 5
Dales, Rob’t, Sec 18
Danes, F. L., Valley View Stock Farm, Sec 5
DeLong, Elvie B., Sec 19
Denny, Chas., Sec 19
Denny, John, Sec 19
Dodge, Elmer, Sec 19
Donald, N., Sec 19
Erskine, J. F., Sec 32
Fleming, J. L., Sec 31
Fox, Chas E., Res., Sec 29
Gallagher, J., Sec 18
Gallagher, Jas., Sec 18
Hansen, L., Sec 19
Hansen, Lorenz, Sec 19
Harlow, Wm. S., Sec 17
Harris, J., Sec 21
Harris, P., Sec 16
Hawkins, C., Sec 6, 7
Heckman, Sam’l, Sec 19
Heggemeyer, Chas., Sec 32
Heller, A. J., Sec 9
Hoepfinger, Adolph, Swastika Stock Farm., Sec 6
Hoepfinger, Aug., Sec 6
Hoepfinger, F., Sec 6
Holdridge, Nellie, Sec 28
Holton, B., Sec 19
Jenkins, J. F., Sec 19
Johnson, H. B., Sec 19
Jones, A. M., Sec 20
Kielty, P., Sec 16, 17
King, W. H., Sec 7
Kirkcheffer, W., Sec 19
Krumm, Louis, Sec 17
Laudermilk, R., Sec 18
Liveringhouse, S. G., Sec 29
Mack, D. S., Sec 18
Mack, Fred, Sec 18
Mack, Geo., Sec 18
Mack, Jos., Sec 19
McCann, B. L., Sec 6
Michaelson, Peter, Sec 18, 33
Mickaelson, P., Sec 19
Miller, I. C., Sec 31
Mock, Mrs. Geo., Sec 19
Moriarty, T., Sec 8
Muller, P., Sec 30
Nelson, Alice, Sec 8
Niles, George, Sec 9, 16
Niles, Kenyon, Sec 9, 16
Olin, Cynthia, Sec 19
Osborn, T. C., Sec 21
Osborn, W. H., Sec 19
Ott, Theo, Hereford Stock Farm, Sec 9, 16
Patterson, L. C., Sec 19
Petersen, M. J., Hillside Stock Farm, Sec 6
Peterson, N., Sec 19
Phillips, A. J., Sec 19
Phillips, W. N., Sec 4
Pierce, Isaac, Sec 5, 6
Reikafski, August, Sec 20
Roewert, Albert, Sec 18
Roseborough, D., Sec 32
Roseborough, Jas., Sec 32
Saffell, Mrs. Thos., Sec 19
Saltz, E. F., Sec 8, 17
Sanne, August S. F., Sec 20
Sanne, Chas., River View Stock Farm, Sec 7
Saxton, Mary, Sec 19
Schlact, A. W., Sec 29
Schlact, Ben C., Etal., Sec 20
Schlact, Emil J., Sec 29
School, Sec 8, 32
Scofield, A. E., Est., Sec 19
Scofield, A. E., Est., Sec 4
Shippee, G. W., Sec 19
Soulier, M., Sec 19
Stanton, P., Section 30
Steinbeck, Henry, Sec 29
Steunkel, Emil, Sec 18
Stevens, A., Sec 21
Stewart, J. T., Sec 17
Stewart, S. E., Sec 17
Tassemeyer, Henry, Sec 5, 18
Terry, Frank, Sec 16, 28
Terry, R. M., Orchard View Dairy Farm, Sec 8
Thomsen, B. P., Sec 18
Thomsen, M. L., Sec 8
Utry, L. C., Sec 19
Walters, Chas.,, Sec 18
Warnick, John W., Sec 28
Wauer, John, Sec 21
Westervelt, Jeffery, River Side Stock Farm., Sec 8, 17
Whitiver, R. G., Sec 5, 19
Whitwer, B., Sec 19
Wohlfeil, Herman, Sec 30