| Since the exact death date was not given, the date of her burial was used, as stated in the letter below, from Soldiers’ Home .
Printed in The Tribune, June 2, 1915.
A REAL PIONEER GONE
Soldiers’ Home, Burkett, Neb., May 28, 1915
W. H. Woods, Ft. Calhoun, Nebr., Dear Sir:
Mrs. Amanda Trimmer died at the West hospital and was buried here in the cemetery April 17, 1915. Her son, William Jefferies, was with her and is now an inmate of the home. Many friends attended her funeral. No other relatives were present. Yours truly, W. G. Miller, Sergeant Major.
Mrs. John Trimmer came to Brownville, Nebr., with her adopted parents and a company of California emigrants in 1854. Not liking the treatment they gave her, she left the company and remained behind, where she was married to a Mr. Jeffries. Her first child was born there in 1855. After her husband died, she came to Omaha and later married Veteran John Trimmer, a member of a Kansas regiment in the Civil war.
Each having two children by their first marriage, the daughter lost her first husband and married her step-brother, John Trimmer, Jr., and lies buried in our Ft. Calhoun cemetery near her step-father. Her son is now in the Soldiers’ Home as stated above.
About thirty years ago the family came to Ft. Calhoun and bought the property now owned by Charles Texter. Selling this, they bought the half block where the butcher is, where the Veteran died on the south end of the block, October 26, 1910. Mrs. Trimmer then went to Ashland to her daughter’s and after the daughter’s death went to the Soldiers’ Home from which she wrote us she was much pleased with life there.
Her son William, now in Home was a member of Capt. VanDeusen’s company of Blair Spanish war soldiers. W.H. Woods
(Typist’s comment: This account seems confusing.)
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