#1 Printed in the August 30, 1894 Pilot, Blair, Nebraska

DEATH OF MRS. LORENZEN

Died on the farm three miles west of Ft. Calhoun, Aug. 22, after a long illness and buried in Ft. Calhoun cemetery, Aug. 23, 1894, Mrs. Mary Lorenzen, a good woman and a noble christian mother.

We well remember when she, with her first husband, John Sneede, and their little ones, began the task of making a farm; and how bravely they worked till one day he was found on the road unconscious, having been thrown from a load of lumber that had slipped going down hill, and how kindly his wife, for several days, watched with him at the hotel here in Calhoun till he died. Of the property there was not much left. But she bravely took up the labor of life and won all hearts by steady devotion to her little ones. A few years since, she was married to Mr. Lorenzen, who said to the writer she was one of the kindest mothers and best wives he had ever known.

All our wealthiest and most highly respected German families for several miles around drove out to the family residence and attended the funeral in a body.

--W.H. Woods

#2 August 30, 1894- The Pilot- Mary L. Lorenzen

The hearse was called to Calhoun, Thursday, where the remains of Mrs. Mary L. Lorenzen, who lived in the McDonald neighborhood, were buried. She was 50 years of age and leaves a husband and large family of children to mourn her death. The funeral was preached by Rev. Bromstead and was largely attended by friends of the family.

~~~ Obituary courtesy of the Nebraska Washington County Genealogical Society. Newspaper clippings on file in the Blair Public Library at Blair, Nebraska.~~~

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Note:

She is buried with her first husband, John Schneede, and listed that way in FindaGrave. The newspaper misspelled his surname and her given name of Marie