COUNTY PIONEER CALLED

Mrs. Maud K. Peterson, 726 east Military avenue of Fremont died Sunday evening at 9:15 o’clock after a critical illness of a number of weeks, having been unconscious for several days.

Funeral service were held from the Fremont Baptist church Tuesday afternoon at 1:30 with burial in the Oakland cemetery with the Eastern Star lodge in charge of the service at the grave.

Mrs. Peterson, formerly Miss Maud Kline, was born in Cuming City before Blair was in existence, September 2, 1866, the next to the youngest of 11 children of Mr. and Mrs. L. M. Kline. Her father was one of Nebraska’s earliest settlers. He located in Kanesville, Council Bluffs, Ia. in 1854 where he conducted a tavern. He later moved over into Omaha city and secured a number of city lots, but deciding there was no future for that place took a homestead where he founded the village of Cuming City. He started the Nebraska Pioneer, one of the early newspapers of the state, when Nebraska was still a territory, and was in the state capital battle.

Maud Kline was graduated from the Blair high school at the age of 17, and taught in the school here for two years, then at Kennard and West Point until her marriage to Charles A Peterson of Oakland, May 13, 1891.

Mrs. Peterson, after her husband’s death, moved to Fremont in 1904 where she has since resided. She was a great lover of flowers and shrubs, and her garden was always admired for she had specimens of nearly every flower that is adapted to this climate. When the garden club was formed she became a member, and was one of the active workers of the club. During her Fremont residence she had been affiliated with the First Baptist church, O.E.S., W.C.T.U. and the Women’s club.

Mrs. Peterson is survived by three children, Paul K. and Charles K. Peterson of Fremont and Mrs. O. F. (Emily) Childress of Lincoln; four sisters, Mrs. C. A. Dixon and Mrs. Emma L. Davies, Lincoln; Mrs. Nellie Ailes, Kansas City, Mo; Mrs. Louis K. Peterson, Joliet, Mont.

#2-Pilot Tribune 3 Nov 1932

EARLY PIONEERS’ DAUGHTER DEAD

MRS. MAUD KLINE PETERSON BORN AT CUMING CITY IN 1866

Mrs. Maud K. Peterson of Fremont, early resident of Washington county, a graduate of Blair high school and the second youngest of 11 children of Mr. and Mrs. L.M. Kline, Cuming City pioneers, died Sunday evening, October 23, at her home after a critical illness of a number of weeks, having been unconscious several days.

Mrs. Peterson, the former Maud Kline, was born in Cuming City, September 2, 1866, her father being one of Nebraska’s earliest settlers. The history of the Kline family is directly connected with the development of Washington county, Mr. Kline having located in Kanesville, now Council Bluffs, Iowa, in 1854, where he conducted a tavern. He later moved over into Omaha city and secured a number of city lots, but deciding there was no future for that place he took a homestead, where he founded Cuming City. He started the Nebraska Pioneer, one of the early newspapers of the state, when Nebraska was still a territory and was in the state capital battle.

Maud Kline graduated from Blair high school at the age of 17 and taught in the schools here for two years, then at Kennard and West Point, until her marriage to Charles A. Peterson of Oakland, May 13, 1891. She was active in social affairs and in the Methodist church, Eastern Star lodge and was a charter member of the Women’s club. After Mr. Peterson’s death in 1904 she moved to Fremont.

Mrs. Peterson is survived by three children, Paul K. and Charles K. Peterson of Fremont and Mrs. O.P. (Emily) Childress of Lincoln; four sisters, Mrs. C.A. Dixon and Mrs. Emma L. Davies, Lincoln; Mrs. Nellie Alies, Kansas City, Mo., and Mrs. Louise K. Peterson, Joliet, Montana.

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

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