PIONEER SETTLER PASSES ON

Settled in Cuming City In 1866. Territorial Settler

In the passing of Gilbert Olson of Herman on Sunday, January 5, this county has lost another of her pioneer settlers. Deceased was born in Wisconsin September 26, 1862, and with his family, settled in Cuming City in 1866 when the state was then a territory.

He was married in Blair on April 15, 1891 to Miss Johanna Sullivan, and they immediately took up farming near Herman, but after ten years they moved to Herman where Mr. Olson had charge of the business interests of the Crowell Lumber & Grain company until it went out of business a few years ago.

As a man, Gilbert Olson was highly respected and his word was considered as good as a bond, and the immediate vicinity of Herman in his death has lost one of its substantial citizens.

The family consisting of the bereaved wife and four daughters, Mrs. Nellie Hoover of Battle Creek, Nebr.; Mrs. Regina Hughes and Mrs. Madeline Hannon of Washington, D.C.; and Mrs. A. H. Lowe of Herman, all have the heartfelt sympathy of a wide circle of friends in the county who grieve deeply with them in their great loss.

Funeral services were held at 10 am. Thursday at the home with Rev. Fr. William J. Borer of St. Patrick’s Catholic church of Tekamah officiating, and with Jesse Ryan, E. W. Burdic, Ben Wachter, Hewett Lowe, Charles Gray and Dave Rutledge, all lifetime friends, acting as pallbearers. Interment was made in the Blair cemetery.

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

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