L. W. SAUM

Lyman Willmont Saum, one of Washington county’s pioneer settlers, passed away at the South Omaha Presbyterian hospital last Thursday evening, June 24, 1909, from urethral trouble which he had been a sufferer several years. His last illness had been of several months' duration. The entire family was at the bedside when the end came.

L. W. Saum was born in Licking, Van Wert county, Ohio Nov. 20, 1842, coming west with his parents when about six years old, his parents stopping in eastern Iowa. He was the oldest in a family of eleven children, of which five brothers and two sisters are living.

At the age of nineteen he enlisted in the 14th Iowa Infantry volunteer regiment and was in the third division, 16th army corps, was mustered out in 1865 when the war ended, coming west to Nebraska in 1867.

He was married to Mary Elizabeth Trisler in 1871, and to this union six children were born, Gus A. of South Omaha, Lloyd W. of Florence, Mrs. Carl Schmidt of Ft. Calhoun, Verna and Edythe living at home, and Addie dying in infancy.

The funeral services were held from the family residence Sunday, June 27, at 2:00 p.m., Rev. A. Hillman of Ft. Calhoun officiating. A large concourse of friends followed the remains to their last resting place in the Ft. Calhoun cemetery, and many floral tributes were offered as tokens of love and sympathy for the deceased who in life was a brave soldier, a loyal and patriotic citizen, a kind and indulgent husband and father and an accommodating neighbor.

The sympathy of all is offered to the bereaved family in their great sorrow.

#2-1 July, 1909 - Blair Democrat - L. W. Saum - Civil War Veteran

Sunday L. W. Saum, one of the most highly respected pioneer farmers and fruit growers, was buried in the Fort Calhoun cemetery. He served over three years in the Fourteenth infantry during the Civil War and came to this county and settled on Deer Creek a few years after. He was married here to Miss Wilson in 1871. He was a quiet, careful, industrious citizen and was nearly 68 when he died. He left a wife and six grown children, Mrs. Abe Milligan of Parnell, Mo.; Mrs. Carl Schmidt of Fort Calhoun; and two sons and two daughters. Rev. Hillman, Presbyterian minister, preached the sermon and in spite of the rain and bad roads over forty teams came from the farms and were joined by others on the way to the cemetery. Among the others present were County Judge O’Hanlon and H. H. Reed of Blair, Abe Milligan of Parnell, Mo., Al Milligan of Bancroft and others from Omaha and surrounding towns.

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

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