The Anderson Grove Cemetery Project

06/12/2024

The preservation portion of the Anderson Grove Cemetery Project is underway!

In the last few weeks, you may have noticed History Walks LLC on-site working to save some of our most vulnerable grave markers. Today, the double obelisks of Amous and Sarah Moberry, as well as the double marker for their children, Minnie and Amous, are once again standing tall thanks to the work of History Walks LLC and financial contributions from our wonderful community!

This work will continue throughout the year as we work towards preserving the history of Bellevue and Sarpy County laid to rest at Anderson Grove Cemetery.

To contribute to the Preservation and Perpetual Care Fund of Anderson Grove Cemetery, please make checks payable to "Anderson Grove Cemetery" and mail them to 12005 S. 36th St., Bellevue, NE 68123. You can also donate directly online at https://square.link/u/0jl4OceQ

For information regarding burials or management of Anderson Grove Cemetery, please contact the Anderson Grove Cemetery Board at Anderson Grove Presbyterian Church at (402) 292-5522 or [email protected]

03/01/2024

This looks like a great opportunity for some of our Anderson Grove families!

02/01/2023

To contribute to the Preservation and Perpetual Care Fund of Anderson Grove Cemetery, please make checks payable to "Anderson Grove Cemetery" and mail them to 12005 S. 36th St., Bellevue, NE 68123. You can also donate directly online at https://square.link/u/0jl4OceQ

Anderson Grove Cemetery is a registered 501(c)3 non-profit, and all donations are tax-deductible.

For information regarding burials or management of Anderson Grove Cemetery, please contact the Anderson Grove Cemetery Board at Anderson Grove Presbyterian Church at (402) 292-5522 or [email protected].

📸: Anderson Grove Church, ca. 1920, courtesy of Anderson Grove Presbyterian Church

11/28/2022

Samantha G. (Arnett) Gates – 24 Dec 1833 – 28 Nov 1916

Samantha was born in West Jefferson, Ohio to Ezekial and Eliza (Acton) Arnett, the eldest of their seven children. At the age of 18, she married Amos Gates, a local farmer.

The couple soon moved west, first settling in Muscatine County, IA before making their way to Sarpy County, NE. Together they settled into a log cabin near the banks of Papillion Creek amid the Omaha Indian Village. The family soon expanded to include eight children and a large homestead.

Grandma Gates, as she came to be known, was not only a wife, mother, and matriarch, but also a teacher for most of her life. She continued to teach Sunday School at the old stone school near Gilmore as the family became honored pioneers of the area.

Her passing warranted a lengthy front-page obituary in the local “Papillion Times”, as well as three additional notices in “The Omaha Daily News” and “The Omaha Evening Bee”.

📸 :FindAGrave contributor – Patrick Wyman
📰 : “Papillion Times” Papillion, NE, 30 Nov 1916, pg 1
📰: “The Omaha Daily News” Omaha, NE, 29 Nov 1916, pg 3

11/28/2022

Today is the last day to sponsor wreaths for Wreaths Across America 2022.

While our sister project at Wreaths Across America - Offutt Air Force Base Cemetery is well over goal, one of our favorite fellow historic cemeteries is just getting started this year & could use your help! Consider sponsoring a wreath or two for the veterans laid to rest at Prospect Hill Cemetery.

Wreaths Across America ("WAA") coordinates wreath-laying ceremonies every December to "Remember, Honor, and Teach" about the sacrifices made by our veterans and their families. Please check out this page to learn how you can help by sponsoring Veterans Remembrance Wreaths or by joining us on Decembe...

11/23/2022

Heinrich “Henry” Peter Iske – 24 January 1829 – 23 NOV 1906

Henry, as he was known, was born in Prussia, in what today would be Hanover, Germany, to Wilhelm and Sophia (Fogel) Iske. He emigrated to the United States in the 1850s and stopped in New Orleans, Louisiana before heading north to Davenport County, Iowa.

On October 15th, 1856, Henry married Maria “Mary” Augusta Schuemann, a fellow Prussian immigrant. The first three of their eleven children were born in Iowa, then the family headed west to settle Sarpy County, Nebraska. The 1870 US Census shows the family, now with five children, on their farm near Larimer Mills Post Office on the banks of the Platte River. By 1880, with all but one of their eleven children born, Henry is listed as owning over 460 acres of land, valued at well over $10,000. In 1900, Henry is noted as a naturalized citizen of the United States. While Mary’s citizenship is not listed, it was the law at the time that women’s citizenship was tied to that of their husbands.

In October of 1906, the Iske’s celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary with over sixty guests in attendance. Just six weeks later, on November 23rd, Henry passed away at home at the age of 77. His obituary reads in part, “…and although the weather was very bad, one of the largest concourses of friends and neighbors that had ever assembled in Sarpy County, turned out to pay their last respects…”

*As his obituary appeared in two local newspapers in November 1906, we are confident that the year inscribed on his marker is in error and was perhaps placed well after his death.

📸:FindAGrave contributor – Christina Atkinson
📰:”Bellevue Gazette”, 30 Nov 1906, Bellevue, NE, pg 6

11/22/2022

Cora Estella (Haddon) Iske – 29 March 1874 – 22 NOV 1944

Cora was born to James and Elizabeth (Sinnard) Haddon in Christian County, Illinois. Before little Cora’s first birthday, the trio had relocated to Platford, Nebraska, near Springfield. Here Elizabeth and James welcomed five more children to the family.

On the 22nd of April 1896, 22-year-old Cora married Henry Iske, son of Sarpy County pioneers Henry and Maria (Schuemann) Iske. The couple settled down to farming in LaPlatte, Nebraska, south of Bellevue near the Platte River. Here, they brought twelve children into the world, sadly losing two in infancy. The remaining ten Iske children lived well into adulthood, blessing Cora and Henry with a large extended family.

In her obituary Cora is remembered as “…a devoted wife and mother, a kind neighbor, and will be sadly missed by her family, relatives and friends.”

📸FindAGrave contributor - Christina Atkinson
📸 FindAGrave contributor - Tamara Kay Culp (Goins)

11/21/2022

John Peter Rademan – 4 July 1883 – 21 NOV 1905

It is our intent with the Anderson Grove Cemetery Project to remember those laid to rest in this little grove for the lives they lived more so than for their deaths. Occasionally however we find a story like this one that still resonates with struggles we see today. Jack’s story is tragic, but we feel it necessary to tell it in its entirety so that his death will not be in vain. (TW: su***de)

Jack, as he was known, was born to Peter and Katrina (Heift) Rademan, German immigrants who had settled in Carroll County, Iowa. The 1900 census tells us that Peter owned the home the family lived in, making a living as a drayman, or flatbed wagon driver. Jack, the middle child of the three surviving Rademan children, was attending school.

By 1903, at 20 years old, Jack had moved to Papillion, Nebraska to make his own way in the world. He held a position at the local newspaper, “The Papillion Times”. That December he became a founding member and Sergeant-at-Arms of The Metropolitan Club, housed in the Nolan Building. The purpose of the club, with a membership that the “Papillion Times” boasted as “…the best young men of the city…” was to provide “…social pastime of a clean and refined nature.”

The following year, on October 1, 1904, he married Accie Whitted. The marriage announcement described the event as “…a complete surprise to everyone…” The couple were described as “…one of Papillion’s most popular young ladies…”, and “…a worthy young man.” As general favorites about town, the young couple was wished many congratulations.

Over the next year we see Jack building a renowned life. He becomes a stockholder and Secretary of the Board of Directors of “The Papillion Times”. He and his partners increase advertising revenue for the small paper and are hailed as quite successful. He joined the Ancient Order of United Workmen, a fraternal organization, as well as becoming an active member of the local Democratic Party, holding positions on several committees.

Sadly, Jack took his own life on November 21st, 1905, at the age of 22. His death was reported in over 100 articles in newspapers from Indiana to Oregon. A prominent young man, seemingly successful in all that he attempted, his death stunned all who knew him. “The Papillion Times” described the announcement as “The word came like a thunderbolt out of a clear sky, casting a deep gloom over all our citizens.” In letters he left behind, Jack stated that “an old incurable disease had returned” of which he could no longer bear the pain. While an autopsy found no signs of physical illness, his last letters are filled with what we would today recognize as mental anguish. He left behind his wife of one year, his parents, brother and sister, and so many friends and loved ones that it was reported that the Union Church overflowed with mourners the day of his funeral.

If you or a loved one struggles with depression, thoughts of su***de or other mental health issues, there is help available. Please take advantage of it because you are an important part of our community and so very many people care about you and your well-being.

• For mental health crisis, please call or text The National Su***de Prevention Lifeline at 988.
• For the hearing impaired, contact the Lifeline by TTY at: 1-800-799-4889
• To chat online with a national su***de hotline counselor, click here: https://su***depreventionlifeline.org/chat/
• See the National Su***de Prevention Lifeline website: http://www.su***depreventionlifeline.org/

📸: FindAGrave contributor “EndOfMyLineMuir”

11/21/2022

Anna (Isaac) Gledhill Daniell – 7 Jan 1832 – 21 NOV 1900

Anna was born to Richard and Anna (Bacon) Isaac in Lincolnshire, England, the oldest of their four children. In 1848, the family boarded the Nathaniel Hooper in Liverpool, England, bound for New York Harbor. They arrived on May 30th, and soon settled into farm life in small Ridgeway, New York, near Lake Ontario.

In the early 1850s, Anna married John Gledhill. The couple had three sons before John’s death. By 1860, Anna and her children had moved to Kalamazoo, Michigan, where she met and married fellow English immigrant, Richard Daniell. She became a stepmother to Richard’s son and then welcomed her fifth and final son to their blended family.

In 1867, the family moved south to settle and farm in Sarpy County, Nebraska. Anna remained here, raising her sons, keeping the home, and becoming the matriarch of a large extended family until her death at the age of 68 in 1900.

📸 : FindAGrave contributor: Shelley

11/21/2022

Jesse D. Miles – 1840 – 21 NOV 1925

Jesse was born to Samuel and Jane (Fletcher) Miles in Ohio, the youngest of ten children. Before he was 10 years old, the family had moved to Lafayette County, Wisconsin where they owned and operated the family farm.

In the fall of 1861, just seven months after the beginning of the US Civil War, Jesse was drafted to the Union Army, where he was quickly promoted to sergeant in the Wisconsin Cavalry. He was given a disability discharge in 1863.

That same summer, on June 2, Jesse married Maria Briggs, who had also been born in Ohio and moved to Wisconsin at a young age. In the early 1870s, the extended family made the move to Shelby County, Iowa, where their four daughters were born.

By the late 1890s, Jesse had moved the family across the Missouri River to South Omaha, NE. Here he traded farm work for a position as a watchman at the newly built Armour Packing Plant.

Jesse passed away at the grand age of 85 and was laid to rest at Anderson Grove Cemetery with his wife Maria, daughter Lydia, and sister Susan. Nearby is the grave of his grandson Harley, daughter Olive, Olive’s infant daughter, and her husband.

📸: FindAGrave Contributor - MC Needham

11/18/2022

James Samuel Stephens – 14 Jan 1880 – 18 NOV 1929

James was born to Martin Stephens and his second wife, Mary (Stinson) Stephens in Mills County, Iowa, the third of their eight children, joining six half-siblings. When he was 5 years old, the family moved west to LaPlatte in Sarpy County, Nebraska where they established a farm and homestead.

On the 27th of November 1907, James married Sarah Masters and the two settled down in Gretna, Nebraska. In 1918, now with four children, the family was living at Fort Collins in Laramie County, Colorado where James had found work at the rendering factory. His World War I draft registration card lists him as medium height and build, with red hair and blue eyes. The couple added one child to the brood before moving back east. The 1920 US Census finds the Stephens family back in Nebraska, living along the Platte River in Nemaha where James was now the manager at the garbage company.

By the end of the decade, with three additional children completing the family, they had moved north to Omaha, where James took up work as a trucker. Just two weeks shy of his 22nd wedding anniversary, the truck James was driving was struck by another vehicle. He succumbed to his injuries four days later at the Nicholas Senn Hospital in Midtown. He was laid to rest in Anderson Grove with his parents, and young son.

📸: FindAGrave contributor - Shelley

11/17/2022

Thomas Richardson* Daniell – 9 Nov 1865 – 16 NOV 1942

Thomas was born to Richard and Anna (Isaac) Daniell in Kalamazoo, Michigan. He was welcomed by four half-brothers from his parents first marriages.

The family moved south to establish a farm in Nebraska when Tom was just a toddler, pioneers of Sarpy County. Tom grew up here and married Ruth Gates, the daughter of another pioneer family, in 1889. The couple went on to welcome eight children of their own.

Tom became one of Sarpy County’s wealthiest farmers and stockmen, with an accumulation of hundreds of acres of farmland as well as cattle. Additionally, he was the director of the Packers National Bank. The attached articles tell the story of a man who lived a long and prosperous life.

*As we often find in tracing an individual in the late 19th and early 20th century, the spelling of Mr. Daniell’s name fluctuates. His middle name is reported on various documents as either “Richard” or “Richardson”. Per the custom of the time during his adulthood, he often was referred to as simply “T.R. Daniell”. His 1889 marriage certificate, which he would have self-reported on, lists his full name as “Thomas Richardson Daniell”.

📸: Find a Grave contributor- Shelley
📰: (1) “Papillion Times”, 19 Nov 1942, pg. 1
📰: (2) Omaha World-Herald, 16 Jul 1937, pg. 5