Seward County, Nebraska Genealogy

Biographies and Obituaries "F" INDEX

FEARY, FENDER, FLOWERDAY, FOREMAN, FOSLER, FULLER

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FEARY, Isaac H., husband of (sisters) 1) Mary A. (RURUP) and 2) Ida R. (RURUP). This biography is from W. W. Cox, History of Seward County, Nebraska and Reminiscences of Territorial History, Part Two: Biographical, 1905, page 67:
[Surnames: FEARY, RURUP]

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ISAAC H. FEARY

    A hoosier boy, born in Marshall County, August 29, 1857. Had a little touch of western fever in 1865 and landed in Illinois and in 1882 he had a more violent attack of it and he struck the Nebraska trail and landed in "B" Precinct, Seward County.
    He found Miss Mary A. Rurup and was married December 24, 1890.
    She was born in Dane County, Wisconsin, February 23, 1867, and came to Seward County in childhood. They had three children, Dixie A., Dorothy O., and Marie C. Mrs. Feary died January 17, 1898. Mr. Feary was again married to his wife's sister, Miss Ida R. Rurup. They have two children, Ida May and Josephine.
    Mr. Feary is a Modern Woodman. He owns a large and valuable farm.
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FENDER, Anna Bell, wife of Jacob IMIG, daughter of John and Catharine (SCHICK) FENDER, see: Anna Bell (FENDER) IMIG
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FLOWERDAY, Annie Laurie, wife of Paul Jacob Friederich IMIG, daughter of William and Emma (WATTS) FLOWERDAY: see Annie Laurie (FLOWERDAY) IMIG
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FOREMAN, Henry Logan, husband of 1) Mary Louisa HOUDERSHELDT, 2) Nancy MALLERY; son of Rev. David and Phoebe Ann (LONG) FOREMAN. The first obituary, submitted by Glen F. Houdersheldt, is from an unidentified and undated Lexington newspaper.

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FOREMAN.—In this city, Sunday, October 11, Mr. Henry Logan Foreman, of Scotia [Nebraska], aged 73 years.
    Funeral services were held Monday afternoon, at the Newman Funeral Chapel. Rev. L. H. Kaub, pastor of the Methodist church officiated at the services. The body was taken to Seward county, Nebraska for burial.

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This second obituary, submitted by Glen F. Houdersheldt, is from an unidentified and undated Lexington newspaper. Photo of Henry's mother, Phoebe Ann Long Foreman, courtesy Eve Brokaw Adams.
[Surnames: BRAMER, BROKAW, FOREMAN, HOUDERSHELDT, KAUB, MALLERY, ROUDEBAUGH, SHADDLE, STEPHENSON]

              FOREMAN, HENRY LOGAN
    Henry Logan Foreman was born in Nebo, Illinois on the 28th of August, 1863, a member of a family of three daughters and four sons. All preceded Mr. Foreman in death except one sister.
    When Henry Foreman was 16 years of age he came with his parents to Seward county, Nebraska. There he lived for 24 years. On November 23, 1882 he married Mary L. Houdersheldt. To this union three sons and one daughter were born. All survive their father. Nearly twenty years ago the mother of these children passed away.
    When Mr. Foreman was a young man he accepted Jesus Christ as his personal Saviour and united with the Christian church in Seward county. His father was a minister of the Christian church. Henry Foreman has been a man of the Christian faith most of his life, and he tried to rear his children in the Christian faith. In the year 1914 Mr. Foreman moved to Scotia, Nebraska where he lived for 18 years. On September 4, 1918 he married Mrs. Nancy Mallery. Thus Mrs. Mallery's children became his step-children. It will tell you much of the character of Mr. Foreman when it is known that these step-children cherish the same filial affection for him which his own children felt.
    For some years Mr. Foreman has not been in good health. Wednesday the 7th of October he was stricken with a stroke of paralysis. He was taken to a local hospital, but failed to respond to treatments and passed away Sunday the 11th of October, 1936 at the age of 73 years. He had come to Lexington for a visit with his daughter, Mrs. Maude Roudebaugh.
    Henry Logan Foreman is survived by his second wife, Mrs. Nancy Foreman; one daughter, Mrs. Maude Roudebaugh and three sons, Harry H. and Arthur B. [or P.] of Lexington and Burket O. Foreman of Casper, Wyoming. Also by his three step-children, Mrs. Imo Shaddle, Mitchell, Nebr., Mrs. Eunice Bramer, Scotia, Nebr., and Mr. Bert Mallery, Sargent, Nebr. His only surviving sister is Mrs. Maggie Brokaw of Lincoln, Nebraska. Fourteen grand-children and two great-grand-children and numerous nephews and nieces and other relatives survive Mr. Foreman.
    The funeral service was held Monday afternoon, October 12 from the Newman Funeral Chapel. In the absence of Rev. F. H. Stephenson, pastor of the Christian church, Dr. Louis H. Kaub of the Methodist church officiated.
    The body was taken to Seward county, Nebraska for interment.
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FOREMAN, Mary Louisa (HOUDERSHELDT), first wife of Henry Logan FOREMAN, daughter of Burkett William and Elizabeth (ATWOOD) HOUDERSHELDT. This obituary, submitted by Glen F. Houdersheldt, is from an unidentified and undated newspaper.

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    Mary L. Houdersheldt was born Oct. 4, 1861, at Brighton, Washington Co., Iowa, and departed this life, July 15, 1911, aged 49 yrs. 8 months, 11 days. She moved with her parents to Seward, Nebr., at the age of 16, where she lived, and on Nov. 23, 1882, was united in marriage to H. L. Foreman of Seward. To this union were born 4 children, Harry, Burkett, Maude and Arthur. In 1892 they moved to Colorado, remaining 4 years when they returned to Seward. In Dec. 1903, they came to Lexington, where they have since resided. Mrs. Foreman was converted and baptized April 22, 1882, and united with the Mt. Pleasant Christian church at Ruby Nebr. near Seward. She continued a member until February, 1906, when she united with the Christian church at Lexington of which she remained a member until her death. She was a consistent christain [sic] woman, a good neighbor and friend, devoted to her family and whose devotion to her was very marked. She leaves a husband and four children, two brothers, Frank and John Houdersheldt of Seward, and three grandchildren, and a number of other relatives and a host of friends who sincerely mourn her loss. She was laid to rest beside her father and mother and sister in the Mt. Pleasant cemetery, at Ruby, Monday afternoon.
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FOSLER, George, husband of Helen (WILKE). This biography, apparently written by his daughter-in-law Cora (Blacker) Fosler, is from page 200 of the 1967 book On A Bend of the River, posted here courtesy of the author, Jane Ramsay Graff. Photos: 1910 Fosler farm photo at top of this page courtesy granddaughter Eleanor Grace (Fosler) Vogt; making hay photo (Bend book p.55) and 1892 photo [ZOOM] (1982 Seward "Red" book, p.116) courtesy Jane Ramsay Graff.
[Surnames: BIRTKY(BIRKY?), FOSLER, FULLER, KEYSER, MATZKE, VIETS, WILKE]

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FOSLER
                                by Mrs. Harry Fosler

    Among the names of early settlers of the area southeast of Seward was that of Fosler. The Foslers came from the Davis, Illinois country because the new territory offered them a chance of a new life and land of their own. Three brothers Fred, John and George, a sister Susan (Mrs. Fred Birtky[sic?Birky?]) and a cousin John (called John No. 2) settled in the northwest corner of I Precinct. Here they endured the many early day hardships, developed their farms and reared their families. Some of these farms are today occupied by their grandchildren. Leslie Viets lives on his Grandmother, Susan's place; Stanley Matzke has rebuilt and lives on his grandfather John's farm and Dale Fosler farms his grandfather George's place.
    George Fosler had served in the Civil War with Co. B of the 46th Illinois Regiment. He married Helen Wilke at Freeport, Ill., March 23, 1871. They farmed near Davis, Ill., for five years. In 1876 they decided to come to Nebraska where his older brother Fred was. They loaded their livestock and other belongings on a freight and came as far as Lincoln by train. With three small children they finally located on a rented place north of Pleasant Dale and lived in the small one room house for three years.
    In 1878 they were able to purchase land of their own. It is described legally as the Northwest Quarter of Section 18, Township 10, North of Range 4, East of the 6th Meridian. It was a part of the Nebraska City Land District and was confirmed by the Secretary of the Interior Febr. 16, 1870. The warranty deed dated July 22, 1878, states it was purchased from Aaron Keyser of Salt Lake County, Territory of Utah in consideration of Fourteen Hundred and Forty Dollars (Nine dollars per acre).
    They broke prairie, planted some fields, built a small four room house with two rooms up and two downstairs and moved onto their own farm where they spent the rest of their lives. The small house on the prairie was visited by friendly Indians, trading gypsies, the occasional peddler, as well as neighbors. Blizzards, drought, hail, and grasshoppers were endured. Ten children were born to the family. Four sons Ed, Orin, Roy, and Harry and two daughters Clara and Irene were helped to own farms in the immediate vicinity. Today there are fourteen families of the Foslers and their children living on farms in the Seward area and about the same number widely scattered in other locations.
    This quarter section, owned and occupied by Foslers continually for eighty-nine years, is registered to and farmed by Dale Fosler, youngest son of Harry Fosler. If the acres could talk they could tell many tales of their development from pioneer days to the present modern ways; from the time when the eight mile trip to Seward by wagon took a whole day and the noon lunch of balogna [sic] and crackers was a treat; no mail service; no phones; the scythe and rake instead of combines, and many other comparisons. Farmers then were more free and independent as compared to today's complicated methods and controls.
    Mr. and Mrs. George Fosler celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary on March 23, 1931. He lived to be 86 years old and she to be 90 years old. Three of their children celebrated their 50th wedding anniversaries; Clara Fuller, now deceased, and Orin and Roy still living on their farms.

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FULLER, Hon. George W., husband of Matilda J. (ASHTON). This biography is from W. W. Cox, History of Seward County, Nebraska and Reminiscences of Territorial History, Part Two: Biographical, 1905, page 69 (photo, courtesy Pat Ryan White, is from p. 68):
[Surnames: ASHTON, DAILY, FULLER, GRANT, KELLOG, MANLY, ROSECRANS, SHAW, SHERMAN]

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HON. GEORGE W. FULLER

    Was a soldier boy of the rebellion that found his way to Nebraska in pioneer days. Was born in a log cabin on the banks of the classic Rock River in Whiteside County, February 7, 1844, where he spent his youth and young manhood and when the bugle notes sounded to arms George was not backward, although but a boy of eighteen. He enlisted in the 75th Illinois infantry and served under Grant, Sherman and Rosecrans, and was in the awful struggle at Perryville and Lancaster, Kentucky; Nolensville and Stone River, where he was wounded. Was at Lookout Mountain, Mission Ridge, Ringold Back Face Gap, Resaca, New Hope Church, Kennesaw Mountain, Culp Farm, two battles of Peach Tree Creek, Atlanta, Lovejoy Station, Franklin and Nashville. Of Mr. Fullerís war record his old captain, George R. Shaw, of Prophetstown, Illinois, writes as follows: "Mr. George W. Fuller served during the war as an enlisted man in Company C of the 75th regiment of Illinois infantry volunteers: that he was ever faithful to duty, brave in action, discreet in all his relations with his associates and his superior officers. In short, an ideal volunteer soldier. He deserves well of his "fellow men for his service to his country." Upon his discharge at the end of the war Mr. Fuller went to his old home and in 1868 came to Nebraska and filed on a claim in York County but abandoned it. In 1869 Mr. Fuller returned to the old home and February 23rd married Miss Matilda J. Ashton. She was born August 21, 1850. They have had born to them eleven children, viz: Mary L., now Mrs. H. Kellog; America M., died in infancy; Jennie, now Mrs. J. M. Daily; George W., Edward H., Matilda M., Bertha M., Alma C., Gladys M., John C. and Florence E. Mr. Fuller served the city of Seward one term as mayor. Was representative in 26th and 27th sessions of the legislature, where he served on several important committees. He moved to Seward County in the spring of 1869 and took a homestead in "I" Town. He was one of the first to engage in the brick business on the old Manly farm four miles northwest of Seward, in the early seventies. Mr. Fuller has had an honorable share in developing Seward County. He is a wide-awake citizen and now owns a beautiful farm just east of the city.
    Is a member of the G. A. R. Post at Seward. Mr. Fuller was in the brick and building trade for many years and laid the walls of many of the blocks in Seward. He was at the head of the company that built the Windsor Hotel in 1880.
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