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LOSHBOUGH, Adda See father, John D. Loshbough (ca 1832). LOSHBUG, Adel (ca 1867) See father, W. H. Loshbug (1825). LOSHBOUGH, Agnes (ca 1839) BEAD OF FAMILY -- Agnes Loshbough, age 21-1860, b. Michigan; was listed with the family of George Kimmel, in Niles twp., Berrien co., Mich. in 1860. Near the residence of Joseph Perry Loshbough family. LOSHBAUGH, Albert Chauncey (1880) HUSBAND -- Albert Chauncey Loshbaugh (called Chauncey), b. 24 Sept.
1880, Martin twp., Smith co., Kansas (near village of Reamsville). Son
of Albert Dennis Loshbaugh and Mary Ann Drake. Occupation - School Teacher
and Principal. Served as County Judge for a few years. Lived many years
in Kearney, Nebr. Died at the age of 92 on 11 March 1973 at Hastings, Nebr.
Burial at Kearney Cemetery, Buffalo co., Nebr. on March 3rd. Was md. on
16 June 19 10 at Kearney to: WIFE -- Ethel Anna Kyser, b. 8 Apr. 1888,
Yuma, Yuma co., Colo.; daughter. of Adelbert Kyser and Junetta. Wingard.
Father b. Michigan; mother b. Decorah, Iowa. Ethel was also a School Teacher.
She died the 2 1 st of March 1948 at Kearney and was buried in the Kearney
Cemetery on the 23rd of March. Residence at time of her death was Stockville,
Frontier co., Nebr.
LOSUBAUGH, Albert Dennis (1847) HUSBAND -- Albeit Dennis Loshbaugh, b. 6 Mar. 1847, Niles, Berrien co., Mich.; s. of Henry Loshbough and Anna Decker. Occupation - Carpenter. He helped his father and grandfather in building the Convent in St. Joseph’s Parish at Bertrand, Berrien co-, Mich. Albert and his wife resided in Bertrand when first married, but traveled by covered wagon with other family members to homestead in Kansas shortly after their second child was born. In 1938, Olive (Loshbaugh) Bersley, wrote the following: "Father (Albert Loshbaugh) homesteaded on a 160-acre farm in Smith County, Kansas, near the Nebraska State line when the nearest trading point was Hastings, Nebraska, forty miles distant." Their homestead near Reamsville, a small community in Smith County, Kansas, north of Athol and Smith Center. While living there in the sodhouse which they built, Albert assisted Charles G Schwarz in the construction of a Mill that saw service at Rearmsville until it was moved in 1938 to its present location in 1993 in the City Park at Smith Center, Kansas. Before their daughter, Hattie, was born in 1890, the family moved a few miles north of Rearmsville across the State line into Franklin County, Nebr. They eventually lived in the village of Riverton in Washington Township a few miles cast of Franklin, the county seat. Albert and his father-in-law, Lorenzo Drake, each had one-fourth interest in an old flour mill, Eagle Mills, near Riverton. Mr. Schwartz had one-half interest in this mill which later burned to the ground and was not restored. After the death of Albeit's wife in 1899 and when his daughter, Zetta, married, Albert and the younger children still at home moved from Riverton to Stratton (then called Claremont), Colo. for a few years. He died at Stratton (Claremont) on June the 27th in 1904. (Aunt Olive Bersley wrote - "Viola took their father's body home for burial"). His burial was at Riverton, Nebr., beside his wife and infant son William. In September, l992, a granddaughter (Mildred Aday) accompanied by her niece, Linda Deming, made a trip to Nebraska and where she arranged for a tombstone to be placed at the until that time unmarked grave of her grandparents and their infant son, Willie. Something she had wanted to do for years. MYA WIFE -- Mary Ann Drake, b. 31 Jan. 1853, Toledo, Lucas co., Ohio. Daughter. of Lorenzo Drake and Olive Richardson. Died 15 Marl 899 and was buried at Riverton, Franklin co-, Nebr. OBITUARY from Riverton newspaper: "Died at her home in this city on Wednesday evening, March 15, 1899, Mrs. A. D. Loshbough, of disease of the brain, caused by overwork and lack of required rest during the weeks when nearly the entire family were sick with the measles. The s3rmpathies, of the people of Riverton are extended to the bereaved family. The funeral services were held this afternoon at the Congregational Church conducted by Rev. Samuel Williams. "Mary A. Drake was born in Toledo, Ohio, Jan. 31, 1853, was married
to A. D. Loshbough, Sept. 24, 1874. She was the mother of ten children,
one of whom has gone before. She leaves to mourn her loss, her husband,
five daughters and four sons. She united with the Baptist Church at the
age of twelve years and lived a consistent Christian life until the end
which came March 15th, 1899, at the age of 46 years, one mouth and fifteen
days."
Concerning the departure of Albert and Mary Ann from Michigan to Kansas, their daughter, Olive, wrote in 1938: "There were five men in our party, only two married (I think), anyway ours was the only family'. We traveled by covered wagons all the way from Michigan to Kansas; crossing the Mississippi on a ferry (no bridge). I think they forded the Missouri River-- It was in September. We all stayed together until they built the sod houses. They built ours first. Inez was five and I was four when we started school in a sod school house. My mother's aunt~ her uncle's wife~, Nettie Richardson (Mrs. Gershom Richardson) was the teacher. She had one baby when she began. She taught two terms and had a new baby between terms. We used Independent Series of books (I wish I could find one) and I began with the Primer but skipped the 3rd Reader. When I was six we got a new schoolhouse, a frame one, and Aunt Nettie built a frame house. Father sold the farm and bought an interest in a flour mill when I was eleven years old and we moved to Nebraska in 1881; sixteen miles. After a few years he planned selling out and moved to another little miff (Egle Mills, two miles north of Riverton). The first Mill burned down and we never got any money from it. Grandma Loshbaugh (Anna Decker) died in Michigan in 1891 and we got a little money from that estate and bought a home in Riverton, Nebraska where we lived until Mother Mary Ann Drake) died in 1899 and the family was broken up. My sister Inez and I were married then and had homes of our own." Following is copy of the last letter Aunt Olive wrote to me (Mildred Y. Aday): "Dubuque, Iowa, May 24, 1956.
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