Author: Larry KasparPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 98
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Pleasant Hill Cemetery, Saline Co., Nebraska
Author: Larry KasparSoil Survey of Saline County, Nebraska
Author: The Nebraska and Midwest Genealogical Record
Author: The Original Pleasant Hill Cemetery
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Category : Randolph County (Ind.)
Languages : en
Pages : 26
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Saline County, Nebraska Cemetery Records
Author: Janet JefferiesPublisher:
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Category : Cemeteries
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Some Children of the Inner Light
Author: Mary Card YarnellPublisher:
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Category : Pennsylvania
Languages : en
Pages : 212
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Rose Hill Cemetery, Stratton, Nebraska
Author: Burton L. NagelThe First Migrants
Author: Richard EdwardsPublisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 1496236483
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 580
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The First Migrants recounts the largely unknown story of Black people who migrated from the South to the Great Plains between 1877 and 1920 in search of land and freedom. They exercised their rights under the Homestead Act to gain title to 650,000 acres, settling in all of the Great Plains states. Some created Black homesteader communities such as Nicodemus, Kansas, and DeWitty, Nebraska, while others, including George Washington Carver and Oscar Micheaux, homesteaded alone. All sought a place where they could rise by their own talents and toil, unencumbered by Black codes, repression, and violence. In the words of one Nicodemus descendant, they found "a place they could experience real freedom," though in a racist society that freedom could never be complete. Their quest foreshadowed the epic movement of Black people out of the South known as the Great Migration. In this first account of the full scope of Black homesteading in the Great Plains, Richard Edwards and Jacob K. Friefeld weave together two distinct strands: the narrative histories of the six most important Black homesteader communities and the several themes that characterize homesteaders' shared experiences. Using homestead records, diaries and letters, interviews with homesteaders' descendants, and other sources, Edwards and Friefeld illuminate the homesteaders' fierce determination to find freedom--and their greatest achievements and struggles for full equality.
The Ancestors and Descendants of John Lewis Benson and His Sisters and Brother
Author: Ned Harold BensonPublisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1467024422
Category : Benson family
Languages : en
Pages : 500
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John Lewis Benson, born in Crawford County, Pennsylvania, was an 8th generation descendant of John Benson, who arrived in America at Plymouth Colony on 11 April 1638 on the ship "Confidence." After being reared in Chautauqua County, New York, John Lewis Benson's father, William, took him to Rock Island County, Illinois, following his daughters who had already made the migration. Shortly after reaching his majority, John Lewis Benson went to "Bleeding Kansas" as part of the wave of Abolitionists who sought to "keep Kansas free," which action reflected the devout Puritan Calvinism of his Benson forebears. He enlisted in the 5th Kansas Volunteer Cavalry two months after the first canon was fired on Fort Sumter, and served until the end of the War of Rebellion, being mustered out on 22 June 1865. He then returned to Kansas where he prospered, married, and fathered 5 children. He lost all his worldly possessions due to drought and the economic collapse following The Panic of 1873, and then moved about Kansas seeking a new start. During this difficult period, his wife died, leaving him a widower with 4 children ages 6 to 11. He soon married a divorcee who brought her 3 children, ages 1 to 3, to the marriage. In his second marriage, John Lewis fathered three more children. After the Unassigned Lands of Oklahoma Territory were opened for settlement in 1899, John Lewis and his blended family moved there and share-cropped 40 acres southeast of Guthrie, Oklahoma, which he eventually bought. He died on this farm on 23 March 1906. This book by one of his great-grandsons tells the story of his life, the lives of his five sisters and one brother, and their ancestry back to 16th century Oxfordshire, England.
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