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 1857 - 1931 (73 years)
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| Name |
Kate DUNNING |
| Born |
21 Jun 1857 |
near Mound City, MO  |
| Gender |
Female |
| Died |
16 May 1931 |
Indianola, NE |
| Notes |
- According to Uncle John Wolfe, there were 10 or 12 Thomas graves of children in the cemetery at Indianola, Nebraska. He also says, Grandmother praticed abortion. When dying she asked Mother, "Do you think I will go to heaven? " This would be confirmed by the 1900 census where Kate said that she had 11 births, three living.
- Ina Mae Wolfe remembers that when she was very young and the family went to Indianola for Grandma Kate Dunning Thomas's funeral, Ina broke out in a terrible rash. Grandpa Bob Thomas took her around the yard asking finding out exactly what
plants she had touched while she was out in the yard. It turned out that she had been bitten by bedbugs instead. Because of the rash, Ina was sent over to stay with Mary, the former foster child of Bob and Kate Thomas and so missed the
funeral.
- "My first view of Indianola was the 25th of April '78 (1878). It was a very nice looking clean, little place-- a store, drug store, court house, a small little school house, a hotel, and a small dwelling house or two. A buffalo cow laarriated
out east of the town some little ways was a novel one to us at least.
- While the size of the town was not so ________ as we had grown up in Nebraska and had seen the small places grow along with us and sure Indianola had grown. New settlers coming in the fall and the coming of the railroad made things go fast but
we must remember the school, church and Sunday school was already well laid out and the people and children as well was glad to have those things that they were well attended by those in or living near here, I sometimes think better then than
now. The added thought is to think of so many of the glad hands extended to the new comers here who have gone to the last home. While gone they are not forgotten. Now looking at the churches and nice homes and trees you have to stop and think,
has all this been done since you first saw Indianola." Kate Dunning Thomas
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| Person ID |
I20 |
Maykoski and Lewis |
| Last Modified |
13 Jan 2008 |
| Father |
Cyrus DUNNING, b. 4 Jan 1831, Connecticut , d. 27 Jan 1863, Salem, NE (Age 32 years) |
| Mother |
Lucy Ursula WHEELER, b. 10 Apr 1831, Clarksfield, OH , d. 16 Apr 1915, Indianola, NE (Age 84 years) |
| Married |
25 Sep 1856 |
| Documents
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 | Dunning - Lucy and family 1870 census
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| Dunning - Lucy and family 1880 census
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| Dunning - Lucy and family 1900 census
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| Dunning - Lucy and family 1910 census
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| Family ID |
F17 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family |
Robert Hanson THOMAS, b. 15 Apr 1851, Galesburg, IL , d. 13 Jul 1931, Indianola, NE (Age 80 years) |
| Married |
15 Mar 1883 |
| Children |
| | 1. Jr. Robert H. THOMAS, b. Apr 1893, Nebraska , bur. Washington (state) |
| | 2. Lucy H. THOMAS, b. Feb 1890, Nebraska , bur. probably in Indianola |
| + | 3. Mary A. Duborks, b. Dec 1888, Nebraska [Adopted] |
| + | 4. Alice Mae THOMAS, b. 6 Dec 1890, Indianola, NE , d. 9 May 1975, Billings, MT (Age 84 years) |
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| Photos |
 | Thomas Home Burned
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 | Thomas family sod house
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| Documents
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| Thomas, Robert and Kate 1900 census, Red Willow CO., Nebraska.
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| Robert and Kate Thomas 1885 Nebraska Census
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| Three Old Timers Who Came West Together
Article on R.H. Thomas and friends V.J. Glandon and G.V. Hoag from the McCook Daily Gazette. |
| Last Modified |
10 Jul 2008 |
| Family ID |
F16 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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