Floyd Hilgenkamp Farm In
on^iVki Family For 101 Years
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The Floyd Hilgenkamp farm, in 1922. Floyd Hilgenkamp got
one of the three whose owners the farm in 1964, establishing an
unbroken line of possession in the
will I
family.
Count} Fair this fall, I ,
the family 101 years.
The original tract upon which
The farm came into the Hil- this history is based consisted of
genkamp family in March, 1867, 120 acres, but this has since been
when Herman Hilgenkamp bought expanded to 200 acres. The farm
it from Daniel Coyltff The land
three miles north of the Marhad been homesteaded by Huah s h a l l Nurseries corner on Highway
Coil in I860 and later sold to 30, it is now on the new black top
Daniel Coyle, in 1865.
road which is just being comPeter Hilgenkamp, Herman's pleted.
son, secured the land in 1900,
The Hilgenkamps engage ingenand it came to G. W. Hilgenkamp eral farming, milk about 20 cows
ferviceiTo? Mrs.,.,( /
FrenchWere On Tuesday
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Services were held at 2:30 in
rlineion with ^ ~ ~ ¿ * J ~ , . ..
tram. 7 •
"aJ"u"na oi YoungvS,T^
town, tArizona.
-J}eilâre^SThere
ur. are two sur
wing daughters. They a r T S
Robert Savage, of Omaha; and MÍSS
Ettel French .of Youngtown, S ï
She also has three brothers
and two sisters. They are Arthír
Johnson, of Denver; Perry J o K
The Floyd Hilgenkamp family
are shown in the attra
hen
of their farm home. Seated Mr. and
. Hilgenkamp. St
left
to right. James, Dale, and Gene.
Services For
Bess Talmage
ii»,;
i. Mrs
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n. •.. Nebr.;
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„ JFuneral
? 6 ™ 1 services
for
Na- „f
of Dewitt,
and Ralph Johns
oi
Youngtown,
Arizona. The sisters
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T f ' f ^ w e r e held on Tuesare Mrs. Margaret Baxter of
Bellevue and Mrs. Edith Grave
of Omaha. There are 11 grandchildren and 21 great grandchil5 2 great great grand
chTdrï
and u s u a l l y raise around 175
hogs. Last Monday, thev were
busy harvesting the wheat crops.
Mr. and Mrs. Hilgenkamp have
three sons: James, 17, Dale. 14,
and Gene, 12, all of
~lp
with the farm work.
-"."&••"" «-wneiery. Kev. Dwight
.Umer,
of Fremont,
Fremont, officiated
offîcTS
.temer of
with Reckmeyer Funeral Home in
charge of arrangements.
FriT 3 H e t ,, b e a r e r s w e r e Charles
French, Eugene French, Melvern
Hilgenkamp, Don Bartusek, Tom
Savage and Brice Bartusek.
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Funeral services for Bess Patrick Talmage were held on Sat: urday, July 6th. Mrs. Talmage
passed away at the Good Shepherd
Home on Wednesday, July 3rd.
Mrs. Talmage was born on September 28, 1879 at Rigdon, Indiana. She was 88 at the time of
her death. Her husband, Charles
O. Talmage, preceded her in death.
Survivors include a sister, Mrs.
C. C. Sheldon of Columbus, Nebraska, and Mrs. Frank Stewart,
a niece, of Blair, Nebraska.
Services were held at 10:30 a.m.
in the Campbell Mortuary with
Rev. James R. Warn officiating.
Interment was in the Blair Cemetery.