Continued from Nov. 25 “The wheel is spinning in the United States for some 17 million young men. It started when Congress decreed that they should register for possible military service. Then came the registration; then the spin which gave each man in the county a serial number. Tuesday of this week came the whirl …
Category: Nemaha County
Purple Heart
Private George A. Weeks Courier TribuneOct 2, 1944page 2 Albert Hasenkamp, Vernon Keegan, Wilfred Reist, George Weeks, Adrian Schmitz and Bernard Schultejans, Nemaha county boys, are all in 155th Bn of the 92nd Regiment, recently at Camp Hood, Texas, and were home on furlough last week. They will leave home on October 2nd and proceed …
Saturday Tidbits
1940 Draft - Serial Number Order Continued from Nov. 4 Saturday Tidbits “The wheel is spinning in the United States for some 17 million young men. It started when Congress decreed that they should register for possible military service. Then came the registration; then the spin which gave each man in the county a serial …
Elgin Strahm
Purple Heart Recipient In October 1940, Elgin Strahm registered for the 'young men's' draft. According to his registration, he was living with his mother in Nemaha county, Kansas and employed by E. L. Seidel in Sabetha. In March 1942, Elgin Strahm wa one of 35 men from Nemaha county that was accepted for military duty. …
Veteran’s Day
Today is veteran's day. In honor of all who have served, today's post is going to highlight some of my previous posts about veterans. Last year, my Veteran's Day post, Veterans in My Tree, documented those individuals in my genealogy file with a military service fact. This year, I'm going to create a list of …
Purple Heart
George A. Weeks Albert Hasenkamp, Vernon Keegan, Wilfred Reist, George Weeks, Adrian Schmitz and Bernard Schultejans, Nemaha county boys, are all in 155th Bn of the 92nd Regiment, recently at Camp Hood, Texas, and were home on furlough last week. They will leave home on October 2nd and proceed to Fort Meade, Md. Two other …
Draft Order
The Courier TribuneNov 4, 1940page 1 Forming New Draft Board From County Posts Burden Will Thus Fall on Men Already Public Salaried The Nemaha county draft board is being reorganized. The county commissioners have recommended that Sheriff Loyd Cobun, Register of Deeds Bert Stratton and O. J. Ward, deputy county clerk, be appointed for this …
Small Town Museums
Recently, another genealogy blogger had a post that sharply criticized a rural Kansas historical society. While some of the criticism might be justified, I'd like to share my experiences working with such societies. Over the years, I have corresponded with many smaller historical and/or genealogical societies. At various times, I've also been a member of …
1940 Draft Order
The Courier Tribune31 Oct 1940page 1 The Wheel of Fortune Spins For Registrants Determine Draft Order — No. 1 in Nemaha Is Ivan Bryant, Wetmore The wheel of fortune spins — and where — it stops nobody knows. The wheel is spinning in the United States for some 17 million young men. It started when …
Lawrence Winterscheidt
Purple Heart Recipient Local NewsLawrence Winterscheidt, son of Mr. and Mrs. Roy Wintersheidt, goes to Eskridge, Kansas today where he will be enrolled in sheet metal work in an NYA school. The school is an overflow of NYA’s Topeka defense industry training. Courier Tribune4 Sep 1941page 4 Twenty Three Are Inducted Pass the Final Exams …