The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1907-02-15
A PASSING OF PIONEERS
SIX OF NORFOLK. ORIGINAL SET
TIERS GONE.
WITHIN THE PAST FEW WEEKS
Since the First OF the Year -Four Of
the Original Colony Of Germans Who
Came to Norfolk in 1866, Have
Passed Out Of This Life.

Passed Out Of This Life.
A half dozen of the old pioneers who
were members of the first white colony
to settle in Norfolk have within the
past few months given up the battle
of life and closed their eyes in eternal
sleep The last of the six was buried
Friday afternoon-Mrs. William Door
ing And among those six who have
ended this existence during the past
few weeks, have been two men who at
the time they came here, owned much
of what is now the city of Norfolk.
Those settlers of 1866, who came
from Wisconsin with the colony of
about sixty families, and who have re-
Gently succumbed, are:
Fred Dederman.
Mrs. Buetow.
Ferdinand Pasewall.
Mrs. Herman Wachter.
William Boche.
Mrs. William Doering.
The last four have died since the
| first of the year. The two men who
| at one time owned much of what is
now Norfolk were Ferdinand Pasewalk
and Fred Dederman. August Braasch
owned another large portion, north of
Norfolk avenue, and it was his daugh-
ter, Mrs William Doering, who has
| just died this week.
Mr.. Braasch and Mr.. Wagner were
the two men who came here from Wis
consin to select site for the location
of the colony from Wisconsin. They
chose Norfolk, returned to Wisconsin
and brought back about sixty families
and eighty wagons. Every one of the
above six persons were in that colony.
Those were the days of the Indians.
Sioux and Poncas were camped along
the Northfork, many of them together,
but there was never any trouble with
the reds. The nearests mill in those
days was at West Point.
Blazed Way for Norfolk.
This hardy colony of thrifty, ener.
getic Germans blazed the way for the
future Norfolk They were young men
in those days, and they brought their
|
might select farms upon which they
could bring up their children. Today
those children have grown to be ripe
men and women, heads of families of
their own, and many of them are lay
ing to rest the exhausted pioneers who
brought them here.
Few of them are left to tell the
story of those rugged days. Among
the heads of families of &c still en-.
joying life are Mrs. Lehman, Mr.. and
Mrs. Carl Winter and few others.
These hardy pioneers, now passing
away so rapidly, will live in the mem
DRY of the present generation and of
conservative type, thrifty to degree
they have builded here on these west
ern plains a city that is thriving and
prosperous, an industrial center Where
their wagons made tracks in the vir
gin sod, railway trains now rumble
many times a day. Upon foundation
of stone did they construct this village
later western city, and the progress
and growth of the community shall
ever stand as monument to their in
dustry and to their discerning judg
ment.
Besides these, st. Paul's Lutheran
church has lost number of it's con
gregation in late months. August
Haase was cut down by a railroad
train; Herman Schwanke was dragged
to death by runaway team; and Mr.
Bauermeister, one of the successful
farmers of the district, succumbed t.
illness.
Norfolk is losing honored and re
spected and much loved citizens wher
it loses it's pioneers.