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Jesse L Bonsall

Birth	:	15 Dec 1888
Death	:	4 Nov 1980
Burial	:	Mount Hope Cemetery, Scotia, Greeley County, USA
Coordinate	:	41.4752998, -98.7117004
Description	:	Greeley County, Nebraska Handwritten letter dated July 26, 1937 Scotia, Nebr. July 26, 1937 Dear Friend Howell I will finaly answer your letter, I should of answered it long ago, but when I had the time I didn’t think about it and when I thought of it I was busy. >Well Howell we have one honor now anyway, that Greeley County is the driest place in the U. S. It is the driest up by Jim Hall and Jess Bonsal and through there. Their corn is all dried up and dead. If it rained a foot they wouldn’t get no fodder. We could easily still... Read More	Greeley County, Nebraska Handwritten letter dated July 26, 1937 Scotia, Nebr. July 26, 1937 Dear Friend Howell I will finaly answer your letter, I should of answered it long ago, but when I had the time I didn’t think about it and when I thought of it I was busy. >Well Howell we have one honor now anyway, that Greeley County is the driest place in the U. S. It is the driest up by Jim Hall and Jess Bonsal and through there. Their corn is all dried up and dead. If it rained a foot they wouldn’t get no fodder. We could easily still get pretty good fodder and maybe a little corn if it rained right away. Pastures through here have all killed out and are full of weeds, and now the weeds have dried up. Small grain was no good at all. My oats made 4 ½ bu. to the acre and poor oats at that, most of the oats made around six and seven bu. to the acre. About half the people around here mowed and stacked their oats for hay. Nep. Johnson says we can be thankful that we are still alive. We can thank the Lord for that. Johnson had 80 acres of oats on his land and got seven loads of the whole piece. We went down to Palmer yesterday to see Laura’s mother, corn looks fine that way. After we left Cotesfield crops begin looking lots better. They had quite a bit of rain down that way, but it can’t rain here. When they get a good rain down there we get a sprinkle her, it sure is discouraging. I suppose you are getting plenty of rain. I see in the paper where they are getting lots of rain east of us. There is lots of stock lost around here eating poisonous weeds in the pastures. Grasshoppers have een;awfully bad here this year, but right now I don’t see so many. Maybe they got discouraged and left. I suppose you heard that we have a new boy at our house born Sophie is married and lives in Omaha. Bob is still puttering away. I guess he is going to mow thistles now for hay. He mowed some in 1934 and hauled they up in pasture and put them in a ditch for ensilage, but gul the cows wouldn’t eat them. Howell I guess I don’t know any more news, only dry weather news so will close. Your Friend Henry Groetzinger Contributed by: Lowella M. Stinson Transcribed by Frances Cooley - typed as written submitted by: Lori Frisch

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Latitude: 41.4752998
Longitude: -98.7117004

Family Members:

Spouse

Jennie Pearl Burton Bonsall

(1889 - 1990)

Children

Jesse Dean “Dean” Bonsall

(1919 - 1999)

Gene “Buz” Bonsall

(1924 - 1988)

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Nearby Cemetories:

1. Mount Hope Cemetery
Scotia, Greeley County, USA
Coordinate: 41.4752998, -98.7117004

2. Hillside Cemetery
North Loup, Valley County, USA
Coordinate: 41.4892006, -98.7960968

3. Fish Creek Cemetery
Scotia, Greeley County, USA
Coordinate: 41.4663000, -98.6154000

4. Pleasant Hill Friends Cemetery
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Coordinate: 41.4230800, -98.8377700

5. Greeley Cemetery
Greeley, Greeley County, USA
Coordinate: 41.5554000, -98.5400000

6. Sacred Heart Cemetery
Greeley, Greeley County, USA
Coordinate: 41.5539017, -98.5381012

7. Dannevirke Cemetery
Dannevirke, Howard County, USA
Coordinate: 41.3227997, -98.6986008

8. Pleasant Hill Cemetery
Belfast, Greeley County, USA
Coordinate: 41.6175003, -98.6352997

9. Davis Creek Cemetery
Valley County, USA
Coordinate: 41.4219017, -98.9052963

10. Cotesfield Cemetery
Cotesfield, Howard County, USA
Coordinate: 41.3358002, -98.6219025

11. Salem Evangelical Church Cemetery
Ord, Valley County, USA
Coordinate: 41.4902992, -98.9244003

12. Springdale Hillside Cemetery
Valley County, USA
Coordinate: 41.6114010, -98.8282950

13. Swedish Cemetery
Greeley, Greeley County, USA
Coordinate: 41.5525017, -98.5147018

14. Summit Cemetery
Howard County, USA
Coordinate: 41.3875008, -98.4953003

15. O'Connor Cemetery
O'Connor, Greeley County, USA
Coordinate: 41.5101128, -98.4654999

16. East O'Connor Cemetery
O'Connor, Greeley County, USA
Coordinate: 41.5106000, -98.4638000

17. Mount Carmel Cemetery
Howard County, USA
Coordinate: 41.2797012, -98.7328033

18. Fairdale Sunrise Cemetery
Elba, Howard County, USA
Coordinate: 41.3580000, -98.4887000

19. Saint Josephs Cemetery
Elba, Howard County, USA
Coordinate: 41.2930984, -98.5746994

20. Ord Cemetery
Ord, Valley County, USA
Coordinate: 41.6142006, -98.9403000

21. North Logan Cemetery
Howard County, USA
Coordinate: 41.3657990, -98.4492035

22. Vinton Cemetery
Ord, Valley County, USA
Coordinate: 41.5467000, -98.9970000

23. Elba Cemetery
Elba, Howard County, USA
Coordinate: 41.2764015, -98.5643997

24. Fairdale Cemetery
Howard County, USA
Coordinate: 41.2891998, -98.5152969