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Louisa Christina Weigle Schwab

Birth	:	16 Jul 1855 Buffalo, Erie County, New York, USA
Death	:	15 Feb 1942 Fremont, Dodge County, Nebraska, USA
Burial	:	St. Swithins Cemetery, Lincoln, City of Lincoln, England
Coordinate	:	53.2197390, -0.5221790
Plot	:	Section 5, Lot 54, Grave 2
Description	:	Obituary - Louisa Christina Weigle Schwab Mrs. Henry Schwab was born Louisa Christina Weigle, the daughter of George and Christena Crammer Weigle, at Long Grove, Waukegean County(1), Illinois, July 16, 1855. When she was 3 years of age she journeyed with her parents and two other families the Brummer and Roggensack families by ox team to the Nebraska Territory. Their long journey took them to West Point, in Cumings County, Nebraska in the year 1858. The period of American History the years of 1840-1860 are called the years of great genius and American migration. Mrs. Schwab's parents took their family... Read More	Obituary - Louisa Christina Weigle Schwab Mrs. Henry Schwab was born Louisa Christina Weigle, the daughter of George and Christena Crammer Weigle, at Long Grove, Waukegean County(1), Illinois, July 16, 1855. When she was 3 years of age she journeyed with her parents and two other families the Brummer and Roggensack families by ox team to the Nebraska Territory. Their long journey took them to West Point, in Cumings County, Nebraska in the year 1858. The period of American History the years of 1840-1860 are called the years of great genius and American migration. Mrs. Schwab's parents took their family from the state of Illinois when only 6 persons were living to the square mile in the states of the Mississippi Valley and Ohio Valley. West of the Mississippi River they became a part of a population of 876,000 persons scattered from the Canadian boundary to the North and the Mexican border to the south and the Pacific Ocean to the west. The population of the United States was 17,000,000 and 876,000 of this population cast their lot with the New West. This period of Mrs. Schwab's early childhood marked some important events of American History. She was born during the presidency of Franklin Pierce, the 14th president, who signed the Nebraska-Kansas Bill giving it the right to be a free or slave state. Mrs. Schwab lived under 18 of the 32 presidents of the U. S. The year 1858 was the year when Abraham Lincoln became the new senator from Illinois to the U.S. Congress. It was the successful year for the laying of the Atlantic cable from Ireland to Newfoundland, a distance of 1,700 miles. Three inventions changed American living in the period 1840-1860; the sewing machine, the reaper and the telegraph. There were only 17,000 miles of railroad. In the Union 26 states and 15 territories. Chicago, the largest city of the west had a population of less than 5,000 people. This was the great period of genius and population movement. In 1859 after a years residence in Cumings County, Mrs. Schwab moved with her parents, brothers and sisters to what was then Washington County near the Logan Creek. Here a log cabin with a sod roof was erected on homestead land. The farm now is called the Gus Weigle farm. During her childhood she witnessed in 1859, the Pawnee Indians uprising. The marauding Indians stole one of the family's oxen and the Weigle family was forced to flee to Fontanelle where the settlers had set up a fort in the school house. The Pawnee Indians were a restless group of Indians, living mostly from their hunts. At times they did farm, but usually they were on the move. As a tribe they sacrificed a female at the beginning of the corn planting season. They were the only Indians who would sell themselves to the French traders as slaves when captured by their tribal enemies. Although they gave their lands by treaty in 1833 to the U.S. government, they did not retire to their reservation in the Indian Territory until 1876. They roved up and down the Logan Creek and Elkhorn valleys bothering and stealing from the white settlers. The Logan Creek country was filled with wild fruits, plums of many kinds abounded, choke-cherries, wild gooseberries and wild grapes gave the pioneer families an added variety to their plain diet of food. Man never had to prune the grapes for the spring and fall prairie fires took care of the dead vines and the over-abundance of wild fruits. Many prairie fires were witnessed in those days, the fires usually fanned by a strong north wind, would sweep across the prairies, jumping across the Logan and the Elkhorn rivers. Drought, grasshoppers, severe winters, floods, all added their touch to Mrs. Schwab's experiences during the years. Mrs. Schwab received her early education at the Logan Creek School, Miss Henneman being her first school teacher in the year 1863. No school was held in 1864 because of no funds to operate the school. In the year 1867, the instruction was started during the winter months. In this same year, 1867, the Logan Creek School-Master, an Englishman, lobbied the Legislature at the Capitol in Omaha to have the Logan Creek Community annexed to Dodge County. It cost the early settlers $20 apiece, later an additional $10, to make the necessary change. When Mrs. Schwab was 19 years old, she married her school-mate and neighbor, Mr. Henry Schwab, whose parents had homesteaded the farm across the road from the Weigle homestead. They were united in marriage at Fremont, June 2, 1874, by County Judge Ghoat. They moved to the Schwab homestead where they lived for 36 years, Mr. Schwab engaging in farming and livestock feeding. In 1910 they retired to Hooper, where they have since made their home. In 1924 they observed their 50th wedding anniversary at the old home two miles north of Hooper, and in 1939, they observed their 65th anniversary. This couple were blessed with 67 years of married life. To bless this home were five sons and two daughters. Son Edward and one daughter Louise (Mrs. P. J. Ewald) preceded their mother in death. Mrs. Schwab is one of the last pioneers of this community. She was baptized in the Lutheran faith in Illinois, and was confirmed by Rev. Beedow, early Lutheran pastor in this territory. She was a charter member of the Grace Lutheran Church and faithful to the communion and work of her church. She was member of the Eastern Star for over thirty years. Mrs. Schwab departed this life early Sunday morning, February 15, 1942, at the Dodge County Hospital in Fremont. She departed this life at the age of 86 years, 7 months and 29 days. Five brothers and four sisters preceded her in death, one son, Edward and one daughter, Louise. Surviving to mourn her departure are her loving husband, Henry, one daughter, Mrs. Minnie Wagner, Hooper, four sons Harry and Frank of Hooper, Robert of Fremont, Elmer of Omaha as well as ten granddaughters, eight grandsons, and eight great- grandchildren. Note: This obituary was read at the funeral services. Rev. W. W. Alexander wrote this out in long-hand and it was given to the family. I typed this copy from a copy typed and given to me by Betty Shaffer McMaster. (1) According to the 1860 U. S. census Louisa was born in New York state. In her mother's (Christena Crammer Weigle) obituary it states that the family moved to Illinois in 1856. In my files I am listing her place of birth as New York state (Probably Blackrock Dam near Buffalo, New York). ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Hooper Sentinel February 26, 1914 Biographical Sketches of Pioneer Women Now Living in Hooper Mrs. Henry Schwab Miss Louisa Weigle was born at Long Grove, Ill., July 16, 1855. She came to Nebraska with her parents and a number of other families by the ox team route in 1868. They located in Cuming county near West Point where they lived for about a year then they removed to a farm two miles north-east of Hooper now occupied by her brother, Gus Weigle. She can relate many interesting incidents of early pioneer life especially in regard to the Indians. She will never forget once when a small child the Indians were unusually terrifying and her parents took her and her bothers and sisters and hurried to Fontanelle where the few white settlers gathered in the school house to protect themselves. She was married to Henry Schwab June 2, 1874. They took a homestead across the road from her father's and they resided there until three years ago when they moved into our little city where they have since resided. She is the mother of seven children, Mrs. Henry Wagner, Harry, Frank, Edward, Mrs. Peter Ewald, Robert and Elmer all of Hooper and vicinity.

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Louisa Christina Weigle Schwab's memorial is located at: St. Swithins Cemetery, Lincoln, City of Lincoln, England.
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Louisa Christina Weigle Schwab death on 15 Feb 1942 in Fremont, Dodge County, Nebraska, USA
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Latitude: 53.2197390
Longitude: -0.5221790

Family Members:

Parent

Spouse

Henry Schwab Jr.

(1852 - 1947)

Siblings

Paulina Caroline Weigle Schwab

(1848 - 1935)

Rachel Elizabeth “Fredericka” Weigle Schwab

(1850 - 1932)

Gotfried Weigle

(1851 - 1924)

John Weigle

(1857 - 1924)

Gustav Herman Weigle

(1866 - 1939)

Children

Minnie Paulina Schwab Wagner

(1875 - 1952)

Harry Jacob Schwab

(1877 - 1973)

John Frank Schwab

(1882 - 1959)

Edward Herbert Schwab

(1885 - 1936)

Louise C. Schwab Ewald

(1887 - 1933)

Robert Louis Schwab

(1893 - 1986)

Elmer A. Schwab

(1895 - 1990)

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Nearby Cemetories:

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Coordinate: 53.2197390, -0.5221790

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