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Mary A Janasch Vogel

Birth	:	15 Oct 1864 Germany
Death	:	8 May 1936
Burial	:	Alliance Cemetery, Alliance, Box Butte County, USA
Coordinate	:	42.1104965, -102.8367996
Description	:	John Vogel For many years one of Box Butte county's best known pioneer farmers, and one of the representative and substantial business men of the Panhandle, came to this section as a youth when settlers were few in the upper valley of the Platte. He was a member of a family that drove into the county in true pioneer style in 1876, settling on a homestead. He and his wife were residents of Nebraska from the time when the only buildings known in the central and western part of the state were composed of sod and they watched the various... Read More	John Vogel For many years one of Box Butte county's best known pioneer farmers, and one of the representative and substantial business men of the Panhandle, came to this section as a youth when settlers were few in the upper valley of the Platte. He was a member of a family that drove into the county in true pioneer style in 1876, settling on a homestead. He and his wife were residents of Nebraska from the time when the only buildings known in the central and western part of the state were composed of sod and they watched the various changes that have been wrought and the sturdy and progressive work of the settlers, and themselves bore a full share of the labor of development. Mr. Vogel was one of the large landholders and successful agriculturists of Box Butte county, and is entitled to the respect and esteem in which he was uniformly held by his fellow citizens during life. To his sons Mr. Vogel left the example of an honorable and useful life, to his family, the memory of his loving care as a husband and father will remain forever as a blessed inheritance. And now in the beautiful city of the dead, he sleeps the sleep that knows no awakening, awaiting the Master's call. John Vogel was born in Dubuque, Iowa, November 16, 1862. He was the son of John and Mary Vogel, both born in the German Empire. They were reared and received their early educational training in that country and later came to the United States. John, Jr., was the second boy in a family of five boys born to his parents. His boyhood and early youth were passed on his father's farm. He early assumed the tasks on the home place that his age and strength permitted and under his father became a good, practical farmer while yet of tender years. He attended the district school near his home until his fourteenth year, when the family came to Nebraska, locating in Stanton county. Mr. Vogel entered the frontier schools after coming west and helped his father on the farm out of school hours and in the summer vacations. As the country was little settled at that period John, like most other lively boys, became a trapper of small game and the first money he earned was trapping muskrats, which he sold and thus had spending money of his own. Mr. Vogel remained at home with his parents assisting his father after his schooling ended until his marriage in May, 1884, at West Point, Nebraska, to Miss Mary Jannuch, who also was born in Germany, being the daughter of Herman and Augusta (Newbower) Jannuch, both natives of that country. Mrs. Vogel was the second child in the family which consisted of four boys and two girls. The father was a stone mason in his native county who died when Mary was ten years old. She had already attended school and was very capable and of much help to her mother, who finding it difficult to gain a living for herself and her family in her native land emigrated, as she had heard of the many opportunities for ambitious young men and women in the new world. After landing on our shores, Mrs. Jannuch came west to Chicago, where she had old friends and knew a number of people, settling in that city in 1878. When the family arrived they had some money but the mother, with the well known and admirable thrift of the German people put this away as a nest egg and set to work to save all she could so as to have capital to establish the children in business when the right time came. She secured a position herself and also had the oldest children work, so that they were self-supporting and helped her care for the younger ones who were still too small to do much and were of course sent to the good American schools. The oldest boy, Otto, was established with a cigar maker to learn the trade, and he found it so congenial and financially satisfactory that he still follows that vocation in Chicago. Mary, now Mrs. Vogel, secured work in a tailoring establishment, learned the business and worked at it four years before making a visit to Stanton, Nebraska, to some of her relatives. While there she met John Vogel, a fine sturdy young farmer at that time, who could not resist the charm of the attractive German girl and persuaded her that she would be happy out on the high plains with him and they became engaged. On May 7, 1884, their marriage was solemnized at West Point, and the happy groom with his bride established themselves on his farm. Mr. Vogel was an industrious man and after his marriage his beloved wife became his devoted companion and helpmate, sympathizing when the way was hard and long and not only encouraged her husband but worked with him to build up their fortune, being his mainstay for thirty years. Mrs. Vogel is a woman whose strength and good deeds are as the number of her days and who has had a remarkable share in pioneer experiences in the great west, for she has taken active part in the development of her husband's land. Mrs. Vogel found a great part of the Panhandle still known as the "Great American Desert," and has seen the marvelous transformation of what was considered prairie become valuable farm land. Six children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Vogel: Ida, deceased; William H., who married Rose Knapp and they now live on a fine farm which they own near Alliance, having three children, all girls; Walter, married Beulah Reeves and they live on his ranch not far from town, and have a son, Ervin E.; John O., married Fern Johnson and they have twin girls. They make their home on a farm and Mr. Vogel also is a well known and prominent hunter and trapper not far from Alliance. Edward is the next child, who is now a machinist and makes his home with his mother in Alliance, and Herbert, a farmer who also resides with his mother. Mr. Vogel and wife lived on their farm for many years and there reared and educated their children in great prosperity. They were a happy loving family and it was a great blow when he was hurt by being thrown from a hay stacker on his farm ten miles west of Alliance, August 30, 1914, and died from the effects of his injury on October 12, of that year leaving his widow the management of their twelve hundred and eighty acre ranch. Help became very hard to secure after the outbreak of the war. Mrs. Vogel found that she and the boys could not possibly carry on such a large place alone and before long discovered that the strenuous work was undermining her health, so in 1918 she leased the ranch and came to Alliance, buying a fine home at 804 Big Horn Avenue. She is resigned to taking life a little more easily after the many years of endeavor of which few women can show a similar record. She is a charming, gracious woman who keeps well abreast of all movements of the day in both the social and business world. For many years she has had a large circle of acquaintances in this section of the country and since coming to Alliance has made many more and in recounting the experiences of the early days she ever gives the humorous picture of the hardships and privations she endured rather than the true situations for the events have become mellowed by time and as she looks at her fine, upstanding boys, feels well rewarded for whatever may have happened in the early years. Mrs. Vogel dispenses a cordial hospitality to all the old friends and is an addition to the residents of Alliance for which the city may well congratulate itself. Source: History of Western Nebraska and Its People; Banner, Box Butte, Cheyenne, Dawes, Deuel, Garden, Kimball, Morrill, Scotts Bluff, Sheridan, and Sioux Counties. A Group Often Called The Panhandle of Nebraska, 1921 Transcribed by: Mary Saggio http://genealogytrails.com/neb/boxbutte/biographiesIII.htm#JohnVoge

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Family Members:

Spouse

John Vogel

(1862 - 1912)

Children

Walter Oscar “Walt” Vogel

(1890 - 1968)

John O. Vogel

(1893 - 1950)

Edward Vogel

(1896 - 1965)

Herbert Leo Vogel

(1899 - 1954)

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Nearby Cemetories:

1. Alliance Cemetery
Alliance, Box Butte County, USA
Coordinate: 42.1104965, -102.8367996

2. Calvary Cemetery
Alliance, Box Butte County, USA
Coordinate: 42.1264000, -102.8569031

3. Immanuel Lutheran Church Columbarium
Alliance, Box Butte County, USA
Coordinate: 42.1053100, -102.8711700

4. United Methodist Church Columbarium
Alliance, Box Butte County, USA
Coordinate: 42.1013300, -102.8710400

5. Saint Matthews Episcopal Church Columbarium
Alliance, Box Butte County, USA
Coordinate: 42.1106300, -102.8748000

6. Saint Johns United Lutheran Church Columbarium
Alliance, Box Butte County, USA
Coordinate: 42.1178900, -102.8794100

7. Nebraska Veterans Cemetery
Alliance, Box Butte County, USA
Coordinate: 42.0745700, -102.8182800

8. Letan Cemetery
Letan, Box Butte County, USA
Coordinate: 42.0162290, -102.9367660

9. Fairview Cemetery
Alliance, Box Butte County, USA
Coordinate: 42.2409160, -102.7879280

10. Evergreen Cemetery
Alliance, Box Butte County, USA
Coordinate: 42.0244000, -103.0542000

11. Antioch Cemetery
Sheridan County, USA
Coordinate: 42.0661480, -102.5874600

12. Saint Johns Lutheran Cemetery
Hemingford, Box Butte County, USA
Coordinate: 42.2785520, -103.0046210

13. Nonpareil Cemetery
Hemingford, Box Butte County, USA
Coordinate: 42.2631149, -103.0824258

14. Pioneer-Box Butte Cemetery
Box Butte County, USA
Coordinate: 42.3640700, -102.8502400

15. Hemingford Cemetery
Hemingford, Box Butte County, USA
Coordinate: 42.3125000, -103.0541992

16. Lakeside Cemetery
Lakeside, Sheridan County, USA
Coordinate: 42.0529850, -102.4274100

17. Katen Cemetery
Box Butte County, USA
Coordinate: 42.4267006, -102.8908005

18. Snake Creek Cemetery
Box Butte County, USA
Coordinate: 42.0889015, -103.2742004

19. Angora Cemetery
Angora, Morrill County, USA
Coordinate: 41.8577995, -103.1306000

20. Neely Flat Cemetery
Sheridan County, USA
Coordinate: 42.4000015, -102.5958023

21. Ball Cemetery
Hemingford, Box Butte County, USA
Coordinate: 42.3372300, -103.2293300

22. Saint Peters Cemetery
Sheridan County, USA
Coordinate: 42.4975014, -102.7161026

23. Lawn Cemetery
Box Butte County, USA
Coordinate: 42.3224630, -103.3083830

24. Ellsworth Catholic Cemetery
Sheridan County, USA
Coordinate: 42.0575320, -102.2799959