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Walter John Steven

Birth	:	1 Apr 1848 Ontario, Canada
Death	:	21 Oct 1911 Shelton, Buffalo County, Nebraska, USA
Burial	:	Maple Hill Cemetery, Charlotte, Eaton County, USA
Coordinate	:	42.5797005, -84.8218994
Plot	:	Lot 215
Description	:	Walter Steven was born at Cannamore, Ontario, Canada on April 1, 1848. He came to the United States and, traveling for some months in the west and northwest, finally settled on Nebraska as his permanent home. He located in 1871 in Buffalo County, buying 160 acres of land in Sharon township, four and half miles northwest of the town of Shelton, where he settled. He built a house, barn, and granary and improved his farm, making it a landmark. Being then unmarried, began the bachelor life of the west. His experience during the first few... Read More	Walter Steven was born at Cannamore, Ontario, Canada on April 1, 1848. He came to the United States and, traveling for some months in the west and northwest, finally settled on Nebraska as his permanent home. He located in 1871 in Buffalo County, buying 160 acres of land in Sharon township, four and half miles northwest of the town of Shelton, where he settled. He built a house, barn, and granary and improved his farm, making it a landmark. Being then unmarried, began the bachelor life of the west. His experience during the first few years of his residence was such as fell to the lot of all the old settlers. Hard work, great privations, and many discouraging adversities made up the daily, monthly, and yearly course of life. He pulled patiently and courageously through all those trying times, improving his place and adding by purchase from time to time to his original holdings, until he now owned 880 acres of good land, a large part of which he had in cultivation. He continued to reside on his old homestead where he first settled, having transformed it from a claim on the open prairie into a pleasant, prosperous home. To the casual observer, this transformation seemed simple and natural enough, but it represented a world of experience that the casual observer knew not of. Such a placed served as a milestone on the highway to mark the progress of the county in its advance from savagery to civilization. It served to show the capabilities of the race. It served as an everlasting memorial of the achievements of the sturdy pioneers who opened this country to settlement. And more than all, it showed the pluck, energy, and endurance of the man, who moving onto it while its virgin soil was yet marked only the track of the bison, reclaimed it from nature, and after numerous disastrous experiments and unrecorded failures, finally made of it a peaceful, happy home. In addition to being identified with the best interests of his locality as a farmer, Mr Steven fulled the usual number of local offices, having been active in promoting the school interests of his district and serving his township as supervisor. On December 24, 1874 he married, selecting as a life companion Miss Annie Maria Henninger--a daughter of one of Buffalo County's best and most popular citizens, Solomon Franklin Henninger, a sketch of whom appears in this work. Mrs Steven was born in Warren County, Ohio, and was mainly reared there. Annie came to Nebraska with her parents in 1872. She is a lady eminently qualified to bear her husband the companionship that he sought with her hand, possessing the strong sense and many domestic virtues for which her race and sex are distinguished. Mr and Mrs Steven are the parents of two children--LeAnna and Edna. They have a pleasant home, and within its walls, friend and stranger alike are welcome, for they both possess, in addition to their many other good qualities of head and heart, that greatest of all domestic virtues--genuine, un-stinted hospitality. He took an active interest in organizing school district 18, serving as a district officer. He later moved to Shelton, Nebraska, where he died October 21, 1911.

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Walter John Steven's memorial is located at: Maple Hill Cemetery, Charlotte, Eaton County, USA.
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Walter John Steven death on 21 Oct 1911 in Shelton, Buffalo County, Nebraska, USA
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Latitude: 42.5797005
Longitude: -84.8218994

Family Members:

Spouse

Annie Maria Henninger Steven

(1858 - 1922)

Children

Edna Bertha Steven Ashton

(1886 - 1968)

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