Obituaries & Death Notices
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Haskell, S. S.
Mr. S. S. Haskell of Ord, and father of the editor of the Ord Quiz, died at that place last week. Mr. Haskell was one of the oldest settlers of Valley county, having settled in Ord, in 1875. He was prominent in the opening up of the new county and in building the county seat.
Source: Excerpt from the newspaper, The Loup City Northwestern, published on 8 March 1901; located on the website, Library of Congress (http://loc.gov), accessed 18 December 2025.
Hawkins, W. H.
Dr. W. H. Hawkins of Arcadia, died at his home in that city, last Sunday at 9, o'clock, a.m. The doctor lived in this city for several years and will be remembered by all except the later comers. He was an old veteran of the late war.
Source: Excerpt from the newspaper, The Loup City Northwestern, published on 25 March 1898; located on the website, Library of Congress (http://loc.gov), accessed 19 December 2025.
Holliday, W. J.
The burial of W. J. Holliday, 78, one of the pioneers of Valley county, who died at Kansas City after a lingering illness, took place at the North Loup cemetery. Mr. Holliday was born at Lewiston, Va., September 11, 1844, and spent his early life and boyhood days in that state. During the civil war he was a soldier in the Ninth Virginian cavalry under the confederate general, J. E. B. Stuart. Mr. Holliday came to this vicinity in 1873 and took up a homestead near the townsite of North Loup. In 1877 he was elected as the third sheriff of Valley county. During the occupancy of old Fort Hartsuff by regular troops as a protection against the Indians on the north, he was the authorized post trader and he later operated a general store on the now abandoned site of Calamus, about opposite the present town of Burwell. Contemporaneously with N. G. Clement of Mira Valley, Mr. Holliday sowed a field of alfalfa in 1883, thus slightly antedating similar attempts made with the new forage by the Pauls of Howard county. Mr. Holliday was much over six feet in height.
Source: Excerpt from the newspaper, The Omaha Morning Bee, published on 23 June 1922; located on the website, Library of Congress (http://loc.gov), accessed 1 January 2025.
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