Three children of Peter Adrians are presumably buried in St. Francis Cemetery: (1 & 2) a son and a daughter, killed by a tornado on June 25, 1882, and (3) another child who died April 1884. Based on census records (1 & 2) were probably Theodore and Agnes, who appear on the 1880 census but not 1885.

1880 census (Center Precinct, Butler County, Nebr.): Peter Adreans (42, farmer, Belgium), Regina (wife, 37, keeping house, Holland), Theodore (son, 12, attending school, Wisconsin), Scharlotte (daughter, 10, attending school, Wisconsin), Agnes (daughter, 6, Wisconsin), Mary E. (daughter, born April, Nebr.).

1885 census (Atkinson Village, Holt County, Nebr.): Peter [Artorns?] (49, brickmason), [Virgie?] (wife, 48, Holland, keeps house), Charlotte (daughter, 15, Wisconsin, at school), Mary (daughter, 5, Nebr.), and two servants.

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NOTE: The following has been abstracted from an article about a tornado that struck Butler and Polk counties in Nebraska about 6 a.m. on Sunday, June 25, 1882.

Osceola Record (Osceola, Nebr.), June 29, 1882, p. 2, col. 2 & 3

THE STORM KING!

David City and Brainard also felt the force of the storm. In the former town corn cribs were blown down and Spelt's flax house was lifted onto the railway track. Numerous windows were demolished. In Brainard some houses were dilapidated and some buildings were moved and unroofed. Four miles northwest of this point Peter Adrian's house was blown down, his two children, a boy and a girl, killed and the parents so injured that death is imminent.

The cyclone in Butler was from five to eight miles wide, and made sad havoc with crops.

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David City Tribune (David City, Nebr.), April 17, 1884, p. 3, col. 2

A child of Mr. and Mrs. Adrien was buried from the Catholic church, Sunday. Mr. Adrien was away, being up in the north western part of the State.