"Mr Towle assisted in erecting the company house, and on the arrival of his family in the late summer or fall of 1857 this log cabin was donated to him. For many years he occupied it as a home It became widely and familiarly known as "Pap's Cabin", and for a decade, besides serving as a wayside inn, it was the posloffice, while its main room became a place for holding public meetings of almost every character. It was here that Mr Towle's youngest child Katie was born. She was the first child born of white parents in the county, and growing to lovely womanhood in her native city, she became the wife of George M. Ayres, of Deadwood, South Dakota, who had spent most of his life in Beatrice. She died at Deadwood, on the 28th day of March, 1890, at the age of 32 years. Her remains rest by the of those of her parents in the Beatrice near the city of her birth."
SOURCE: excert from the biographical sketch about her father, "History of Gage County, Nebraska" (a narrative of the past, with special emphasis on the pioneer period), by Hugh Jackson Dobbs, page 134.
SOURCE: excert from the biographical sketch about her father, "History of Gage County, Nebraska" (a narrative of the past, with special emphasis on the pioneer period), by Hugh Jackson Dobbs, page 134.
"Mr Towle assisted in erecting the company house, and on the arrival of his family in the late summer or fall of 1857 this log cabin was donated to him. For many years he occupied it as a home It became widely and familiarly known as "Pap's Cabin", and for a decade, besides serving as a wayside inn, it was the posloffice, while its main room became a place for holding public meetings of almost every character. It was here that Mr Towle's youngest child Katie was born. She was the first child born of white parents in the county, and growing to lovely womanhood in her native city, she became the wife of George M. Ayres, of Deadwood, South Dakota, who had spent most of his life in Beatrice. She died at Deadwood, on the 28th day of March, 1890, at the age of 32 years. Her remains rest by the of those of her parents in the Beatrice near the city of her birth."
SOURCE: excert from the biographical sketch about her father, "History of Gage County, Nebraska" (a narrative of the past, with special emphasis on the pioneer period), by Hugh Jackson Dobbs, page 134.
SOURCE: excert from the biographical sketch about her father, "History of Gage County, Nebraska" (a narrative of the past, with special emphasis on the pioneer period), by Hugh Jackson Dobbs, page 134.
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