John Newton Nutter was the son of William and Dinah Nutter and grew up in his parent's octagon house at the Nutter Farm between Gibbon and Shelton, Buffalo County Nebraska. He first married May 2, 1881 to Swedish born Anna Carlson; however, tragically, she passed away March 22, 1893.
The couple had five children, named as follows:
Herbert Spencer
Olive Katheryn "Ollie"
Euseffa Diane "Effie"
Elsa Theodore "Elsa"
Francis Beatrice "Bea"
John married once more, shortly thereafter, in December, to Jennie Reinholdson Nutter, an indentured servant, who had found a position with John as a housekeeper-nanny. They were soon to have 6 children:
Ina Singna (changed to Inez Virginia)
Hilda Margarite (Stubb)
Marjorie Isabel (Margie)
Harold Kenneth
Donald Oakley (Don)
Jean Helen
Initially the Nutter family lived in an apartment over the county jail as that is where John worked as the Sheriff of Buffalo County. My grandmother Inez used to joke that she was born in a jail (actually the quarters over the jail). John was a farmer at heart and law enforcement must have been a difficult position for him whilst juggling his large family and farming interests.
The John Nutter family was to eventually own a comfortable farm on a large parcel in Hall County, Nebraska. Nutter, being one of the oldest and most prominent pioneer families of the region. The farm was called the island farm but was not at Grand Island. They also had a house with many gables in town at the edge of the Gibbon township. John would work the farm in the summers whilst Jennie would stay in town at the house at Gibbon (this may have been more so in the later years). John was a well-educated man and one deeply admired by his ancestors, not only did he raise many fine and upstanding children, but he was well respected regionally.
A poignant memory by his grandson Richard Reynolds-
"My grandfather died in December of 1935, I remember, because I had just turned 5. We went to the house at Gibbon where the family had gathered. Granddad was laid out in a coffin in the parlor. I wanted to see him, so I pulled a dining room chair over to the coffin, climbed up, and peeked over the edge. I never forgot the image of him laying there, so still and quiet. During this time too, my sister Janice, a junior in high school, lived with my grandmother Jennie at the Gibbon house. Later, she went away to college. Sometime after this, my grandmother moved out to the house at the farm on the island. It was one of those mail-order houses from Sears, or someplace like that, which my Uncle Don had put together for her, small, but nice and new."
The couple had five children, named as follows:
Herbert Spencer
Olive Katheryn "Ollie"
Euseffa Diane "Effie"
Elsa Theodore "Elsa"
Francis Beatrice "Bea"
John married once more, shortly thereafter, in December, to Jennie Reinholdson Nutter, an indentured servant, who had found a position with John as a housekeeper-nanny. They were soon to have 6 children:
Ina Singna (changed to Inez Virginia)
Hilda Margarite (Stubb)
Marjorie Isabel (Margie)
Harold Kenneth
Donald Oakley (Don)
Jean Helen
Initially the Nutter family lived in an apartment over the county jail as that is where John worked as the Sheriff of Buffalo County. My grandmother Inez used to joke that she was born in a jail (actually the quarters over the jail). John was a farmer at heart and law enforcement must have been a difficult position for him whilst juggling his large family and farming interests.
The John Nutter family was to eventually own a comfortable farm on a large parcel in Hall County, Nebraska. Nutter, being one of the oldest and most prominent pioneer families of the region. The farm was called the island farm but was not at Grand Island. They also had a house with many gables in town at the edge of the Gibbon township. John would work the farm in the summers whilst Jennie would stay in town at the house at Gibbon (this may have been more so in the later years). John was a well-educated man and one deeply admired by his ancestors, not only did he raise many fine and upstanding children, but he was well respected regionally.
A poignant memory by his grandson Richard Reynolds-
"My grandfather died in December of 1935, I remember, because I had just turned 5. We went to the house at Gibbon where the family had gathered. Granddad was laid out in a coffin in the parlor. I wanted to see him, so I pulled a dining room chair over to the coffin, climbed up, and peeked over the edge. I never forgot the image of him laying there, so still and quiet. During this time too, my sister Janice, a junior in high school, lived with my grandmother Jennie at the Gibbon house. Later, she went away to college. Sometime after this, my grandmother moved out to the house at the farm on the island. It was one of those mail-order houses from Sears, or someplace like that, which my Uncle Don had put together for her, small, but nice and new."
John Newton Nutter was the son of William and Dinah Nutter and grew up in his parent's octagon house at the Nutter Farm between Gibbon and Shelton, Buffalo County Nebraska. He first married May 2, 1881 to Swedish born Anna Carlson; however, tragically, she passed away March 22, 1893.
The couple had five children, named as follows:
Herbert Spencer
Olive Katheryn "Ollie"
Euseffa Diane "Effie"
Elsa Theodore "Elsa"
Francis Beatrice "Bea"
John married once more, shortly thereafter, in December, to Jennie Reinholdson Nutter, an indentured servant, who had found a position with John as a housekeeper-nanny. They were soon to have 6 children:
Ina Singna (changed to Inez Virginia)
Hilda Margarite (Stubb)
Marjorie Isabel (Margie)
Harold Kenneth
Donald Oakley (Don)
Jean Helen
Initially the Nutter family lived in an apartment over the county jail as that is where John worked as the Sheriff of Buffalo County. My grandmother Inez used to joke that she was born in a jail (actually the quarters over the jail). John was a farmer at heart and law enforcement must have been a difficult position for him whilst juggling his large family and farming interests.
The John Nutter family was to eventually own a comfortable farm on a large parcel in Hall County, Nebraska. Nutter, being one of the oldest and most prominent pioneer families of the region. The farm was called the island farm but was not at Grand Island. They also had a house with many gables in town at the edge of the Gibbon township. John would work the farm in the summers whilst Jennie would stay in town at the house at Gibbon (this may have been more so in the later years). John was a well-educated man and one deeply admired by his ancestors, not only did he raise many fine and upstanding children, but he was well respected regionally.
A poignant memory by his grandson Richard Reynolds-
"My grandfather died in December of 1935, I remember, because I had just turned 5. We went to the house at Gibbon where the family had gathered. Granddad was laid out in a coffin in the parlor. I wanted to see him, so I pulled a dining room chair over to the coffin, climbed up, and peeked over the edge. I never forgot the image of him laying there, so still and quiet. During this time too, my sister Janice, a junior in high school, lived with my grandmother Jennie at the Gibbon house. Later, she went away to college. Sometime after this, my grandmother moved out to the house at the farm on the island. It was one of those mail-order houses from Sears, or someplace like that, which my Uncle Don had put together for her, small, but nice and new."
The couple had five children, named as follows:
Herbert Spencer
Olive Katheryn "Ollie"
Euseffa Diane "Effie"
Elsa Theodore "Elsa"
Francis Beatrice "Bea"
John married once more, shortly thereafter, in December, to Jennie Reinholdson Nutter, an indentured servant, who had found a position with John as a housekeeper-nanny. They were soon to have 6 children:
Ina Singna (changed to Inez Virginia)
Hilda Margarite (Stubb)
Marjorie Isabel (Margie)
Harold Kenneth
Donald Oakley (Don)
Jean Helen
Initially the Nutter family lived in an apartment over the county jail as that is where John worked as the Sheriff of Buffalo County. My grandmother Inez used to joke that she was born in a jail (actually the quarters over the jail). John was a farmer at heart and law enforcement must have been a difficult position for him whilst juggling his large family and farming interests.
The John Nutter family was to eventually own a comfortable farm on a large parcel in Hall County, Nebraska. Nutter, being one of the oldest and most prominent pioneer families of the region. The farm was called the island farm but was not at Grand Island. They also had a house with many gables in town at the edge of the Gibbon township. John would work the farm in the summers whilst Jennie would stay in town at the house at Gibbon (this may have been more so in the later years). John was a well-educated man and one deeply admired by his ancestors, not only did he raise many fine and upstanding children, but he was well respected regionally.
A poignant memory by his grandson Richard Reynolds-
"My grandfather died in December of 1935, I remember, because I had just turned 5. We went to the house at Gibbon where the family had gathered. Granddad was laid out in a coffin in the parlor. I wanted to see him, so I pulled a dining room chair over to the coffin, climbed up, and peeked over the edge. I never forgot the image of him laying there, so still and quiet. During this time too, my sister Janice, a junior in high school, lived with my grandmother Jennie at the Gibbon house. Later, she went away to college. Sometime after this, my grandmother moved out to the house at the farm on the island. It was one of those mail-order houses from Sears, or someplace like that, which my Uncle Don had put together for her, small, but nice and new."
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