Private
Company B
1st Battalion
Nevada Cavalry
Civil War
Indian Wars
June 14, 1863 to June 13, 1866
"Tekamah Vicinity Noteworthy Men", 1905
GEORGE PETERSON was born in Norway, August 15th, 1838. With his parents he came to the United States in 1839 and located in Illinois. In the spring of 1855 the family started, with prairie schooner and ox team, for Nebraska, reaching Omaha, July 1st, 1855. In the party were his father and mother and the family of eight children, Mr. and Mrs. John Oak, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Thompson and six children, Mr. and Mrs. Erickson and daughter, now Mrs. James Askwig, of Oakland. They left Omaha immediately, driving as far as Fontenelle where they camped for a few days while the men of the party prospected towards Burt county. Within two or three days after they broke camp, a band of Sioux warriors passing westward massacred a party of settlers on these same camping grounds. Being well satisfied with the land in this direction the party came on and reached Tekamah, July 6th 1855, and that fall Mr. Peterson located the farm which he now owns near Golden Springs and erected a log house thereon. Shortly after locating there the Omaha Indians came pouring down off the reservation enroute to Fort Omaha whither they were fleeing for protection from their enemy the Siouxs, who had a war party out after them. The Peterson family packed up their belongings and with an ox team drove down through the canebrake on the bottoms to Tekamah where other settlers had gathered for protection. Nothing came of the scare except the killing of the emigrants near Fontenelle.
Mr. Peterson experienced the hardships of the winter of '56 and '57 which has become historic for the heavy snow fall. He says there was little or no suffering as everyone had laid in their winter's supplies, hauling them from Council Bluffs. Elk, deer, and wild turkeys were plentiful and easily captured in the deep snows by a settler on snow shoes. Mr. Peterson was united in marriage April 27, 1870 to Miss Bergette Jonson. They moved to Tekamah in 1898, where they now reside.
Information courtesy of D. Meserole member #46883158
Company B
1st Battalion
Nevada Cavalry
Civil War
Indian Wars
June 14, 1863 to June 13, 1866
"Tekamah Vicinity Noteworthy Men", 1905
GEORGE PETERSON was born in Norway, August 15th, 1838. With his parents he came to the United States in 1839 and located in Illinois. In the spring of 1855 the family started, with prairie schooner and ox team, for Nebraska, reaching Omaha, July 1st, 1855. In the party were his father and mother and the family of eight children, Mr. and Mrs. John Oak, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Thompson and six children, Mr. and Mrs. Erickson and daughter, now Mrs. James Askwig, of Oakland. They left Omaha immediately, driving as far as Fontenelle where they camped for a few days while the men of the party prospected towards Burt county. Within two or three days after they broke camp, a band of Sioux warriors passing westward massacred a party of settlers on these same camping grounds. Being well satisfied with the land in this direction the party came on and reached Tekamah, July 6th 1855, and that fall Mr. Peterson located the farm which he now owns near Golden Springs and erected a log house thereon. Shortly after locating there the Omaha Indians came pouring down off the reservation enroute to Fort Omaha whither they were fleeing for protection from their enemy the Siouxs, who had a war party out after them. The Peterson family packed up their belongings and with an ox team drove down through the canebrake on the bottoms to Tekamah where other settlers had gathered for protection. Nothing came of the scare except the killing of the emigrants near Fontenelle.
Mr. Peterson experienced the hardships of the winter of '56 and '57 which has become historic for the heavy snow fall. He says there was little or no suffering as everyone had laid in their winter's supplies, hauling them from Council Bluffs. Elk, deer, and wild turkeys were plentiful and easily captured in the deep snows by a settler on snow shoes. Mr. Peterson was united in marriage April 27, 1870 to Miss Bergette Jonson. They moved to Tekamah in 1898, where they now reside.
Information courtesy of D. Meserole member #46883158
Private
Company B
1st Battalion
Nevada Cavalry
Civil War
Indian Wars
June 14, 1863 to June 13, 1866
"Tekamah Vicinity Noteworthy Men", 1905
GEORGE PETERSON was born in Norway, August 15th, 1838. With his parents he came to the United States in 1839 and located in Illinois. In the spring of 1855 the family started, with prairie schooner and ox team, for Nebraska, reaching Omaha, July 1st, 1855. In the party were his father and mother and the family of eight children, Mr. and Mrs. John Oak, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Thompson and six children, Mr. and Mrs. Erickson and daughter, now Mrs. James Askwig, of Oakland. They left Omaha immediately, driving as far as Fontenelle where they camped for a few days while the men of the party prospected towards Burt county. Within two or three days after they broke camp, a band of Sioux warriors passing westward massacred a party of settlers on these same camping grounds. Being well satisfied with the land in this direction the party came on and reached Tekamah, July 6th 1855, and that fall Mr. Peterson located the farm which he now owns near Golden Springs and erected a log house thereon. Shortly after locating there the Omaha Indians came pouring down off the reservation enroute to Fort Omaha whither they were fleeing for protection from their enemy the Siouxs, who had a war party out after them. The Peterson family packed up their belongings and with an ox team drove down through the canebrake on the bottoms to Tekamah where other settlers had gathered for protection. Nothing came of the scare except the killing of the emigrants near Fontenelle.
Mr. Peterson experienced the hardships of the winter of '56 and '57 which has become historic for the heavy snow fall. He says there was little or no suffering as everyone had laid in their winter's supplies, hauling them from Council Bluffs. Elk, deer, and wild turkeys were plentiful and easily captured in the deep snows by a settler on snow shoes. Mr. Peterson was united in marriage April 27, 1870 to Miss Bergette Jonson. They moved to Tekamah in 1898, where they now reside.
Information courtesy of D. Meserole member #46883158
Company B
1st Battalion
Nevada Cavalry
Civil War
Indian Wars
June 14, 1863 to June 13, 1866
"Tekamah Vicinity Noteworthy Men", 1905
GEORGE PETERSON was born in Norway, August 15th, 1838. With his parents he came to the United States in 1839 and located in Illinois. In the spring of 1855 the family started, with prairie schooner and ox team, for Nebraska, reaching Omaha, July 1st, 1855. In the party were his father and mother and the family of eight children, Mr. and Mrs. John Oak, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Thompson and six children, Mr. and Mrs. Erickson and daughter, now Mrs. James Askwig, of Oakland. They left Omaha immediately, driving as far as Fontenelle where they camped for a few days while the men of the party prospected towards Burt county. Within two or three days after they broke camp, a band of Sioux warriors passing westward massacred a party of settlers on these same camping grounds. Being well satisfied with the land in this direction the party came on and reached Tekamah, July 6th 1855, and that fall Mr. Peterson located the farm which he now owns near Golden Springs and erected a log house thereon. Shortly after locating there the Omaha Indians came pouring down off the reservation enroute to Fort Omaha whither they were fleeing for protection from their enemy the Siouxs, who had a war party out after them. The Peterson family packed up their belongings and with an ox team drove down through the canebrake on the bottoms to Tekamah where other settlers had gathered for protection. Nothing came of the scare except the killing of the emigrants near Fontenelle.
Mr. Peterson experienced the hardships of the winter of '56 and '57 which has become historic for the heavy snow fall. He says there was little or no suffering as everyone had laid in their winter's supplies, hauling them from Council Bluffs. Elk, deer, and wild turkeys were plentiful and easily captured in the deep snows by a settler on snow shoes. Mr. Peterson was united in marriage April 27, 1870 to Miss Bergette Jonson. They moved to Tekamah in 1898, where they now reside.
Information courtesy of D. Meserole member #46883158
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