Anveline Baldwin (47708539)
Suggested edit: From The Columbus Telegram dated December 8, 1905, page 7:
"Open Pioneer Grave" On Monday morning in company with Murty Tighe, sexton of the Schuyler cemetery, and Martin Hoagland, the Free Lance editor took a rig and drove to the old McAlister grove south of Richland for the purpose of exhuming the remains of the young girl who died November 10, 1865, and was buried near the McAlister lake near the Platte River. The grave is the big cottonwood grove and was in the feed lot of Reisch Brothers, who own the land, and cattle being fed in the lot ran over it. The remains were buried in that grave for over fourty years. The girl died on November 10, 1865, and was probably buried a day or so afterwards, and this removal was made November 27, 1905. Considering the time buried it was remarkable how well preserved the coffin, dress and skeleton were. From James and S.S. Green, who were early freighters through this part of the world, we learned about that girl and it was due to S.S. telling us of the feed yard conditions that started the writer after this removal. The dead girl was a Miss Avalina Baldwin. She and a sister came from New York state in 1863. They came by rail to Fort Des Moines, Iowa, where now the city of Des Moines stands. From that railroad terminus they staged it to Council Bluffs and crossed the Missouri river by ferry boat. At Omaha they ran across James Green, who was freighted from Omaha to Denver and had a mule team and wagon. He had stopped at Elder Moses Shinn's place in Omaha and those girls came there, Omaha then being simply a trading point on the Missouri river across from Council Bluffs. The girls were going out to the house of Hiram Bushnel, who was married to a sister of theirs, he having a ranch a few miles southeast of this place. Learning that Mr. Green was coming out past the ranch they arranged to come with him and did, arriving three days later. Two years later this girl died and was buried up there near the lake and near the log house of McAlister's. The remains are now buried in the Schuyler cemetery.
Contributor: Shirley (Bruhn) Martys (47012912) • [email protected]
Suggested edit: From The Columbus Telegram dated December 8, 1905, page 7:
"Open Pioneer Grave" On Monday morning in company with Murty Tighe, sexton of the Schuyler cemetery, and Martin Hoagland, the Free Lance editor took a rig and drove to the old McAlister grove south of Richland for the purpose of exhuming the remains of the young girl who died November 10, 1865, and was buried near the McAlister lake near the Platte River. The grave is the big cottonwood grove and was in the feed lot of Reisch Brothers, who own the land, and cattle being fed in the lot ran over it. The remains were buried in that grave for over fourty years. The girl died on November 10, 1865, and was probably buried a day or so afterwards, and this removal was made November 27, 1905. Considering the time buried it was remarkable how well preserved the coffin, dress and skeleton were. From James and S.S. Green, who were early freighters through this part of the world, we learned about that girl and it was due to S.S. telling us of the feed yard conditions that started the writer after this removal. The dead girl was a Miss Avalina Baldwin. She and a sister came from New York state in 1863. They came by rail to Fort Des Moines, Iowa, where now the city of Des Moines stands. From that railroad terminus they staged it to Council Bluffs and crossed the Missouri river by ferry boat. At Omaha they ran across James Green, who was freighted from Omaha to Denver and had a mule team and wagon. He had stopped at Elder Moses Shinn's place in Omaha and those girls came there, Omaha then being simply a trading point on the Missouri river across from Council Bluffs. The girls were going out to the house of Hiram Bushnel, who was married to a sister of theirs, he having a ranch a few miles southeast of this place. Learning that Mr. Green was coming out past the ranch they arranged to come with him and did, arriving three days later. Two years later this girl died and was buried up there near the lake and near the log house of McAlister's. The remains are now buried in the Schuyler cemetery.
Contributor: Shirley (Bruhn) Martys (47012912) • [email protected]
Anveline Baldwin (47708539)
Suggested edit: From The Columbus Telegram dated December 8, 1905, page 7:
"Open Pioneer Grave" On Monday morning in company with Murty Tighe, sexton of the Schuyler cemetery, and Martin Hoagland, the Free Lance editor took a rig and drove to the old McAlister grove south of Richland for the purpose of exhuming the remains of the young girl who died November 10, 1865, and was buried near the McAlister lake near the Platte River. The grave is the big cottonwood grove and was in the feed lot of Reisch Brothers, who own the land, and cattle being fed in the lot ran over it. The remains were buried in that grave for over fourty years. The girl died on November 10, 1865, and was probably buried a day or so afterwards, and this removal was made November 27, 1905. Considering the time buried it was remarkable how well preserved the coffin, dress and skeleton were. From James and S.S. Green, who were early freighters through this part of the world, we learned about that girl and it was due to S.S. telling us of the feed yard conditions that started the writer after this removal. The dead girl was a Miss Avalina Baldwin. She and a sister came from New York state in 1863. They came by rail to Fort Des Moines, Iowa, where now the city of Des Moines stands. From that railroad terminus they staged it to Council Bluffs and crossed the Missouri river by ferry boat. At Omaha they ran across James Green, who was freighted from Omaha to Denver and had a mule team and wagon. He had stopped at Elder Moses Shinn's place in Omaha and those girls came there, Omaha then being simply a trading point on the Missouri river across from Council Bluffs. The girls were going out to the house of Hiram Bushnel, who was married to a sister of theirs, he having a ranch a few miles southeast of this place. Learning that Mr. Green was coming out past the ranch they arranged to come with him and did, arriving three days later. Two years later this girl died and was buried up there near the lake and near the log house of McAlister's. The remains are now buried in the Schuyler cemetery.
Contributor: Shirley (Bruhn) Martys (47012912) • [email protected]
Suggested edit: From The Columbus Telegram dated December 8, 1905, page 7:
"Open Pioneer Grave" On Monday morning in company with Murty Tighe, sexton of the Schuyler cemetery, and Martin Hoagland, the Free Lance editor took a rig and drove to the old McAlister grove south of Richland for the purpose of exhuming the remains of the young girl who died November 10, 1865, and was buried near the McAlister lake near the Platte River. The grave is the big cottonwood grove and was in the feed lot of Reisch Brothers, who own the land, and cattle being fed in the lot ran over it. The remains were buried in that grave for over fourty years. The girl died on November 10, 1865, and was probably buried a day or so afterwards, and this removal was made November 27, 1905. Considering the time buried it was remarkable how well preserved the coffin, dress and skeleton were. From James and S.S. Green, who were early freighters through this part of the world, we learned about that girl and it was due to S.S. telling us of the feed yard conditions that started the writer after this removal. The dead girl was a Miss Avalina Baldwin. She and a sister came from New York state in 1863. They came by rail to Fort Des Moines, Iowa, where now the city of Des Moines stands. From that railroad terminus they staged it to Council Bluffs and crossed the Missouri river by ferry boat. At Omaha they ran across James Green, who was freighted from Omaha to Denver and had a mule team and wagon. He had stopped at Elder Moses Shinn's place in Omaha and those girls came there, Omaha then being simply a trading point on the Missouri river across from Council Bluffs. The girls were going out to the house of Hiram Bushnel, who was married to a sister of theirs, he having a ranch a few miles southeast of this place. Learning that Mr. Green was coming out past the ranch they arranged to come with him and did, arriving three days later. Two years later this girl died and was buried up there near the lake and near the log house of McAlister's. The remains are now buried in the Schuyler cemetery.
Contributor: Shirley (Bruhn) Martys (47012912) • [email protected]
Inscription
"young people as you pass by, as you are now, so once was I, as I am now, someday you'll be, prepare for death and follow me"
Gravesite Details
My grandfather John C. Sprecher had Aveline's grave exhumed from a lakeside grave site near Columbus and reburied in the Schuyler Cemetery. She was a pioneer traveling with her parents to the west coast and died enroute.
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