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Clara Jane <I>Harlow</I> Blodgett

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Clara Jane Harlow Blodgett

Birth
Rock County, Wisconsin, USA
Death
25 Nov 1932 (aged 74)
Ord, Valley County, Nebraska, USA
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Ord, Valley County, Nebraska, USA Add to Map
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Division E, Lot 3
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FIRST WOMAN MARRIED IN GREELEY COUNTY DIES – Last services were held at 2 p.m. Sunday at Sowl's chapel, Ord, for Mrs. Clara Blodgett, 73-year-old Ord woman who passed away on November 25 at the home of her son Archie Bradt, after an illness of several months. Rev. Mearl C. Smith conducted the last rites, interment being made in the Ord cemetery. Clara Jane Harlow was born Feb. 11, 1858 in Rock county, Wisconsin but as a girl came with her parents to Greeley county Nebraska. She was married there to Aaron V. Bradt on March 31, 1874, the ceremony having the distinction of being the first marriage performed within the confines of Greeley county. – Ord Quiz –

Mrs. Blodgett, mentioned in the above item was the mother of Eddie Bradt of Lincoln, who formerly resided for a time in Wolbach.

Wolbach Messenger, Wolbach, Nebraska, Thursday, December 8, 1932, transcribed by Linda Berney


The following excerpt regarding Clara Harlow and Aaron Bradt is from the Compendium Of History, Reminiscence And Biography of Nebraska, 1912, p. 1024:

"Mrs. [Mary Shatswell] Benson can tell many anecdotes of the early settlement of this region, and boasts that her homestead was the scene of the first wedding in Greeley county, in 1874, the contracting parties being Aaron Bradt and Clara Harlow."

NOTE: Mary Shatswell Benson was the 2nd wife of JJ Blodgett, who married Clara Harlow Bradt after Mary died.
FIRST WOMAN MARRIED IN GREELEY COUNTY DIES – Last services were held at 2 p.m. Sunday at Sowl's chapel, Ord, for Mrs. Clara Blodgett, 73-year-old Ord woman who passed away on November 25 at the home of her son Archie Bradt, after an illness of several months. Rev. Mearl C. Smith conducted the last rites, interment being made in the Ord cemetery. Clara Jane Harlow was born Feb. 11, 1858 in Rock county, Wisconsin but as a girl came with her parents to Greeley county Nebraska. She was married there to Aaron V. Bradt on March 31, 1874, the ceremony having the distinction of being the first marriage performed within the confines of Greeley county. – Ord Quiz –

Mrs. Blodgett, mentioned in the above item was the mother of Eddie Bradt of Lincoln, who formerly resided for a time in Wolbach.

Wolbach Messenger, Wolbach, Nebraska, Thursday, December 8, 1932, transcribed by Linda Berney


The following excerpt regarding Clara Harlow and Aaron Bradt is from the Compendium Of History, Reminiscence And Biography of Nebraska, 1912, p. 1024:

"Mrs. [Mary Shatswell] Benson can tell many anecdotes of the early settlement of this region, and boasts that her homestead was the scene of the first wedding in Greeley county, in 1874, the contracting parties being Aaron Bradt and Clara Harlow."

NOTE: Mary Shatswell Benson was the 2nd wife of JJ Blodgett, who married Clara Harlow Bradt after Mary died.

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