Amelia Beyer Individual Detail
Father: Johann Wilhelm
Heinrich Beyer
Mother: Wilhelmina Marie Saltzman
Birth: Oct 12, 1853 in Gebesee, Saxon, Germany (Prussia); 19 miles north of Erfurt
Confirmation: 1867 in Germany; Confirmed in Lutheran Church
Immigration: 1870 to Richmond,
Virginia; Came in fall
Emigration: Jun 1873 to Green Precinct, Saunders
County, Nebraska; Came to Ashland
Marriage License: Apr 16, 1874
- 1st marriage license issued after Wahoo became the county seat
Marriage: Apr 17, 1874 - Married to Benjamin Jackson
Robbins by Rev. D. C. Clark at Ellis Church near Amelia's home
Residence: First home was 12' x 18', two rooms, furnshed with 2 chairs, 1 table and a few drygoods boxes.
Child: July 16, 1875 - Dora Mae Robbins born at Memphis, Nebraska
Child: October 30, 1876 - Lillie (Lily) Bell Robbins born at Ithaca, Nebraska
Child: May 1, 1878 - Albert Allen Robbins born at Ithaca, Nebraska
Child: April 27, 1880 - Henry Nelson Robbins born at Ithaca, Nebraska
Census: Jun 28, 1880 in Green Precinct, Saunders County, Nebraska; Keeping house
Child: August 19, 1882 - Charles Louis Robbins born at Ithaca, Nebraska
Child: March 3, 1889 - Edith Belle Robbins born at Ithaca, Nebraska
Census: Jun 16, 1900 in Green Precinct, Saunders County, Nebraska
Residence: 1904 - Moved from the farm to Wahoo
Religion: 1904 ; Attended Methodist Church after moving to Wahoo
Census: Apr 29, 1910 in Living in Wahoo, Saunders County, Nebraska
Death: Nov 22, 1934 in Wahoo,Saunders County,Nebraska,
Funeral: Nov 25, 1934 in Wahoo, Nebraska; Rev. Harold Bryant, Meth. pastor, Biggerstaff Chapel
Burial: Nov 25, 1934 in Ithaca,
Nebraska; Buried in Indian Mound Cemetery
Sources
1880 Federal Census, B. J Robbins residence, June 28, 1880, Saunders Co., Nebraska at ancestry.com
1900 Federal Census, B. J. Robbins residence, June 16, 1900, Saunders Co. Nebraska at ancestry.com
1910 Federal Census, Benjamin J Robbins residence, April 29, 1910, Wahoo, Nebraska at ancestry.com
Beyer, John, Wahoo Democrat, John Henry Whilhelm Beyer obituary, 25 Dec 1901, Wahoo, Nebraska
Calvert, Ted, Ahnentafel for Harold Robbins, online ancestry.com, (Family Trees), downloaded March 9, 2004.
Indian Mound Cemetery, read in 1978, updated in 2002, Ithaca, Nebraska at rootsweb.ancestry.com/nesaunde/cemeyert/cemetert.html
Robbins, Amelia Beyer, The Wasp newspaper, "Got First Marriage License in Wahoo," (undated), Wahoo, Nebraska
Robbins, Amelia, The Wasp newspaper, "Saunders County Pioneer Is Called," Amelia Robbins, (undated clipping), Wahoo, Nebraska
Robbins, Lanny, The Benjamin Robbins Family, (self published), (4101 Old Pine Trail, Midland MI), Nov. 20, 1998.
Saunders County, Nebraska, Probate
Records, Amelia Robbins, December 1934