A Walk In the Cemetery
A. Maintain social distancing
in this time of the COVID1-19 pandemic
Go for a walk through a cemetery
Gravestones tell stories
Dates
of death diseases
The stones wide variety
Many
symbols
Tree trunk cement markers
Mainly, but not exclusively, used by Woodmen of the World members
There was a request for
information about one in the Kearney Cemetery - the Hoover plot
B. Dr. M A Hoover
plot
A prominent doctor who came
to Kearney from Indianapolis, Indiana, in 1883 and practiced here all his
life
Was official doctor for UP and Black Hills railroad for several years.
Was member of many
organizations in Kearney including several fraternal societies
May
account for his having the tree trunk tombstone
Built a
house which still stands on the southeast corner of the 21st & C
intersection
Was married three times and had 8 children, 5 five lived to adulthood
Hoover Kearney Cemetery
plot
Lot 1187 owned by Dr. M. A. Hoover [3 children, 2 wives & himself]
Homer H. Hoover Plot 5 age 3 days, died
4-9-1889 Cause of death was inanition
A M
Hoover plot 5 age 14 days, died 1-5-1893 [Agnes Marie]
Mrs. Eva C. Hoover plot 1 age 39, died
1-12-1895 - Cause of death was cancer
Marvel C. Hoover plot 2 age 6 ½ months, died 9-24-1900
Agnes P Hoover plot 3 age 25, died
11-21-1900 (died after a lingering illness, accordng to the Kearney Hub)
Maurice A. Hoover plot 8 age 81, died 3-40-1940 Coronary
arteriosclerosis, last living in Grand Island
Findagrave.com website
information about Maurice Hoover
Spouses
Eva Alice Cox Hoover - 18551895 [children: Bessie, Homer, & Agnes]
Agnes P. Hoover - 18751900 [child: Marvel]
Stella Ethel Tucker Hoover - 18771967 (m. 1901) [died in Los Angeles, CA &
buried there]
Children
Bessie Bolton Hoover Sinclair - 18851968
Homer H. Hoover - 18891889
Agnes Marie Hoover - 18921893
Ione I. Hoover Muldoon - 19021961
Amber Audrey Hoover Harbottle - 19041986
Maurine Alberta Hoover Lewis - 19152007
Maurice Albert Hoover - 19161975
C. Levi Hoover
plot
Another Hoover plot in the Kearney Cemetery
Lot 892
5 persons buried here
George Hoover plot 4 age 42, died
3-24-1893 cause of death was poisoning
Kearney Hub March 24, 1893 - Yesterday George, who lived in
southeast Kearney, went to a drug store
and bought 10’ worth of strychnine, saying it was to poison some rats. In
the evening he went to his parents
home to see his mother who was ill. He stayed overnight. In the morning when
he got up he went into the
pantry and apparently took the poison. After getting a drink of water he sat
down by the stove briefly and
then, donning a coat, went out to the outhouse and then to the barn. His
father thought he might be sick so he
went out and found him in the barn writhing in agony. He died before his
father could summon help
George was 45 and left a wife and two or three children. He had been
despondent due to financial
difficulties.
Mabel Hoover plot 8 age 5, died
5-26-1893 cause of death was croup
Kearney Hub May 26, 1893 - "---The health officer notified the
police this morning that a young child of
Mrs. Geo. Hoover had diphtheria."
Grace Hoover plot 7 age 3, died
5-30-19-1893 cause of death was scarlet fever
Kearney Hub May 31, 1893 - "--Another young child of Mrs. Geo.
Hoover was buried yesterday. Her
husband committed suicide about a month ago and this is the second child she
has lost in two weeks."
Mrs. Hoover plot 2 age 60, died
12-30-1893
(Findagrave.com website - Spouse of Levi Hoover - Lydia Nicenander Hoover -
18271893)
Levi Hoover Plot 3 age 83, died
8-12-1908 cause of death was hemorrhage of brain
Was living with daughter Mary Yotty in Kearney when he died
He also had another son, Norman
Findagrave.com website for gravesite for Levi Hoover
Children
Mary Alice Hoover Yotty - 18491914
George M. Hoover - 18501893
Norman Levi Hoover - 18631917
D. Maxine Mae
Zimmer (another interesting burial)
Zimmer, Maxine Mae Odessa, Ne. Plot 1820 A, Lot 7 East section of the
cemetery Date of death - 9/20/1949
Date of interrment - 9/23/1949 Age - 23 years 4
months 5 days Cause of death - Fracture of skull
Owner of the plot - Ray E. Karner
Kearney Hub account of the death : There was a car-truck accident
Maxine was headed west on Highway 30. Her left fender clipped a Watson
Bros. truck.
The trailer came loose from the truck and ran over her car
Maxine suffered a broken leg as
well as the head injury
Maxine and her 2-year-old
son had been living with her parents in Odessa which is west of Kearney.
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