CEDAR COUNTY, NEBRASKA - Hero Laid to Rest Cedar County News 9-8-1921 Private Stanley Anderson is given Largest Funeral ever Held in County. ==================================================================== NEGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, data may be used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or for presentation by other persons or organizations. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for purposes other than stated above must obtain the written consent of the file contributor. This file was contributed for use in the NEGenWeb Archives by Carol Tramp Permission granted by: Rob Dump, Editor, Cedar County News ====================================================================== Hero Laid to Rest Cedar County News 9-8-1921 Private Stanley Anderson is given Largest Funeral ever Held in County. He was buried at Paragon. American Legion and Ladies Auxiliary Pay Fitting Tribute to Mortal Remains of First Soldier in Fall. An Open air funeral service for Private Stanley Anderson, first soldier to fall in the World War, was held at the home of his mother, Mrs. Christine Anderson, 10 miles east of Hartington last Sunday afternoon in order to enable a larger number of the immense crowd which had assembled to participate therein. Even then it was impossible for but a small part of the crowd to see and hear the services, which was attended by over 5000 people, believed to be the largest crowd ever attending a funeral in Cedar county. Including in the assemblage was a large delegation of members of the local post of the American Legion, in command of Commander Carl Lange; a committee representing the Ladies Auxiliary composed of Mesdames Amundsen, Miller, Ready, Stark and Weiger and Mrs. Josephine Lammers; representatives of the Wynot IOOF lodge, of which the deceased soldier was a member, Mayor Ready and other city and county officials. The service at the house was conducted by Rev. Handel Collier, pastor of the Community Church at Wynot assisted by Rev. Thompson. The Funeral cortege was then driven to the Paragon Church where the Lutheran Service was conducted by Rev. Thompson; assisted by Rev. Collier, but a fraction of the assembled could get into the church. Interment was made in the Paragon cemetery nearby. The Legion acting as a guard of honor George Bryant and Phillip Plumleigh blew Taps, the Soldier’s Goodnight, and a firing squad in charge of Lester Samuelson, composed of Ivan Holmes, Oran Mayes, Louis Danker, Clarence Fletcher, Thomas Felber, Leo Boynten, Frank Schuester, and Ludwig Nygaard paid the soldiers final tribute to their departed comrade.