CEDAR COUNTY, NEBRASKA - OLDEST PIONEER OF OBERT HAS BIRTHDAY
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CEDAR COUNTY NEWS MARCH 7, 1929


OLDEST PIONEER OF OBERT HAS BIRTHDAY

MRS. BERGMAN PASSED 78TH BIRTHDAY ANNIVERSARY AT HOME OF DAUGHTER

Mrs. Katherine Bergman who came to the Obert vicinity about 60 years 
ago and who shares honors with Mrs. Victoria Starks of Coleridge in 
being longest in years in the county among women, observed her 78th 
birthday Wednesday.  Mrs. Bergman was ill at the home of her daughter, 
Mrs. A.M. Hirschman of Hartington on her birthday, the first one spent 
away from her old home at Ames Creek in 60 years.

Mrs. Bergman who has been well and active until this year has been ill 
for about three weeks.

As a bride of two years, when she was 18 years old, she and her husband 
went to Omaha where they took a boat up the Missouri to Cedar county, 
where they settled on a homestead. The first winter they lived at the 
home of a relative, Pete Satorius. In the spring Mr. and Mrs. Bergman 
and baby daughter began housekeeping in the log structure in which 
Henry Locke had been murdered by Jim Jameson, who was later hung in St. 
Helena.

When Mrs. Bergman went to look at her new home the axe which had been 
used in the murder and the empty wine glasses from which the men had 
drunk were on the table.

Being industrious, Mrs. Bergman began planning to furnish her house in 
a better condition than was usually found in the bachelor homes along 
Ames Creek.  She and her two oldest daughters when they were old enough 
to picked black walnuts which were plentiful there. From the sale of 
the walnuts Mrs. Bergman bought her furniture.  

Meanwhile Mr. Bergman was busy extending the original homestead until at 
one time he owned about 900 acres of good land. When the youngest child 
was only four weeks old, Mr. Bergman died, and Mrs. Bergman  was left 
with the large farm to manage so that it would bring a living and 
schooling for her babies. This she did, altho the accomplishments brought 
her many hardships which the women of today and even men do not encounter.

Mrs. Bergman has eight children, Mrs. Chris Satorius of Obert, Mrs. A.M. 
Hirschman of Hartington, Mrs. Ed Kuehn of Crofton, Henry Bergman of near 
Hartington, Mrs. Steve and Mrs. Joe Asbra of Ames Creek, Joseph Bergman 
of East Bow and Mrs. Ben Pierson of near Obert.