Burial in Fort Calhoun Cemetery

Published in Tribune on 30 April 1913

Mrs. Horace Browning, who was buried in the Ft. Calhoun cemetery April 26, 1913, was born in Cadiz, Ohio, April 18, 1846.

Anna Sarah Pogue was married to Horace Browning Feb. 24, 1869, when they came to Dodge county, Neb., and one year later moved to school district No. 25 in Washington county to be near Mrs. James Wright, the mother of Horace, where they began on a raw eighty acres, Horace digging wells, farming or doing any honest work while Mrs. Browning tended the garden, made butter, etc., to get money to build the first cottage that afterwards developed into the large farm mansion with farm buildings, orchard and other conveniences.

On this farm their six children were born and brought up, each and every one an honor to their parents, all today married and having homes of their own-Mrs. C. A. Peterson of Huron, S.D.; Mrs. C.C. Barnes, Mrs. Cooney, John and Alvin of Bancroft, and Clark of Thurston.

In her early girlhood she became a member of the M.E. church and was under this writer's pastoral care in 1871-72 and the family have been among our choice personal friends ever since and we often remember over thirty years ago when we had a sick family how she used to come the seven miles with her husband to bring help and kindness to our family.

Rev. Lang, M.E. pastor at Blair, preached the sermon in the Ft. Calhoun Presbyterian church. Mrs. John Landis, Miss Neva Moore, Miss Ella Schumacher and Miss Edith Sierk sang the anthems, with Mrs. Charles Rathjen at the organ. The pallbearers were John Lorenzen, Herman Lindt and William Iverson of Ft. Calhoun; W. Maher and Mr. King of Omaha, and Mr. Osborne of Irvington. Many beautiful flowers covered the casket.

"There is an old legend that at creation's dawn an angel came down to earth seeking something to take back with it to heaven. It returned with a bouquet of flowers, a baby's smile and a mothers' love. When it reached again the gates of Paradise the flowers had withered, the baby's smile had vanished, but the mother's love was found to be as pure and eternal as the waters that flowed by the heavenly throne and all the angels exclaimed: 'There is nothing on earth pure enough for heaven but a mothers' love.' "

W.H Woods

~~~ Obituary courtesy of the Washington County Genealogical Society. Newspaper clippings on file in the Blair Public Library at Blair, Nebraska.~~~

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