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Monday March 18th 2024

‘Tales from Pioneers & Soldiers Cemetery’ Archives

Toddler Toted Toys to Top Treasure Trove –1938

Toddler Toted Toys to Top Treasure Trove –1938

Caretaker Albert Nelson’s Journals–1927-53–Tell Stories 220th in a Series from Tales from Pioneers and Soldiers Memorial Cemetery By SUE HUNTER WEIR Albert NelsonSome of Albert Nelson’s workdays were more interesting than others. Nelson, the Cemetery’s Caretaker from 1927 until his death in 1953, sent a monthly report to his supervisor detailing his work and the number of hours that each task took. He often included a brief account, usually no more than a sentence or two, of unusual happenings in the Cemetery. In his report for April 1938, he wrote “Wed., April 20th, played nurse to a lost baby boy at the Cemetery for two hours until the mother and police called for him at the same time.” That baby boy was two-year-old James Horace Spillane. James Horace SpillaneJames was the youngest of Edward and Helen Spillane’s four children. The family lived just a few blocks from the Cemetery at 1839 East 28th Street. James, who had just turned two on February 10th, [...]

A Life in Six Paragraphs

A Life in Six Paragraphs

from Tales from Pioneers and Soldiers Memorial Cemetery By SUE HUNTER WEIR It’s been almost 150 years since Jacob Hodnefjeld died. Cemetery records have little to say about him. His burial permit notes that he was buried on November 14, 1875, but not the day that he died. His birth year was recorded as 1841 but doesn’t give a precise date and doesn’t mention where he was born. No cause of death was given. SOURCE: HODNEFJELD family He never married or had children but someone in his family knew his story and wrote it down. His photo and a six-paragraph biography are posted on ancestry.com. Those six paragraphs were published on page 273 of a family genealogy. As brief as it is, that biography fills in many of the gaps in Jacob’s story. It captures his hopes, his struggles, his relationship with family and friends, and offers a detailed description of the days leading up to his death.We now know that Jacob Hodnefield was born in Hodnefield, Norway on October 30, [...]

Tales from Pioneers + Soldiers Cemetery – Dec. ’23

Tales from Pioneers + Soldiers Cemetery – Dec. ’23

Mother’s Biased Love and Loyalty Follows Chosen Son to the Grave and Beyond By SUE HUNTER WEIR Much, perhaps too much, has been written about Harry Hayward, the most notorious person buried in the Cemetery. Less has been written about his family. Harry was the youngest of William and Lodusky Hayward’s three sons. He was their golden boy, the son who could do no wrong—except that he orchestrated the murder-for-hire of Catherine (Kitty) Ging.Lodusky Hayward was perhaps the strangest member of the family. She was born in Illinois on August 5, 1836. In 1860, she married William Wirt Hayward. They had three sons: Thadeus, Adry, and Harry. Their only daughter, Williametta, died in 1870 when she was two years old.The Haywards arrived in Minnesota in the 1860s. William became a successful real estate dealer. Thadeus was a dentist, Adry a businessman, and Harry, who had no profession, was best known as a womanizer and gambler. Their lives were disrupted in 1894 when Harry was [...]

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