This was the main source of provender for a few days. .

The first funeral was that of Mary Rose at Livingston June 25, 1887. Dicky Brown had lost two" children who had been buried near Wright's ranch at a date prior to the coming of the grangers. Mary Rose was twenty-two years of age, and lived with the Livingstons, and often visited for several days with Mrs. S. T. Robb at the head of the creek, where the Bay State ranch was located. She was buried at Livingston and her neglected grave is there yet enclosed in barbed wire.

The part of Banner county in which I landed has some of the old names and people, while many are gone. Geo. Hendricks has drifted on, and if living must be about seventy-five years of age.

Take the Hackberry neighborhood. Mr. and Mrs. Sam Abbott are dead. Frank Abbott was a short time ago at Gering. E. M. and Frank Cowen, Ed and Mel Denison and a few others reside in Scottsbluff. One familiar name of that old neighborhood is that of Muhr. John Muhr was among the first grangers -- a pioneer also in the temperance movement. The names of J. L., W. G, and W. A. Muhr are among

HISTORY OF WESTERN NEBRASKA

the Banner county people who grew up and stayed with the land. In Horseshoe Bend, John McNett still holds bachelor hall as of old. A. F. Burnett, Richard Skinner, and W. M. Wisner, are familiar names to old timers.