Historic Massacre Recalled
Rt MRS. N. D. ICKES
the Frontier Feature Writer
Five children massacred bj
' Indians!
That news did not reach tht
front pages of the newspapers
for news traveled slowly back ir
1862 News traveled by tht
grapevine, by horseback and c»
team.
That was the news brought tc
the home of Mrs Robert Harvey <
father, C. C. Ames. He was ther
a hoy, 5. living in a settlemenl
near St. Helena, Cedar county
where the town of Wynut now
stands.
Bearing the burden of burial
had to be worked out by women
folk for their men had beei
pressed into government servict
and had joined company I, form
ed for providing protection to tht
settlers in that section of Ne
braska.
Pearl Ames Harvey’s grand
mother, Martha Ames, wife ol
David F. Ames and a native ol
Vermont, was elected to prepart
that family of children for buri
al.
Those of you who think you
have it hard in this day and age
have only to take a peek into
the pages of "The History of Ce
dar County" by Mike McCoy,
former county superintendent of
schools. Cedar county, to find the
[ evidence of that atrocious crime
i committed by a small band of
' Yankton and Sioux Indians.
Only the absence of the moth
er kept her from also being a
victim that day for she had gone
to Yankton for supplies.
The ill-fated children belonged
to Mr. and Mrs. Henson Wiseman,
kin to the Wiseman families who
now live in the Page vicinity. The
forbear of that generation w-as a
cousin of Henson Wiseman.
Mrs. Harvey’s grandfather, Da
vid F. Ames, was told the fam
ily of children so brutally mur
dered was his own. When he
reached home, he found that it
was the family of his closest
neighbor, Mr. Wiseman.
Crudeness of the mass burial
and the impact of the heart
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I break are not told in the Mc
Coy history.
Mr. Wiseman, after spending
j the winter in government service,
returned to the desolated home
| where those children had romped
! ;,nd played. The oldest boy was in
I the Civil war.
The head of the house packed
I the family later and went back to
I Virginia.
The neighboring Ames family,
which had come from Vermont in
1854. returned to Iowa. Four
years later, however, the Ames
group returned to Nebraska —
Madison county. Christopher
Carson Ames, who was born De
cember 16, 1858, died in 1940.. He
was the father of Mrs. Harvey.
When he died he was regarded
as the oldest native Nebraskan
(white).
Mr. Ames built the first house
at Meadow Grove and farmed
what is now the main street of
the town. Later, he bought a
piece of land north of town and
erected a log cabin on the banks
of the Elkhorn river. The land
mark “fell apart” 20 years ago.
Mrs. Pearl Ames Harvey and
' two sisters, Orinda and Aehsah,
were born in Butler, Bates coun
ty, Missouri, where the family
spent a few years.
Mrs. Harvey says her grandfather
was the second of a family of
nine. She believes her father was
one of nine children. She is one
of a family of nine.
However, only four of her fa
ther's family grew to adulthood
—Taft Ames, Dimmys Ames
Hopluns (who had the postoffice
at Meadow Grove for years), Ab
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MARKET REPORT
MONDAY, NOV. 12TH
Last Special Calf Auction.
With slightly over 2,000 calves
on offer. Demand was real
good and prices fully steady.
Heifed calves sold for the
most part at $17.00 to $17.90
for the top end and $16.00 to
$17.00 for the balance. Top on
steer calves at $23.75 bulk of
the better kinds at $20.50 to
$22.00. Good kinds $19.00 to
$20.00 cwt.
Tuesday, Nov 13th Auction
1600 head on sale , includ
ing a very liberal supply of
steers grading good to choice.
Fancy 600 lb. steers topped at
$20.50 cwt. other choice
loads sold at $19.00 to $19.50
cwt. Classes grading below
choice looked lower at $17.50
to $18.50 cwt. Calves sold
about steady with Monday.
Yearling heifers weren’t too
popular with buyers and were
under pressure, looked 25 to
50 cents lower, selling in a
range of $13.50 to $15.00 cwt.
Cow market 25 to 50 cwt.
lower from a week ago.
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November 20th. No more
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by Ames Mobre and her father,
Christopher Carson Ames.
When Mrs. Harvey grew up,
times were difficult. Preparations
for winter included butchering a
hog, salting it down, having a
barrel of sorghum molasses made
from cane of their own raising.
She remembers taking the cane
to the mill where it was ground
and boiled in the large flat pans
to the consistency of sorghum
Children would scrape the barrel
with relish in the spring when it
was emptied to get the sugar that
| clung to the sides.
A lump of sugar was a treat.
Grain was taken to the mill and
; exchanged for rye and graham
flour They raised a garden and
root vegetables were buried to
] prevent freezing.
The Ames decided to try
their lutk in Holt county in
the Mincola community where
they were neighbors to the
Young, Mills and Eppenbaugh
families. They lived on the
Arch Henry place and later on
the place known as the Red
Barn.
The Red Barn later figured in
the tragedy of a Holt county
treasurer, Barrett Scott. It was
while living there the children
lost a year of school. They were
six miles from a schoolhouse and
| it was impossible to get the chil
! dren there.
Mr. Ames was a farmer, well
1 driller, carpenter and Jack-of-all
trades.
To him Mrs. Harvey gives
credit for a good deal of their
early education. Having spent
very little time in the school
room himself, he took pains to
teach his children all the book
larnin' he could.
He also was a musician and
saw to it that they all played
some instrument. His choice was
a violin.
The literary meeting at the
school every two weeks was the
entertainment of most communi
ties. Pearl remembers hearing her
father saying to the program
committee: “Just give ’em what
you want ’em to do and I’ll see
that they have it.” That was no
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idle threat. The family gathered
around the table in the evenings,;
all nine of the children, also the !
iather and mother, and he worked i
with them in turn until they had ,
their part letter perfect.
Mrs. Harvey was born at But
ler, Bates county, Missouri, in
1892, and lived in Madison coun
ty until 1900 when they came to
Holt coun'y and finally settled
down, after several moves, in the
Lmporia neighborhood.
December 11, 1912, she married
Robert Harvey. They are the par
ents of two children: Calvin, who
lives near the parental home, and
a daughter. Mrs. Leonard ^Doris) 1
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