![]() William, 11, and John (John Albert), 9, along with Horace, 4, and Mabel 11/12.ĭaughter Ethel wrote, "David worked with John Wales as a skilled cabinetmaker and interior finishing man. The 1885 Nebraska census of June 4, 1885, again showed David as a carpenter at age 37 and he and Margaret had added a few more children. Their first child, Caroline Elizabeth, born December 26, 1873, died of cholera in August 1874. Cooper is noted in the Nebraska Advertiser newspaper on May 29, 1873, suggesting David and Margaret were probably back in Nebraska soon after their wedding. ![]() William's age and birthplace put the family back in Nebraska by 1874 however a land transfer from W. Hollabaugh worked as a carpenter at 31, and his wife Margaret, 30, kept house and cared for their two sons, William, 6, and Albert, 4, both born in Nebraska. The young couple left Indiana to make their home in Nebraska City, Nebraska.īy the 1880 census on June 11, they were settled in the Third Ward of Nebraska City where W.D. Born on Januin Ohio, Margaret was 27 when she married and David was about a half year younger. Margaret was the daughter of David and Mary Caroline Davis Furnish. Had he met her on an earlier trip back to visit his brothers? Or did the brothers arrange this marriage in some way? All that is left to the imagination. In 1873, David made the almost seven hundred mile trip back to the Spencerville, Indiana, area where he married Margaret Jane Furnish, a teacher, on April 10. I, personally, think this was our David Hollabaugh, but can not be absolutely sure. The age was appropriate for David,as was the location and occupation, as we will soon learn, but someone has given the first initial as A. The Hollabaugh man was said to be born in Ohio, a fact that a landlord probably wouldn't know. Seventeen young men were living in that house, which led me to think that perhaps the landlord gave information to the enumerator, causing some mistakes. Holabaugh, 25, a carpenter, was enumerated in the boarding house of D. In the 1870 census of Nebraska City, Otoe County, Nebraska, A. Sisters were in the midst of this chaos, death, and destruction. Young David Hollabaugh, and his brothers and Valiantly that legend and song have grown up around his bravery. ![]() Grabbed his squirrel rifle and joined the Union Army on the spot, fighting so David said he knew the legendary Old John Burns who ![]() He saw the Lutheran Seminary at Gettysburg turned into a hospital for wounded Confederates. Waited for Pickett’s Charge, dead men and horses were so numerous that, ‘I could have walked from ridge to ridge without stepping off a body.’” David witnessed the battle at the west end of Stationed, and Cemetary Ridge, across the mile-wide valley where Meade’s Army At the end of the third day of fighting, Julyģ, 1863, David said (according to the letter), that “between Seminary Ridge, where Lee’s Army was In a letter posted online, a letter written by David's youngest daughter, Ethel Elaine (Niemann) to herĭescendents, Ethel (who referred to her father as David) recounted how her father and aįriend watched the battle from the relative safety of a tree limb until the theįighting became so intense, they were forced to take shelter in a cellar. When the Battle of Gettysburg took place near his home in the first days of ![]() David was fourteen, just days away from his fifteenth birthday, ![]()
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