Person:Elmer Couch (2)

Address: homesteaded on Kincaid land north of Morrill with his father & sister, Alta Date: 1909 Place: Sioux NE

Address: Date: 1920 Place: Henry, Scotts Bluff, Nebraska, USA

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Elmer was and extremely honest and hard working man. When Elmer's mother died in Iowa, Elmer went to his brother Herb's house in Minneapolis MN to stay while Albert and Alta went back to the homestead in the Kincade territory 8 miles north of Henry NE. Elmer joined them before he finished the 8th grade in March of 1909. They came in boxcars called immigrant cars - took 3 days to get to western NE. He grew up as a cowboy in the ranch country until he went in the Army in WWI. We went overseas and served in France and as a guard with the Army of Occupation. He met Edna a homesteader's dance around 1910. Before he went into the Army during WWI he asked Edna to wait for him. After the war he then married Edna and moved to Henry in 1920. After the war he was a postmaster in Henry and then later became an electrician working on getting the REA to rural homes. He bought their home on the north side of Henry in 1923 and was their home until he died. He loved this place and was an excellent gardener. After Edna died he remarried Maudie Nixon in 1964.

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} Sioux, Nebraska, United States. 1910 U.S. Census Population Schedule.

   Database online. Townsend, Sioux, Nebraska, ED , roll T624_855, part , page .

2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3} Social Security Administration. Social Security Death Index: Death Master File, database. (Alexandria, Virginia: National Technical Information Service).

   Database online.
   Record for Elmer Couch

3. ↑ ^3.0 3.1 Iowa, United States. 1895 Iowa State Census.

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   Record for Elmer W. Couch