Person:Joseph Woolery (15)

From: History of Western Nebraska and Its People, 1921, Vol 3, page 717:

  "JOSEPH R. WOOLERY came to Garden county in 1890, at which time it was still a part of Deuel county, and during the intervening years he has continued as a vigorous and successful exponent of agricultural and livestock industry, and his civic loyalty and worthy achievement have contributed to the development and progress of this section of the state.
 Joseph Richard Woolery as born in Pettis county, Missouri, April 1, 1864, and in the same state was born his father, Joseph Perry Woolery, a farmer by vocation who died at the age of forty-eight years, his wife, whose maiden name was Eliza Carpenter, having likewise been born and reared in Missouri and died when she was about forty years of age.
 Joseph R. Woolery was reared to adult age in his native state, where he received the advantages of the public schools.  After the death of his father he lived in the home of his uncle, Thomas Woolery, until he was eighteen years of age, and he then found employment in connection with the operation of a threshing machine.  Thereafter he was employed a few months at farm work, for thirteen dollars a month and at the age of twenty-one years he went to Kansas, where he was employed about three years, principally at ranch work.  From the Sunflower state, he made his way to Denver, Colorado, where he was engaged in teaming for a period of about a year.  His next venture was made in 1890, when he came to Nebraska and took the homestead upon which he has continued to reside to the present time, having developed one of the excellent farms of Garden county and being now the owner of nine hundred acres under effective cultivation and the remainder used as grazing land.  Mr. Woolery has been specially progressive and enterprising in his industrial activities, and has made each year mark an advancement in cumulative success.  He is one of the substantial stock-growers of the county, and raises cattle, horses and hogs.  He keeps an average of about fifty head of cattle and ships about a carload of hogs annually.  He is one of the stockholders in the Farmers' Elevator in the village of Lisco, and also in the Farmers' Mercantile Company at that place.
 In politics Mr. Woolery gives his allegiance to the Democratic party, and he has been influential in public affairs in his county, where he is serving his second term as a member of the board of county commissioners (1919-20), having been elected first in 1912.  His service has been marked by earnest effort to promote the best interest of the county and its people.  His wife is affiliated with the Royal Neighbors and is a popular figure in the representative social life of her home community.
 May 26, 1895, recorded the marriage of Mr. Woolery to Miss Maude V. Suit, who was born at Council Bluffs, Iowa, in which state she received her earlier educational training, which was supplemented by her attending school after the removal of the family to western Nebraska, as she was a resident of Garden county at the time of her marriage, which was solemnized at Oshkosh.  Mrs. Woolery is a daughter of Slathial B. and Helen (Kimble) Suit.  Her father came to western Nebraska in 1897, as a pioneer famer of this section of the state, her death occurred in 1918, when he was about seventy years of age, and his widow, who is a native of California, is now a resident of Oshkosh, Garden county.  Mr. and Mrs. Woolery have three children -- Joseph Percy, Mildred and Cecil Gwendolyn."

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} Death Certificate
   13 Aug 1947.

   Nebraska Certificate of Death - Joseph Richard Woolery, State file no. 8066.
   "Died Garden Co., Oshkosh (Nebraska); in the community 57 years; Joseph Richard Woolery; Male; White; Widower; wife Maude Vernin Suit; Joseph Richard born Apr. 1, 1864; died age 83 years, 3 months, 3 days; born Pettis County, MO.; retired farmer; father Joseph Perry Woolery; mother Eliza Carpenter; informant Joseph P. Woolery, Lisco, Nebraska (Note: his son); Burial Aug. 6, 1947, Oshkosh, Nebr.; funeral director I.W. Wright, Oshkosh, Nebr., Aug. 22, 1947; registrar O.K. Stedry; usual residence of deceased Nebraska, Garden Co., Oshkosh; Died Aug. 4, 1947 3:00 p.m.; Physician attended deceased from Aug. 2, 1947 to Aug. 4th, 1947; cause of death Sunstroke; signed Willard G. Seng, Oshkosh, Nebraska, 8/13/47.".

2.   This was my great grandfather.