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View Tree for John Henry WelchJohn Henry Welch (b. January 06, 1854, d. April 03, 1953)

John Henry Welch (son of John Hiram Welch and Anna Hannegan) was born January 06, 1854 in Fairview, Jones Co., Iowa, and died April 03, 1953 in Kearney, NE. He married Ella Naomi Boyle on Abt. 1880 in Freeport, Stephenson, ILL, daughter of M. J. Boyle and Elizabeth Deldred.

 Includes NotesNotes for John Henry Welch:
According to a newspaper article in the Grand Island Daily Independent about his 96th birthday celebration:
Mr. Welch has boyhood memories of the Civil war. His father helped to train companies. Mr. Welch said "All the little boys went along to the training field and had a big time." "Toward the end of the war, Lincoln called for more men, "graybeards" they were named, up to 45 years old. My father wasn't drafted, but a neighbor was. In those days, a man could hire a substitute." Mr. Welch remembers that the neighbor hired a Negro to take his place and paid him in gold pieces. He also recalled that the neighbor was a little perturbed at having given up his gold when he found that his substitute never reached a battlefield. When he came to Nebraska Jan. 9, 1890, Mr. Welch as a "new wife and $1.25" The couple lived at St. Paul for three years before buying a "railroad 80" near Cushing. Price of the land was $800. "We built a house, lived there and added to it. It was hard sledding for a while. We sold hogs for 3 cents a pound, and corn was 10 cents a bushel. When corn was cheaper than coal, we burned it for fuel. We did prretty well by staying there, sticking it out. We raised a good family. When the boom was on after World War I, we could have sold the farm for $24,000. The tax would have been $800 and I didn't like to thing of that. My wife said to me, "We don't need the farm any more, papa", so we gave it to our son. If they had sold the farm and put the money in the bank, he recalled, they would have lost it because of the siege of bank failures under the Hoover administration.

More About John Henry Welch:
Burial: Unknown, St. Paul Cemetery.

More About John Henry Welch and Ella Naomi Boyle:
Marriage: Abt. 1880, Freeport, Stephenson, ILL.

Children of John Henry Welch and Ella Naomi Boyle are:
  1. +Tressa Bell Welch, b. November 23, 1881, St. Paul, NE, d. July 06, 1970, Grand Island, NE.
  2. +George E. Welch, b. December 04, 1885, Cushing, Nebraska, d. May 29, 1971, Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
  3. +Ella Elizabeth Welch, b. March 01, 1893, Cushing, Nebraska, d. October 30, 1984.
  4. Merle Welch, d. date unknown.
  5. Tressie Welch, d. date unknown.
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