Re: Thomas H. & Iantha (Shaffer-Shafer) Hendershott

On behalf of the Pierce (Nebraska) Public Library Genealogy Help Group we are happy to supply the following information:

Thomas H. Hendershott - No obituary located
Iantha Hendershot - The Norfolk (Nebraska) News - 18 August 1900 - Mrs. Thomas Hendershott of Plainview died Thursday at her home in that city, aged 60 years.The cause of her death was typhoid fever.She has made her home in Pierce county for the past 20 years.
Elizabeth Hendershot - The Norfolk (Nebraska) Daily News - 14 March 1917 - Mrs. J. Hendershott - Plainview, Neb., March 14 - Special to the News: Mrs. J Hendershott died at her home in the east part of town Monday after a long illness.She has been a resident of Plainview for many years and had a host of friends here.The funeral will take place on Thursday.

Pierce County Probate:
No probate for Iantha Hendershott.
#338 - Thomas H. Hendershott - survived by widow Elizabeth Hendershott.
#812 - Elizabeth Hendershott - son Claude H. Stinson (Helen H.) Page, Nebraska; daughter Francis S. Aldrich (Walter S. Aldrich) Council Bluffs, Iowa; daughter Hortense E. Fisher (Frank E. Fisher) Council Bluffs, Iowa.

Thomas also left an undivided 1/2 interest in a Pierce county farm to Ernest Clyde Hendershott of Idaho, no indication as to relationship between the two.