C.L.(LEM) & EVA (DYE) BRITTON

BY ILA DUNNE AND MARLIN BRITTON

From the Loup County Centennial Book 1883-1983

C.L. (LEM) WAS THE OLDEST SON OF CHARLES N. AND SARAH BRITTON. HE WAS BORN IN LOUP COUNTY, NEBRASKA ON JANUARY 26, 1896. HE ATTENDED SCHOOL AT SUNNYSIDE SCHOOL DISTRICT.

EVA DYE WAS BORN IN WATERLLO, NEBRASKA (DOUGLAS COUNTY) ON SEPTEMBER 8, 1895. SHE CAME WITH HER PARENTS TO CUSTER COUNTY IN 1897 AND THEN MOVED TO LOUP COUNTY IN 1906. THEY LIVED ON A HOMESTEAD SEVEN MILES NORTHEAST OF TAYLOR. SHE ATTENDED RURAL SCHOOLS AND THEN WENT TO HIGH SCHOOL IN TAYLOR AND GRADUATED AFTER THE TENTH GRADE AS THAT WAS ALL THE GRADES THEY HAD. SHE TAUGHT IN THE LONE STAR DISTRICT.

LEM AND EVA WERE MARRIED IN TAYLOR ON JUNE 3, 1917 AND MADE THEIR HOME WITH HIS PARENTS UNTIL 1926 WHEN THEY PURCHASED A FARM FROM OMAR RISLEY. ONE ODD THING ABOUT THIS FARM WAS THE HOUSE. IT WAS BUILT OF BALED HAY. THE HOUSE WAS APPROXIMATELY 24 FEET SQUARE WITH 2 WINDOWS ON THE WEST AND EAST SIDES AND TWO WINDOWS AND THE DOOR ON THE SOUTH WITH NO WINDOWS OR DOORS ON THE NORTH SIDE. THE ROOF WAS BUILT OF WOOD SHINGLES AND THE FLOOR WAS MADE OF CONCRETE. THE INTERIOR WALLS WERE OF HEAVY COMPOSITION PAPER AND THE EXTERIOR WALLS OF BALED HAY WERE COVERED WITH FINE MESH CHICKEN WIRE AND THEN PLASTERED INSIDE AND OUT WITH CEMENT AND SAND MIXTURE. THOUGH QUITE SMALL THE HOUSE WAS COMFORTABLE AND SERVED THE FAMILY WELL UNTIL IT BURNED IN THE SPRING OF 1957.

LEM AND EVA WERE THE PARNETS OF THREE CHILDREN ALL BORN IN LOUP COUNTY; ILA WAS BORN MARCH 21, 1920- MARRIED JOHN DUNNE AND HAD FOUR CHILDREN; MARLIN WAS BORN APRIL 11, 1922-MARRIED ERLINE MITCHEL AND THEY HAVE THREE CHILDREN; IVA WAS BORN MARCH 10,1929 AND MARRIED BILL FANN AND THEY HAD THREE CHILDREN.

OVER THE YEARS LEM AND EVA ACQUIRED MORE LAND AND IN 1964 THEY PURCHASED HIS FATHER'S PLACE. EVA AND LEM BOTH ENJOYED RANCHING AND FARMING. FOR RECREATION, LEM ENJOYED HUNTING AND FISHING. THERE WAS MUCH AFFECTION BETWEEN THEM AND THEIR GRANDCHILDREN.

LEM DIED IN MAY 1974 AND WAS BURIED AT TAYLOR. EVA REMAINED AT THE RANCH HOME UNTIL 1981 WHEN FAILING HEALTH REQUIRED HER TO TAKE UP RESIDENCE IN THE SARGENT NURSING HOME WHERE SHE STILL RESIDES.

BROMWICH, URIAH

Mr. Uriah Bromwich was born in Chicago, Ill., in 1853. Upon the death of his father six months later, his mother went to Canada, soon however to return to Chicago. She next spent several years in southern Wisconsin, landing in Minnesota in 1858. Here Mr.Bromwich grew to manhood. He married Miss Elnora Fay in 1876. In October of 1878 he came to Loup county and preempted. He then homesteaded just across the line in Custer County in 1880. From Mr. Bromwich's home one has a fine view of the Loup Valley for miles.

SOURCE: The Trail of the Loup copyright 1906
By: H.W. Foght and W.W. Haskell
Transcribed by: Melody Beery

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