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EVA HARVEY MOON
By Rose Moon
Schmidt
Eva May Harvey was the daughter of Benjamin Harvey and
Mary Ham Harvey. She was born in Iowa and came to Kent with her
family, when a young child. Her mother passed away soon after their
arrival at Kent, Nebraska. Her step mother, Sarah Ham Harvey, her
mothers sister raised her, and Eva was about twelve years old when her
aunt-stepmother died.
She was married to Alanson Moon,
widower of her sister Rose, on June 20,1886 on her seventeenth
birthday. Carl, son of Rose was about four years old at the
time. She was
the mother of five sons, three of whom died in
infancy. Arthur W. and Emmett O. lived to manhood.
Mrs. Moon
remembered the early days well and told many interesting stories of the
pioneer life and especially the Indian scares. She told of the
children being alone in the house when they saw Indians approaching.
Minnie was a baby and they covered her over with a feather-bed so her
crying could not be heard, never thinking the baby could smother.
The older children hid in the bushes until the Redskins left, and found
Minnie in good shape when they lifted the feather-bed. One night the
Indians came down out of the hills and butchered "Dutch Henry" the only
milch cow. The children were thoroughly frightened when they heard
this. Another time, the children had no time to get away, so hid in
the house, listening to the Indians while they rode around the house
shreiking with glee. They had found a sack of flour and kept riding over
it until it broke and the white dust covered them, their ponies and
everything close by. They left as fast as they came, laughing like
children at their flour covered faces and never even tried to enter the
house.
Mrs. Moon was a member of the Free Methodist Church and her
religious zeal was an absorbing passion throughout her life. After
the death of Mr. Moon she married James Bowley. Eva Mae Harvey Moon
Bowley was born on June 20, 1869 and died at Hastings, Nebraska October
15, 1938 and was buried in Kent Cemetery, Loup County,
Nebraska.
Transcribed by: Melody Beery
Source: Loup County
Cenntennial Book 1883-1983
ALANSON S. MOON
County attorney of Loup county, was born in
Schuyler county, New York, December 13, 1857. He spent some twenty years of his
life in his native state going to school, teaching and farming. He
graduated from the well known Starkey Academy. From New York he removed to
Michigan, and in 1877 he again took up the trail and moved on to Loup
county. He homesteaded near Kent where he remained till 1889. He studied
law at Taylor, doing in absentia work, and was admitted to the bar in
1887. He is a very progressive citizen and has been engaged in several
enterprises both public and private. Thus he has been in the general
merchandise and lumber business, been county superintendent and for
several terms county attorney. He married Miss Eva Harvey in 1886, and has
three children living.
SOURCE: The Trail of the Loup copyright 1906
By:
H.W. Foght and W.W. Haskell
transcribed by: Melody Beery
JUDGE L. M. MOULTON
Was born in Woodford County,
Illinois, November 19, 1839. He graduated from Eureka College in 1860 and
was admitted to the bar in Nebraska June 4, 1874. He came to Franklin
County, this state, in 1871, and became one of the founders of
Bloomington. Later, in 1883,
he moved to Loup county, where he has over since taken an active part in
public life. Mr. Moulton has seen considerable service as a soldier. In
1861 he enlisted in Co. B of the Eleventh Illinois infantry, but was
discharged. In 1864 he again enlisted and served to the end of the
war, taking part in the
Mobile campaign. Back in Illinois he served for some time as police judge
and prosecuting attorney and was judge of Franklin County, Nebr., for two
terms. He has also served as judge and attorney of Loup County, for two
terms in each office. He is at present county judge by appointment Mr.
Moulton was married to Permeila Clingman of Woodford County, Illinois, in
May, 1861. The family is now pleasantly located in the north part of
Taylor where the judge takes pride to show his friends one of the finest
fruit orchards on the upper Loup.
Source:
The Trail of the Loup, copyright 1906
By: H.W.
Foght and W.W. Haskell
Transcribed by: Melody
Beery
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