Sunday, April 12, 2009

Day 95 - April 12th - Double Nickel RV Park - Waco, Nebraska

A real short Drive today. On the road at 9:00AM and cross into Nebraska. Another 40 miles and turn off into Geneva, Nebraska. Denice believes this is where her great-grandfather and some of her other ancestors and relatives are interred. I had found the Geneva cemetery on "Streets and Trips" so had little problems finding the site. As you can imagine Geneva is a real big town!! However the cemetery IS big. Must be a long history here. No place to park ELTORO and the jeep so pulled into a feed processing facility next to the grave yard, and parked there. One of the locals in a pickup drove in to ask if he could be of assistance, but I ensured him we were OK and only looking at roots. We did not even know where to start so just wandered through all the headstones, looking for the names of Krause, Kreger, and Rachow. Never found any of them as we wandered north to south. At the far south end and entrance found a directory and plot map. But it only indicated those after 1900. We would have to contact the director at the State National Bank tomorrow, for those prior to that date. Wandered back through, just randomly checking head stone names. Did find a couple of Krauses, but unknown to Denice. I did find one of some "Langs", but pretty sure no relation to me. It was good to get back to ELTORO as it was rather cool, only 50F degrees. We don't know what we will do back in Canada --- and remind me again why we are going home!!!
Head north again, but only as far as Highway I-80, then turn east for 7 miles to Waco, NE and Double Nickel RV Park. Self register, nobody around, and find a site that satisfies us. Hallelujah!! Good WIFI !!
Get on the internet and do some investigation, as we have nothing to do for the remainder of the day. Find that the people we are looking for are actually buried in Schickley, NE, a real small town about 10 miles further back. We will investigate that tomorrow.

1 comment:

  1. Quite a mess in that windbreak. It is about 90F here today, but we are on the road to cooler climes first thing tomorrow.

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