On June 6, 2019, Wade & Amber Gibson along with Rob & Diana Wilson replaced the letters on the New Virginia Cemetery entrance. Over the years a few …
New Virginia Cemetery
To organize a community cemetery, the families in the area met at the New Virginia school house on the 23rd of April 1887. The Otto Cemetery …
Original New Virginia Cemetery Plot Map
This riddle was found on the back of the plot map. It reads: When a task you've once begun,Never leave it till it's done.Be the labor great or small,Do it …
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New Virginia School
Source:Bladen Centennial …
District 65 – New Virginia School
District 65 was called “New Virginia” which in turn gave that name to the Methodist Episcopal church nearby. Henry W. Lambrecht remembered the sod school house …
Six Weeks at New Virginia
Composed by Ardys Yost about our school and the pupils and the last days of school at New Virginia. …
New Virginia School History
School was first held in a dug out in 1882-1883 or sod house. The first frame school house was built in 1884. In April of 1886 a 12 ft extension was added on. …
New Virginia School Census
On page two under the 1883-1884 school year, you can see where Pulitzer Prize-winning author, Willa Cather, attended the New Virginia school at the age of 10. …
New Virginia Chuch Educational Foundation
In February 2006 the New Virginia Church Educational Foundation was founded. …
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New Virginia Church
Those Virginians who were not Baptists organized a Methodist group in the southeast part of Catherton precinct. The congregation raised over $1600 and hired …
New Virginia Church
In simplicity the New Virginia church stands upon wide Nebraska prairie land. Nothing special in its outward appearance would prompt a stranger passing by to …
New Virginia Church Celebrates 100th Anniversary
The New Virginia United Methodist Church celebrated their 100th Anniversary on Sunday, May 2, 1982. A large group of visitors and former members, along with …
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New Virginia Methodist Episcopal Church
The Virginians and other early residents in the southeast area of Catherton precinct built a church seven and a half miles north of Inavale in the northwest …
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New Virginia Church History
In the seventies there was an emigration of Virginians from the famous Shenandoah Valley of those who had the fever to "go West and grow up with the country". …
Sketch of New Virginia Church as Compiled by Ray Wilson
Some time in the early 1870's, a group of Virginians from the Shenandoah Valley migrated to Nebraska and settled in Catherton township. In 1880, they organized …
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Weddings Around the World
A World Full of Weddings June, aside from rhyming gaily and conveniently with croon, spoon, love’s tune and honeymoon, has other useful and …
The Building of a Church
By Veda E. Brooks 1952 The settlers from Virginia viewedThis land their hearts desired.Homesteading in the SeventiesOn acres they acquired. They …
Dedication of New Virginia Church
The dedication services of the New Virginia Methodist Episcopal church, seven miles north of Inavale, were held last Saturday and Sunday and were the occasion …
New Virginia Church Insurance Certificate
This certificate is dated October 13, 1906 – some two months after the original structure burned down. …
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