This webpage is for information on the book 

(Memoirs of The Weigand Family)

Homesteading

In

Nebraska

in Knox and Cedar Counties, Nebraska

by

Minnie C (Weigand) Laird

Minnie (Weigand) Laird is an Aunt to Beth (Hoyt) Peters who is a Sister-in-law  to Anna (Peters) Cook who is the Grandmother of Dianne (Schrader) Picton.  This makes Dianne (Schrader) Picton a Shirt Tail Relative . 

The following are a few paragraphs

taken from the book

The following are references on the Internet from and for this Book 

Please click Under-Lined items to select:

Lost Towns of the Missouri: Searching for Ruins of our Old Farming Communities  from September/October 2004 Issue of the Nebraska Life Magazine

Wihlminia Carolina Fredricka “Minnie” Weigand Laird  Tombstone

William Wallace Laird  Husband of Minnie Laird 

Minnie (Wiegand) Laird Brief Life History

Homesteading -  play with actors

Wiegand Cemetery List who is buried in cemetery

Wiegand Cemetery History in Knox County, Nebraska

Sources

for the

Homesteading in Nebraska

Book

For some things on Minnie Weigand Laird, go to the following location on the History Nebraska Library Collection at Lincoln, Nebraska.   Before driving there one should check the address and hours.  They also have a copy of her book which can be checked out.  There copy may be different than the copies at the other libraries.  Phone: 402-471-4782   

Some additional libraries that currently have this book which you can check out are libraries at:

Bloomfield Nebraska Public Library - phone: 402-373-4588  

City of Crofton Nebraska Public Library - phone: 402-388-4915

Hartington Public Library, Box 458, Hartington, NE 68739; phone: 402-254-6245  (will have)

and maybe Yankton Community Library in South Dakota; phone: 605-668-5275 

and maybe library at Keelson Harbour (assisted living) at Spirit Lake Iowa; phone: 712-373-2960   

History Nebraska Library Collection, 131 Mall N, Lincoln, NE, 68508 USA Phone:402-471-4782

Please click on above underlined Collection webpage to select, go to top Menu line, go to Keyword Search; then enter "Laird or Weigand" and hit search.   About 15 or more items will be listed.  For Minne (Weigand) Laird  an item listed is Personal Record.  You can contact them and view this.

History Nebraska Library Collection - book

"A memoir of the Weigand family" is the book title name by Minnie Weigland Laird.  It does not say it but I know she was born August 21, 1866 in Knox County, Nebraska.    Please click on above underlined Collection book webpage to select, go to the line for "Select Library" and enter in "Minnie and Laird" and hit the search picture.  It should bring up a card catalog for this book "A memoir of the Weigand family" by Minnie Weigland Laird.  You can contact them and access the book.  I do not knew if this is the same book that Ruth Peters has but it has the same book title on the first page.  The book from Ruth Peters has "Homesteading In Nebraska" on the outside edge of the hard cover.

History Nebraska Library Collection - book

"My diary" is a book by Anna Peters Cook.  It does not say it but I know she was  born March 23, 1895 in Ceder County, Nebraska.  Anna Peters Cook had a sister-in-law named Beth Hoyt Peters.  The sister-in-law Beth Hoyt Peters was a niece to Minnie Weigand Laird.  Please click on above underlined Collection book webpage to select, go to the line for "Select Library" and enter in "Anna and Peters" and hit the search picture.  It should bring up a card catalog for a book "My diary" by Anna Peters Cook.  You can contact them and access the book.  Both books are in the same History Nebraska Library Collection at Lincoln, Nebraska.  Online copy of this book:   My diary - (Story of My Life) - by Anna Cook (1895-1981) - (The Life of Anna Cook plus Knox and Cedar county histories in Nebraska) Typed and edited by her Granddaughter Rev. Dianne Picton

Descendants of Martin Christian PETERS - 

(M C Peters)

Related how Dianne Picton has shirt tail relationship to Minnie Laird.  Anna Lena Peters was the Grandmother of Dianne Picton.  August Peters is a brother of Anna Lena Peters.  Beth Hoyt was the wife of August Peters.

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1. Martin Christian PETERS was born on February 8, 1873 in Pellworm, Germany.  He was baptized on March 9, 1873 in Pellworm, Germany.  He immigrated on April 3, 1889 to departed to America from Germany.  He emigrated on April 16, 1889.  He  returned for a visit to Germany (as per family in Germany. in 1900.  He died on September 14, 1946 in Arcadia, Los Angeles County, CA.  He was buried on September 17, 1946 in Forest Lawn Cemetery, Glendale, CA in a plot called Babyland.  He  had a twin sister who was born dead..

Martin Christian PETERS was married to Lena LEUENHAGEN (daughter of Johann August LEUENHAGEN and Catherina (Trina) STUHR ( STUEHR)) on September 6, 1894 in Pierce, NE.  Lena LEUENHAGEN was born on September 3, 1872 in Davenport, Scott County, IA.  She was baptized on October 18, 1896 in Randolph, Cedar County, NE by a circut rider preacher on horseback.  She died on June 4, 1957 in Arcadia, Los Angeles County, CA.  She was buried on June 7, 1957 in Forest Lawn Cemetery, Glendale, CA in a plot called Babyland.  Martin Christian PETERS and Lena LEUENHAGEN had the following children:

1.1. Anna Lena PETERS was born on March 23, 1895 in Randolph, Cedar County, NE.  She was baptized on October 18, 1896 in Nebraska a by traveling Minister.  She was confirmed on March 20, 1910 in St Marks Lutheran Church, Bloomfield, NE by Rev. Fredrick Rabe.  She died on April 2, 1981 in Wausa, Knox County. NE.  She was buried on April 4, 1981 in Bloomfield Cemetery, Knox County, NE.

Anna Lena PETERS was married to August Carl William COOK (son of William Carl COOK (KOCH) and Caroline (Lena) LENTER) on December 30, 1914 in Bloomfield, Knox County, NE in her parents home..  August Carl William COOK was born on July 26, 1891 in Onawa, Monona County, IA.  He died on March 3, 1941.  He was buried on March 6, 1941 in Bloomfield Cemetery, Knox County, NE.  Anna Lena PETERS and August Carl William COOK had the following children:

1.1.1. Marjory Ilene Lillian COOK was born on September 28, 1915 in a farm home near Bloomfield, NE., USA.  She was baptized on November 25, 1915 in Bloomfield, Knox County, NE.  She died on April 18, 2002 in Avera Care Center, Yankton, SD.  She was buried on April 22, 2002 in Bloomfield Cemetery, Knox County, NE.

1.1.2. Paul Martin COOK was born on July 15, 1917 in Bloomfield, Knox County, NE.  He died on December 24, 1978 in Modesto, Stanislaus County, CA.

1.1.3. Ruby Irene COOK was born on February 7, 1919 in Bloomfield, Knox County, NE.  She was baptized on April 6, 1919 in St Marks Lutheran Church, Bloomfield, NE.  She was confirmed on April 9, 1933 in St Marks Lutheran Church, Bloomfield, NE.  She graduated in 1936 in Bloomfield High School, Bloomfiled, Knox County, NE.  She died on March 27, 2001 in Lundberg Memorial Hospital, Creighton, Knox County, Nebraska.  She was buried on March 30, 2001 in Bloomfield Cemetery, Knox County, NE.

1.1.4. Martin William COOK was born on March 26, 1924 in Bloomfield, Knox County, NE.  He died on December 31, 1995 in Elk Bend, Lemhi, ID  83467.

1.1.5. Lois Anne COOK was born on September 20, 1928 in Bloomfield, Knox County, NE.  She was baptized on January 20, 1929 in St Marks Lutheran Church, Bloomfield, NE.  She died on October 17, 2015 in Tuality Community Hospital, Hillsboro, OR., USA.

1.2. August Thomas PETERS was born on June 19, 1897 in Randolph, Cedar County, NE.  He died on January 1, 1972 in Le Mars, Plymouth County, IA.  He was buried on January 4, 1972 in Le Mars, Plymouth County, IA.

August Thomas PETERS was married to Beth HOYT (daughter of William Robert HOYT and Hattie May LAIRD) on November 16, 1920 in Crofton, Knox County, NE.  Beth HOYT was born on May 18, 1900 in Bloomfield, Knox County, NE.  She died on May 19, 1965 in Le Mars, Plymouth County, IA.  She was buried on May 22, 1965 in Le Mars, Plymouth County, IA.  August Thomas PETERS and Beth HOYT had the following children:

1.2.1. Betty Lou PETERS was born on October 13, 1921 in Bloomfield, Knox County, NE.  She died on November 29, 2019 in Hinsdale, Dupage County, IL.  She was was left single after her first husband Dwayne Kinney was killed in a car accident in Iowa, USA.

1.2.2. Margaret Jane PETERS was born on September 28, 1924 in Bloomfield, Knox County, NE.  She died in August 1996 in Le Mars, Plymouth County, IA.

1.2.3. Donald Martin PETERS was born on May 17, 1928 in Bloomfield, Knox County, NE.  He was married to Ruth Stahmer.  He died on August 31, 1998.  He was buried on September 4, 1998 in Le Mars, Plymouth County, IA.

Ancestors of Beth HOYT 

August Peters married Beth Hoyt.  Hattie May Laird was Mother to Beth Hoyt.  William Wallace Laird was a brother of Hattie May Laird.  Minnie (Weigand) Laird was the wife of William Wallace Laird.

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FIRST GENERATION

1.  Beth HOYT was born on May 18, 1900 in Bloomfield, Knox County, NE.  August Peters married Beth Hoyt.  She died on May 19, 1965 in Le Mars, Plymouth County, IA.  She was buried on May 22, 1965 in Le Mars, Plymouth County, IA.

SECOND GENERATION

2.  William Robert HOYT was born in 1858 in Cooperstown, Manitowoc, Wisconsin, USA.  He died in 1918 in Knox, Nebraska, USA.  He was married to Hattie May LAIRD on March 24, 1890 in Yankton, Yankton, South Dakota, USA.

3.  Hattie May LAIRD was born on April 8, 1868 in Montfort, Grant, Wisconson.  She died on December 17, 1952 in Bloomfield, Knox, Nebraska, USA.  William Robert HOYT and Hattie May LAIRD had the following children:

1 i. Beth HOYT.

THIRD GENERATION

6.  James B LAIRD was born about 1820 in Pennsyvania.  He was married to Elizabeth J.

7.  Elizabeth J was born about 1820 in Delaware.  James B LAIRD and Elizabeth J had the following children:

3 i. Hattie May LAIRD.

ii. William Wallace LAIRD was born in January 1863 in Wisconsin, USA.  He died in 1900 in Niobrara, Knox, Nebraska, USA.  He was married to Minnie (Wiegand) Laird who wrote the book Homesteading in Nebraska (- Knox County) (Wiegand Family History).  She also was called: (Minnie) Willhelmina Carolina Fredricka Weigand [birth name]. 

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