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Cherokee area school notes and local obituaries
The page records school recitations and concerts at Mt Olive and Good Hope churches, with mentions of teachers Nina Oblson and Miss Jones teaching nearby. It notes Thanksgiving services, visits by residents to Cherokee and Aurelia, and a detailed obituary for Augusta Peterson, born in 1856 in Sweden, who immigrated to Cherokee Calowa and died November 16, 1909 at her sister’s home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nina
Virgil Sawville
Aurelia
Good Tope Church
Lee, Harwood
Alen Neville
Diamond
Libbie Neville
Mt. Gliese Suneday
Carl Martinson
Fina
Mt. Olive
Mt. Olive Baptist Church
Crow Vidian
Montana
Almon Thompson
Russel Jones
Merl Bell
T. J. Olson
Rose Lane
Miss Lane
New State
Cherokee
Dan Hahn
Soraine
Washington
Augusta Peterson
Vesta Thomas
Sweden
Lutheran Church
America
Cherokee Calowa
Axel Johnson
Nelson
Carl Axel
Auweust
Good Hope Church
Revere O H. Gillet
Peterson
Rei
Sioux City
O' Rafferty