1871 SUTTON 2021
Sesquicentennial
Happy 150th Birthday Sutton
Sutton – Where Everybody Knows Your Name
But, do they?
ANNOUNCING: As part of our town’s 150th
birthday, the Sutton Sesquicentennial planning group will produce a book about
the first 150 years of our town. A section of that book will be devoted to
listing and providing information about the families who have lived in Sutton
and are part of the story of those 150 years.
The project is NOT
limited to the early settlers, or to a list of doctors, lawyers, mayors and thieves.
The project is targeted to collect information about as many of the families as
we can who were and are a part of Sutton throughout those years.
The biographical
family information that is collected will serve two purposes. First, a brief
summary, identifying and describing our families will appear in the book. Space
is limited. But we want to record as much as is practical about the people who
built Sutton and have lived here. So, secondly, more detailed accounts of
families will become part of a collection of family stories that will be
available at least at the Sutton Museum and at the library.
Sutton – where
everybody knows your name, or do they? And do they know the story of your name?
We are asking you, and other residents to
tell us about your family, your parents, your grandparents, etc. who lived,
went to school, worked and contributed to Sutton.
Can we count on you to contribute your
family story? Good. And you can do more. This will take some work. Can we count
on you to join us in collecting, editing and making this project a success? Would
you volunteer to assist with our Sesquicentennial book? Please.
Further details are available in the Pages section at the suttonhistoricalsociety.blogspot.com
or contact Jerry Johnson at jjhnsn31@gmail.com
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Our 150th year book for Sutton fills a special need. Sutton did not produce a historical book about the town when the town became 100 years old. Sutton was the first Clay County community to reach that milestone but apparently, no one thought of it, or not enough people volunteered to help. Don't know.
But others did step up.
Two of the county's centennial books, Harvard's and Deweese's, had sections with biographies of the people and the families of their towns.
For instance:
These examples illustrate what we want to do with Sutton's Sesquicentennial Book. Some of these illustrations are lengthy, more than we will have room for if we are able to mention many people and families. Our expectation is that we will have brief entries in the book, but will collect and preserve the more detailed information about people and families.
The lengthy version of our family biographies will be preserved in separate, likely loose-leaf binders with at least one copy at the Sutton Museum and a second copy in the Sutton Library.
Any other appropriate locations for copies? the school? newspaper office? city hall? Any volunteers to maintain the volumes keeping them current?
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Our 150th year book for Sutton fills a special need. Sutton did not produce a historical book about the town when the town became 100 years old. Sutton was the first Clay County community to reach that milestone but apparently, no one thought of it, or not enough people volunteered to help. Don't know.
But others did step up.
Edgar 100 Years, Edgar,
Nebraska 1972
Fairfield Fairfield – A Century of
Memories 1972
Glenvil Glenville,
Nebraska Centennial 1972 (do not
have a copy)
Harvard
Harvard, Nebraska, 100
Years + 2 1973
Deweese Deweese Centennial 1986
Ong Ong Centennial 1986
Trumbull Trumbull Centennial
History 1986 (do not have a
copy)
And Trumbull – celebrating 125 years
1886-2001 (do not have a copy)
Eldorado Centennial – Eldorado, NE 1988
Spring
Ranch History of Spring Ranch 1870-1990
(a 120-year book)
Sutton did not
publish a centennial book – Don Russell published
Sutton,
Nebraska – 125 years – A Pictorial History
No
evidence Inland published a centennial book
Nebraska: 150
Years Told Through 93 Counties – by David Hendee of the World-Herald - Published
November 2016
For instance:
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| A page from the Deweese Centennial Book |
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| A page from Harvard's centennial book they called "Harvard, Nebraska - 100 + 2 Years" |
These examples illustrate what we want to do with Sutton's Sesquicentennial Book. Some of these illustrations are lengthy, more than we will have room for if we are able to mention many people and families. Our expectation is that we will have brief entries in the book, but will collect and preserve the more detailed information about people and families.
The lengthy version of our family biographies will be preserved in separate, likely loose-leaf binders with at least one copy at the Sutton Museum and a second copy in the Sutton Library.
Any other appropriate locations for copies? the school? newspaper office? city hall? Any volunteers to maintain the volumes keeping them current?
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