BERGER, Ulysses (1817-1899)

BERGER

Posted By: Karon Velau (email)
Date: 9/10/2017 at 12:57:02

Ulysses Berger
(October 9, 1817 - February 1, 1899)

Advocate Tribune, Indianola, Iowa, Thurs., Feb 9, 1899, p.3
Ulysses Berger was born in Pittsylvania County, Virginia, Oct 9, 1817; moved to Henry County, Indiana in 1830; to Andrew County, Missouri, in 1845; to Warren County, Iowa, in 1846 and to Cowley County, Kansas in 1892 where he died Feb 1, 1899. Mr. Berger married Miss Margaret Waddell, Nov 11, 1841, who died Jan 29, 1891. To them were born five sons and five daughters. Three of the sons died in early manhood. In August, 1892, he married Mrs. Clarissa Moore, of Udall, Kansas, to which place he moved. He was one of the earliest settlers in this county, coming here three years before the county was organized and was one of the first appointed justice of the peace and a member of the first grand jury. The only capital he started with was good health, industry and pluck, but by good management and hard toil he had lands and competency at his death. Soon after coming here he united with the Methodist church and gave the lot upon which the church was built and of his money towards its erection, and afterwards when the railway came laid out the town of Wick near the church. His widow being too sick to come from Kansas sent the body here that it might be buried beside the wife of his youth in the cemetery where he helped dig the first grave. Funeral services were held in Kansas by the pastor of the Congregational church with which he had united and at Wick a sermon was preached by the writer from 1st Chronicles: 29, 15. [We are here for only a moment, visitors and strangers in the land as our ancestors before us. Our days on earth are like a shadow, gone so soon without a trace.] S. W. L.