McGee Wade Family
(See
photographs)
John Charles Wade,
son of
John Butterfield Wade
and
Julia Ann Townsley,
was born November12,1856 in Springfield, Clark
County,
Ohio and died April 3, 1922 in Danbury,
Nebraska.
He married
Alice Nash Plumb on
October 30, 1895 in Indianola,
Nebraska.
Other events in the life of John Charles Wade
Burial : 1922 in Danbury-Marion
Cemetary near Danbury, Nebraska
Arrival : In 1880, he was living with his brother Howard
and wife Mary in Warren County, Indiana. He and his friend John Ambler came to Red Willow
County as young men in the 1880's. They met and married
sisters, Alice and Mary Plumb. (See
photograph).
They homesteaded adjacent properties south of Danbury, Nebraska
commencing in 1891. The Wade family lived in a three room sod
house. He moved to Danbury from the farm about 1912.
Occupation : Farmer and house painter later in life. (see
homestead receipt). The land was listed as being owned
by the Alice Wade Estate in the 1921 Standard Atlas of Decatur
County.
Other References: See Wade
and Plumb History Remeberances and
1910
Census
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photographs)
She was born March 11, 1868 in Portland,
Wisconsin , daughter of Hiram
C. Plumb and Ellen
Mackey, and
died November 21, 1917 in McCook, Nebraska
Other events in the life of Alice Nash Plumb (also see
Wade and Plumb History Remeberances)
Burial : Marion-Danbury, Nebraska
cemetary
Arrival : She came to Red Willow County with parents arriving
July 4, 1873. She attended primative schools in Danbury
and later taught in Missouri Ridge, White Hall, Flowler,
Fairview and
Shiloh districts. She is listed as the school
teacher in Fairview in 1893 and shown in a photograph with her
Fairview (Stoughton) students dated 1889.
Occupation : Teacher, Housewife.
Children of John C.
Wade and Alice N. Plumb
 Perry Plumb Wade was
born July 11, 1896 and died on May 17, 1974. His buried in
Williamett National Cemetary, near Portland, Oregon. He was a
World War I Navy veteran. (See
photograph)
 Olive Fenton Wade was
born September 14, 1897 Decatur County, KS and
died May 30, 1987 in Oberlin, Decatur County, KS. She married
Walter Winfred McGee on May 1, 1921
in Oberlin, Decatur
County, Kansas.
 Robert (Bob) Townsley Wade was
born December 15, 1898 in Danbury, Red Willow, Nebraska and died
on September 5, 1963 in Boise, Ada, Idaho. (See
photograph)
 George Thomas Wade was
born December 15, 1898 and died on January 23, 1950. He
served in the Army Corp of Engineers in WWII. (See
photograph)
 Howard Ezekiel Wade was
born July 24, 1904 and died in August 1972. He
married Velma M. Burrus on March 30, 1926 in
Oberlin, Decatur County, KS.
(See
photograph)
 Charles (Chig) Butterfield Wade was
born May 24, 1906 and died in 1954 in Boise, Idaho. His
ashes were buried by his sister Olive, between his parent's
graves, in Oberlin Cemetary, Kansas. (See
photograph)
 Mary Katherine Wade was
born July 6, 1910 in Decatur County, Kansas and died on October
18, 1990 in Medford, Oregon. She married Harold
Koehler on July 24, 1929. (See
photograph)
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