Sidney, Nebraska – The Sharmers

A Night Train to Denver

After Katie died in 1907, the family story goes, her children were spirited away to Denver before anyone could take them, or her money.

A little brownie & signature of your father made when he was a little boy in Nebraska.

How the first Joseph Sharmer was found: born Jochim Scharmer in Elmshorn, Holstein, on 25 May 1829.

The 1898 and 1907 Sidney newspapers on the deaths of Joe’s father, “Uncle Joe” Sharmer, and his mother, Katie O’Connor Sharmer.

She was very much interested in My RUBY because Larry had told her so many nice things about you.

To think every click of the wheels take me further & further away from every one I love but we will make up for it when I get back believe me.

All of the cattle commonly referred to as “Sharmer cattle,” are and have been the property of my wife Katie Sharmer.

A little ruby glass pitcher engraved “K. Sharmer” and “Midwinter Fair 1894,” from San Francisco’s first world’s fair.

Twelve months after date we promise to pay to the order of James R. Williams One Hundred and Fifty Dollars.