LaVern CUNNINGHAM

Birth:
16 Mar 1875
Leroy, McLean, Illinois
Death:
4 Mar 1935
St. Edward, Boone, Nebraska
Burial:
Creston, Platte, Nebraska
Marriage:
27 Nov 1895
Columbus, Nebraska
Sources:
Cunningham Family Sheet
Notes:
                   According to the obit in the St. Edward Advocate Lavern and his familymoved to
the Gretna, Nebraska area when he was 4 years old.

8/1996 - Traveled to Albion, Nebr. to check Albion newspaper at publiclibrary.  Went on to St. Edward to check the paper there.  Found obit onfront page and copied.  Checked at Creston, Nebr. to get names and phone#'s of cemetery officials. LaVern is buried in an unmarked grave next toEmma Cunningham.  Lot #9, E1/2.  On 1/21/1929 (b. 1928) an infant wasburied in the same plot.  Info from Geo. Brown, 8/8/96.
Emma JANSEN
Birth:
27 Jan 1877
Gretna, Sarpy, Nebraska
Death:
4 Jan 1920
Creston, Platte, Nebraska
Burial:
Creston, Platte, Nebraska
Children
Marriage
1
Blocked
Birth:
Death:
Blocked  
Marr:
 
2
Lester CUNNINGHAM
Birth:
10 May 1896
Creston, Platte, Nebr.
Death:
27 May 1898
Creston, Platte, Nebr.
 
Marr:
 
3
Melvin LaVerne CUNNINGHAM
Birth:
11 Jan 1899
Creston, Platte, Nebraska
Death:
31 Dec 1962
Omaha, Douglas, Nebraska
Beryl Percia MULLEN 
Marr:
8 Sep 1934
Logan, Harrison, Iowa 
4
Gladys Margaret CUNNINGHAM
Birth:
18 Sep 1900
Death:
Carl FLETCHER 
Marr:
8 Apr 1920
 
5
Blocked
Birth:
Death:
Blocked  
Marr:
 
Notes:
                   There is a family story about a child, born before she married, died atbirth or very young.
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LaVern Cunningham - Emma Jansen

LaVern Cunningham was born at Leroy, McLean, Illinois 16 Mar 1875. His parents were Alfred C. Cunningham and Margaret Jane Cotter.

He married Emma Jansen 27 Nov 1895 at Columbus, Nebraska . Emma Jansen was born at Gretna, Sarpy, Nebraska 27 Jan 1877 daughter of Charles F. Jansen and Anna Laschansky .

They were the parents of 5 children:
Blocked
Lester Cunningham born 10 May 1896.
Melvin LaVerne Cunningham born 11 Jan 1899.
Gladys Margaret Cunningham born 18 Sep 1900.
Blocked

LaVern Cunningham died 4 Mar 1935 at St. Edward, Boone, Nebraska .

Emma Jansen died 4 Jan 1920 at Creston, Platte, Nebraska .