Mary Mueller Dies

The Atkinson Graphic
15 Dec 1911
A SAD EVENT
Monday evening at the supper hour, Mrs. Leopold Seger who with her husband lived three miles northwest of town, committed suicide. The hour was 6:10 and the family had set down to the table and were eating the evening meal when Mrs. Seger went into the bedroom and seizing a revolver applied its muzzle to her right breast and fired. The family hurried from the table to the room and found her dead. It was thought that death was instantaneous. The Coroner was summoned, and Dr. Wilson and Deputy Sheriff Bartell came up from O’Neil and empaneled a jury which sat at 11 o’clock the same evening. The jurors were John Hayes, E.J. Kilmarry, Chas. Wilkinson, Herb Bitney, John Bauman and Al Robertson. After careful investigation the verdict was that Mrs. Seger had met death by gun shot at her own hand, intentionally.

Mr. and Mrs. Seger had been married about two and one-half years. She was mother of five children, three by her former husband and two by her marriage with Mr. Seger.

We cannot understand just why such an occurrence could happen except that the woman was temporarily insane, as no mother would wish to go and leave her little children motherless in the world.

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The Atkinson Graphic
9 Feb 1912
First publication February 9, 1912
ORDER OF NOTICE
It appearing to the county court of Holt county, state of Nebraska, from the petition of Leopold Seger that it is necessary that a guardian be appointed for Walter Julius Buckhorn, a minor under the age of fourteen years.

It is ordered, that said petition be heard on the 23rd day of February, 1912. It is further ordered, that said Walter Julius Buckhorn be notified and required to appear before this court and it is further ordered, that notice of the time and place of said hearing be given by publication in the Atkinson Graphic, a weekly newspaper published in said county, for two weeks before the time named and appointed by the court,

Witness my hand and seal of said court the 7th day of February, 1912
Thomas Carlton
County Judge

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The Atkinson Graphic
1 Mar 1912
First publication March 1, 1912
ORDER OF NOTICE
It appearing to the County Court of Holt County, state of Nebraska, from the petition of Nicholas Donato Seger that it is necessary that a guardian be appointed for Elmer Buckhorn, a minor orphan boy of the age of seven years.

It is ordered, that said petition be heard on the 13th day of March 1912. It is further ordered, that said Elmer Buckhorn be notified and required to appear before this Court and it is further ordered, that notice of the time and place of said hearing be given by publication in the Atkinson Graphic, a weekly newspaper, published in said county for two weeks before the time named and appointed, by the court.

Witness my hand and seal of said county the –- day of -----,

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In 1900 the Julius Buckhorn family is listed at Yavapai, Jerome Co, AZ: Julius age 38, Mary age 24, Ella age 5, Otto age 3, Walter age 6 mo.

In 1920 Elmer Buckhorn, age 15, is listed as a boarder with the Louis Simons family at Herrick Gregory Co South Dakota.