Kit Carson County, Colorado
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Kit Carson County Pioneers:
Ralph S. and Rebecca Louella (Brown) Madden, 7 South 50 West
In 1880 Norton County, Kansas, John Madden is 34, farming, born
in Virginia, Nancy 29 in Ohio, John 11, Franklin 9, William 8 and Charles 6 in Iowa, George 5, Ralph 3, and Roy 1 in Kansas.
John is buried in Norton 1845-1928 # 49759660, with Nancy 1850-1946.
In 1900 Norton County, Kansas, Rebecca Brown born February 1883 in Kansas, is with William 69 and Clary 61 Brown. George is 24, Basha A. 18.
, and a niece Nora P. Rogers February 1892 born in Nebraska is with them. Rebecca and Basha were born in Kansas.
In 1900 Norton County, Ralph is a farm laborer,
born August 1876 in Kansas, working for the Sanderson family.
In 1905 Norton County, R.S. is 28, R. L. 22, J.W. 4 and V.V. 2.
"Chas. Madden aged 35, quarried with a nineteen-year-old boy named Jesse Rowley,
and the boy struck him. Sam Rowley, the boy's father, was leaning against a telephone pole with his arms folded.
Madden, instead of paying any attention to the boy, turned and struck the elder Rowley on the neck,
making him groggy. In this condition Sam started for his team, hitched some distance away,
but there was a buggy in the way and as he passed around this he met Ralph Madden, a brother of Charley,
and Raiph began to hammer him with his fists. Rowley continued to make his way toward his team
with Ralph Madden following and striking him, until Rowley finally fell to his knees.
In this condition Madden stood over him and rained fifteen or twenty blows upon his neck,
until Rowley sank to the ground and died. While this was going on two of the Madden brothers
tried to keep back anybody who tried to interfere, though one of the other brothers named Fred
ran in and pulled Ralph away, but was himself thrown ten or twelve feet.
Another young fellow named Roy Graves also rushed in and tried to stop the fight.
Mrs. Rowley was somewhere in the crowd with her children, and saw her husband pounded to death.
Ralph and Charlie Madden are now under arrest charged with murder in the first degree, and will doubtless
pay for that afternoon's work by long years in the penitentiary."
Lewis Henry Rowley 1866-1908 is buried in Norton # 49992732.
He was the son of Reuben dying March 17, 1918, buried in NOrton and Eliaa dying 1915.
August 3, 1908 
August 14, 1908 
October 9, 1908 
Ralph claimed a quarter in section 13, 7S 50W in 1910.
In the 1910 Kit Carson County census, Ralph is 33,
married 11 years to Rebecca 27, with John W. 9 and Velma 7, all four born in Kansas.
When Ralph Samuel Madden registered for WWI in Norton, born August 8, 1876, farming, his nearest relative was Velma Vera Madden of Logan, Phillips County, Kansas.
He's divorced in 1920 Norton, working on a threshing machine.
Ralph is single in 1930 Norton, working for the water works.
In 1940 Norton, on North Wabash Street, Ralph is 63, overseeing the city disposal plant. Nellie is 57, born in Nebraska - they were in the same house in 1935.
Ralph Madden 1878-1942 is buried in Norton # 49759666, with Nellie 1883 -.. (Nellie is living alone in 1942 and 1943 Norton.)
In 1920, Rebecca Trimble is 36, married to W.M. Trimble 33, both born in Kansas.
In 1940 Norton County, William Keller is 71 born in Iowa, Rebecca 57.
They're living with her brother J.C. Brown 72, born in Missouri, widowed, no occupations for any.
Rebecca L. Keller 1883-1957 is buried in Norton County, Kansas # 53503613, with William F. Keller 1868-1953.
JOHN
In 1920 John is 18, in Norton County, Kansas, nephew of George L. Brown 44.
John is buried in Fossil, Oregon 1901-1985 # 29462264, with Helen D. 1904-1983.
VELMA
Vera V. Madden and Barton W. Stone had Ralph Lee Stone on January 31, 1921 in Brewster, Kansas - Ralph died 1991.
Ralph is buried in Riverside National 1922-1991 # 3851931.
Velma was in Hall County Nebraska in 1930, married but no spouse. She's 27, with Betty 5, and Ralph 8.
April 29, 1932 Lincoln Nebraska " Mrs. Charles Huehn,
Fatally Burned at Grand Island.
Mrs. Charles E. Huehn, thirty-five,
died at a hospital here early Friday from burns received in a explosion of a gal.
brooder .... farm home northwest of the city... received the full blast
... Mrs. Huehn of the I most unharmed.
Her condition since had been regarded as critical."
Edna E. Huehn 1896-1932 is buried in Grand Island # 104804350.
In 1940 Hall County Velma V. is 37,
now married to Charles E. Huehn, 61, born in Canada. Betty Lou Stone 15 is with them.
Charles Huehn 1879-1968 is buried in Harvard, Nebraska # 87773288.
So is Vera 1899-1967 # 87773272.
Betty L. Hannah 1924-2006 is buried in Brewster, Blaine County, Nebraska # 143303364, with William C. Hannah 1986-2005.
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