Butte, Boyd County NE; Eastern Star Bernice Chapter #120 recieved it's charter on June 23, 1898. Charter members & past Matrons & Patrons that are related to my lines are: Hiram Henry Atwood & his wife Sarah Elizabeth Mills Atwood; Mary Aurilla Cosper Bennett (John P. Cosper's daughter, sister of Elizabeth J. Cosper Walling [Wife of Joseph Eden Walling) her husband Levi Bennett & their daughter Alta Mae Bennett (who married Arlie Umphrese Dix brother of Carrie Kansas Dix who Married Hiram Henry Atwood's eldest son Hiram Leroy "Roy" Atwood & had 14 children) were charter members of this chapter. |