Census: 1880 North Loup, Valley Co., Nebraska

Nathaniel George Clement 1839-1923
Categories: North Loup, Nebraska, The Sabbath Recorder Obituary, Veteran Civil War
"The Sabbath Recorder", Vol 94, No 16, p 511, Apr. 16, 1923.
Nathaniel George Clement was born December 26, 1839, at Sidney, Shelby County, Ohio, and died at his home in Mira Valley, Valley County, Neb., February 21, 1923, on the place where he exercised his soldier filing right and later homesteaded.
Mr. Clement served with the Union army from August, 1861, to May, 1866. He enlisted with Company A, Third Battalion of the Thirteenth U. S. Infantry. On May 9, 1863, he was made a captain of the U. S. colored infantry and was mustered out May 6, 1866, at Vicksburg, Miss. He was a carpenter by trade and since coming to Valley County has been the employ of the government in the construction of forts and other government buildings. He helped build Fort Hartsuff, was employed at Fort Robinson and had direct supervision of the building of Fort Niobrara in Nebraska, and Fort Douglas in Utah. He came to be known as "the Government Man."
As a lad he was baptized into the Methodist Episcopal Church.
Mr. Clement was married to Sarah E. Platts, of Milton, Wis., in May, 1865, and she resided with her husband five or six months prior to his discharge from the army, after which discharge they moved to Clinton County, Iowa, where Mrs. Clement died in October, 1871. Two children., Carl C. and Paul P., were born to this union. In September, 1873, he married Mary E. Hurley, a native of Shelby County, Ohio, and a sister of Eld. J. H. Hurley, a former pastor of the North Loup Seventh Day Baptist Church. Mr. and Mrs. Clement moved to Valley County in 1874, and to them were born four children, Guy, Clara, Ava and Hugh.
The type of man that he was, is shown in that as an early day commissioner he resigned when the other two members of the board decided to lower the license fee for the selling of whiskey in the county. He shared in the hardships of pioneer life, lived in a dugout, and moved from Grand Island on wagon the first frame dwelling in Mira Valley. This little building is still standing.
He is survived by his companion, five of his children, Carl C., Paul P., Mrs. Clara Clement Holmes, Mrs. Ava Johnson and Hugh, Guy having died seven years ago the fourth of next June. He is also survived by one sister, Mrs. Jane Davis, of Riverside, Cal., five half brothers and five half sisters, twenty-two grandchildren, four great grandchildren and a host of relatives and friends.
Funeral services were conducted at the home by Pastor H. L. Polan on the afternoon of February 23 and burial was made in the North Loup cemetery. Six young men of the World War in uniform acted as pall bearers and one sounded taps at the grave. H. L. P.

"The Sabbath Recorder", Vol 27, No 48, p 191, Nov. 23, 1871.
In Welton, Clinton Co., Iowa, Oct. 14th, 1871, of typhoid fever, Sarah E. Clemments, wife of Geo. N. Clemments, in the 30th year of her age. Sister Clemments embraced Christ in his gospel, at the age of fourteen tears, in Milton, Wis., whence she removed to Welton, and united with the Seventh-day Baptist Church, and by an honest and earnest life of godliness won to herself the love and respect of all who knew her. She was a member of more than ordinary worth to the church and cause. She will be especially missed by the choir, and a devoted husband, whose fireside has been painfully desolated by this stroke of divine providence. Two promising little boys will suffer the loss of an affectionate mother's care, and the Sabbath School a warm and active friend and teacher; her hand, in short, was in all good works, prompted by a warm and generous heart. We feel the fullest assurance that she "sleeps in Jesus," awaiting the trumpet's sound that shall awake the slumbering as!
hes of the sainted dead, to perfect them forever in glory. V. H.

Census: 1880 North Loup, Valley Co., Nebraska

Mary Elizabeth (Hurley) Clement 1852-1941
"The Sabbath Recorder", Vol 130, No 12, p 204, Mar. 24, 1941.
Mrs. Mary Clement was born November 23, 1852, in the state of Ohio, and died at her home in North Loup, Neb., February 8, 1941.
She was the daughter of Leven and Sarah Hurley. In early life she came with her parents to Welton, Iowa, where she grew to young womanhood. On September 6, 1873, she was united in marriage to Nathaniel George Clement, and in the following spring came with him to Valley County, Neb., where she has since lived. To this union were born four children: Guy, deceased in his prime; Ava and Hugh of North Loup, and Clara of Milton, Wis.
She loved her church of which she was a life-long member and gave freely toward its support of both money and time. Those who knew her, and her friends and acquaintances were numbered by the hundreds, always spoke reverently and lovingly of her wonderful life and character.
After the death of her husband she moved from the farm on Mira Valley to the village where she has since lived.
Farewell services were held at her home and she was laid to rest in the local cemetery.