Virginia B. Romine and George Washington Stambaugh

GEORGE WASHINGTON STAMBAUGH, son of CATHERINE ZIMMERMAN and JOSEPH H. STAMBAUGH, was born July 4, 1855 in Berrien, Michigan, and died February 12, 1887 in Amherst County, Colorado. He is buried in Ashland Cemetery, Saunders County, Nebraska.⁴⁵⁶

He married VIRGINIA B. ROMINE on September 11, 1882 in Lincoln, Lancaster, Nebraska.²²⁸⁴ She was born February 8, 1867 in Virginia,⁷⁸³⁹ and died July 19, 1961 in Denver, Denver, Colorado.⁷⁸³⁹ She married (2) Joseph F. Zajicek December 27, 1893 in Lincoln, Lancaster, Nebraska.⁶⁴⁸³

• Descendant Reports
  • Jacob Meyer Descendant Report (Ancestor of George W. Stambaugh)
  • John Heilman Descendant Report (Ancestor of George W. Stambaugh)
  • Felix Stambach Descendant Report (Ancestor of George W. Stambaugh)
  • Georg Michael Romich Descendant Report (Ancestor of George W. Stambaugh)
  • John Zimmerman Descendant Report (Ancestor of George W. Stambaugh)

Children of VIRGINIA B. ROMINE and GEORGE WASHINGTON STAMBAUGH:

1. LAUREL LUREE STAMBAUGH, b. June 7, 1884, Clear Creek, Saunders, Nebraska;⁵⁶ m. MARVIN CLARENCE NELSON on October 11, 1904 in West Point, Cuming, Nebraska^{7831, 7657}; d. August 11, 1978.^{56, 456}

Work History

Marriage Announcements and News

Nebraska State Journal, December 31, 1893⁶⁴⁸³

Zajicek-Stambaugh

Mrs. Virginia B. Stambaugh of this city and Mr. Joseph F. Zajicek of West Point were married at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. E. T. Roberts, 1415 N street, Wednesday evening by Rev. John Hewitt.

Promptly as the clock was striking the hour of eight, Professor Frank commenced playing Mendelssohns wedding march and Mr. Zajicek and Mrs. Stambaugh entered the parlors. The service was short and the couple were soon receiving the congratulations of their friends. The bride wore a beautiful lemon colored silk crepe trimmed in lace and pearl.

The bride was a teacher in the Lincoln college of music and has made many friends during her stay in the city.

Mr. Zajicek is county treasurer of Cuming county, and that he is popular both as an official and as a gentleman was evidenced by the many congratulations he received from there by telephone and telegraph, immediately following the ceremony and also by the number of officials who attended the wedding.

The presents received were many. The bride was the recipient of a splendid driving horse on the day following the wedding.

The guests were: Misses Josie and Antoinnete Zajicek and Messrs. William Emley, P. M. Woodie and G. A. Heller of West Point, G. E. McDonald of Geneva, Boydston of Nebraska City, Miss Maggie Barnes of York; Messrs. and Mesdames A. D. Beemer, Eugene Moore, Lawrence Bruner, Henry Zehrung, McConigs, Keeley, Hayes, M. D. Tiffeny, Beardsley, T. E. Palmer, L. C. Humphrey, Dorgan, Fred Herman; Misses Fan Hawley, Vida Shepard, Laurel Stambaugh, Bessie Lane and Kate Walker; Messrs. Hayes, Lane, Woods, Hildreth, Harvey, Shepher, Hathaway, Johnson, Streight, Cunningham,, Smith, Frank Graham, Hewitt, Edward Mockett, Grant Neligh and V. Tauchen.

Newspaper Articles

Omaha Daily Bee, April 17, 1893²³⁴⁰

ASHLAND, Neb., April 16.—[Special to The Bee.]—Mrs. V. B. Stambaugh, formerly of Ashland, has accepted the position of principal of the piano department, also of theory, harmony and history in the Lincoln college of music.

Obituaries

Omaha Daily Bee, February 28, 1887²³³⁹

George Stambaugh, a former resident of Ashland, was frozen to death near Julesburg, Colo., during the late storm. He leaves a wife and one child.

Greeley Tribune, March 9, 1887⁹⁹⁸⁴

Victims of Fate

Oswald Herzig, George F. Stambaugh and Frank Haws left Julesburg about 9 p. m., on the evening preceding the storm, to go to their homes some 35 miles south of Julesburg. They had a team and wagon, and carried with them lumber and coal. When they reached Mr. Kortz's ranch they were invited to stay all night, but declined the invitation and pushed their way homeward. Shortly after the storm overtook them they reached another ranch and were prevailed upon to remain. They refused, but borrowed a lantern, and continued their homeward journey. The storm soon became furious, so much so that they abandoned the team and proceeded on foot in the hope of reaching some house or some place for shelter. After being out all night, and until 10 o'clock the next day, Stambaugh, being overcome by exhaustion, and weak with hunger, succumbed to the inevitable, and lying down expired in a few moments. Herzig and Haws continued their journey, hopeless in the extreme, as they had lost their bearing, and traveling in a circle made no headway, and reaching no point for shelter, Haws began to rapidly lose his strength, and the faithful and courageous Herzig, sooner than desert him carried him upon his back for several hours; and at last becoming weary and worn out laid him down to rest, and lying by his side for about an hour, proceeded again to carry him, but life had parted the mortal remains of Haws, and Herzig proceeded to grope around with the hope of reaching some cabin. After being out forty-eight hours he reached a place of shelter not eighty rods from the spot where Haws had passed away. Herzig was greatly exhausted, although be very little frozen. When the storm ceased their wagon and horses were seen by some ranchers not eighty rods away. Had the men remained with their wagon until the storm abated, they would all have been saved, as the thermometer during the entire period did not register zero. They did not die from cold, but from great exhaustion, as was evidenced when their bodies were found. Why men should refuse shelter during such a storm, is more than any one can account for; and after they had lost their bearing they should thus exhaust themselves in travel is a mystery. Nothing but Herzig's strength and perfect health carried him through, he being a well built and very muscular man. When the storm cleared away it was ascertained that they were several times within 300 yards of Stambaugh's house.

Ashland Gazette, July 27, 1961⁷⁸³⁹

Mrs. Stambaugh-Zajicek Dies in Denver at 94

Mrs. Virginia Zajicek, 94, died July 19 at the home of a daughter, Mrs. Venice V. Mogan, in Denver.

Burial was in Denver.

Virginia Romine was born in Virginia Feb. 8, 1867, and came to Nebraska as a child. The family settled near Ashland and also near Seward. She married George Stambaugh and they took up a claim near Julesburg, Colo. He perished in the Blizzard of 1888. Their daughter, Mrs. M. C. (Laurel) Nelson, lives at La Porte, Colo.

After proving up on her claim, Mrs. Stambaugh went to Doane College at Crete, and to the Lincoln Conservatory of Music, where she taught. She met County Treasurer J. F. Zajicek of West Point, married him, and moved to West Point. In 1927 they moved to Denver, and Mr. Zajicek died in 1935.

Survivors from this marriage include Mrs. Venice V. Mogan of Denver, Mrs. Veda Kemper of Los Angeles, Mrs. Lenore Daily of Evanston, Ill., and Carl Ziler of Mesa, Ariz.; one brother, six grandchildren, and 10 great-grandchildren.

Census Records

Date	Location	Enumerated Names
August 27, 18601850	Calhoun County, Nebraska	Joseph H. Stambaugh Catherine Zimmerman Mary Jo/Jane Stambaugh George Washington Stambaugh John Adams Stambaugh
August 3, 18701513	Ashland, Saunders, Nebraska	Joseph H. Stambaugh Catherine Zimmerman Mary Jo/Jane Stambaugh George Washington Stambaugh John Adams Stambaugh Ella Romine Stambaugh Emma Lincoln Stambaugh Lorenzo Grant Stambaugh Melissa Josephine Stambaugh
June 3, 1880292	Clear Creek, Saunders, Nebraska	George Washington Stambaugh John Adams Stambaugh
June 13, 18851835	Clear Creek, Saunders, Nebraska	George Washington Stambaugh Virginia B. Romine Laurel Luree Stambaugh