Lydia Megli

1868 - 1897  (29 years)

• Name	Lydia Megli
  Born	1868	Wellesley Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [1, 2]
  Gender	Female
  Residence	1880	Gibson, Jefferson, Nebraska   [1]
  Eby ID Number	Waterloo-134354
  Died	3 Sep 1897	Bladen, Webster, Nebraska, USA   [2]
  Buried	Megli-Yost Cemetery, Jefferson Co., Nebraska, USA   [2]
  Person ID	I134354	Generations
  Last Modified	3 Mar 2025

  
  

  Father	Joseph Megli,   b. 19 Mar 1818, , Alsace Lorraine, France ,   d. 29 Jun 1891  (Age 73 years)
  Mother	Elizabeth Luckhardt,   b. 18 Dec 1830, , Hessen, Germany ,   d. 19 May 1911, , Jefferson Co., Nebraska  (Age 80 years)
  Family ID	F20321	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Photos

  Lydia source Megli Memorial

  
  

• Notes

  Yost, at her home in Bleder, Nebraska September 3 1897. Mrs Lydia Megli Yost aged 29 years 5 months and 23 days, Mrs Yost was born in Waterloo County Canada and when about nine old her father Joseph Megli (deceased) moved to Jefferson County, Nebraska where she grew into womanhood. On May 25 1893, she was united in marriage to John E. Yost and they moved to BLlaaddeenn Nebraska. Here she was taken sick in the early part of August with typhoid fever. During all the time of her intense suffering she, was patient, cheerful, and hopeful. She leaves a loving husband, two small children, and host of sorrowing relatives and friends to mourn her loss. The funeral was conducted by Rev. David Heibert. The pallbearers were Henry and Charles Nispel, John Koenig, and Edward Mader. Farewell, Farewell, tis hard to say but it must, it must be said, It is hard to lay our dearest and dying And number them with the dead. Plymouth Newspaper, Blader, Nebraska

  
  

• Sources

  [S268] Census - Nebraska - 1880, Gibson, Jefferson, Nebraska Film 1254750 Page 580C. [S3231] Find A Grave, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/60064269.

  
  

• Event Map

  Born - 1868 - Wellesley Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Residence - 1880 - Gibson, Jefferson, Nebraska Died - 3 Sep 1897 - Bladen, Webster, Nebraska, USA Buried - - Megli-Yost Cemetery, Jefferson Co., Nebraska, USA  = Link to Google Earth