Goettsche-Tramm Burial Site
Merrick County, Nebraska, USA
Located in Merrick county, NE, Vieregg Township, Northeast quarter of Section 4. Site of the Claus Gottsch (Goettsche) Homestead. There are only two burials on the site.
In January, 1868, John Vieregg, with a neighbor, Claus Gottsch, and accompanied by the latter's son and a hired boy, were camped upon the Loup for a hunting excursion. Toward evening of the first day Messrs. Vieregg and Gottsch started out for a hunt, leaving the two boys at the camp to take care of the team. When they returned they found the two boys murdered, and the horses gone. As there was no signs of resistance, it has always been presumed that they were killed while asleep by some wandering Indian or Indians. Nothing definite concerning their death has ever come to light, and it will doubtless always remain one of the deep mysteries of our county history. Source: A History of Merrick County, Nebraska: From "the Beginning" to 1895
by C.E. Persinger
Located in Merrick county, NE, Vieregg Township, Northeast quarter of Section 4. Site of the Claus Gottsch (Goettsche) Homestead. There are only two burials on the site.
In January, 1868, John Vieregg, with a neighbor, Claus Gottsch, and accompanied by the latter's son and a hired boy, were camped upon the Loup for a hunting excursion. Toward evening of the first day Messrs. Vieregg and Gottsch started out for a hunt, leaving the two boys at the camp to take care of the team. When they returned they found the two boys murdered, and the horses gone. As there was no signs of resistance, it has always been presumed that they were killed while asleep by some wandering Indian or Indians. Nothing definite concerning their death has ever come to light, and it will doubtless always remain one of the deep mysteries of our county history. Source: A History of Merrick County, Nebraska: From "the Beginning" to 1895
by C.E. Persinger
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