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Janet Ruth Judson was born on 25 July 1940.¹ She and Gene Audra Wintermote were married on 22 January 1965. She died on 14 February 2008, at age 67.¹

Conrad (Hoerle) Harley was born on 3 March 1869 in Canada.^1,2,3,4 He and Chlonella (Chloe) Wintermote were married on 13 April 1899. He died on 19 December 1931, at age 62.⁴ He was buried in Chambers Cemetery, Chambers, Holt, Nebraska.^5,4

Conrad (Hoerle) Harley was a Farmer.⁶ Conrad Harley had attended a small country church in Canada, completing the 3rd grade there. Conrad came by train with his parents from Canada to O'Neill, Nebraska in Holt County in 1887. He spent the greater part of his life around Chambers, except for four years that he lived in Clearwater.

He left home as there was not enough work for all of the family and worked at various jobs around Chambers, Nebraska. At one time he worked for Martin Wintermote, who ran the hotel at Shamrock, delivering mail from O'Neill to Shamrock and on to Chambers.

It was after he left home that the change in the spelling of the family name was made. People began calling him "Harley" instead of "Hoerle" which is the German form of the name. So Conrad Hoerle became Conrad Harley, and his descendents continue to spell the name in the English fashion.

Following an illness of several months duration, Conrad passed away at his home southeast of Chambers, shortly after midnight Saturday, December 19, 1931. All of his children had the mumps when Conrad died and they still went to his funeral.

He was a man of good principles, thrifty and persevering having made a financial success in spite of the obstacles he met through life; and was always ready to help those in need, as his neighbors testify. A man of strong Christian faith, having followed in the Lutheran doctrine from childhood up.

Short funeral services were held at the home Monday afternoon followed by those at the Conley Church. The pastor, Rev. R. W. Fricke, used for the text: 2 Tim. 4:7,8 "I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith; Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing." Taking as his theme, "Preparedness for death."

Members and friends of the congregation made up the choir. The body was laid to rest in the Chambers cemetery.

Sara Elizabeth Wintermute was born on 25 October 1821. She and John W. Kennard were married on 30 January 1841 in Darke County, Ohio. She died on 28 May 1855, at age 33, in Darke County, Ohio.

Alice Mary Wintermote was born on 27 February 1860 in Ash Grove, Wapello, Iowa.¹ She and William (John Wesley) Shields were married on 2 March 1884 in Wapello County, Iowa.² She died on 18 August 1918, at age 58, in Wichita, Sedgwick, Kansas.¹ She was buried in El Paso Cemetery (Addition 0, Block 4, Lot 3, Space 4), Derby, Sedgwick, Kansas.¹

1900 Iowa Census shows William and Alice Wintermote Shields had 6 children, 4 living.

Elizabeth Ann (Libbie) Wintermote was born on 11 January 1870 in Ash Grove, Davis, Iowa. She and Everett Marshall Brooks were married on 7 August 1898 in Ash Grove, Davis, Iowa.¹ She died on 12 December 1936, at age 66, in Ottumwa, Wapello, Iowa. She was buried in Memorial Lawn Cemetery, Ottumwa, Wapello, Iowa.¹

Elizabeth Ann Wintermote was born January 11, 1870 in Ash Grove, Iowa to John Joseph and Martha Ann Dunn Wintermote.

She married Everett Marshall Brooks on August 7, 1898. He was a student at the Kansas City, Kansas University and lived in the Chelsea District. He was a principal of the Chelsea Grade School until 1904.

Elizabeth Ann died December 12, 1936 following two gallstone operations in the Ottumwa, Iowa hospital and is buried in the Memorial Lawn Cemetery, Ottumwa, Iowa.