Early Days on The Cedar Creek

Originally hand written by Grandmother M. May Stover (1887-1972), then typed and copied by her son, Allen Stover, Early Days tells of May’s memories of her grandmother, Ellen Elizabeth Wamsley, a Nebraska pioneer woman in the post-Civil War era. Now annotated and broadened by grandson Kim Alan Stover, Early Days includes background materials on May's great-grandmother, Sarah Malah, as she traveled, without her husband, Charles Wamsley, from England to settle in Wisconsin and await his arrival. In time, Ellen marries Reuel Ewer who, in time, joins the Northern Army, dying from an infected wound. Land provided to spouses and children of such soldiers and the rural community of Cedar Creek becomes the setting for May's Early Days on The Cedar Creek.