Sterling "Price" Alderman

1862 - 1930  (67 years)

• Name	Sterling "Price" Alderman
  Birth	16 Feb 1862	Collin Co., TX
  Gender	Male
  Death	1930	Bassett, Rock Co., NE; burial: Bassett Memorial Cem., Rock Co., NE
  Person ID	I5365	forneyclark
  Last Modified	12 Apr 2024

  
  

  Father	James Madison "Matt" Alderman,   b. 11 Nov 1829, Arlington, VA d. 11 Mar 1898, NE; burial: Newport Cem., Rock Co., NE (Age 68 years)
  Mother	Sarah Jane Kinder,   b. 6 Mar 1839, Indianapolis, Marion Co., IN d. 11 Jul 1915, Long Pine, Brown Co., NE; burial: Newport Cem., Rock Co., NE (Age 76 years)
  Marriage	20 Sep 1855	Brownsville, NE
  Family ID	F1703	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Edith Morrison,   b. 1869, NE d. 1956, Burial: Bassett Memorial Cem., Rock Co., NE (Age 87 years)
  Marriage	15 May 1887	Fort Madison, IA
  Children	1. Gertrude Alderman,   b. ABT. 1888   2. Charles F. Alderman,   b. 11 Sep 1889, NE d. 1 Jun 1911, Burial: Bassett Memorial Cem., Rock Co., NE (Age 21 years)   3. Ruth Alderman,   b. 24 Mar 1891, NE d. Oct 1982, Omaha, Douglas Co., NE (Age 91 years)   4. Ralph Sterling Alderman,   b. 11 Apr 1893   d. 1962, Burial: Bassett Memorial Cem., Rock Co., NE (Age 68 years)   5. Ester Alderman   6. Thelma Alderman
  Family ID	F2085	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	12 Apr 2024

  
  

• Photos » Slide Show		Alderman, James Madison "JM", Sr. (1870-1958) & Sterling Price Alderman (1862-1930) & William Henry "Billy" Alderman (1856-1941) & Oscar Alderman (b. 1879) & Hiram Franklin Alderman (b. 1866) & Richard Campbell "Dick" Alderman (1872-1960) Group photo was taken about 1888. Included (L-R, standing) are James Madison "JM" Alderman, Sr., & Sterling Price Alderman & William Henry "Billy" Alderman & Oscar Alderman. Included (L-R, sitting) are Hiram Franklin “Frank” Alderman & Richard Campbell “Dick” Alderman. This picture came from the Alderman/ Galleher/ Barr Collection by James Madison “Jim” Alderman, III.
  		Alderman, Sterling Price (1862-1930) & Edith Morrison 2-Persons photo of (L-R) Sterling Price Alderman & Edith Morrison Alderman was taken about 1910 and came from the Alderman/ Galleher/ Barr Collection by James Madison “Jim” Alderman, III. Original photo appeared in the Rock County, Nebraska, Centennial, 1888-1988; published by Centennial Book Committee - 1987; copyright 1987 by Rock County Centennial Book Committee and Rock County Historical Society; p. 129. The following information is from Mary L. Jones: Printing of the Rock County, Nebraska, Centennial, 1888-1988 was done by Bill and Mariel Fegley, publishers of the Rock County Leader, Inc. newspaper in Bassett, Rock Co., NE, and the Walsworth Publishing Co., Inc., Marceline, MO.
  		Alderman, Ester & Thelma Alderman & Edith Morrison (1869-1956) & Sterling Price Alderman (1862-1930) & Gertrude Alderman & Ruth Alderman (1891-1982) & Ralph Sterling Alderman (1893-1962) Group photo was taken in Nebraska, about 1910, and came from the Alderman/ Galleher/ Barr Collection by James Madison “Jim” Alderman, III. Included (L-R, front row) are Ester Alderman & Thelma Alderman & Edith Morrison Alderman. Included (L-R, back row) are Sterling Price Alderman & Gertrude Alderman & Ruth Alderman & Ralph Sterling Alderman. Original photo appeared in the Rock County, Nebraska, Centennial, 1888-1988; published by Centennial Book Committee - 1987; copyright 1987 by Rock County Centennial Book Committee and Rock County Historical Society; p. 130. The following information is from Mary L. Jones: Printing of the Rock County, Nebraska, Centennial, 1888-1988 was done by Bill and Mariel Fegley, publishers of the Rock County Leader, Inc. newspaper in Bassett, Rock Co., NE, and the Walsworth Publishing Co., Inc., Marceline, MO.

  
  

• Notes

  ******** Source: James Madison "Jim" Alderman, III: Mary L. Jones: Name, dates, & places and the following information which came from Rock County, Nebraska, Centennial, 1888-1988; published by Centennial Book Committee - 1987; copyright 1987 by Rock County Centennial Book Committee and Rock County Historical Society; pp. 129-130. The following information is from Mary L. Jones who also sent referenced pages from Rock County, Nebraska, Centennial, 1888-1988: Printing of the Rock County, Nebraska, Centennial, 1888-1988 was done by Bill and Mariel Fegley, publishers of the Rock County Leader, Inc. newspaper in Bassett, Rock Co., NE, and the Walsworth Publishing Co., Inc., Marceline, MO. Sterling Price Alderman Sterling Price Alderman was a native of Collins county, Texas, where he was born in 1862. He was the third child of a family of seven, born to James Madison Alderman and Sarah Jane Kinder. His father was a rancher and farmer, originally from Virginia, from where he moved to Ohio and there to Missouri before settling in Brownsville, Nebraska in 1854. After living here for a time he moved to Texas, later to Kansas City, Missouri, and then returned to Brownsville, a small town in Nemaha County, Nebraska. Sterling Price was reared and educated in Brownsville. At the age of 18, he started out for himself and for 14 years was engaged in railroad work on the Burlington, Missouri railroad and the Northwestern (later called Chicago, Northwestern which ran from Sioux city, Iowa through the northern part of Nebraska) being employed as an operator and station agent. Beginning in 1880 he was stationed at Holdrege, Dorchester, Plattsmouth, LaPlatte, Oreopolis Junction for short periods and during 1887-89 he was on duty at Johnson, Nemaha County, Nebraska followed by short assignments at Saxonville, Ashton, Hat Creek, St. Paul and Palmer. He was a bill clerk for Wells Fargo Express Company at the Burlington and Missouri depot at Omaha. Retuning to railroad work he served a short time at Scribner and between the years of 1890-94 he was station agent at Newport, Nebraska. The exportation of wild hay came as a result of a telegram from the east to Mr. Alderman at Newport, inquiring as to the possibility of buying wild hay. Price went to see Thomas McCune about cutting his wild hay. Native hay grown in the sandhills was of excellent quality, mostly of blue stem variety. The principal hay producing area was located in Rock and Holt counties. Very little hay was cut west of Bassett. In the later years, Price quit the railroad and established a general merchandise business, “S. Alderman Company” which he operated for two years. Then disposing of this business, he went into the hay business. He remained there until 1899 when he moved to Bassett and opened up the same kind of business, continuing this until 1900. He then went into the hardware and supply business in partnership with E. L. Myers in the Bassett Hardware and Supply company. They had a large trade from the start and had developed an extensive enterprise at the time he disposed of it in 1907. In that year, Mr. Alderman built a large hay shed and engaged exclusively in that line of work, some years shipping as high as a thousand cars of hay. In 1907, the “Nebraska Gazeteer” stated that Newport had the unique distinction of being the largest wild hay shipping point in Nebraska and one of the largest in the world. Mr. Alderman took an active part in county politics and was a Democrat. He served on the town board, was an Odd Fellow, Modern Workman and formerly a member of Pythian Lodge. Sterling Price married Edith Morrison, a daughter of William F. and Elizabeth Jones Morrison at Ft. Madison, Iowa, May 15, 1887. Her parents were old settlers at Plattsmouth, Nebraska, coming there in 1865 before any railroads reached that point. Mr. Morrison was schoolteacher and later engaged in the meat business at Plattsmouth. Mr. And Mrs. Alderman had six children: Gertrude, Charles, Ruth, Ralph, Esther and Thelma. The couple retired to Long Pine and Ruth lived and ran the boarding house and café for railroad men. Sterling Price loved to fish Pine creek and kept the restaurant supplied with 24-25 inch trout. Sterling Price and Edith are both buried in the Bassett cemetery. (Rock County Centennial; 1888-1988; pages 129, 130.) ******** Source: SEE JAMES KITCHEN'S SITE FOR COMPREHENSIVE INFORMATION AND REFERENCES: http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=:3211301&id=I632153021 Kitchen and Briggs: James Kitchen: ID: I632153021 Name: Sterling Price ALDERMAN Given Name: Sterling Price Surname: Alderman Sex: M Birth: 26 Feb 1862 in Collins county, Texas 1 Death: 1930 2 Burial: Bassett Memorial Cemetery 2 Change Date: 29 May 2005 Note: Another reference has his birthday as 16 Feb, 1862 @S197@ Father: James ALDERMAN b: 11 Nov 1829 in Arlington, Virginia Mother: Sarah Jane KINDER b: Mar 1839 in Indiana Marriage 1 Edith MORRISON b: Apr 1869 in Nebraska Married: 15 May 1887 in Fort Madison, IA 1 3 Children Gertrude ALDERMAN Charles F ALDERMAN b: 11 Sep 1889 in Nebraska Ruth E ALDERMAN b: 24 Mar 1891 in Nebraska Ralph Sterling ALDERMAN b: 11 Apr 1893 Esther ALDERMAN Thelma ALDERMAN James Kitchen's sources: Author: Alden Publishing Company, 1909 Title: Compendium of History Reminiscence and Biography of Western Nebraska Author: Bev Hopkins Title: Rock County, Nebraska - Bassett Memorial Cemetery Author: Rick Jones and Brenda Goad Jones Title: Descendants of JACOB ALDERMAN ********