Kate Dunning News Today

Irish woman Jean Farrell shares the emigration tales of one Roscommon family, the Dunnings.

“Lost in the Sandhills” tour remembering two little girls lost in the Sandhills  May 10 th, 1891 will take place Sunday,  May 16 th beginning Thedford and ending in Dunning. Tillie and Retta Haumann were picking wildflowers on a Sunday afternoon when they became lost and drifted east though Thomas County and into Blaine County of central Nebraska.  Communities came together to search for the girls.  Retta age 4 was found alive the following Wednesday but sadly Tillie age 8 wasn’t fou...