The Story of a Pioneer Woman, Caroline Dimon

  • It’s the Story Don’t you just love a good story? Better yet, one set in Pawnee County. Sharla Sitzman of Table Rock collects stories from yesteryear and yesterday.
    It’s the Story Don’t you just love a good story? Better yet, one set in Pawnee County. Sharla Sitzman of Table Rock collects stories from yesteryear and yesterday.
  • Above: Caroline Dimon in 1902, at age 76, holding lilies. One can only wonder how beautiful she was as a young woman, as even at age 76 she was lovely.
    Above: Caroline Dimon in 1902, at age 76, holding lilies. One can only wonder how beautiful she was as a young woman, as even at age 76 she was lovely.
This is Caroline Dimon 45 years after she arrived in Table Rock. She and her husband Charles were one of at least 150 families funneled here in 1856 and 1857 by the Nebraska Settlement Company.Caroline was a Pennsylvanian, the oldest of 11 children. When she was 26, she married New-Jersey born Charles Dimon. That was the year 1852. Five years later, in 1857, she and Charles took off on the…

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