Broken Bow in Custer County, Nebraska — The American Midwest (Upper Plains)

Custer County War Memorial

Photographed by Cosmos Mariner, August 6, 2021

1. Custer County War Memorial

Inscription. This tablet is dedicated in grateful remembrance of those loyal citizens of Custer County who served their country in
1861 The Civil War 1865
1898 Spanish American War 1898
Company M, First Nebraska Volunteers
☆ Harry Doxsee ☆ Guy Livingston ☆ Nat Sims
1914 The World War 1918

In honor of the six hundred fifty men and women who served in the Last Great War and in memory of these
☆ Who Made the Supreme Sacrifice
Corp. Ralph Bennington Corp. Joseph E. Palmer Corp. L. H. RobertsonOra Amsberry • Arthur Bergman • Joe Bernert • Garnet Bray • Glenn Buckner • James N. Burdick • Henry Cain • Loyd Clow • Paul Coffman • Frank Cooksley • Gus Corlew • Charles Cushman • Roger Fountain • Vanner Gustus • Roy Imboden • Alvin Knudson • Henry Koch • William Layton • Ralph G. Leui • Thoms McEvoy • Orlo McRae • Sam Miller • John Newman • Oscar Olson • Leroy Patchin • Clarence Province • Roscoe Rhodes • Roy Rinker • Gustav Roerick • Raymond Ross • John Rudge • William Rush • Fred Sadler • Gage Sauter • Clyde Seiver • Albert Shoemaker • Harvey Sloggett • Floyd Smith • Forest R. Smith • Francis Smith • Edward Solt • Lee Springstube • Vilas Stewart • Charles Streeton • Arthur Stuckey • Oscar Tallin • Clyde O. Thomas • Orval Thomas • Sylvester Thomas • Claris Tucker • Chester Webb • Roger C. West • Homer Yates—————Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as the final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live.

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It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. But in a larger sense we can not dedicate, we can not consecrate, we can not hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.

It is for us, the living, rather to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion; that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain; that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, and for the people shall not perish from the earth.

“Lest We Forget”
This tablet is placed by the Brenizer Family — 1926

Erected 1926 by The Brenizer Family.

Topics and series. This memorial is listed in these topic lists: Patriots & Patriotism

Photographed by Cosmos Mariner, August 6, 2021

2. Custer County War Memorial

The memorial is mounted on the left side of the Custer County Courthouse east entrance.

• War, Spanish-American • War, US Civil • War, World I. In addition, it is included in the Former U.S. Presidents: #16 Abraham Lincoln series list.

Location. 41° 24.134′ N, 99° 38.532′ W. Memorial is in Broken Bow, Nebraska, in Custer County. It is on South 10th Avenue just north of South E Street (State Highway 2/92), on the left when traveling north. The memorial is mounted on the left side of the Custer County Courthouse east entrance. Touch for map. Memorial is at or near this postal address: 431 South 10th Avenue, Broken Bow NE 68822, United States of America. Touch for directions.

Regionally, this memorial is in the American Midwest,

in the Corn Belt,

and on the prairies.

Globally, it is in North America,

the Western Hemisphere,

the Western World,

and the Anglosphere.

Historically, it finds itself in what was once the Louisiana Purchase.

Other nearby markers. At least 6 other markers are within 9 miles of this marker, measured as the crow flies: Site of First Custer County Courthouse (within shouting distance of this marker); Broken Bow (within shouting distance

Photographed by Cosmos Mariner, August 6, 2021

3. Custer County War Memorial

The memorial is mounted on the left side of the Custer County Courthouse east entrance.

of this marker); The Arrow Hotel (about 500 feet away, measured in a direct line); Broken Bow Town Square (about 700 feet away); The Nebraska State Grange (approx. 4½ miles away); Brenizer Public Library (approx. 8.4 miles away).

Custer County Courthouse (<i>east/front entrance</i>) image. Click for full size.

Photographed by Cosmos Mariner, August 6, 2021

4. Custer County Courthouse (east/front entrance)

The memorial is inside the portico, on the left side of the entrance.

Custer County Courthouse (<i>east/front elevation</i>) image. Click for full size.

Photographed by Cosmos Mariner, August 6, 2021

5. Custer County Courthouse (east/front elevation)

In this photo the memorial is hidden behind the column on the left side of the entrance.

Credits. This page was last revised on September 22, 2026. It was originally submitted on September 22, 2026, by Cosmos Mariner of Cape Canaveral, Florida. This page has been viewed 5 times since then. Photos: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. submitted on September 22, 2026, by Cosmos Mariner of Cape Canaveral, Florida.