SHERMAN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY
Recent visitors to the Sherman County Historical Museum and Research Center were the three offspring of Norman and Marjorie Stephens. Norman’s father was Lamont L. Stephens, attorney. Lamont wrote of Rockville’s early days with great detail in the July 1, 1948 edition of the Sherman County Times when Sherman County was celebrating its seventy- fifth anniversary.
In his article of that date, Lamont reminds us that the first settlement in Sherman County was near Ashton; the second settlement was near Rockville, and the third was in Loup City. On July 28, 1872, Charles E. Webster, wife, and five children, and William H. Stephens Jr. and wife (Anna Thoresen) “arrived at the point where Rock Creek flows into the Middle Loup River… These nine people constituted the second settlement in Sherman county (sic).” Lamont is the youngest of William Harrison Stephens’ Jr. children.
