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Show Pioneer Trials Homesteader Makes Grave A Shrine Burlington Company was then required re-quired to resurvey another line which by-passed and left unharmed unharm-ed the historic spot. This is the second section of a Pioneer Trails story concerning concern-ing one mother whose grave became be-came a travelers guidepost and shrine. In 18S6 Norman DeMott home-steaded home-steaded the land on which the grave was located. He and his family cared for it as though it were one of their own. To the other homesteaders in the valley, the Rebecca Winters grave became one of the most historic sites in that part of the country. The first ditch built in 18SS to bring irrigation water to their lands from the Platte River was called the "Winters' Ditch." One of the larger canals built was designed the "Winters' Canal' and is still known by that name. When a voting precinct in the 1880's was organized for the area in which the grave is located, it was given the title of the "Winters' "Wint-ers' Precinct' 'and is still identified ident-ified as such. In the late 1890's when the Burlington Bur-lington Railway Company planned plan-ned to run their road through the Platte Valley, the purchased from Mr. Norman DeMott a right-of-way through his land. Mr. DeMott, De-Mott, however, made a reservation reserva-tion in the sale, that the Burlington Burling-ton Railway Company in extending extend-ing their survey lines through his property, should not run over or disturb the Rebecca Winter grave. In 1899, when the survey was being made, the line extended, passed over the gravesite. The |