Maria (portrayed by her great-great-granddaughter Karen Wyatt Drevo in period attire) looks back at her life as a prairie pioneer in Otoe County, Nebraska, where she homesteaded in 1867. Maria crossed the Atlantic Ocean with seven children to reunite her family after a 7½ year separation. She endured grasshoppers, hail, drought, tornadoes, blizzards, and the loss of her husband and six of her 13 children as she worked to become a citizen and a landowner in a new country. Resilient and resourceful, she lived a life of usefulness to her family and large circle of friends with her loving deeds and kind acts, delivering babies and nursing the sick. This program is funded by Humanities Nebraska.

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Karen Wyatt Drevo

Karen Wyatt Drevo is the great-great-granddaughter of Maria Rodaway.