Obit for Alexander HOUSTON (b.1808 d.1889), Dodge Co., MN

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Obituary for Alexander Houston (b. 1808 NH, d. 1889 MN) 
Resident of Dodge County, MN

Source: Newspaper clipping
Unknown publication; Publication date unknown
Page x: Column x; Reads as follows:

DIED

At his residence, near Kasson, on Sunday the 24th [24 Feb. 
1889] inst., at 1 o'clock, p.m., ALEXANDE [Alexander] 
HOUSTON, aged 80 years, 8 months and 14 days.

The funeral was held at the residence on Tuesday the 26th, and 
largely attended by friends and neighbors, including many of 
the existing pioneers, who have known him so long and so 
well.  His remains were laid loveingly to rest with the 
unction of sympathetic tears, in Maple Grove cemetery, near 
Kasson.

He leavs [leaves] an aged wife, who has been his constant 
companion, since October 1836.  This union was blessed with 
three children, to wit: Watson A., Adeline, (Mrs. Fisk, of 
Omro, Wis.) and Daniel M. [McClure], all of whom were present 
on the solemn occasion.

Mr. Houston was born and reared to manhood at Ackworth, N.H. 
[Acworth, NH].  After his marriage to Miss Betsy Park [PARKS, 
who was a half-sister to Elisha Adams Parks of Blue Earth 
County, MN] he settled in Starkboro, [Starksborough] Vt., and 
engaged in lumbering.  In 1853 he removed to Fond du Lac 
county, Wis., and from thence, in 1861 to Blue Earth county, 
in this state.  On the outbreak of the Indian massacre, in 
August, 1862, he was obliged to flee for safety, and removed 
with his family to the place on which he passed his remaining 
days.  Here the aged couple dwelt in peace and contentment, 
in a pleasant home, cared for by their eldest son, with true 
fillial affection.

[Information in brackets added by the transcriber, William W. 
Porter on 2-15-2001]