Bios of Fanning, Samuel Wabasha Co., MN
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Fanning, Samuel (page 639), formerly a well known farmer in Gillford and
Zumbro Townships, was a native of New York State. After coming west he was
married in Wabasha County, Minn., to Mary A. Baldwin, who was born in St.
Louis, Mo., and they settled on the George Oliver farm at Hyde Corners in
Gillford Township. Some years later they took a homestead in Zumbro
Township, which, however, they later sold, moving back to Hyde Corners on
the David Fanning farm. There, on December 28, 1874, Samuel Fanning died.
In 1882 his widow sold the farm and moved onto the Albert Ellison farm in
Gillford Township, on which she resided until 1909. She then sold that
place and moved to Madelia, Minn., where she remained until 1916, since
which time she has resided with her daughter, Mrs. Trella Oney, in
Rochester. Mr. and Mrs. Fanning were the parents of ten children: George
L. and John D., now of Madelia, Minn.; David, deceased; Edmund, of
Rochester, Minn.; Walter Scott, of Madelia; Sherman, deceased; Wallace,
deceased; Trella A., now Mrs. John Oney of Rochester; Ella E., wife of
Frederick Johnson of Plainview, and Samuel, of Rochester. Mr. and Mrs.
Samuel Fanning were very active in social life. He taught the first
singing-school in his locality, and furnished accommodations for the
minister and his family in order that a church might be maintained in the
community.