Iowa County WI Archives Obituaries.....Tyrer, William September 1884 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/wi/wifiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Nancy Poquette npoq@hotmail.com December 31, 2006, 4:34 am Dodgeville Chronicle, Sept 12, 1884 William Tyrer’s obituary in the Dodgeville Chronicle, Sept 12, 1884: “…in company with his father and others, he came to Dodgeville and engage in mining on what is now the Thomas Parry farm, just west of this village…Mr. Tyrer was among those whose custom of coming up here to mine in the summer and returning to Illinois to spend the winters gave to that state its name of ‘sucker’ state, a custom which he and his co-workers followed until after the Black Hawk war, when he permanently settled in this vicinity.” File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/wi/iowa/obits/t/tyrer289gob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/wifiles/ File size: 1.1 Kb