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Book Title: History Of La Fayette County

FIRST MARRIAGE, BIRTH AND DEATH.

In addition to these mines, the Black-Leg, the Badger, and other mines were
either discovered or prospected for in 1828, and the year was noted for some of
the most important events in the early history; being the year, it is believed,
of the first birth, marriage and death in the county, and the season during
which the first school and church were opened.

In January or February, 1828, Rosanna J. Parkinson was married to Thomas P.
Conners, of Bond County, Ill. The event was duly celebrated at New Diggings,
though there was an absence of the forms and ceremonies which elegant life, as
to-day existing, deems indispensable in that connection.

In 1829, occurred one of the first births in the county, though the truth of
history necessitates the statement that this is mildly disputed. During the
winter mentioned, Alphonso W. Moore, son to Col. John T. Moore, was born at the
Parkinson place, near Prairie Springs. But the claim is made that Mary Ann
O'Leary, daughter to Peter O'Leary, who lived half a mile east of the village of
Benton, was born about the same time. She is now Mrs. Conway, residing near Fort
Dodge, Iowa.

The first death is believed to have been Fowler St. Vrain, who was killed at the
head of Yellow River by the Indians in a massacre. He never was seen subsequent
to that event, and his scalp was one day discovered in the hands of a Winnebago
Indian.

In June of this year, Beulah Lamb opened a school on the prairie, in sight of
Gratiot's Grove, which was attended by the children of settlers for miles
around, and continued until fall. This was the first school taught in the
county. In the fall of the same year Miss Lamb was married to George Skillinger,
and still lives a resident of the village of Wiota.

In 1828, a Methodist Class-Leader, named Aaron Hawley, visited Wiota and held
services in cabins and huts, the first of a religious character observed in the
county.


Additional Comments:
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HISTORY OF LA FAYETTE COUNTY, WISCONSIN,

CONTAINING
AN ACCOUNT OF ITS SETTLEMENT, GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND RESOURCES; AN EXTENSIVE
AND MINUTE SKETCH OF ITS CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES—THEIR IMPROVEMENTS,
INDUSTRIES, MANUFACTORIES, CHURCHES, SCHOOLS AND SOCIETIES; ITS WAR RECORD,
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES, PORTRAITS OF PROMINENT MEN AND EARLY SETTLERS; THE WHOLE
PRECEDED BY A HISTORY OF WISCONSIN, STATISTICS OF THE STATE, AND AN ABSTRACT OF
ITS LAWS AND CONSTITUTION AND OF THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES.

ILLUSTRATED

CHICAGO: WESTERN HISTORICAL COMPANY.
MDCCCLXXXI. [1881]


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