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The Grand Army of the Republic, its membership limited by the lives of one generation of men, is by that circumstance peculiarly conditioned. Its normal growth was rapidly upward, reaching its maximum within a few years, after which its course must be steadily downward until nothing but its records
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and its few relies shall be left as reminders that such a post-bellum comrade- ship once existed. Its several posts are named and numbered thus :
Abraham Lincoln No. 3, Darien; George H. Thomas No. 6, Delavan ; James B. McPherson No. 27. Lake Geneva ; Charles E. Curtice No. 34, White- water ; Rutherford B. Hayes No. 76, Elkhorn : Henry Conklin No. 171, East Troy ; Duane Patten No. 270, Sharon.
TURTLE CREEK DRAINAGE DISTRICT.
Proceeding under provisions of chapter 419. statutes of 1905, two-thirds or more of the interested owners of land lying along Turtle creek and marsh filed their petition, November 1, 1908, to the circuit court for the establish- ment of the Turtle Creek Drainage District. Charles Dunlap, Henry D. Barnes and John G. Meadows were appointed commissioners, and took the oath of office April 19, 1909. They were empowered to survey and determine such ditch lines as they should find practical and expedient, to appraise bene- fits and damages, and on acceptance of their report to let the contract and see it faithfully performed. "Henry H. Tubbs was employed as civil engineer. There were several ineffectual remonstrances received and filed, and on June 26, 1911. the contract was filed. The work is practically begun. The main diteh begins in section 14 of Richmond, and ends in section 6 of Delavan, its course generally that of the creek. Its length is 5.94 miles, depth four to seven feet, with a fall of 14.93 feet. Four lateral ditches-one from section 19 of Sugar Creek -- have a total length of 5 25 miles, with fall varying be- tween 9.15 and 15.2 feet. These nearly eleven miles of ditching and dredging will cost nearly $38,000, and will drain 3, 188 acres. The work includes thirty- four bridges or erossings.
TROY DRAINAGE DITCII.
A similar petition of owners along the great Honey creek marsh was filed in the circuit clerk's office April 13. 1910. Judge Belden appointed Walter A. Babeoek, Charles H. Nott and George B. Cain as commissioners and these men took the official oath October 8, 1910. ( In this, as in the other com- mission, the member first named is chairman, the second is secretary, and the third is treasurer. ) Their report has been accepted, the contract will be let early in 1912, and the work will begin without delay. The main ditch, from a point in section 25 to a point near the middle of section 31, is 5.375 miles long, two to twelve feet deep, and has eighteen feet fall. There are seven
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lateral ditches with total length of 8.75 miles. These ditches will be crossed by thirty-eight bridges, one of which will cost $1,500. This work will re- cover or improve 4,832 acres of land, at a cost of nearly $50,000.
COUNTY COMMISSIONER OF ROADS.
At the session of the county board, November, 1911, Herman J. Peters, of Sharon, was chosen county commissioner of roads. This was in accord- ance with a statute providing for a state system of road-making.
ASSESSOR OF INCOME TAX.
Pursuant to a statute of 1911 the office of supervisor of assessments has been abolished. and that of assessor of income tax created. The first ap- pointee, in 1912, is William Francis Dockery. of Whitewater.
TIIE SPECULATIVE SPIRIT.
Not every man of older Walworth was entirely content to hoe in prairie mould or drudge in village labor for plain subsistence and scanty savings. Hardy men went, in 1849 and after years, around Cape Horn and across plains and Sierras for the gold of California and Pike's Peak, and a few came back rich in one kind of experience. Other men, in another way adven- turous, confided part of their little surplus to the keeping of the beneficent lottery, and the example of one who drew $3,000 was for long set forth in Mons. Dauphin's advertisements and circulars as proof that they only can win greatly who risk a little. Thus, the sanguine projectors and reckless schemers of a later period did not break new ground here.
The return of gold and silver to general circulation, after seventeen years of irredeemable paper currency, gave rebirth to business of every kind in 1870. Monetary panics were thought to have been at last retired to the limbo of serfdom, judicial torture, the death penalty for petty felonies, and other relics of the barbarous past. Confidence soon became extravagant hope-prolific parent of a few successes and many failures. Speculators of the type of self-deluded John Law, of Lauriston, and operators of the tribe of Montague Tigg, of Pall Mall. flung their enchantments broadcast. and with such effect that for a few months not a few men seemed so bereaved of their usually better judgment that prudence was out of date and even com- mercial honor a barren ideality. Projects, from legitimate to lawless, inviting inexperienced investors, increased like insects, and men's day-dreams and im-
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sound sleep were filled with visions of sudden wealth. Among the myriad temptations were lots in new cities of the South and West and in new sub- urbs of old cities everywhere between the poles, farm lands from Assiniboia to the Arctic circle, mines of all the metals from aluminum and antimony to yttrium and zirconium and of minerals from anthracite to zinc-blende, rail- ways across every continent, oil wells, silk without cocoons,-in fine, gold from seawater, sunbeams from cucumbers, something from nothing.
Most of these several short roads to riches were in effect one: to buy printed certificates of shareholding and watch the markets hourly for first indications of coming showers of the world's chief desire. A local annalist has told of one who, living but to make his fellowmen quick-process mil- lionaires, took real estate and personal property in exchange for shares and came to own one-sixth part of the area of his home village. There were about a dozen of these guides to Aladdin's cave who were citizens of the county, most of whom were involved with their clients in the collapse of their undertakings. The period of greatest local interest to investors and onlookers was 1885-7. The county was not, as a whole, made poverty- stricken, and speculation did not end with the memorable rise and fall of that period, but became of less public concern.
MELODRAMA IN COURT.
A tragi-comic affair was said in the next day's Independent to have taken place at an evening session of the circuit court, March 31. 1859. . 1 man most improbably named "Burorecy" flung a tobacco quid at somebody within the bar. The shot hit ex-Judge Cow dery's bald scalp and, ricochetting. struck Judge Noggle's left eye. The startled Judge lost his balance and knocked over a lamp filled with the compound of camphene and alcohol, then sold as "burning fluid." spilling its extra-dangerous contents upon Sheriff Stone and thence upon ex-Sheriff Perry, whose coat tails caught fire. In the sudden movements of men-for a wonder, in the dark the clerk's back was nearly broken, the stove-drum and pipe knocked down, and a general combat followed in which Messrs. Clarke, Farr. Keep, Kellogg. Lyon and Menzie were more or less battered or ruffled. Of course, this account was intentionally made extravagant and impossible, so to confuse the public mind as to what had actually taken place .- which, most likely, was some breach of court decorum by two lawyers not named. The date of publication, too, may have helped to suggest to readers that all this was but the local reporter's "joke of the season." But Hotchkiss & Leland were too editorially cautions
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to take such liberty with the names of judges, sheriffs, and lawyers without some slight foundation of truth for it. The fact that the following Tuesday was judicial election day may have disposed Noggle, Keep and Lyon to let the voters laugh the matter into forgiveness and speedy forgetfulness.
EARLY EDUCATIONAL EFFORTS.
Before a system of common schools could be evolved children were as- sembled in small groups at the larger log dwellings for private instruction. Many of the teachers were moved by their sense of duty toward those whose education seemed too likely to be arrested indefinitely-for some of them-in effect. to the marring of all later life. Such names of these teachers as have been preserved from the wreck of the unrecorded past, and are available for present use, are too few for imposing tabulation. Dates assigned to teachers at Elkhorn are conjectural. but nearly correct.
In 1837 Mrs. Rebecca A. Vail, in a room over Andrew Ferguson's store. at Lake Geneva. She was the wife of James W. Vail, an early settler of East Troy, and afterward lived at Milwaukee.
1839.
Louisa Augier. at East Troy ; daughter of Robert Augier, of that town.
Mary S. Brewster ( 1816-1910), at Spring Prairie, daughter of Deodat Brewster, of Geneva ( Mrs. Edward Pentland).
Julia Dyer, at Delavan.
Mrs. Ladd. of Mukwonago, at Troy.
Juliette Merrick, at Gardner's Prairie : daughter of Col. Perez Merrick.
1840.
Olive Booker ( aged fourteen), at Lafayette : twenty pupils.
Mary S. Brewster, Geneva.
Ruth A. Bunnell, Lafayette.
Lydia Carr, Elkhorn.
Mrs. Mary Carter, Darien.
Hannah M. Clark, Walworth ; eighteen dollars for summer term.
Melissa Cornish, Lagrange.
John M. Lewis, Walworth : eighty dollars for winter term.
Chester D. Long. Darien, winter term.
Adeline MeCracken, Sugar Creck.
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Theodorus Bailey Northrop, Lafayette : private school, term finished by Eben Whitcomb.
Sheldon C. Powers, of East Troy, at Whitewater; district school.
Mrs. Adeline M. (Seaver) Carter.
Dr. John Stacy, of and at Lake Geneva.
Mrs. Electa (King) Ward, Bloomfield.
Mrs. Moses D. Williams, Walworth.
1841.
Mary S. Brewster, Elkhorn: district school.
Edward Elderkin, Elkhorn.
Sarah Perrin, Lafayette.
1842.
Marietta Chapman, Lafayette ; fifteen pupils. George W. Hoyt, of Rochester. Lafayette ; winter term. Harriet Lyon, Hudson, a daughter of David Lyon.
J. B. Hunt, Whitewater.
1843.
Adelaide C. Beardsley-at first for religious instruction, afterward a district teacher at Elkhorn.
Lydia Chapman, Lafayette (Mrs. Edward Winne ).
Henry Farrington, Lafayette.
Gracia Ward, Linn.
NOTEWORTHY EVENTS.
Generally, events here noted are not mentioned elsewhere in this work. Many more of at least equal interest might have been included had they been within the narrow range of one person's knowledge or opportunities for find- ing and placing them in true order of time.
July 10. 1836 .- Colonel Phoenix preached to fifteen persons-all the neighborhood but one family-at Dr. Hemenway's. Four of these professed religion. Daniel Salisbury prayed, and all sang. July 17th, the Colonel preached to the Hemenway family, Palmer Gardner, David Pratt and daugh- ter, and Mr. Salisbury. Two of these nodded and Doctor Hemenway fell fast asleep. At the close of service seven more persons came in.
July 4, 1837 .- A dance at Othni Beardsley's house. Troy.
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June 15. 1839 .-- William Birge vs. Willard B. Johnson, first suit dock- eted in Zerah Mead, Esq.'s court, Whitewater. In this year a sovereign's court, for settling disputed land claims, was assembled at Whitewater. . \ territorial road was made from Rochester to Madison, through Spring Prairie, Troy, Lagrange and Whitewater.
July 4, 1840 .- Celebration at Whitewater. Dr. James McNish, of . Geneva, spoke on intemperance and slavery, at William Birge's big barn. Milwaukee Weekly Sentinel taken by subscribers at Whitewater.
April 25, 1842 .- A county agricultural society organized.
1843 .- A series of revivalist meetings held at Whitewater.
1844 .-- A good harvest season ; wheat. twenty-five bushels per acre. Tax on Whitewater Hotel eighty-four cents.
August 8, 1845 .- Date of Western Star, Elkhorn, Vol. I, No. I.
1849. 1850, 1851 .- A series of increasingly bad years for farmers, called the "pink-eye years."
1851 .- A flood swept away several dams in the southern towns. 1854 .- An epidemic of Asiatic cholera.
June -, 1858. Dams at Duck Lake and Lyons bursted by freshet.
1860 .- An exceptional year for wheat crop. The county's surplus esti- mated at one million bushels. The crop for the state was largest of any in the union.
April 2, 1867 .- Willis Clarke, colored. elected town sealer for White- water.
1873-4 .- Organization of Patrons of Husbandry-Grangers = through- out the county.
July 23, 1874 .- Destructive hurricane at Lake Geneva.
August -- , 1875 .- N. K. Fairbank, of Chicago, placed six thousand young bass in Geneva Lake and built hatcheries.
January 8, 1881. County clerk sold park fence to Jacob Ketchpaw. May 18, 1883. - A destroying whirlwind passed over southern towns.
August -, 1889-A board of pension examiners appointed to sit at Elkhorn Drs. Benoni O. Reynolds. William Henry Hurlbut and George Henry Young, Jr.
May 6, 1800 .- Mr. Simmons noted a snowfall at Lake Geneva.
April 26, 1893 .- George Streng. at Troy village, killed a burglar.
July 7. 1895 .- Steamer "Dispatch," with six passengers, sunk in one hundred and ten feet of water, Geneva Lake, by a hurricane.
September 1. 1007 .- Barbers of the county raised shaving rates to fif- teen cents.
May 26. 1900. Earthquake tremor felt at Elkhorn and elsewhere.
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DAIRY INTERESTS.
Statistics of dairy industries for 1911 show five milk condensing fac- tories : H. M. Clark's, at Delavan; Wisconsin Butter and Cheese Company, at Elkhorn (nearly ready for work) : Borden Milk Condensing Company, at Genoa Junction : American Milk Company, at Sharon : Walworth Milk Con- densing Company, at Walworth. At Lake Beulah is a factory for making "fancy" cheeses. At Fayetteville, Jacobsville and North Geneva are "skim- ming stations" of the Wisconsin Butter and Cheese Company.
The several creameries are distributed and named as here shown :
Adams
Adams
Little Prairie Little Prairie
Bloomfield
Bloomfield
Lyons
Lyons
Bowers Bloomfield Centre
Lyons Spring Valley
Darien
Darien
Richmond East Richmond
Darien
Fairfield
Richmond J. L. Kilkenny Factory Richmond Town Line
East Delavan
East Delavan
East Troy
East Troy
Elkhorn
Wisconsin Butter & Cheese Co.
Spring Prairie. Spring Prairie
Cheese and Creamery Co.
Heart Prairie
Heart Prairie
Honey Creek Honey Creek
Lake Geneva
Whitewater Union Produce Co.
Lake Geneva Milk & Creamery Co.
Lenda Forest Glen
Dairy production, as reported for 1910, showed 4.754.481 pounds of butter, or four and one-half per cent. of the production of sixty-six counties ; and 147.400 pounds of cheese. Walworth was third in creamery production, and in fifty-six counties was forty-second in cheesemaking. Amount re- ceived for all dairy products was $1,438,888. The whole number of cows inilked was 26,022.
EARLY BIRTIIS.
The following list of carlier births within the county, though not in each instance verified by reference to public or family record, must be nearly correct. Names marked * are of boys who became soldiers of the Civil war : July 3. 1836-Geneva, daughter of James Van Slyke. Geneva ; died June, 1856.
Sharon North Sharon
Springfield Springfield
Geneva Honey Hill
Troy Troy Co-operative
Whitewater Marr's
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Sept. 27, 1836-William Pitt, son of Urban D. Meacham, Troy; died No- vember 3, 1911.
June -, 1837-Henry, son of Israel Williams, Jr., Linn.
July 8, 1837-Clara Anna, daughter of William Bell, Walworth.
Aug. 11, 1837-Alfred Delavan, son of Salmon Thomas, Darien ; died 1896. Sept. 14, 1837-Sarah M., daughter of Sylvester G. Smith, Spring Prairie.
. Oct. 12, 1837-Tirzah Amelia, daughter of Luke Taylor. Darien.
Oct. 12, 1837-Harriet, daughter of Joseph Whitmore, Spring Prairie.
Oct. 12, 1837 --* Darwin R., son of William K. May, Linn.
Nov. - , 1837 -- Mahala, daughter of Solomon Harvey, Spring Prairie. -, 1837-Henry, son of Robert Godfrey, Walworth.
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Mar. - , 1838-A daughter of Ansel A. Hemenway, Spring Prairie.
June 1, 1838-Henry, son of Oliver Van Valin, Spring Prairie.
June 24, 1838 -* Silas W'right, son of llarry Tupper, Bloomfield. died 1865. Sept. 18, 1838-Mary, daughter of Nathaniel Bell, Lafayette.
Oct. - , 1838 -* Woodbury, son of Perry G. Harrington, Sugar Creek.
Nov. 13, 1838-Albert Ogden, son of Milo E. Bradley, Geneva.
Nov. 22, 1838-Phoebe Ann, daughter of Samuel Cole Vaughn, Spring Prairie.
Dec. 19, 1838-Oscar D., son of Roderick Merrick, Spring Prairie. --- - , 1838-Helen P., daughter of John Rosenkrans, Sugar Creek. Jan. 7. 1839-Le Grand, son of Hollis Latham. Elkhorn.
Mar. - , 1839 -* James H., son of Henry Harrison Sterling, Lafayette. Apr. 1, 1839 Harriet, daughter of William Bell. Walworth, died 1890.
Apr. 23, 1839-Frances, daughter of Solomon A. Dwinnell, Lafayette.
May 25, 1839-Wallace, son of Daniel Hartwell, Lafayette; died 1909. Oct. 8, 1839-Jane Eliza, daughter of Benjamin F. Trow, Bloomfield ; died about 1871.
Nov. 18, 1839-Julius C., son of William Birge, Whitewater.
Jan. 8, 1840 -* Lindsey Joseph, son of Sylvester G. Smith, Lafayette; died 1905.
Mar. 12, 1840 -Leroy Williston, son of Austin L. Merrick, Spring Prairie ; dead.
May 10, 1840- * William James, son of William Bell, Walworth; killed October 8, 1862.
July 13, 1840-Emily, daughter of Nathaniel Bell. Lafayette.
Ang. 10, 1840 -* Henry Christopher, son of Christopher Wiswell, Lafayette. -, 1840-Wendell Pulver, son of W. Fletcher Lyon, Hudson.
, 1840 - Florana Lily, daughter of John Rosenkrans, Sugar Creek.
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- - , 1840-Nancy, daughter of Freeborn Welch, Sugar Creek. Jan. 21, 1841-Kinner Newcomb, son of Cyrenus N. Hollister, Darien ; died 1911.
Mar. 29, 1841-Otis E., son of Samuel Cole Vanghn, Spring Prairie.
Sept. 1. 1841 -* William J., son of James Holden, Lagrange.
July 23, 1842 -* Lucius, son of William Bell, Walworth; died 1862.
Aug. 2, 1842-William H., son of Samuel Allen, Bloomfield.
Nov. 2, 1842 -* Charles Edward, son of Christopher Wiswell. Lafayette; died 1864.
-- , 1842-Smith D., son of Daniel Hartwell, Lafayette.
Mar. 10, 1843-August, son of John Bernhardt Wilmer, East Troy.
Nov. 1, 1843-Mary Jane, daughter of Daniel J. Bigelow, Sugar Creek. -. 1843-Emmet. son of Thomas McKaig, Geneva.
June 28. 1844-Hiram Sears, son of William Bell, Walworth.
July 8. 1844-Helen Louise, daughter of William O. Garfield, Elkhorn.
July 14, 1844 -* William Henry, son of John Mayhew and Lucinda Allen.
Nov. 23, 1844-Emma Pamela, daughter of Edward Elderkin, Elkhorn.
Nov. 24, 1844-Lucretia May, daughter of Palmer Gardner, Spring Prairie : died 1865.
Sept. 14. 1845-George, son of George Gale and Gertrude Young. Elkhorn.
EARLY MARRIAGES.
There were several known instances in which one, first choosing his claim, made the coming wife's way clear and then went eastward to marry her. Thus it was with Palmer Gardner, James Holden and Solomon .1. Dwinnell, for examples. The very earliest marriage ceremonies were likely to have been performed at Milwaukee, Racine, or at some convenient clergy- man's or magistrate's just across the county line.
Jan. 23. 1837-Charles Augustus Noyes and Nancy Page Warren, of Gen- eva, at Racine.
Sept. 3, 1837-Reuben Clark and Maria Van Valin, Spring Prairie.
Nov. 16, 1837-Sylvanus Spoor and Caroline S, Goodrich, Troy.
Nov. -. 1837-William Bentley and Jane Campbell. Spring Prairie,
Apr. - , 1838-IIollis Latham and Lemira ( Bradley ) Lewis, Elkhorn. Apr. 18. 1839 Elijah Belding and Mary James, Richmond.
May 15, 1839-Bradley B. Plato and Lucretia C. Hawes, Richmond.
May 25, 1839-Caleb Blodgett and Orinda Jones, Darien.
June 4. 1839-Rev. James F. Flanders and Ann Elizabeth Porter.
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June 12, 1839-Christopher Columbus Cheesebro and Maria Johnson, Darien. Aug. 7. 1839-George W. Robinson and Adeline Caldwell.
Aug. 25, 1839-Ransom Sheldon and Maria Theresa Douglass, Walworth. Sept. 5, 1839-Asad Dean Williams and Cynthia B. Powers, Whitewater. Oct. 3, 1839-Jacob Hamblin and Lucinda Taylor. Lafayette.
Nov. 20, 1839-Alexander llervey Bunnell and Mary Dyer. Spring Prairie. Dec. 12, 1839-Austin Leonard Merrick and Esther C. Cook. Spring Prairie.
Dec. 26, 1839-John Mather and Hannah Stephenson, Sugar Creek.
Feb. 9. 1840-John Ruddiman and Mary Bunker, Troy.
Mar. 28, 1840-Lucullus S. Pratt and Lydia Comstock, Darien. Mar. 31. 1840-Tompkins Dunlap and Pearley Adams, Geneva.
May 4. 1840-Porter Bowen and Ilannah Older, Darien.
July 9. 1840-John Martin and Eliza Ann Cheesebro. Darien.
July 9. 1840-Martin Pollard and Rachel Powers, East Troy.
July 25, 1840-Dudley W. Cook and Nancy Dunlap, Geneva.
July 25. 1840-Thomas MeKaig and Asenath Dunlap, Geneva. Aug. 13, 1840-Marcus Moody and Lucy P. Barker.
Nov. 5. 1840-Josiah Burroughs Gleason and Sarah Bacon, Spring Prairie.
Nov. 10, 1840-Peter Noblet and Lydia \. Baker, Spring Prairie.
Nov. 23. 1840-Samuel N. Loomer and Huldah L. Loomer. Sugar Creek. Nov. 30. 1840-John Mayhew and Lucinda Allen. Spring Prairie.
Dec. 13. 18440-Leland Patch and Harriet .\. Estes, Troy.
Dec. 22, 1840-Benjamin Sweet and Elvira Cornish. Lagrange.
Jan. 12, 1841-James Fuller and Ruth 1. Bunnell, Lafayette. Feb. 9. 1841-John Powers ( of Linn) and Laura Stephens. Geneva. Feb. 24, 1841-AAbel Sperry and Eliza Beckwith. East Troy. Mar. 18. 1841-Jonathan Patterson Chapin and Sarah Jerrod, Bloomfield. Apr. 3. 18.11-Orison Gray Ewing and Ilannah Watson, Lagrange.
Apr. 11, 1841-Sammel Brittain and Eliza Hoyt. Spring Prairie.
Apr. 27, 1841-Oliver Salisbury and Emily Cravath, Whitewater. May 3, 1841-Alfred B. Weed and Elizabeth Rice, Richmond.
June 6. 1841-James E. Bell and Chloe Electa Van Nostrand. July 3. 1811 -- Henry Barlow and Emeline La Bar, Delavan.
July 8. 1841 Theodore Benjamin Edwards and Adeline Moore Mc- Cracken. Sugar Creek.
.Aug. 15. 1841- Isaac Van Wert Severson and Elizabeth Topping, Walworth.
Oct. 31. 1841-David S. Elting and Eliza Manwell, Lagrange.
Nov. 1. 1841 Horace Coleman and Juliette Merrick, Spring Prairie. Dec. 15. 1841-William Carter and Adeline Seaver, Darien.
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Mar. 23, 1842 -- Sterling P. Searles and Ellen Dalton. Geneva.
Apr. 16, 1842-Norman C. Dyer and Mary Lake, Hudson.
Apr. 24. 1842-Stephen B. Davis and Esther Newell. Sugar Creek.
Oct. 13. 1842-Benjamin Goodwin and Clarinda Wait, Hudson.
Oct. 16. 1842-Jonathan C. Church and Dorcas James, Richmond.
Nov. 24. 1842-Charles Taylor and Louisa Augier, East Troy. - - , 1842-Lemuel Rood Smith and Melissa Campbell. Hudson.
Jan. 10, 1843-James O. Eaton and Mary Miranda Dwinnell. Lafayette.
Feb. 8, 1843-Edwin DeWolf and Elizabeth C. McCracken. Lagrange.
Feb. 9, 1843-William Birge and Frances Ostrander. Whitewater.
Feb. 12, 1843-Thomas Worden Hill and Lydia Ferris, Hudson.
Feb. 16, 1843-Erasmus Darwin Richardson and Alma O. Spaford. Geneva.
Sept. 7, 1843-Albert Ogden and Charlotte Boyce, Elkhorn.
Oct. 4. 1843-Stephen Steele Barlow and Anna Maria Parsons, Delavan.
Nov. 1, 1843-Chester Deming Long and Laura Ann Lee, Darien.
Nov. 15. 1843-Edwin Wallis Meacham and Emeline M. MeCracken.
Nov. 16. 1843-George Washington Dwinnell and Abigail Catherine Wil- son, Lafayette.
Dec. 21. 1843-J. Sperry Northrop and Catherine M. Lyon, Hudson.
Dec. 25. 1843-Edward Elderkin and Mary Martha Beardsley. Elkhorn.
IN MEMORIAM.
The death list, within the years here shown. must fall very far short of the facts. For the following years the stones and records of cemeteries partly supply the lack of official registration. Even after cemeteries were laid out and dedicated many of the dead were buried in small private enclos- tres, some of which must have been plowed over for a half century,-what- ever reservation may have been made at the first sales of the including farms. Rains soon beat down and grass and weeds hide unvisited. uncared-for graves, and white man has not more reverence for the resting places of strangers of his own race than for those of the conquered or cheated heathen tribes.
July 3. 1837-Mary E., child of Sylvester G. Wright. Spring Prairie.
Sept. 14. 1837-Mrs. Eliza Cornish. act. 64. Lagrange.
Dec. 25. 1837 -- William C. Merrick, insane. aet. 33. Spring Prairie.
Tune 11, 1838-Olive, wife of Phipps Hartwell. Lafayette.
Sept. 6. 1838-A child of Ansel \. Hemenway. Spring Prairie.
Nov. 13. 1838-Mary L. (Spoor), wife of Lucinis Allen, aet. 21. East Troy.
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Nov. 22, 1838-Simeon Robinson, Troy.
- - , 1838-William Casporus, accidentally, Lake Geneva.
July 13, 1839-Daniel Edwin LaBar, aet. 50, Delavan.
Sept. 19, 1839-Jotham Newton Baker, aet. 21. Whitewater.
Oct. 21, 1839-Mary, wife of John Cummings, aet. 58, Walworth.
Oct. 28, 1839-Amelia J., wife of Henry Frey, aet. 45.
Aug. 13, 1839-Benjamin Whitcomb, Whitewater.
Sept. 6, 1840-Col. Samuel Faulkner Phoenix, aet. 44, Delavan.
Oct. 5. 1840-Apollos Root. Lafayette.
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