Death of Parnell (née Blossom), mother of a Rock County family, at the family home in Rock County.

The evidence

• “The mother of our subject, Parnell, nee Blossom, was born in "Woodstock, Vt., and was descended from an old New England family of Scotch lineage. Her death occurred in Eock county, Wisconsin, December 27, 1856.”

  1908-brown-rock-county/34b-biographical-2.md, Vol. 2, PDF p. 391 / book p. 884

  Brown, William Fiske, editor. Rock County, Wisconsin: A New History of Its Cities, Villages, Towns, Citizens and Varied Interests, from the Earliest Times, Up to Date. Chicago: C. F. Cooper & Co., 1908. 2 vols. archive.org/details/rockcountywiscon01brow, archive.org/details/rockcountywiscon02brow.

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