A family settled at Lima Center in 1852.

The evidence

• “She is a native of Ontario, Canada, and when about three years old was brought by her parents to Wisconsin. They settled at Lima Center in 1852, but later removed to Adams county, Wisconsin, where the father, who spent his active life farming, died at the age of eighty-four years.”

  1908-brown-rock-county/34e-biographical-5.md, Vol. 2, PDF p. 586 / book p. 1070

  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.

  Grade A: Found on a page of one of our sources