The father of May died on his farm on the Janesville road just south of the Fort.

The evidence

• “May, the daughter of an early pioneer. Her father had died on his farm on the Janesville road just south of the Fort in the winter of 1849 after a residence there of ten years. The mother and daughter had left the farm and moved to the Fort, where I soon met them, as I had previously met the daughter at school in Milton, as before stated.”

  1900-caswell-reminiscences/10-politics-and-congress.md, PDF pp. 3–27

  Caswell, Lucien Bonaparte. The Reminiscences of the Hon. L. B. Caswell. Written at Fort Atkinson, Wis., 1914–1916; four-column newspaper reprint, newspaper and date unidentified. University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries.

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