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September 1838

A marriage took place to Elmina Gilbert.

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  • “Tuttle among the number, started out prospecting ; fir.st went to Beluit, April, 1837, and, in the same spring, he made a claim in Clinton ; entered 320 acres ; there was not a house on Jefierson Prairie ; the first house on the Indian trail to Chicago wa& at the head of Geneva Lake ; frames of Indian wigwams were standing on his farm. Married, September, 1838, Elmina Gilbert, daughter of Roswell Gilbert ; her mother's maiden name was Wheat ; she came from a notable family of that name that settled in Connecticut at a very early day ; have had six chUdren — Eugene H. (enlisted in the Thirteenth Wisconsin, and died in Kansas, at Fort Riley), Egbert (diedl when about 11 years old), Volney C.”

    1879-history-of-rock-county/20-bios-clinton.md, PDF p. 783

    Butterfield, C. W., et al. The History of Rock County, Wisconsin: its early settlement, growth, development, resources, etc. Chicago: Western Historical Company, 1879. Cornell University Library via the Internet Archive, archive.org/details/cu31924028871585.

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