An unnamed father died.

The evidence

• “New York. The father was a farmer and died September 21, 1848. The mother died in July, 1888.”

  1908-brown-rock-county/34a-biographical-1.md, Vol. 2, PDF p. 354 / book p. 850

  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