Once Upon a House

Summer 1853

A settler in Section 19, town of Plymouth, was laid up with the ague all summer.

Rock CountyGrade A · 1 independent source

The evidence

  • “Rime, in Section 19, town of Plymouth). The ague was coming on worse and he was laid up all summer; that was in the year 1853. On the following ith of March he was married to Guri Halvorsdatter Hersgaard (who was living with her parents at that time in Section 19, town of Plymouth).”

    1908-brown-rock-county/34d-biographical-4.md, Vol. 2, PDF p. 530 / book p. 1015

    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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