A father returned to New York and died about the year 1853.

The evidence

• “In 1842 he brought his family overland with teams and wagon from New York to Rock county, Wisconsin, and settled on a small farm which he bought in Clinton township, and also conducted a hotel for a time. Later he returned to New York and there died about the year 1853, his wife having passed away some four years prior to that time. They were both devoted members of the Baptist denomination and people highly esteemed and much beloved for their kindness and goodness of heart.”

  1908-brown-rock-county/34b-biographical-2.md, Vol. 2, PDF p. 392 / book p. 885

  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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