A farm was purchased in Avon township.

The evidence

• “In 1850 the father purchased a farm in Avon township, which is now owned by our subject. Here he made his home for thirtythree years, and died March 24, 1883, his widow surviving until December 11, 1890.”

  1908-brown-rock-county/34c-biographical-3.md, Vol. 2, PDF p. 462 / book p. 950

  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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