In a message dated 12/22/00 4:23:55 PM EST, kurt.vantassel@juno.com writes: << Subj: [WIEAUCLA] Possible Quigley Relationship? Date: 12/22/00 4:23:55 PM EST From: kurt.vantassel@juno.com (Kurt J. Van Tassel) Sender: kurt.vantassel@juno.com Reply-to: WIEAUCLA-L@rootsweb.com To: WIEAUCLA-L@rootsweb.com Posted on: EauClaire Co. Wi Query Forum Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Wi/EauClaire/543 Surname: Barney, Quigley ------------------------- My family history indicates that a Patrick Barney left Monstream, Ireland about 1820 with his wife, who died at sea. Aboard that ship he met an Irish girl named Quigley who was enroute to take care of her widowed brothers children. Patrick Barney married Miss Quigley and had nine children of their own. I understand that they settled in Seymour (township?), as known Barney relatives live there. I am sorry that I have no additional information at this time. You can contact me at "kurt.vantassel@juno.com" if you have anything that I could use, or maybe I can give you what I have on the Barney side. Yours, Kurt. *********************************************** Merry Christmas Hello Kurt, My husband's family (Wickham) includes this SAME Patrick Barney and I will gladly share what information I have and would appreciate your corrections/additions to this info. And, I certainly would be interested in learning more of the Barney's. WICKHAM FAMILY HISTORY (no documentation, word of mouth and family lore) Patrick's first wife Anastasia Cavanaugh, died on board ship coming to America. Patrick married Margaret Quigly (b.1840) in Canada. Anastasia was born at Monasterevin, Co Kildare, Ireland. It is reported that the Barney's were itinerant horse thieves. Patrick and Margaret had 4 children: James - John - Patrick - Thomas, who was a logger A letter from brother-in-law in Eau Claire dated 1985 says: The Barney's originated in Co Kildare, IRE. No link can be found using the marriage of Patrick Barney & Anastasia Cavanaugh. Irish priest suggests name was BARRY, but could have been BRYNE or O'BEARNY. BARRY is the best bet. (You know they may have been illiterate and the immigration officer probably wrote the name down as he heard it and they didn't know the difference. Barbara) Patrick Barney left Ireland in 1840 w/new wife and sailed for Canada. Anastasia died on board - there were such documented cases of plague ships arriving Quebec during the early 1840s. Patrick married Margaret Quigly at St. Edward de Frampton P.Q., Canada. *********************** A SHORT DESCENDENCY CHART ********************** Any info you can add/correct will be appreciated. FIRST GENERATION Patrick Barney b. Ireland m1) Anastasia Cavanaugh - no children Patrick m2) Margaret Quigly, b. Canada - 4 sons (only have info for Thomas) SECOND GENERATION Thomas Barney, b. Canada m. Harriet Holden THIRD GENERATION Melentus L. Barney b. 5 Jun 1877; d. Eau Claire 1930 m. Ellen Bridges b. 2 Aug 1879; d. 1947 FOURTH GENERATION Helen M. Barney, b. 4 Jan 1914, Eau Claire, d. 3 Feb 1975, Eau Claire m. Meryle Albion Wickham, b.30 Apr 1912; d. 2 Nov 1986, Minneapolis, Hennepin, MN - 7 children. Meryle married a 2d time - no children. <:}}} Barbara in California

Posted on: EauClaire Co. Wi Query Forum Reply Here: http://genconnect.rootsweb.com/gc/USA/Wi/EauClaire/540 Surname: BOEHLER, BOHLER, RANECKER ------------------------- Seeking information on George BOHLER, resident of Twelve-Mile-Prairie, Eau Claire, WI (1860 Census info reported it as "St. Claire" County.) I suspect he may be a relative of my g-g-grandfather John BOEHLER, homesteader in nearby Chippewa County, WI in mid-1870s. John was born in Wonsheim, Rhinehessen, Hesse-Darmstadt, Ger. abt 1835. Immig. to U.S. 1852. John's parents: Henry BOHLER and Anna Maria JUNG. Thank you for any and all assistance.

Posted on: EauClaire Co. Wi Query Forum Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Wi/EauClaire/539 Surname: MICHELS ------------------------- Looking for help with anyone who has any access to the book "Cemeteries in Eau Claire County, Wisconsin: Volume 1". Am interested in the Joseph and Margaret Michels listed in this book, buried in HOLY GUARDIAN ANGELS CEMETERY in Eau Claire County. Researching my great great grandfather, and through land records, I know Joseph Michels owned land in 1869 in Eau Claire County. Cannot find what happened to Joseph and his wife, Margaretha, which may have been changed to Margaret, after they came to Wisconsin after arriving from Germany. Would appreciate any help.

Last Friday we started a new little story on old Indian trails in and around Eau Claire Co. I also put a map online so you could follow where the story was talking about. That map is located at http://www.rootsweb.com/~wieaucla/indiantrails.htm You might want to use it again for this next half of the story. I will also attempt to put this story on with the map when we are done. The writer, wishing to secure more information about the old Chippewa Falls - Menomonie Indian trail and learning of the familiarity of the Towne brothers with the subject, enlisted their assistance. In addition to the Chippewa Falls - Menomonie Indian trail, the Towne brothers also were able to give information in regard to the two other trails. One of these was known as the "Allen Trail" after H. S. Allen, pioneer lumber man of the Chippewa Valley. Evidently Mr. Allen's operations required considerable traffic between Chippewa and Menomonie, as largely or wholly at his own expense he made improvements on the old Indian trail, also for a part of the distance laid out an entirely new trail, which took his name. The Allen trail left the Indian trail several miles above Rock Run, crossing the Run some distance further up, and struck the Indian trail again some miles this side of the Run. After the Allen trail was in condition for travel, the corresponding part of the old Indian trail was little used. The writer with Mr. F. A. Towne, visited Rock Run stopping to note on the way evidences of the original trail, parts of which are now fenced in. This entire Rock Run ravine is unsuitable for plow land, and having been used for pasture only, the old land marks are fairly well preserved. No trace of the Indian trail is visible, but the Allen trail, on both sides of the Run is still plain. Of course the old bridge across the washed out channel has entirely disappeared. A third trail Mr. Towne was able to locate, and one of special interest to residents here, was a branch trail running north from what is now Eau Claire and connecting with the main trail already noted. This trail was in the Town 27, Range 9, now a part of Eau Claire. From the westside of Half Moon Lake this branch trail followed up the ravine where the present spur track is located, crossing the Truax Prairie road about where the Chippewa Falls road turns north, keeping some distance to the right of this road most of the way and striking the main trail just beyond where the present highway crosses the head of a deep ravine or gully. After the middle (18)'50s neither the Indian trail nor the Allen trail was much used by the Indians themselves. Surviving residents of Wheaton of the later '50s and early '60s state that instead of Indians, one of the most familiar sights in their recollections was the string of raftsmen returning on foot, to Chippewa Falls from Reed's Landing. In really early lumbering days there were two ways to get back to Eau Claire or Chippewa Falls after reaching Reed's Landing with their rafts. One method, and the most desirable, was to find an opportunity to help pole a loaded keel boat of supplies up river. Two raft crews just about made up a keel boat crew. Failing in finding a chance on a keel boat, the only other resource was to walk. Early lumber and river operations developed great walkers. Another early Wheaton resident, the late Mr. Leonard Gladwell, also recalls the early raftsmen. He stated that he had known his 1st wife's father to have walked the entire distance from Reed's Landing to his home in Wheaton in one day. Others had done as well, but as the distance cannot be much short of seventy miles, it was a real day's walk. The raftsmen's trail did not follow the Indian or Allen trail all the way to Menomonie, but branched off from it near Mud Creek, keeping closer to the river. Although its definite location has not been established, it is fairly certain that there was another trail leading northwest from what is now Eau Claire and connecting with the Chippewa Falls - Menomonie trail. According to tradition handed down to present living descendants of pioneer settlers, this branch trail probably corresponded fairly well with Highway 12, between here and Elk Mound. The late Peter Truax told the writer of following an Indian trail out to where he located his farm on what is now Truax Prairie, and Mrs. Truax told of walking to and from the village on this trail. It has often ben noted that the early Indian trails represented to a remarkable degree the most practical natural route of travel. For this reason they were largely used by the early white settlers. Neither the Indians nor the early settlers had any occasion to pay attention to a surveyor's lines. The principal difference lay in the fact that where the Indians were content to use them in their natural state the most progressive whites would see where, by grading, bridging of streams, or making other improvements, they could be made more serviceable, or the route shortened. The developments and transitions from the original Chippewa Falls - Menomonie Indian trail to the present highway is an excellent illustration of this. Increasing interest is being shown throughout the country in the locating and marking of early trails. Probably no other one in these parts is more worthy of commemoration than the Chippewa Falls - Menomonie trail. It may be of interest to call attention to the fact that the old plat of Township 28, Range 9 shows the "Blue Mills" pond, now Lake Hallie, also the J. C. Thomas sawmill, at the outlet of the pond, one of the earliest mills on the river. For nearly a half century the Thomas mill and the mills succeeding it were known as the "Blue Mills". The explanation given for the name was that one of its early proprietors was known as "Blue Tom". No one was guilty of painting a saw mill in those days. That there was a well known character on the river by the name of Blue Tom is unquestioned, and the surmise was that J. C. Thomas was the man. The writer came across in early files of the Eau Claire Free Press, under the date of March 22, 1860, the item quoted below which definitely settles the fact that his surmise was correct. DEATH OF OLD RESIDENT J. C. Thomas, familiarly known as "Blue Tom" died on Friday at Rose's logging camp, Little Falls, on the Chippewa River, from the effects of eating of parsnips taken from the garden where strychnine had been thrown for the purpose of poisoning foxes and wolves. He got up from the dinner table after partaking of them and in less than half an hour was a corpse. Another man by the name of Multy came near dying from the same cause. Mr. Thomas had been a resident of Chippewa county twenty-five years. ++++++++++++++++ That's the story and that's going to probably be it for this year for me. What with the holidays coming on fast (and my panic to get everything done in time!) I have decided to take a break from sending out these stories and working on web pages for a while. But don't worry, I'll be back at it after the first of the year. So I'll see you then and I'll also take this opportunity to wish each and every one of you a merry and blessed Christmas, along with a happy, healthy and prosperous New Year. Take care!!! -- Nance mailto:nsampson@spacestar.net

Hello everyone... Does anyone know if any information was taken about individuals applying for homesteads in Eau Claire? I have located a Land Grant for an Abraham Emerson dated 12/30/1874 and I am trying to determine if this person is one of my ancestors. Many thanks for any help you can provide. Linda Emerson Twain Harte, CA

I forgot to tell you in yesterday's post that today's topic is Old Indian Trails. This comes from the book "Sawdust City" and is written by Wm. W. Bartlett. I will look for a map to put up for you to be able to follow this. See the note below the story... Several years ago in looking over some Chippewa Valley township plats belonging to that veteran land man, the late L. V. Ripley, the writer was interested to note thereon a considerable number of Indian trails, some of them near this city. The plat of Township 28, Range 9 West was especially worthy of note. This township lies between Chippewa Falls and Eau Claire and is intersected by the Chippewa River. It is the portion lying on the west side of the river that is of special interest to us. (Nance's note: This township is actually in Chippewa Co. and is the Town of Hallie.) The Ripley plats are copies of the government surveys made not very long after these lands were ceded to the government by their Indian owners, and the original government plats are to be found at the United States Land Office in the Capitol at Madison. The plat of Township 28, Range 9, shows the old Chippewa Falls-Menomonie Indian trail, beginning at Chippewa Falls at the northeast corner and running diagonally across the township to the southwest corner, crossing the west line about three quarters of a mil north of the south line of the township. From this point the trails cut across the southeast corner of Township 28, Range 10, thence westerly into Dunn County, crossing Elk Creek in about the middle of Section 1, Township 27, Range 11. (Nance's note: this should say Range 10) (See map) Probably few persons who have driven to Chippewa Falls over the west side, or Wheaton road, are aware of the fact that for a considerable part of the way this highway follows exactly or very close to the old Chippewa Falls-Menomonie Indian trail. This old trail ran rather close to the river, but keeping on high ground and maintaining a fairly direct course. Where the trail now follows the present highway it ran east of it, nearer to the river, crossing what is known as Rock Run about a third of a mile from the river. Incidentally, it may be mentioned here that those who have not visited Rock Run have missed one of the most picturesque places near Eau Claire. It is also of historical interest, as having been the scene of the last encounter in these parts between members of the ever warring Sioux and Chippewa tribes. This one was in 1856 when two Sioux were killed and scalped, only a few rods from the old trail. Elish Ermatinger, now residing at Jim Falls, and who is a son of the old fur trader, James Ermatinger, states that he was a boy at some nine years of age when this event took place and clearly remembers the large number of Chippewa Indians that gathered on the small island at Jim Falls, with the scalps of the two Sioux braves hoisted on poles in their midst. After a noisy carousal of some hours, beginning to realize the seriousness of the situation, with possible retaliation by the Sioux, they quietly dispersed. Rock Run begins about two miles from the river, not far from the large silo and church (no torn down) on the highway to Chippewa Falls. Throughout most of its course it is ordinarily a dry ravine, but it drains considerable territory and at certain seasons holds a rushing stream, which has washed out a channel-like creek bed. At about the place where the old Indian trail crossed the Run numerous springs pour forth their waters in such abundance as to form a fair size creek. Nearer to the river the ravine widens, with numerous large trees, which with the abundance of pure spring water makes the place an ideal picnic spot. It it were more easily accessible it would be one of the most popular outing places within many miles. Those having boats on the river frequently visit it. The place can be reached fairly closely by auto, but only by crossing certain farms the lands which border on the Run. Doubtless there are no other individuals living who have the personal knowledge of the entire region in the vicinity of Rock Run, and of the location of the old trails as have the two brothers, F. A. Towne of this city and H. A. Towne of Wheaton. In the spring of 1857 their father opened up a farm in what is now the town of Wheaton (Chippewa Co.), and on which farm the younger brother, H. A. Towne still resides. As boys and young men they were both familiar with that entire country and with all t he early trails. An interesting but rather gruesome relic in the possession of Mr. H. A. Towne is no less than the jawbones of one of the Sioux killed in that last encounter already referred to. This, with a pipe and other specimens of Indian ornaments and utensils, were picked up on the bank of the Run close to the old trail. ++++++++++++++++++ I was able to find a map that shows the trails along with the layout of the land (townships and ranges). It has been posted at http://www.rootsweb.com/~wieaucla/indiantrails.htm Please use it as a reference to show where this and the other trails that we will be reading about are located. When we are finished with this story, I will put it on the website so all who visit will be able to see it. Enjoy! Have a great weekend, and we'll pick this story up again on Monday! -- Nance mailto:nsampson@spacestar.net

Posted on: EauClaire Co. Wi Query Forum Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Wi/EauClaire/538 Surname: Sparley ------------------------- Eau Claire County, Wisconsin re: your message on Ole E. Sparley family. Norman Theodore Sparley was my father. Ole E. Sparley was my Grandfather. Have detailed family history information.

As mentioned yesterday, we are reading about... The First Part White Family In Eau Claire The fact seems to be well established that a French fur-trader, Louis Demarie, in 1832, built a house on the west bank of the Chippewa, about opposite the mouth of the Eau Claire. Demarie and his wife were both interesting characters. They brought five sons and three daughters with them and intended establishing a trading post with the Indians. They were stopped near the mouth of the Eau Claire by some members of the Sioux tribe who demanded $300 consideration for a location on either stream and the privilege of trading with them. This was, doubtless, the cause of their selecting a spot a little in the rear of the west bank of the Chippewa as the site for a log cabin which they erected nearly opposite the mouth of the Eau Claire to serve as a house and store. They remained in their new dwelling one winter and returned to Prairie du Chien. The next two winters were spent higher up the Chippewa and in 1838 they settled at the Falls as fur traders. Demarie was 85 years old in 1881. Louis Demarie is said to have started the tradition or superstition, "If a goose can stand on the ice of Half Moon on November 11, it will stand upon mud by Christmas. If it can swim on the lake on November 11, a severe winter may be expected." Margaret Demarie married Mr. Lamb, the first settler at Dunville. Rosalie married Arthur McCann and after McCann was shot by Sawyer married George P. Warren. Another of the girls, a half sister, Mary, married H. S. Allen after a courtship which began when the girl lived in Chippewa Falls. The family provisions ran low and Mary and Rosalie, in the spring of 1838, were sent on horseback to Menomonie, the nearest store, to replenish the larder. Allen, who ran the store in Menomonie, fell in love with Mary. They were married and lived for a while in Menomonie and later moved to Chippewa Falls. Hiram S. Allen was born in Chelsea, Vermont in 1806. In 1834 he poled a keel boat up the Menomonie River and remained in the vicinity engaged in logging and manufacturing of lumber until 1846 when he moved to Chippewa Falls and engaged in the same business. He entered the first land there, laid out the town, built the first grist mill, flouring mill, and started the first farm. Senate bill #35, 1849, gave Allen permission to construct a boom in the Chippewa River at the head of the falls, to be built in such a way as not to obstruct the passage of rafts. Hiram and Mary had nine children; three sons and three daughters survived Hiram who died in 1886. The schools, banks and businesses closed for his funeral. Randall, in his "History of the Chippewa Valley" says that Batisette, son of Louis Demarie was shot dead in a drunken quarrel by Frank Donaldson from Missouri. In the vault of the Eau Claire library is an old picture from the collection of the Old Settlers showing two men and two women beside a tent and labeled, "The old man sitting beside the wigwam is Batiste DeMarie, son of Louis DeMarie who built the first house in the limits of what is now Eau Claire. He worked on the river and in the pineries in the Chippewa Valley and served as a soldier in the Civil War, and in his later years lived in Court de Oreilles Indian Reservation where this picture was taken in 1905. He died Christmas, 1906." -- Nance mailto:nsampson@spacestar.net

Today's segment is about the 1825 Sioux-Chippewa Treaty. This comes from the Lois Barland book "Sawdust City" and is used by permission for the purpose of using it on this mail list. A very important Indian Council was held in Prairie du Chien at which time the boundary lines between various tribes were fixed especially those between the constantly warring Sioux and Chippewa. As the line between these two tribes as adopted by this council ran directly through what is now the city of Eau Claire, the subject becomes one of real local interest. At an early period the Sioux tribe not only occupied this immediate vicinity, but also a considerable portion of what is now Wisconsin, and beyond its borders. Gradually the more powerful Chippewas, working their way down from the north dispossessed the former. At the beginning of the last century (1800) we find both tribes in this valley, with no definite and accepted boundaries between them and continually at war with each other. The strip of land, averaging some twenty miles wide, between the Chippewa River and the Red Cedar, which flows through Menomonie, was claimed by both tribes and was designated the "Road of War." With the hope of putting an end to this unfortunate condition of affairs, the United States government, in 1825, called a council, not only at the representatives of the Sioux and Chippewa tribes, but also of the lesser tribes in this section of the United States. It was an important gathering and it was hoped to make a very general settlement of boundary lines. The full official report of this council is included in the records of the U. S. government, in volume 2 of Indian Affairs, Laws and Treaties, and may be found in the Eau Claire public library. The U. S. government was represented by Wm. Clark, and Lewis Cass; the Sioux tribe by some thirty-seven of its chiefs and head men; the Chippewas by some forty-eight and other tribes interested by lesser numbers. We are interested on in that boundary line between the Sioux and Chippewa tribes, and only in so much as lies in our immediate vicinity. We quote a part; "It is agreed between the Sioux and the Chippewas that the line dividing their respective countries shall commence at the Chippewa River, a half day's march below the falls; and from thence to the St. Croix River." etc. In another paragraph the boundary line is followed in the other direction from this point. "A half day's march below the falls". Thos. Randall in his 'History of the Chippewa Valley' places it at the mouth of Mud Creek, some twelve or fifteen miles below the Eau Claire River. This is doubtless a mistake. Mr. R. K. Boyd of this city, makes Little Niagara as the point, basing his selection of this location principally on t he claim that a day's march of the Indians was reckoned at about twenty miles, and that Little Niagara is approximately half of that distance below the "Falls." Mr. Boyd also states that when going down the Chippewa River on a lumber raft, many years ago, as Little Niagara was reached the French raft pilot exclaimed, "Look out for the Sioux". It appears to have been a tradition among the French river men that at this particular point the raft was entering Sioux territory. We agree with Mr. Boyd that Little Niagara is the point mentioned in the treaty, but there is more direct and positive evidence on the subject than he has given. Several years ago the writer (W. W. Bartlett) came across the record of an official survey of this line between the Chippewa River and Cedar Falls in the Historical Society archives at Madison. This survey was made not long after the date of the Prairie du Chien treaty. On this survey we find the surveyors taking Cedar Falls as the starting point instead of the point on the Chippewa River. Starting from a point immediately below Cedar Falls the line ran "south fifty nine degrees east, twenty miles to the Chippewa River." Several years ago, taking a good map and with the assistance of a practical land man, we laid out this line on the map, and as near as we could judge, it struck the Chippewa just at Little Niagara. Accepting Little Niagara as the proper point, we find all of north and west sides of the city of Eau Claire, except lower seventh ward and Shawtown, in Chippewa territory, and the remainder of the city in Sioux territory. The Shawtown bridge is entirely in Sioux territory and the Madison Street bridge in Chippewa territory. -- by W. W. Bartlett +++++++++++++++++++++ After my dad passed away, we found arrowheads that he had kept. My mother told us that my grandfather (dad's dad), when a young boy, found these arrowheads in the fields of his father's farm by Fairchild. And there were alot of them! Anyway, next time we'll be reading about the first 'part white' family in Eau Claire. -- Nance mailto:nsampson@spacestar.net

-----Original Message----- From: Nance Sampson <nsampson@spacestar.net> To: WIEAUCLA-L@rootsweb.com <WIEAUCLA-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Tuesday, December 12, 2000 7:46 AM Subject: [WIEAUCLA] The Beginnings of ECC, 12 November 2000 >The following story is from the book "Sawdust City" by Lois Barland. >This is the very beginning of the book and at first I was going to skip >over it. But this lays the groundwork for what is to come later, plus >it's interesting! So here we go with "The Beginnings of Eau Claire >County." > > The Chippewa Valley in the sixteenth century belonged to England but >was occupied by the Indians and the French fur traders. There was a >French village at Green Bay and one at Prairie du Chien. The French >bought furs from the Indians, trading guns for beaver skins. The price >of a gun was a pile of beaver skins, well pressed down, as high as the >gun was long; and guns made for the Indian trade were never made short. > The first white person to visit the area and leave any written >account was Captain Jonathan Carver. In 1767 he visited St. Anthony >Falls, Minnesota (Minneapolis), came down the Mississippi tot he mouth >of the Chippewa River, then up the Chippewa through what is now Eau >Claire on to Chippewa Falls and on up to Superior. Ten years later he >wrote a book, an account of his travels which ran several editions. The >Eau Claire library has a rare copy of the second edition, published in >London in 1779 which contains a map. The Minnesota State Historical >Society gave Mr. W. W. Bartlett photographic copies of an earlier map. >Both show our smaller river as River Rufus. > The Sacs and the Fox were to the south, the Winnebagoes and the >Menomonies east in the region of Green Bay. Along the Mississippi the >Sioux or Dakota Indians had their villages. Between us and the >Mississippi was a great country for game, buffalo, elk, and deer in >great numbers. Carver says that on the Chippewa River the buffalo were >larger and more plentiful than in any other place in his travels. > Two half breed traders, LaDuc and Penasha built a cabin about 1784 >on the west side of the river across from Mt. Simon. A few years later >there was a trading post at the head of the rapids about a mile above >where the Eau Claire paper mill now stands. > LaDuc and Penasha were not white men, but they were white enough to >be crafty traders for they got into trouble with a party of Chippewas >and were besieged in their cabin for several days. They killed two >Chippewas and the rest went up the river for help. As soon as the >Indians were out of sight, the traders packed up and moved down river to >do their trading with the Sioux Indians who had a large village on the >Mississippi near the mouth of the Chippewa River. > The period between 1830 and 1850 saw the depletion of wild game to a >large extent. The buffalo had been killed off or driven to the west, >the elk were becoming scarce, for unlike his smaller cousin, the crafty >deer, the elk is large and stupid and cannot conceal himself; so he is >easily approached and killed off by hunters. > The French voyagers in extending their traffic in furs, came from >Prairie du Chien, up the Chippewa River in their long log canoes called >pirogues, and named some of our smaller streams. At the mouth of what >is now called the Eau Galle River they found a heavy gravel bar, called >galet (pronounced glaay) in their language, and so they called the >stream La Riviere au Galet, the River of the Gravel Bank. When they >reached the present site of Eau Claire, t hey observed that the river >coming in from the east, was quite clear as compared with the water of >the Chippewa which was of a dark coffee color, being stained by needles >of the tamarac trees which grow in the large swamps. So they named the >river La Riviere del' Eau Claire, the River of Clear Water. > Sioux is the abbreviation of Naudousessioux, signifying enemy. They >called themselves Dakotas. When Father Hennepin first came in contact >with this tribe, in 1760, they were located in the vicinity of the Great >Lakes, but laid claim to indefinitely defined territory extending west >to the Rocky Mountains. > The name Chippewa is a corruption by English speaking people of the >Indian name Ojibway. They were a high type of Indian. The entire upper >Chippewa Valley had for several centuries been their home. > The Ojibways originated on the Atlantic coast, migrated west to >LaPointe on Lake Superior (Madeline Island) about 500 years ago and >roughly 400 years since they were discovered by white men. > >++++++++++++++ > >Tomorrow, we'll read about the 1825 Sioux-Chippewa Treaty. Cya! > >-- >Nance >mailto:nsampson@spacestar.net > > >

The following story is from the book "Sawdust City" by Lois Barland. This is the very beginning of the book and at first I was going to skip over it. But this lays the groundwork for what is to come later, plus it's interesting! So here we go with "The Beginnings of Eau Claire County." The Chippewa Valley in the sixteenth century belonged to England but was occupied by the Indians and the French fur traders. There was a French village at Green Bay and one at Prairie du Chien. The French bought furs from the Indians, trading guns for beaver skins. The price of a gun was a pile of beaver skins, well pressed down, as high as the gun was long; and guns made for the Indian trade were never made short. The first white person to visit the area and leave any written account was Captain Jonathan Carver. In 1767 he visited St. Anthony Falls, Minnesota (Minneapolis), came down the Mississippi tot he mouth of the Chippewa River, then up the Chippewa through what is now Eau Claire on to Chippewa Falls and on up to Superior. Ten years later he wrote a book, an account of his travels which ran several editions. The Eau Claire library has a rare copy of the second edition, published in London in 1779 which contains a map. The Minnesota State Historical Society gave Mr. W. W. Bartlett photographic copies of an earlier map. Both show our smaller river as River Rufus. The Sacs and the Fox were to the south, the Winnebagoes and the Menomonies east in the region of Green Bay. Along the Mississippi the Sioux or Dakota Indians had their villages. Between us and the Mississippi was a great country for game, buffalo, elk, and deer in great numbers. Carver says that on the Chippewa River the buffalo were larger and more plentiful than in any other place in his travels. Two half breed traders, LaDuc and Penasha built a cabin about 1784 on the west side of the river across from Mt. Simon. A few years later there was a trading post at the head of the rapids about a mile above where the Eau Claire paper mill now stands. LaDuc and Penasha were not white men, but they were white enough to be crafty traders for they got into trouble with a party of Chippewas and were besieged in their cabin for several days. They killed two Chippewas and the rest went up the river for help. As soon as the Indians were out of sight, the traders packed up and moved down river to do their trading with the Sioux Indians who had a large village on the Mississippi near the mouth of the Chippewa River. The period between 1830 and 1850 saw the depletion of wild game to a large extent. The buffalo had been killed off or driven to the west, the elk were becoming scarce, for unlike his smaller cousin, the crafty deer, the elk is large and stupid and cannot conceal himself; so he is easily approached and killed off by hunters. The French voyagers in extending their traffic in furs, came from Prairie du Chien, up the Chippewa River in their long log canoes called pirogues, and named some of our smaller streams. At the mouth of what is now called the Eau Galle River they found a heavy gravel bar, called galet (pronounced glaay) in their language, and so they called the stream La Riviere au Galet, the River of the Gravel Bank. When they reached the present site of Eau Claire, t hey observed that the river coming in from the east, was quite clear as compared with the water of the Chippewa which was of a dark coffee color, being stained by needles of the tamarac trees which grow in the large swamps. So they named the river La Riviere del' Eau Claire, the River of Clear Water. Sioux is the abbreviation of Naudousessioux, signifying enemy. They called themselves Dakotas. When Father Hennepin first came in contact with this tribe, in 1760, they were located in the vicinity of the Great Lakes, but laid claim to indefinitely defined territory extending west to the Rocky Mountains. The name Chippewa is a corruption by English speaking people of the Indian name Ojibway. They were a high type of Indian. The entire upper Chippewa Valley had for several centuries been their home. The Ojibways originated on the Atlantic coast, migrated west to LaPointe on Lake Superior (Madeline Island) about 500 years ago and roughly 400 years since they were discovered by white men. ++++++++++++++ Tomorrow, we'll read about the 1825 Sioux-Chippewa Treaty. Cya! -- Nance mailto:nsampson@spacestar.net

Here's more on the Indian scare that occurred in 1862 in Eau Claire. This portion of the story elaborates more on the first story that we read last week from the "History of Eau Claire County Wisconsin, 1914". Today's version is from "Sawdust City" by Lois Barland. Mr. Parker who lived in Grant's Pass, Oregon in 1920, gave his recollections of the Indian scare. "In consequence, I believe, of a treaty naming Eau Claire part of a sort of 'deadline' we seldom saw any Indians there. I remember going with my mother once to the McLellan stopping place, on the Sparta stage road some seventeen miles from Eau Claire. We had known the family in Sauk county. While at the stopping place a man by the name of Hill, who made his home at McLellan's came in with about a half a dozen Indians. They were given their dinner. I remember that some of them had on pants or leggings made from the grain sacks in use in those days. I was nine years old at the time of the Indian scare in Eau Claire. My recollection is that Sunday, August 31, 1862, was the critical day, and my memory in regard to some parts of that occasion is very vivid. There had been rumors for several days that the Indians were liable to rise and on Saturday a meeting of the men on the West side was held to make arrangements for defense. A company was formed, with Daniel Shaw as Captain and Noah Shaw as Lieutenant. They armed as many as they could with guns, and the rest with pitchforks. My father carried the latter. It was arranged that the ringing of the Congregational church bell should be the signal for the mustering in of the company. On the East side a German by the name of Hantzch, a saloon keeper and distiller, who had received military training in Germany, was put in general charge. His place of business was near the Bangs and Fish planing mill. Sunday morning I was in the front yard with one of the Pond girls. Bill Pond lived in the house next to ours, which was built by my uncle Alfred, and we saw a man running past so nearly exhausted that he could scarcely go faster than a walk, and yelling, "Indians" every few minutes. I think he was minus his hat. We found out afterwards that it was Charlie Bangs who lived on Elk Creek, about eight miles west of the village, where he had a private trout pond. He reported that he could see his neighbors' grain and haystack burning and that he had hurried on afoot to warn the people in the village, leaving the rest of the family to come with the ox team. It was said that the family left in such a hurry that one of the children was forgotten, but I will not vouch for that. I rushed into the house and told my father and mother. While we were talking the church bell began to ring. It was said that Billy Gans, the ferryman, stuck his head in the church door and yelled "Indians" and the congregation never waited for the benediction. Dinner had just been put on the table, but mother and I did not want any. Father said he was not going to fight Indians on an empty stomach, and he ate his dinner, while mother buried her limited stock of silverware in the garden and made other arrangements for leaving the house. Father left to join his company, and mother and I went to the residence of L. T. Chandler, who had a horse and buggy. They were intimate friends of ours, and had boarded at our house a good deal, Mrs. Chandler's health being poor. They were prominent Baptists and while they were with us the Baptist church was organized in our house. When mother and I arrived at Chandlers, Mr. Chandler hurried out to harness the horse but soon came back and said to his wife, "Where is the baptismal robe?" "Good land," said Mrs. Chandler, "who wants to be baptized now?" "Nobody," said Mr. Chandler, "they want the lead in it." While we were waiting I saw Ed Partlow running back and forth in the street crying, "The Indians are coming, what we do? They will kill us all." It was said, I do not know with how much truth, that Jim Harminson was found, after the excitement was all over, hid under a porch. Jim was no coward, as I had occasion to see for myself in after years. When the City of Eau Claire was incorporated, Jim Harminson and George McVicar were appointed the first policemen for the west side. One Fourth of July I was walking along Water Street, when I saw a man come headlong out of a saloon on the opposite side of the street. He had evidently been kicked out. Presently another man came out and jumped off the sidewalk on top of him. Others joined in, and soon there was as pretty a fight as you ever saw. George McVicar was near by, but made not effort to stop it. Several special policemen took a hand, but made little impression. Finally, I saw Jim Harminson come around the corner by Alber Dodge's drug store on the run, and he started in as if he meant business. Frank Cole, a big huskie "State of Mainer" was in the center of the disturbance, and Jim commenced pushing men out of the way so he could get at Cole. "One Arm McCarthy" struck him in the back. Him gave McCarthy a whirl then turned him over to Charley Seaman, one of the specials. At first Cole resisted arrest, but Jim soon convinced him he had better quit. That ended the fight. To return to the Chandler residence and the Indian scare. Mr. Chandler hitched up his horse and took us to the Marston building on the east side, which had been selected as one of the 'forts.' When we got up town we saw a great many people, some going one way and some another, but all with looks of anxiety on their faces. I recall two of them. One was Fred Kitzner's little old German mother, who had some things tied up in a red bandanna handkerchief. (Fred Kitzner was toll keeper of the first Chippewa bridge.) Another was a lame man by the name of Harvey. Some one said to him, "What are you going to do if the Indians come? You can't run." "Well," he said, "I can hide." As we drove on to the ferry boat, a party of mounted men, I think there were twenty-one of them, came off the boat. They were going out scouting. The only one I remember was Eugene Andrews, brother of Mrs. Bill Pond. When we got to the Marston building we found a number of men working as hard as they could, barricading the building with timber from Chapman and Thorp's mill. This is all I remember personally of the famous Indian scare, but my mother has told me that the mothers put their children to sleep on the floor and sat and watched them all night. She said Mrs. C. A. Bullen would look at her four children and say, "If the rebels want them killed why do they not come up here and kill them themselves instead of stirring up the Indians to do it?" One of the stories as to the cause of the scare was to the effect that a trapper and hunter, Jim Buck, by name, who had been much with the Indians, came into town that day and said he had seen one hundred and fifty Indians in their war paint on Boree's bottoms. It was said that the next day when a scouting party came back and reported no signs of Indians, Buck was taken before a Justice of the Peace and made to swear as to the truth of his story, and that they then took him, and a rope, down to where Buck claimed to see the Indians. if no singes of Indians were found the party intended to hang him. On the way down he got away from them and was never seen in those parts for many years." (Note: In the early days the flat at the top of the hill below the end of the Shawtown car line was known as Boree's prairie, Charley Boree being the first settler there. Boree's bottoms lies between this high ground and the river. There is a small lake there, still known as Boree's Lake.) W. H. Smith recalled his experiences that day; "We were eating dinner when Mrs. W. T. Weber came in to tell us '500 Indians were on the way here on the war path, between Chippewa Falls and Eau Claire'." Mrs. Smith and Mr. Weber immediately went up town and opened their store, located on the corner of Barstow and Gray Streets. Mr. Smith said, "The streets were crowded with excited people. Many rushed into the store for shot and powder but as not money was forthcoming, we finally closed, keeping back some ammunition, in case of need. Those in the army of Col. Hantzch, who had not a gun, were armed with the sharpened end of a lightning rod. Major W. Pitt Bartlett, mounted on a white horse, and armed with an ancient horse pistol, was riding up and down the streets, sounding the alarm and the call to arms. The Court House Square was soon crowded with teams and wagons filled with people from the country who camped there all day and all night. A report came back that Jim Rork on Elk Creek had sent word that grain stacks were being burned at Elk Mound. People were so excited they tore the planks up from bridges leading out of the city towards Shawtown." During the night, some of the people were hungry so Mr. Smith and Mr. Weber under an armed guard, crossed the street to the Smith garden to pick some watermelons. Marston Hall was also crowded with people all day and night. Some people were so frightened that they left town, never returning. Mr. and Mrs. Manley on the west corner of Farwell and Jones Streets, left a new home partly completed, afterward selling it for a price lower than its worth. A farmer drove in from Truax Prairie with a horse and cow hitched together. In the wagon was family, coffee pot and some coffee. The recent Indian massacre at Mankato, Minnesota, made people frightened beyond all reason. It was Monday night before quiet reigned and people returned to their homes, assured no Indians were within a hundred miles of Eau Claire. +++++++++++++ So now you know the rest of the story (gee, I feel like Paul Harvey!) And there are so many more interesting pieces of history in this book and the sister book to this one, I think we'll start at the beginning and go through them -- as long as I have permission to use them in this way. We will begin reading "In the Beginning -- Eau Claire in the 1850's" the next time we get together. -- Nance mailto:nsampson@spacestar.net

Posted on: EauClaire Co. Wi Query Forum Reply Here: http://genconnect.rootsweb.com/gc/USA/Wi/EauClaire/537 Surname: Bruden ------------------------- Thanks for responding to my message, I am not sure if these lines are connected but with so few Brudens and the same locale you would think so. Ole Olesen Bruheim Bruden married Anna Pedersdatter Skamser in 1865 in Eau Claire. They had the following children- Karina "Carrie", Matia, Olina, Peter Ole, Peder Olnous, Mattia Severina, another Peder Olnous, Anna Emile and Peter Tobias. Ole Olesen Bruden had a brother, I believe- Iver Bruden and a sister, Ronnog. Contact me directly if this line interests you. My contact with the Bruden family comes much later in this line. Thanks.

Posted on: EauClaire Co. Wi Query Forum Reply Here: http://genconnect.rootsweb.com/gc/USA/Wi/EauClaire/535 Surname: BOEHLER, RANECKER, SIPMANER, PINTER, DEUTSCH, SPAETH, SCHOTT, SCHLOTT, STEINBAKKE, HOLO, LARSON, SKJAKOYGARD, OLSON, TEIGEN, STOVER, STEVER, LUND, BRUDEN, BROECKER, SCHUSS, KIRSCHNER, HABECK, SCHULTZ, NINNEMANG, WEHLING, PRESH, WEHLING, SCHULZ, JUNG, WAGNER, DAMM ------------------------- Anita, I haven't done much research into my Norwegian lines at all, but I do have BRUDENs you might be interested in. Ole O. BRUDEN married Cary ----. Their daughter was Thora Olsdatter BRUDEN (b. 1829, d. 1898 in Eau Claire,) who married Lars Ingebrigtsen STOVER (who became "Louis STEVER.") Lars and Thora's children were: Engebert Olaus, Ellen Theolina, Martin Severn, Tena Andrena, Odin Elias, Carrie Anna, Eleanor Ann, Gora Emelia, Annie Severena, Olenna Irene, and my great-grandmother, Laura Caroline STEVER (b. 1888, d. 1963 in Eau Claire.) Let me know if any of these names sound promising to your research.

Apparently Eau Claire was not the only place that went into a panic over the famous 1862 Indian Scare. The following is a portion of what Lois Barland wrote in her book "Sawdust City" about the topic. I know this first segment is more geared toward Dunn Co., but this material is so good, I thought you'd like to read this too. Also, please note, this is copyrighted material. I have secured permission from the Barland family to use these materials for this mailing list and the Eau Claire Co. WIGenWeb site. Using this material for any other purpose is prohibited. THE INDIAN SCARE The sixties went down in the history of Eau Claire as the time of an event, which, while more or less serious, certainly was chiefly ludicrous. Of this event the local press made only this comment: "We have no relish for reproducing the particulars of the silly panic which seized the people of the entire Chippewa Valley on Sunday and Monday last (August 31 and Sept. 1, 1862) in consequence of a rumor that hostilities had been commenced by the Chippewa Indians against the whites of this region." The following account of the Indian scare was written by Mrs. Naoma Doolittle and read for the old settlers of Dunn County. It was the first year of the Civil War, I think, about the last of August. The Knapp-Stout Company had been logging above Rice Lake, somewhere near Couderay, and in the spring dammed up all the little streams to raise the water so they could float their logs down to Rice Lake. In so doing they had filled up all the rice swamps along the streams and destroyed the Indian rice. This caused a great deal of dissatisfaction among the Chippewas. There had been much grumbling and some threats. Some time in July, the Indians in Minnesota had an uprising and massacred a number of the inhabitants and the story was that the Chippewas were preparing to do the same thing, which of course caused great alarm. All the farmers on Elk Creek and Mud Creek met at the Downsville mill and formed a homeguard. In case the Indians had an uprising they were to send their families to Downsville. Downs had a great many men in his employ and they were to be with the home guards too. Captain Andrew Tainter had a great deal of influence with the Indians. It was said that Tainter had gone up to Rice Lake to see if he could settle the trouble with them and some of the guards were to go to Menomonie and find out and report. So one Saturday, two of our neighbors, George Smith and John Garnet, went to Menomonie to see if the trouble was settled. Sunday afternoon Mr. Doolittle and I went to Smith's to hear what news he had brought home, but Smith and Garnet had not returned. We had not been there long before we heard some one whooping and screaming in the road. We all rushed to the door to find out the cause. A man came running toward us swinging his hat and calling at the top of his voice, "Fly for your lives, the Indians are coming. They are now on Mud Creek prairie killing and burning all before them. There is a man on horseback notifying all the people." Mrs. Smith got her children ready and started them for Downsville along a foot path near the river. She said the Indians would not get there in time to see them. Then she began carrying her provisions out and hiding them in the cornfield. (She did not intend leaving them anything to eat) and we started for home. When we reached home, which was only half a mile, Mr. Doolittle said, "We had better fortify right here. I can shoot from the upstair window." I said, "No, they would set fire to the house and burn us out." So we decided to go to Downsville with our boat, so we gathered up a few little things, taking the bread I had baked Saturday and the roll of butter I had churned. Mr. Doolittle took his two guns and we floated down the river to Downsville. When we came in sight of the place there was great excitement. People were hurrying across the bridge with their families in wagons, and some even had their household goods on the wagons. We landed and went up to Down's house, where we found the Downs family just getting into their wagon to flee from the Indians too. He had left his house wide open and told the folks to go in if they wanted to and help themselves for he thought the Indians would destroy everything. There was a big flat boat in the river and many men were putting their wives and children on this to go farther down the river. One man said to his wife as he put her on, "God bless you, Betty, we may never meet again." Old Mr. Powell, after putting his wife aboard, called out, "Good bye, old woman. I am going to stay and kill the papooses, for nits will make lice." Mr. Doolittle said, "You and the boys go on the boat as all the women are." I said, "Are you coming, too?" He answered, "No, not I." "Then I will stay too," I replied. He urged me to go, but I said, "No, I am going to stay and help fight the Indians." We went up to the house where there were about thirty men (not one woman). They were all standing around in the yard, I walked out and said, "Now if any of you men want to go, just leave me your gun." They said, "If one woman has courage enough to stay, we will all stay." "If I cannot have a gun, I will have to resort to hot water," I told them. So we built a fire and put on the wash boiler and soon had plenty of boiling water to throw on the Indians, but no Indians appeared. The guards sent some men out on horseback to reconnoiter. They road over toward Mud Creek. All was quiet; not a soul to be seen. After the men came back and reported, they then started some guards after the fugitives. They thought they would have to do some fast driving to overtake them, but in this they were mistaken, for the people had not traveled too fast after crossing the river. They were in the woods now and out of sight of the pursuers, so they overtook some of them and these returned. Others had traveled on faster and got as far as Dunnville, Durand, and even Reed's Landing. They did not get back for several days. Everyone was mighty glad it was only a scare. About five o'clock, the guards said they thought it was time to have something to eat after such excitement. The millboys went to their cook's shanty and brought bread, fried cakes, eggs, coffee and sugar, and with my new bread and butter, we had quite a supper. As they sat around the long table, all seemed quite jolly after the scare. But poor old Mr. Powell had not had a chance to shoot a papoose, much to his sorrow. We remained at Downsville until the next morning and then went to our homes. The real truth of the scare was this; some boys were out hunting that Sunday and went into a farmer's cornfield to hunt his melon patch. When they saw the farmer come out of his house they fired off their guns and gave several whoops. Of course he thought they were Indians. He ran to his barn, got out a horse and started his boy off on horseback to warn the people. And by the time the story got to us, the Indians were killing and burning everything in their way. When Captain Tainter got back from Rice Lake he said the Indians had had a scare also and were going north. They had heard the soldiers were after them, and they were not ready to fight. ++++++++++++ On Monday, we'll read the beginning of the eye-witness report of the Eau Claire scare. It elaborates a little bit more on what we've read previously. See you then! -- Nance mailto:nsampson@spacestar.net

Posted on: EauClaire Co. Wi Query Forum Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Wi/EauClaire/533 Surname: Stenbro ------------------------- I seek information about my grandfather's brother Carl Magnus Stenbro, born 27/8-1884 in Mosjoen, Norway died June 1970 in 54701 Eau Claire. Former employee by Gillette Rubber Co. We know nothing about his life, did he have any family etc ??

As promised, here is the short story of what happened to terrorize the city of Eau Claire back in 1862. This is Chapter 22 in the book "History of Eau Claire County, Wisconsin, 1914" Reign of Terror in Eau Claire Early in August, 1862, bands of the Sioux Indians fell upon New Ulm and other towns in Minnesota, murdering men, women and children, and sending terror into every settlement. Stories of these deeds were widely spread and magnified until the atmosphere was laden with terror and tidings of danger sent abroad without reason. In the early morning of the last Sunday of this month a dense fog rested upon the Chippewa Valley, and many whose nerves were shaken with vague fears fancied that they saw savages lurking in the woods. The whole country became panic stricken, the wildest tales were believed, "a thousand of the fiends lurked in the big swamp and on the Chippewa bottoms," in short, all through the valley. The farmers around the town gathered here, bringing additional stories of savages in ambush, smoke rising from burning houses, etc. The churches were quickly emptied, a committee of safety was appointed, and women and children assembled in Marston's Hall, which was chosen as a fort of defense on the east side, while the home of O. H. Ingram served the same purpose on the west side of the river. W. P. Bartlett bore the rank of major, having received his commission from the governor previously, but he agreed with the citizens in the choice of a tried soldier as leader. This proved to be E. R. Hantzsch, a gallant follower of walker in his expedition against Nicaragua in 1855. He organized and drilled his forces, armed them with rifles, pitchforks, scythes and spades, sent out patrols to guard the streets and scouting parties to watch for the foe, and did all that valor, experience and zeal could put forth against the real and imminent danger. The few hotels as well as the improvised forts were filled with women and children who had thronged in from the country for miles around. The day passed, citizens and refugees alike were forcibly alive to sounds which might mean attack from the dreaded Indians. At nightfall mothers hushed their children to sleep and longed for daybreak. Valorous citizens of every rank, profession or trade, were at their stations of defense, with pike pole, axe and shotgun listening for the stealthy tread of the wily Sioux. But at sunrise the cheerful mien of the brave defenders proved that the foe had existed only in the imaginations of excited minds, refugees returned to their deserted homes, village housewives replenished their pantry shelves, which had been freely emptied to feed the invading hosts, and returned to customary duties with thankful heart -- the valley settled down to its wanted calm -- and "the Indian scare" became an idle tale to furnish amusement in days to come. Mr. Thomas McBean has to say in regard to an article published in a neighboring newspapers wherein Mr. Warren L. Bradshaw, of Durand, mentioned an incident which occurred in the lower Chippewa Valley, in which the Chippewa and Sioux Indians met in conflict near Chippewa Falls and three Chippewas were scalped. "It calls to my mind," says Mr. McBean, "that when I came to Chippewa in 1856 the talk was still fresh of a fight between the Chippewas and the Sioux on the bluff across from the Chippewa river from the Blue Mills (no Lake Hallie) that occurred in the fall of 1855. At that time and for years before the big woods over on the Menomonie was the dividing line between the hostile Chippewas and the Sioux. 'Thus far thou shalt come but no farther,' was the war cry, although they fought wherever they met. On this occasion a band of Sioux crossed the 'dead line' and were met by a band of Chippewas on the Chippewa Bluff, and an all day fight in the woods and brush took place. Who were victorious it was hard to tell, for as night came on the Sioux decamped for a 'Happier hunting ground.' The Chippewas came to the Falls with the mangled remains of their Sioux left on the field of battle, and as the braves marched back, around their necks hung the trophies of war; some had a head, some an arm, others a leg and different parts of the anatomy decorated the valiant warriors. That night a big war dance was held over by the big mill, bonfires were lit, the tom-toms brought into play, and the night was spent in a grand pow-wow. This, it is said, was the last fight that took place between the Chippewas and the Sioux on Wisconsin soil." +++++++++++++++ More of these stories can be found in Lois Barland's two books, "Sawdust City" and "The Rivers Flow On". I think we'll take a break from this large history book that we've been reading out of and turn our focus on these two books for a while. Would that be agreeable to you? -- Nance mailto:nsampson@spacestar.net

Posted on: EauClaire Co. Wi Query Forum Reply Here: http://genconnect.rootsweb.com/gc/USA/Wi/EauClaire/531 Surname: SHARP, RICHARDS, GREEN ------------------------- See my queries posted 6 Dec 2000 on this Eau Claire County board for new info on marriages of Elvira/Alvira Sharp and her sister, Sarah Louisa.

Posted on: EauClaire Co. Wi Query Forum Reply Here: http://genconnect.rootsweb.com/gc/USA/Wi/EauClaire/530 Surname: SHARP, RICHARDS, EBERT, HUBBARD ------------------------- Marriage record 02841 on pp. 65-66 of Eau Claire County records shows the wedding of Sarah Louise Sharp on 31 Oct 1869. The religious ceremony was performed by C. F. Ebert of Chippewa Falls. The witnesses were Edward [Somminjin???] and Christina Hubbard. The bride's father was Martin Sharp. The only info missing is the name of the groom and the names of his parents!! The groom was shown as a lumberman living in the Town of Washington.

Posted on: EauClaire Co. Wi Query Forum Reply Here: http://genconnect.rootsweb.com/gc/USA/Wi/EauClaire/529 Surname: GREEN, SHARP, RICHARDS ------------------------- Just found the marriage record for Marion W. Green, a farmer of Washington, Eau Claire County, Wisconsin, who married Elvira [or Alvira] L. Sharp in Washington Township on 24 Oct 1869. Mr. Green was born in Allegany County, New York, son of Erastus and Z. A. Green. Elvira was daughter of Martin and Louisa (Richards) Sharp. Would like any info on this couple and their children.