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    1. VANDERBILT, Sovina
    2. Posted on: Green Co. Wi Biographies Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Wi/GreenBios/10101 Surname: VANDERBILT, REED, CAIN, YOUNG ------------------------- "History of Green County, Wisconsin," published 1884 by Union Publishing Company, Springfield, IL, @ pg 1074: Mrs. Sovina Vanderbilt, widow of John N.H. Vanderbilt, lives on section 7, town of Spring Grove. Mrs. Vanderbilt is a daughter of the late Evan Young, of the town of Jefferson. She lives on the property of her late husband consisting originally of 200 acres, a part of the original purchase of Daniel Vanderbilt, made in 1845. They were married July 24, 1851, and lived two years after marriage at the home of Mrs. Vanderbilt's father; then lived in Spring Grove. Mr. Vanderbilt enlisted in the army Feb. 26, 1862, and died Dec. 4, 1864, in Andersonville Prison. He was born July 30, 1828. Mrs. Vanderbilt was born Feb. 21, 1833. The homestead now contains seventy-five acres. Their children areĀ–Daniel W., born in November 1852, now living in California; Eorie M., born in November 1854, and lives in Cass Co., Md.; Nina, now the wife of William A. Reed, of Chippewa Co., Minn., born in December, 1856; William S., at home, born May, 1859; Ettie M., born in February, 1862, now the wife of F.E. Cain, of Marathan Co., Wis., and Edith B., living with her mother, born July 1864. Daniel Vanderbilt, father of John N.H., died May 17, 1878; the mother, Annie V., died in March 1854. Transcribed by Ellen Bisson

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