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Letter

1877

Letter from George Conner to Sister Amanda Conner. Material: paper. Size: 5" x 8". Description: white lined note paper handwritten in blue to "Sister A" from her brother George, Blooming Grove, Minn., dated February 22, 1877; contents makes reference James moving to the area and George getting Mr. Walker's place for them to live in; teacher Mr. Oltman and what he charges to teach; Mr. Tuttle's singing school at the Albright church; the Germans holding a meeting the Church; Samuel Remund and horses going through lake ice and those who came to his rescue and prevented the horses from drowning.

Brother of Amanda Conner: George Furman Conner BIRTH 19 Jul 1857 Waseca County, Minnesota, USA DEATH 10 Dec 1923 (aged 66) Port Huron, St. Clair County, Michigan, USA BURIAL Lakeside Cemetery Port Huron, St. Clair County, Michigan, USA. Miss Amanda C. Conner of Blooming Grove and James Wilson (J.W.) Cleland were married October 3, 1877. Amanda was born September 11, 1852, in Indiana, and came to Waseca County with her parents in 1856. Amanda's husband, J. W. Cleland was born September 27, 1847 in Delaware County, NY., and was one of nine children born to Rev. and Mrs. W. J. Cleland. He came West with his family in 1863. He carried on the homestead farm until 1885, when the place was sold and he purchased a small farm on the west shore of Clear Lake, near Waseca. J. W. was stricken by paralysis while working about a threshing machine. He never recovered from the stroke and died after a very prolonged illness, July 15, 1903.