20.18.15 c

Letter

1877

Letter to Amanda Conner from Cousin Sadie Lilly. Material: paper. Size: 4 1/2" x 13". Description: white unlined note paper written in blue ink; dated January 11, 1877 6 to A. C. Conner, Blooming Grove, Minn., Dear Cousin; most of the letter relates Sadie's experiences at Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota; also much emphasis on trying to pass a prohibition ordinance in Northfield, attendance at religious lectures, asking for prayers.

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. Mother Sarah Lilly Conner moved with her husband and family to South Dakota in 1883. She died there in 1900. 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.