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Letter

1877

Letter to Amanda Conner from Cousin Sadie Lilly. Material: paper. Size: 7" x 9". Description: white lined note paper written in blue ink; dated March 12, 1877 from Northfield, Minn. to Miss A. E. Conner, dear cousin; Sadie tells of life at Carleton and how she probably won't be able to attend another term there; she talks about the girls out snowballing; then she comments that she thinks she is getting too "wild" and should probably come home to be more serious; she and her friends are talking about and experimenting with the art of "flirting" and she names a few men she is flirting with; she ends on a religious note and wishing there could be a "deep work of Grace in Morristown".

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.