The Republican journal., 1898-11-10
Prospect Pioneers in Plymouth, Wis.


their wives, who were three sisters. ma
tives of Georgetown, Me-, but residents of
Prospect for a quarter of a century, with
their families, in all eighteen persons, took
The then usual route by steamers and
canal boats except from Boston to Al
bany) brought them to Sheboygan in three
weeks. Finding temporary stopping
place for their families in that village they
spent some time looking over the country,
with the result that instead of proceed
ing farther west to the prairie parts of
this State, as had been their original in
tenton, they decided to make their homes
in this country, then wilderness, broken
only by the small clearings made by set
tiers OF the previous one or two years-so
that seldom was ones nearest neighbours
house visible from his own. They built
log house in which the whole colony
| lived during that winter, when having
completed another house the colony was
divided into two families, as had been their
arrangement in Maine.
A colony from New Jersey had arrived
in the same neghbolhood a year sooner
and had given their name to the settle
ment but this was gradually dropped and
the place became known as the Grant set
| tlement, and we still speak of the ''Grant
road the ''Grant school house and the
| Grant cemetery" although there is not
the county.
| Subsequently the settlement was Joined
| by Capt. Il. \. Crockett, whose wife was
a niece OF the Grants, and by the writer,
neighbor OF theirs in Prospect. Thus
it came about that the three original
Grants, and Joseph, son of A. c. H.
Smart who came with them-H. n.
Crockett, Coon and Shauger, who married
A. {. S daughters, and the writer, all had
farms in a compact body with their resi-
dences within less than mile of {, central
point. Later on we We're joined by Capt.
Crockett's brother Ellis, who came as
carpenter and built residences for three of
the number; also by Jane Curtis, sister of
Mrs. Crockett, aud by grandma Stinson,
who Joined her three daughters here,
making in all population Of = transfer
ed from Prospect to Plymouth,
At about JAe same period the families
of Abel Davis, Levi Carleton, Benz lib
belts and Daniel Lane from Frankfort,
| over 80 persons, settled in neighboIing
town within visiting distance III miles
through the forest with an OK team J
Having lived here about 20 years and
changed the forest to cultivated fields, on
namented with good buildings, surround
ed by orchards, the pioneering spirit
again seized them and most of them
sought other new places to labor. Capt.
Crockett returned to the sea and his name
was added to the long list of Prospect
men whose record reads sailed and was
never heard from OF the original SIX
1 three died i'll Michigan and one in Dakota.
On the 18th Of March, 1897, the last sur
vivor, Charlotte Stinson Grant, died ia
Butternut, Ashland county, Wisconsin
| She was born in Georgetown, Ne, in
1907. In 1924 her father, Wm. Stinson,
with his wife and nine children, and also a
cousin, John Stinson mot the John who
afterwards lived in Prospect) and his fam
lily with their possessions took a small
schooner sailed by three men for the Pc
nobscot. After stormy voyage they
landed John Stinson at OIIington and on
May 24th landed William Stinsons fami-
ly at killman' S Landing. Among the car
60 was COW and a flock of geese After
| a temporary residence in an old house of
David Halves until Oct. LIST they moved
on to the place now occupied by your cor
respondent, Freeman Partridge, which
was occupied by the family many years
In 1927 Charlotte married Allen c. Grant
and they went into a LOG house in the
woods on what now is the farm owned by
o. i. Gray. Having cleared most of the
timber and some of it OF stones they built
SOOu mouse ana Darn, Nltn an orchard,
etc. They sold it to Benz. Gray and join
ed his brothers, who had sold to z. G.
Eaton, to go west as noted above. Again
she was in log house 1t differed how
ever from the first in not being made of
round logs and with a stone fireplace Here
the logs were neatly hewn on three sides
and it was furnished with modern cook
ing utensils. A fine barn soon followed.
and in due time an elegant and commode-
Gus dwelling. In 1880 they sold this tc
join their sons, and a third time moved
into log house. But they did not live
to see Ashland county become what She
boygan has. Mr.. Grant died several years
ago, and Charlotte short time after cele-
brating her Goth birthday retaining her
physical activity till within few weeks
and her mental faculties to the very last,
true type of the American pioneer wo-
man. s. L.
WORDS OF HOPE FOR WEAK MEN.
Men with weakened powers and exhaust
ed vigor have been taught to believe that