Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1921-12-08

county was not MIS-. EllZaDeCn Brown,
now residing at 515 Oakland avenue,
Waukesha, with her granddaughter,
Mrs Fac Matchette, wife of Louis d.
Matchette, though she thinks she was.
AS a matter of fact, she was born
July 20. 1888, but at Blue Mounds in
Dane county, being taken across the
Wisconsin river to what now is Sank
City five months later, on December
90. Previous to that date, yet still
in 1888, child, the first in Sank coun-
ty having white parents, was born to
Berry Haney in his dugout at lower
Sank There was difference of some
weeks, if not months, in favor of the
Haney child. The year before a baby
girl was born in Madison, the first at
the new capital. She was Peck and
now lives at Delton.
But Mrs. Brown is an interesting
parsonage nevertheless, being daugh-
ter of Colonel James Shane Alban
first white man to settle, with his
family, in Sank county, after a sojourn
of some little time at Moundville, on
the west part of Blue Mounds. Col.
Alban, lawyer-pioneer, was killed
at Shiloh, April 6, 1862, at the head
of his regiment, the 18th Wisconsin,
recruited in the Plover region.
The Waukesha Matchettes have a
3-year-old son, John Andrew, and a
baby boy of few weeks, both
ce,.1, ~ o~,.y1o 4 ocro :, dcopc ~ Na1 AIhaa
There are two other great-great-
grandchildren, Evylin and Edith Jane
Schaffer, daughters Of Charles An
drew Shaffer, Hazelhurst, Wisconsin,
farmer.
Mrs. Brown fell recently and suf-
fered injuries that confined her to the
bed. She. seemed quite frail, both ply
sically and mentally, while sat at
her bedside few days ago. Frequent
ly Mrs. Matchette corrected errors
caused by a fading memory; and af-
ter the invalid said II do not remem-
Der, but my sister will" She referred
to Mrs ]. O. Raymond, four years
older, of Rhinelander
However, she did recall, going to
school at Sank City. sit was in a
shanty," she added cor, yes, perhaps
it was a loghouse." She could not
remember her teacher or any play
mate or single individual in Sank,
''but | do remember being punished
twice by my mother for disobediance.""
and she smiled at the recollection.
ga sQuaw once came to the house
and squatted by the cradle of my
younger sister, Amanda, saying she
wanted to buy the baby, and we other
children were terribly afraid Aman-
da would be sold' This episode Mrs.
Brown has not forgotten, or of the
family buying berries from the Win
nebagoes. 81 also remember, or was
told" she added, that once an In
dian came to our house and ordered
father to leave. Upon being informed
that Governor Dodge had told father
he could remain the Indian replied
angrily: "Gov. Dodge, he heep dam
lie"
/ 1t may be remarked that Alban did
not vacate. Indeed, the Winnebagoes
had, by treaty, the year before, 1887,
relinquished all their lands north of
the Wisconsin river and east Of the
Mississippi 1t was not till Alban
learned of this fact that he left Brig
hams place at Blue Mounds and has
tened across the intervening 20 miles
to the river and on over into the
promised land" beyond
Col. Alban, who was born Oct. 80,
1909, in Jefferson county, Ohio, mar
ried Amanda Harris at % years of
age near Canton, came to Chicago in
1886 and to Wisconsin two years lat
er. His first child, Lucinda, was born
in the Ohio home, near Canal Fulton,
July 27, 1884, also his second, Stephen
Harris Alban, April z, 1886. Then came
Eliza beth, the Moundyille baby, July
%; 1888. Two Alban children were
born at Sauk-Sybil Clark Alban, July
IL, 1841, and Rhoda Amanda Alban,
Feb. s, 1843. The latter, unmarried,
now resides at Millersburg, Holmes
county, Ohio, the former, who married
John Halliday, Of an old Plover fam
lily, died July 8, 1894, at Beatrice,
Nebr. Lucinda first married Luther
Hanchett. lawyeNcongressman, and
after his death James O. Raymond,
distinguished attorney. Now, widowed
a second time, and aged 81, she lives
at Rhinelander; and there her broth-
er, Stephen Harris, lawyer author,
died Dec. 81, 1913, aged IT.
Upon the death of their mother at
Sank, while Amanda was only few
months old, in 1S43, the five children
were taken back to relations in Ohio,
and, the father remarrying later,
three of them returned to Wisconsin
in i849, two remaining in Ohie-Lu-
cinda till 1852 and Rhoda Amanda,
who stayed and was reared there by
an aunt. In later years she came to
live with her married sisters, Lu-