Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1924-05-29


from Somersetshire, England, in 1910.
think he met Count Harasthy in New
York and was employed by him, which
accounts for his landing at Sank
NV mother came from New York in
184I. She was employed as q nurse
by a family from England, by the
name of Bryant. don't know just
when they were married, but an early
history of Dane county gives the CEN
sus returns for 1912, and the town
of Roxbury is credited with one male
and one female. That was my father
and mother / was born May %, 1913
NV father bought 100 acres of land
of Count Harasthy located about a
mile below the Sank bridge The
Count had hunting lodge on this
land and in that | was born. Mother
said the nearest house on that side
Of the river was 16 miles on the road
to Madison. The picture of the house
that Lincoln was born in is an ex-
act picture of the house. j was born
in. The Count owned ferry and
built q house on the east side of the
river which was occupied by man
by the name of Froelich who ran the
ferry. This house was built in the
summer of 1913 and Sophia Froelich
was born there in the fall of that
year. She was the second white child
born in Roxbury.. / visited Sophia a
few years ago. She had spent her
entire life in Sank. ] do not remem-
Der her husbands name but he owned
a foundry and had lately lost one of
his feet. There was steam boat call
ed the Otter that used to run up as
far as Portage. My father was work
ing on that boat at the time / was
born
Froelich and father ran the ferry
for a while. Then Froelich moved to
Sank and father moved in the ferry
house and his brother, Uncle Henry,
helped him. In the ferryhouse my
oldest brother, Charles, and sister,
Caroline, later Mrs. Mcintyre, were
born. In the summer of 1S47 a
school was started in Sank, taught
by Mr. Noyse. My half-sister attend
ed that school and they sent me with.
her few days, but L was too young
being only four that spring. The
Count had two boys who attended that
school the Oldest I think was, about
IA years old. His name was GAIA.
One day he did something out of order
and teacher told him to stay in at
recess. When that was called GAIA,
with the rest, started for the door.
The teacher caught him by the collar
right in the door, dragged him back
to his seat, took him across his knee,
and spanked him good and proper.
have never forgotten the scare ]
got
About this time q young man by
the name of Walters was sent out
there from New York city by his
folks in hopes that he would get cured
of drinking. He boarded with US. His
people furnished him plenty of money.
He bought some land and built a
house on the high ground little
north of where the levee starts, q
very slightly location. He got on a
drunk every little while. One day
he came home drunk and brought q
gallon jug. He went up stairs to
bed; next afternoon he began CALI
ing, mother was out, and / went up
stairs. He did not talk so I could
understand him but kept pointing to
the jug under the bed. managed
to get the jug on the edge of the
bed and he got q swallow or two. But
more went on the bed than down his
throat. That night he died and was
buried over in Sank. That next win
ter somebody came with lead coffin
and took his remains to New York.
The ferryboat that Uncle Henry and
father operated first was by policing.
Later it was made side wheeler with
a One-horse tread power on each side
to propel it. Father lived in the
ferryhouse some time after he quit,
the ferry and went to breaking land
for the settlers. He started with an
Is inch pillow and three yoke of oxen.
Later he ran two outfits A % inch
pillow and four yoke of oxen. Then
I guess he broke a small piece for
every settler in Roxbury Directly
east of our house, on the farm and
on the east side of the Madison road,
a man by the name of Fabling had a
house and a blacksmith shop. A little
farther up the ravine was a small
log church occupied by two Catholic
priests, Father Anama and Father
Macmillan. 1t was through their in
fluence that Roxbury was settled by
German Catholics. Father Macmillan
did not stay long, but Father Anama
spent his life in Roxbury or Sank,
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