Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-03-18
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(By Judge Wilmott)

1926, and a few years later settled
few miles southwest of the present
city of Lancaster. Mr.. Ramsey also
settled near Cassville.
Early Indian Troubles
The WinnebagO Indian troubles
halted for a time the tide of immigra-
ton which had thus early begun 20
flow in the direction of the new land
which, if not flowing with milk and
honey. was at least supposed to exist
on the surface of an aggregated min
eral mountain where all that was ne
cessary was to remove few shoyels
of dirt when, Presto, the laborer was
ready to take his seat with the Croes-
uses of the land. The following year
this tide returned to it's former chan
mel and flowed if not agantly, at
least steadily, until the Black Hawk
war of 1882.
Across the wide open prairies they
came, fording streams, following dim
ly Swallowed trails or striking out in
to wild wilderness about them or
loading the putting, snorting steamer
to the guards, the new seekers for the
land of promise came hurrying IN.
Little villages began to rise here and
collection of miners cabins, then a
store, again a rude smithy, the newt
able tavern, then the family home
where gathered around the broad
hearthstone of the great open fireplace
they enjoyed the privileges and pleas
ures and endured the privations OF a
pioneer life. But broad as was the
hearthstone, and large as was the tre-
place of which it formed the base,
neither was so broad or opened so
wide as the generous hospitable hearts
of these early pioneers. Men of brain
and muscle, clear of head and stout OF
! heart, who thus put behind them the
| comforts and Iuxuries of civilization
| to wrestle with the primeval wilder
ness and tear from its grasp another
star which they should add to the
constantly increasing constellation
! that formed insignia of the young re-
| public.
The First White Woman
| Early in 1927 mineral in large guam
titles had been discovered at Beetown
The tradition of its discovery being
that the discoveries while hunting for
wild bees found at the foot of an up
| rooted maple tree a large deposit OF
/ mineral. his discovery was HI6tuS W
James Meredith, Thomas COrckwell
( Curt Caldwell and Cyrus Alexander
Among the miners attracted by the
new discovery was a man named
/ Thomas who was accompanied by his
wife, thus making Mrs. Thomas the
first white woman in the present con-
fines of Grant county. The WinnebagC
scare came on soon after their arriv-
al and all pulled up stakes and started
for Galena. Mr.. Thomas afterward
moved into La Fayette county and set
tied near White Oak Springs.
COunty's First White Child
In the fall of this same year Henry
Bushnell located at Muscallunge
bringing with him his bride of a few
months They resided here until the
following year, when after the birth
of their daughter, Dorothy, they moved
to a point near Lancaster now known
as Bushnell Hollow" Thus Mrs
Bushnell was the second white woman
in the county and the first to actually
settle within it's limits, while he1
daughter, Dorothy, had the honor OF
being the first white child born in
the county.
When the Blackhawk war broke out
the Bushnells took refuge, first in FIT