The Sauk Centre herald., 1927-07-28

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in the St. Paul Dispatch and Pho
neer Press gives fine account Of
the early life of Mr.. and Mrs.
August Lindbergh, grandparents
of Colonel Charles A. Endbergh,
Americas noted aviator, who
homesteaded in Melrose. The
story appears herewith:
Melrose, Mimi, July 12-The
grandparents, of Colonel Charles
A. Lindbergh, Minnesota youth
who flew across the Atlantic and to
Paris, were pioneers of Melrose,
having come here when they emf
grated from Sweden, and part of
the old homestead land lies with
in the city limits of this city,.
| Neighboring towns have made it
known that these grandparents of
the aviator once lived a certain
number of miles away, which was
precisely, in every case, the dis
| tance between Melrose and the
town that made the statement.
For the persual of those who
pass through Melrose on the high
way, the Chamber of Commerce
has had erected a large sign on the
Lindbergh homestead site, where
no buildings remain, informing all
who may read of the facts. The
sign stands at the west end of the
town.
While it is interesting to know
that Captain Lindbergh's grand,
mother, who was Miss Louise Car
line before her marriage to Aug
ust Lindbergh in 1859, when she
was 20 years old, was a native Of
Malmo, Sweden, and came with he1
husband directly to this locality
few years after their marriage
There are some Modernism thei,
lives which suggest that 'Liniy'
inherited from the Lindberglh lin
some of the traits that combined
to send him on his hazardous hol
across the seas.
} For instance there was the en-
counter that Grandma Lindbergl
, had with the Indian who stole a.
| ak from among her husband
!. meager stock of farm tools.
Three hundred Indians had sc
up a village about a mile from
the Lindbergh claim. They wer
: peacable but the braves some
! times would visit the homes o
, settlers and intimidate womel
, and children into giving them foo
and other articles that the red me-
or their souaws might covet.
One dav an Indian brave an,
his souaw came to the Lndbergl
home where the red man spied al
ak beside woodpile, picked it ul
and walked away toward the In
, dian village. Mrs. Lindbergh ma
seen the theft and she took tn
, trail after him. She caught vi
with the pair, asked the return o
the ak. When her request wa
refused she continued to follow
them. After they had gone
quarter of mile, the brave turn
ed, and raised the ak with Zero
cious gesture as though to strlk
down the settlers wife.
Mrs. Lindbergh defied him, look
ingly bravely into his eyes; n
lowered the ak, turned away an
strobe on. But she continued al
ter him, and before they had gon
many rods, he dropped the a.
grunted resignedly, and walked o.
without it.
Farming in those pioneer day
: was irksome even for one wit
health and the use of all one
, limbs. So when August Lindberg,
lost an arm in a sawmill accident
it did not seem to his sympathetl
neighbors that he possibly coul
| continue to do his farm work.
J He had gone to Sauk Centre :
have some logs cut into lumber
: While the saving was being done
, he got too close to the saw, nj
clothing was caught and his arm
!, drawn against the saw, was cut OF
: close to the shoulder. In some man
, ner the workmen stopped the NOV
of blood and he was placed In
|, wagon for the journey back t
| a. NJ