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AnnouncementEntry/Object ID
20.18.15 f, gDescription
Marriage Announcement of G. W. Lewis and Sadie Lilly. (f) Announcement Card. Material: paper. Size: 3 1/2" x 4 1/2". Description: white card stock card printed in script: "Married, Wednesday, June 29, 1884, G. W. Lewis, Sadie Lilly, Morristown, Minn."; ornate monogrammed "L" at top of card. (g) Envelope. Material: paper. Size: 3 3/4" x 4 3/4". Description: white envelope postmarked Faribault on back and Morristown on front, July 1881; raised "L" monogram on upper left corner, green three-cent stamp, handwritten address: "Mrs. Amanda Cleland, Wilton, Minnesota".Context
Miss Amanda C. Conner of Blooming Grove and James Wilson (J.W.) Cleland were married October 3, 1877. Amanda was born September 11, 1852, in Indiana, and came to Waseca County with her parents in 1856.
Sadie Lilly was a cousin of Amanda Conner on her mother's side.
Mother Sarah Lilly Conner moved with her husband and family to South Dakota in 1883. She died there in 1900.
Amanda's husband, J. W. Cleland was born September 27, 1847 in Delaware County, NY., and was one of nine children born to Rev. and Mrs. W. J. Cleland. He came West with his family in 1863. He carried on the homestead farm until 1885, when the place was sold and he purchased a small farm on the west shore of Clear Lake, near Waseca.
J. W. was stricken by paralysis while working about a threshing machine. He never recovered from the stroke and died after a very prolonged illness, July 15, 1903.Lexicon
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Category 08: Communication ObjectsCreate Date
March 13, 2019Update Date
September 19, 2024