- CAROLINE HANCHETT, widow, sec. 34; P.O. Beloit; widow of
James Henry HANCHETT;
- born in Madison Co., N.Y., in 1818; the daughter of Joseph
and Jane HICKOX. She married, in 1836, in Wayne Co., Mich., J.
H. HANCHETT, and lived in Coldwater, Mich., Bristol and South
Bend, Ind., before coming to Beloit, in 1840; he bought forty
acres of land in Sec. 34, and built a large, handsome stone residence,
with barns, etc.; they had ten children, seven are now living.
Mr. HANCHETT died Dec. 6, 1865, in the house he built; he was
by occupation a contractor, and was the contractor who built
the dam across Rock River, at this city, in 1840; he also built
a dam and bridge across the St. Joseph River at Bristol, Ind.,
and a dam over the same river at South Bend, Ind.; also, across
Rock River at Dixon and Oregon, Ill.; he built dams and did other
public work of immense value. Mrs. H. now occupies the residence
on Sec. 34.
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- Taken from "History of Rock County Wis." (c)1879,
p. 751.
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- Courtesy of Carol
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