- GEORGE E. ROE, farmer; P.O. Lima Center; born in Sussex Co.,
N.J., in 1847; came to
- Wisconsin in 1870, locating in Whitewater, with 50 cents
in his pocket, among strangers, in mid-winter; but he possessed
energy and perseverance, and worked in the vicinity, at anything
he could do; after eighteen months' residence at Whitewater and
Koshkonong, he went South to Texas, and was employed in building
the Memphis and El Paso Railroad; afterward visited New Orleans,
St. Louis, Cairo, St. Joseph, Kansas City and Kansas. Returning
to Wisconsin in 1874, he married Miss Louisa HARDY, daughter
of Ara and Electa HARDY; Mrs. ROE died within a year, leaving
one son - George H., who is with his grandparents. Mr. ROE owns
eighty-three acres, and married Miss Loretta SANBORN, of Richmond,
Walworth Co,., April 8, 1876, at the age of 32; Mr. R. has seen
a great portion of the United States; now has a farm and a family,
and many justly consider his stirring life a successful one.
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- Taken from "The History of Rock County, Wis."
(c)1879, p. 812.
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- Courtesy of Carol
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