- MRS. FRANCES CHESEBROUGH DEAN was born in Stonington, Conn.
She came with her
- parents to Emerald Grove, Wis., in 1844. She was married
to Chester DEAN in February, 1844, the service being performed
by the Rev. Stephen PEET.
- This family also believed in going to church, at any sacrifice.
They drove to services in Janesville
- in a two-wheeled ox cart brought from Connecticut. It was
seated with chairs, and on their arrival at the church was backed
up to the steps, the end-board was let down and the ladies assisted
out. Mr. DEAN often brought his little melodeon to church to
lead the music. After the death of her husband in Louisiana in
1860, Mrs. DEAN returned to Stonington, Conn., where she died
in 1887.
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- Taken from "Rock County, Wisconsin, Vol. I"
by William Fiske Brown, (c)1908, p. 458.
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- Courtesy of Carol
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