Copied from The Madison Star, 8 Feb 1895..... Last Friday, Fannie Norton died. She was born March 2, 1800 in New Haven, Conn. During the War of 1812, her parents, Benjamin F. and Jerusha Matther Austin, with his family moved to the wilds of New York State where in 1820 she married Harvey Norton. They resided at Watertown and Sacketts Harbor, N.Y. until the Spring of 1844 when they with their family of ten children (including John Austin) moved to what is now Mahaska County, Iowa, but then a territory in possession of the Indians. Their two months journey to this new home was made by water. There Francis Prichard, their 11th child was born. In the Spring of 1859 during the Territorial War they moved to Kansas. She was raised a Presbyterian but United with the Christian Church At Eureka, KS. Five children (Benjamin F., Phylinda M., John Austin, Walter H. and Charles Harrison) preceded her in death. She died Jan. 28, 1895
Copied from The Madison Star, 8 Feb 1895..... Last Friday, Fannie Norton died. She was born March 2, 1800 in New Haven, Conn. During the War of 1812, her parents, Benjamin F. and Jerusha Matther Austin, with his family moved to the wilds of New York State where in 1820 she married Harvey Norton. They resided at Watertown and Sacketts Harbor, N.Y. until the Spring of 1844 when they with their family of ten children (including John Austin) moved to what is now Mahaska County, Iowa, but then a territory in possession of the Indians. Their two months journey to this new home was made by water. There Francis Prichard, their 11th child was born. In the Spring of 1859 during the Territorial War they moved to Kansas. She was raised a Presbyterian but United with the Christian Church At Eureka, KS. Five children (Benjamin F., Phylinda M., John Austin, Walter H. and Charles Harrison) preceded her in death. She died Jan. 28, 1895
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