Sarah V. Brown and Westley Webster Reeve grew up in LeSueur County, Minnesota, and were married there in December, 1875. In the spring of 1878, they loaded farm machinery, household goods, and a good supply of food into a covered wagon and started west to homestead in Dakota Territory.
Their homestead was in Kilborn Township, and like all pioneers they worked hard and the children learned to work at an early age. Sometimes they were rewarded with good crops and fair prices, but other years the rain didn't come or grasshoppers destroyed part of the crop.
In 1899 Wes bought property along the Whetstone on the north side of town and built barns and fences and a feeding lot where he could fatten cattle for market. The family moved to Milbank and he remained in the cattle business until his accidental death in 1908.
Sarah remained in the family home until 1920, when she sold it and bought a smaller one near the Methodist Church that she attended. She was always interested in community affairs and her mind was alert until her death in 1944 at the age of 89.
There were ten children in the family: Mae (Daniel) Conright, Amos (Ida) Reeve, Howard (Vina) Reeve, Anna (Alfred) Schafer, Edmund, Susie (Frank) Port, twins Lawrence (Amelia) Reeve and Florence (Irvin) Maier, Myron (Maude) Reeve, and Elmer (Maude) Reeve.
Information from death certificate. Sarah's parents were Talleyrand Perigord Brown and Sophia (Forqueran) Brown.
Their homestead was in Kilborn Township, and like all pioneers they worked hard and the children learned to work at an early age. Sometimes they were rewarded with good crops and fair prices, but other years the rain didn't come or grasshoppers destroyed part of the crop.
In 1899 Wes bought property along the Whetstone on the north side of town and built barns and fences and a feeding lot where he could fatten cattle for market. The family moved to Milbank and he remained in the cattle business until his accidental death in 1908.
Sarah remained in the family home until 1920, when she sold it and bought a smaller one near the Methodist Church that she attended. She was always interested in community affairs and her mind was alert until her death in 1944 at the age of 89.
There were ten children in the family: Mae (Daniel) Conright, Amos (Ida) Reeve, Howard (Vina) Reeve, Anna (Alfred) Schafer, Edmund, Susie (Frank) Port, twins Lawrence (Amelia) Reeve and Florence (Irvin) Maier, Myron (Maude) Reeve, and Elmer (Maude) Reeve.
Information from death certificate. Sarah's parents were Talleyrand Perigord Brown and Sophia (Forqueran) Brown.
Sarah V. Brown and Westley Webster Reeve grew up in LeSueur County, Minnesota, and were married there in December, 1875. In the spring of 1878, they loaded farm machinery, household goods, and a good supply of food into a covered wagon and started west to homestead in Dakota Territory.
Their homestead was in Kilborn Township, and like all pioneers they worked hard and the children learned to work at an early age. Sometimes they were rewarded with good crops and fair prices, but other years the rain didn't come or grasshoppers destroyed part of the crop.
In 1899 Wes bought property along the Whetstone on the north side of town and built barns and fences and a feeding lot where he could fatten cattle for market. The family moved to Milbank and he remained in the cattle business until his accidental death in 1908.
Sarah remained in the family home until 1920, when she sold it and bought a smaller one near the Methodist Church that she attended. She was always interested in community affairs and her mind was alert until her death in 1944 at the age of 89.
There were ten children in the family: Mae (Daniel) Conright, Amos (Ida) Reeve, Howard (Vina) Reeve, Anna (Alfred) Schafer, Edmund, Susie (Frank) Port, twins Lawrence (Amelia) Reeve and Florence (Irvin) Maier, Myron (Maude) Reeve, and Elmer (Maude) Reeve.
Information from death certificate. Sarah's parents were Talleyrand Perigord Brown and Sophia (Forqueran) Brown.
Their homestead was in Kilborn Township, and like all pioneers they worked hard and the children learned to work at an early age. Sometimes they were rewarded with good crops and fair prices, but other years the rain didn't come or grasshoppers destroyed part of the crop.
In 1899 Wes bought property along the Whetstone on the north side of town and built barns and fences and a feeding lot where he could fatten cattle for market. The family moved to Milbank and he remained in the cattle business until his accidental death in 1908.
Sarah remained in the family home until 1920, when she sold it and bought a smaller one near the Methodist Church that she attended. She was always interested in community affairs and her mind was alert until her death in 1944 at the age of 89.
There were ten children in the family: Mae (Daniel) Conright, Amos (Ida) Reeve, Howard (Vina) Reeve, Anna (Alfred) Schafer, Edmund, Susie (Frank) Port, twins Lawrence (Amelia) Reeve and Florence (Irvin) Maier, Myron (Maude) Reeve, and Elmer (Maude) Reeve.
Information from death certificate. Sarah's parents were Talleyrand Perigord Brown and Sophia (Forqueran) Brown.
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