Mary was the first white child born in McLeod county. Also, she was the last surviving child of Daniel Cross, victim of the Sioux indians in 1862.
Mary was born in the extreme northwest corner of McLeod county in a small village (no longer in existence) called Cedar City on Cedar Lake. She spent her life in McLeod and Meeker county in the same general area.
As a child, she was a "refugee" along with her mother, father, and brother in the Hutchinson stockade while her father fought during the September 4, 1862 Indian attack on Hutchinson, MN. Her father, Daniel, was killed by Indians when scouting near Cedar Lake, on September 23; his body was recovered the next day by a search party from Hutchinson. This incident is memorialized with a marker.
Mary wed Alonzo Jordan in the 1870s and had the couple was blessed with children:
Erwin
a daughter, Mrs Erick Fratzke
Sidney of Plentywood, MT
Flossie, married Joseph Marsh of Plentywood MT
Charlotte, married Fred Adams of Leeport, MN
Bernice, died at Kallspell, MT in 1933
Rufus, died at age 17 in 1898
Her brother, also named Daniel, died several years before Mary in nearby Cedar Mills, Meeker County, MN.
Hutchinson Leader June 3, 1938
cemetery records note cause of death was chronic endomyocarditis
Mary was born in the extreme northwest corner of McLeod county in a small village (no longer in existence) called Cedar City on Cedar Lake. She spent her life in McLeod and Meeker county in the same general area.
As a child, she was a "refugee" along with her mother, father, and brother in the Hutchinson stockade while her father fought during the September 4, 1862 Indian attack on Hutchinson, MN. Her father, Daniel, was killed by Indians when scouting near Cedar Lake, on September 23; his body was recovered the next day by a search party from Hutchinson. This incident is memorialized with a marker.
Mary wed Alonzo Jordan in the 1870s and had the couple was blessed with children:
Erwin
a daughter, Mrs Erick Fratzke
Sidney of Plentywood, MT
Flossie, married Joseph Marsh of Plentywood MT
Charlotte, married Fred Adams of Leeport, MN
Bernice, died at Kallspell, MT in 1933
Rufus, died at age 17 in 1898
Her brother, also named Daniel, died several years before Mary in nearby Cedar Mills, Meeker County, MN.
Hutchinson Leader June 3, 1938
cemetery records note cause of death was chronic endomyocarditis
Mary was the first white child born in McLeod county. Also, she was the last surviving child of Daniel Cross, victim of the Sioux indians in 1862.
Mary was born in the extreme northwest corner of McLeod county in a small village (no longer in existence) called Cedar City on Cedar Lake. She spent her life in McLeod and Meeker county in the same general area.
As a child, she was a "refugee" along with her mother, father, and brother in the Hutchinson stockade while her father fought during the September 4, 1862 Indian attack on Hutchinson, MN. Her father, Daniel, was killed by Indians when scouting near Cedar Lake, on September 23; his body was recovered the next day by a search party from Hutchinson. This incident is memorialized with a marker.
Mary wed Alonzo Jordan in the 1870s and had the couple was blessed with children:
Erwin
a daughter, Mrs Erick Fratzke
Sidney of Plentywood, MT
Flossie, married Joseph Marsh of Plentywood MT
Charlotte, married Fred Adams of Leeport, MN
Bernice, died at Kallspell, MT in 1933
Rufus, died at age 17 in 1898
Her brother, also named Daniel, died several years before Mary in nearby Cedar Mills, Meeker County, MN.
Hutchinson Leader June 3, 1938
cemetery records note cause of death was chronic endomyocarditis
Mary was born in the extreme northwest corner of McLeod county in a small village (no longer in existence) called Cedar City on Cedar Lake. She spent her life in McLeod and Meeker county in the same general area.
As a child, she was a "refugee" along with her mother, father, and brother in the Hutchinson stockade while her father fought during the September 4, 1862 Indian attack on Hutchinson, MN. Her father, Daniel, was killed by Indians when scouting near Cedar Lake, on September 23; his body was recovered the next day by a search party from Hutchinson. This incident is memorialized with a marker.
Mary wed Alonzo Jordan in the 1870s and had the couple was blessed with children:
Erwin
a daughter, Mrs Erick Fratzke
Sidney of Plentywood, MT
Flossie, married Joseph Marsh of Plentywood MT
Charlotte, married Fred Adams of Leeport, MN
Bernice, died at Kallspell, MT in 1933
Rufus, died at age 17 in 1898
Her brother, also named Daniel, died several years before Mary in nearby Cedar Mills, Meeker County, MN.
Hutchinson Leader June 3, 1938
cemetery records note cause of death was chronic endomyocarditis
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