Agenda - Public Works Committee - 03/20/2018

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she kept telling them the ponies just went over the hill and were eating grass as they went, that they had gone off and were not stolen. Finally one stepped up with a long knife and drew it across her throat. She said she did not dare to show fear but with a quick step back she was at the wood box and had a stick of wood in her hand. Indians admire bravery in any way, so with very great vehemence she suceeded in driving them from the cabin. By that time the ponies were in sight. In the meantime the sister who was there had fainted. This sister was Mrs. William Payne, the mother of Alice Payne Taylor and Florence Payne Webster. The family then moved to Paynesville, Minnesota and were driven out by the Indians at the time of the Indian outbreak and escaped with their lives. Mrs. Lunette Porter Hall was born in Paynesville. The first Sunday School of Ramsey was organized and conducted by Captain Cady, and was held in the school house. The first cemetery was located in section 27, range 25. There are four pioneer families whose families still reside there; J. W. Wilson, Wallace Patch, Clarence Porters and the Bowers family who still own the farm but who live in town. The Clark family came to Ramsey in 1862 and it was Gilman Clark who took the present farm of the Clarks as a claim and members of the family have lived there always since. All of the Wilson family was born in Ramsey and some of them have always lived there. Sardon Wilson, Louis Carpenter, Richard B. Porter entered the Civil War at the same time from this township. Four generations of the Wilson family attended school here. In the summer of 1865 the Great Northern railroad had been completed as far as the George Foster farm corner. Another pioneer family of Ramsey was the Littlefield family who came to settle in this community at a very early date, in fact there was only one other home on the trail and that was on the bank of Trott Brook where the Bergslien family now live. Mr. Willard W. Littlefield of the family still lives in Ramsey and on the farm adjoining the farm his father owned in the early days. It is not known just when the above article was written, but from the names men- tioned as living in Ramsey, it had to have been some time ago. 22