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About the first of July, 1854, it began to rain and on the 5th there was one of the greatest floods in the recollection of the older Indians. It swept everything bofore it. After the flood, the odor from decaying vegotation was almost intolerable. Typhoid fever and ague raged among the settlers in tho Valley. In the lattor part of August, typhoid fevor in its most malignant form onterod Mr. Dyer's home taking first a little girl whom they had adopted the spring before. She was sick about a week. The night she died, their son was taken sick and Mr. Dyer was feeling so poorly that he had to go to bed, so with sickness and death Mrs. Dyer was alone until daylight when Mr. Dyer managed to go to their nearest neighbor, Mrs. Cameron, who came and prepared the little girl for burial. Mr. Dyer went to the south side of the river and found a man who made a coffin and assisted him in burying her. She died on a Saturday night, and on the next Thursday night, little Wallace died. He was buried the next night at midnight. The funeral procession consisted of Mr. and Mrs. Dyer, Mrs. Webster, and two Norwegian men who helped them with the burial. A prayer was offered up in Norwegian by one of the grave-diggers which was comforting to the mourners, although they couldn't understand a word of it. They walked to and from the graves which are on a little hill wrest of the present city of Rushford. During the fall of '54, the question rose as to naming the places and several names were suggested but none decided on until Christmas when Mrs. Dyer made a Christmas supper, December 25, 1854, and invited the whole population. Then and there they decided the name. Mr. Dyer proposed Pomfrct (the Dyers cone from Pomfret, Maine), Mrs. Walker, Rushford for the abundance of rushes that grew along the creek and ford for the ford crossing of tho river. On the back of this page is a copy of the original document made at the time that Rushford was named. The names of the people present at this function appear there except those of Mr. and Mrs. Clark Johnson who went home early on account of a very young baby whom they didn't wish to koep up too late. The babies' name was Charles, and, at present, he is living with his son, Ambrose Johnson, a short distance west of town. (This information was supplied to us by Mrs. Ed. Lampman, a sister of Charles Johnson.) Oco----------------------Ji )■ t A. A
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The first frame house was b iilt by E. B. Vnalrath for S. S. Btcnnons and is now occupied by George James and family. The old Walker house was the second one, and stands oast of the John Filler home. C. G. Hulbert was Rushford1s first postmaster under Prosident Buchanan. He was removed by President Lincoln and Hiram Yialker was appointed in his stead. The office for a good many years was kept in Mr. Walker's house which still stands and is now S, Jaastad’s home. When the long-awaited railroad was built in 1867 to Rushford, it ran through what was then a portion of Georgo Steven's cornfield. In 1867, the first newspaper, the Rushford Gazette, made its appearance. S. J. Brown was the editor, and S. S. Stebbins later became a partner. The paper changed hands several times and lived about a year. The Rushford Era was started in 1869 by Frank H. Stout who moved to Kansas in 1870. Then the Journal was in existence from 1871 to 1873, and was edited by Willis Osborne. The first store was built by Otis Bathrick in the early spring of 1856. Another was built a little later by T. G. Fladeland. The first carpenters were Joshua Emery and Enock Walworth who settled here in '56. The first shoe-maker was John Iverson who did business in '58-9 in a little shop west of the Presbyterian Parsonage on the land now owned by C. C. Jenson. The first stone-mason was Edward Blanchfield . Soon after Christman Mr. Dyer was appointed Justice of the Peace and performed a marriage for a Mr. Halvor Sennes and the lady ho chose for his partner in life. The first marriage by a minister of the gospel was in tho spring of '60 when the Rov, Vi. W, Snoll united in marriage Charles W. Gore and Martha Bartley, the second marriage by Rev. Snell was that of George West and Mary I. Cameron in July, 1860. '03d
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