News: Minnie Freeman saved children (1888)

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Posted By: Melissa Mayhew Grandt (email)
Date: 2/26/2012 at 17:36:15

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Williamsburgh Journal, Williamsburgh (Iowa Co.), Iowa, 27 January 1888, p3.

Minnie Freeman, who is teaching school at Mina Valley, Nebraska, seems to be the newspaper heroine. When that terrible blizzard, some ten days ago, struck the school house it blew in the door and windows and the roof off; so she took a cord and tied her 13 little scholars together and then tied the other end of the string around her own arm and started for the nearest farm house, some 1/4 of a mile; the smallest child gave out and she carried it; after an hour or two she landed them all safe. The legislature of that state should give her a life annuity of at least five thousand dollars. That was the bravest and noblest deed that ever went on record.