Mrs. HILDEBRAND tells of friendly Indians - 1930

HILDEBRAND

Posted By: Joey Stark
Date: 5/16/2011 at 18:19:56

"The Fairfield Ledger"
Wednesday, December 10, 1930
Page 4, Column 4

OLD RESIDENT OF THIS COUNTY TELLS ABOUT FRIENDLY INDIANS.

Mrs. Mike HILDEBRAND, born in Sainsville (sic - Zanesville?), Ohio Nov. 27, 1842. when yet a baby she moved with her father and mother to Iowa... Attended school in the old log cabin school house at Germanville... married Oct. 7, 1858... Husband in Civil War.... After his return from the war he and his wife bought a small farm about five miles north of Lockridge where they lived happily until he died March 21, 1912. Aunt Mary's life has been very interesting indeed.... They built the house, where she has lived ever since, a very pretty old homestead, surrounded by many maple trees, where they at one time had a sugar camp. Their biggest buyers of maple sugar were the Indians, who were very congenial in every way.

Aunt Mary attended the Baptist Sunday School and church at Mohawk school house. She was baptized in Walnut Creek by Rev. Bert Nay....

*Transcribed for genealogy purposes; I am not related to the person(s) mentioned.