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| Notes for Elizabeth Elenor Quenette | ||||||||||||
| AKA"Ellen". ----- Clarence Johnston said that Eleanor and her mother died on a wagon train in Kansas while moving to Minnesota. Her mother (Clarinda) didn't follow Harvey Henry and Eleanor to Otter Tail County, and she didn't die in Kansas. It is documented that the Kapphahns and others drove cattle and a wagon train to Garden City, Kansas from Minnesota. It is also documented that the Blodgets (and presumably the Johnstons) went there first, and were there by April 1886. Because the family story is that the Johnstons drove a wagon train to Kansas, we can safely presume that they did, though railroads had rendered major cattle trails extinct by 1884. We can safely presume that moving cattle by rail was beyond the budgets of these families. Which way they went we can probably only guess. They must have followed rivers where convenient, but they must have also cut across country as much as possible. Their general route cut across established routes, so it is doubtful that they followed a single trail. My guess is that they followed the Big Sioux River, then the Missouri, the Platte, crossing at Lincoln to the Big Blue River, and then along the Santa Fe Trail up the Kansas and Arkansas RIvers. ----- The photo of Harvey Henry and Eleanor Quinette is probably a photo of Harvey Henry and Ivy Elvira Osborn, his second wife. He looks too old in the photo to be no older than 40. | ||||||||||||
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| "One season" we might speculate means from planting season in late April to early May through the burning heat and drought of late May and June. From all I've read, Kansas weather could be very cruel to farmers. It isn't too much of a stretch to think the wagon train could have been on its way back to Minnesota by mid to late July. Cora Johnston Moran wrote that "Mother died in July. I was 9 in October. Mother was 34 when she died." My grandfather, Frank Barrett, was 17 when his mother died and he too said Eleanor died at age 34. | ||||||||||||
| Notes for Harvey Henry "Dick" & Elizabeth Elenor (Family) | ||||||||||||
| Wood Side, Otter Tail, Minnesota 1880 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- #30 Johnston Henry 29 farmer WI NY Scot Elenor 28 NY Can NY Frank ** MN WI NY William ** MN WI NY Clarence * MN WI NY Fred ** MN WI NY Carrie ** MN WI NY Delacy ** Nov MN WI NY [born in Nov 1879] Quenette Charles 21 laborer MN Can NY | ||||||||||||
| Last Modified 29 Apr 2006 | Created 27 Jan 2008 by Reunion for Macintosh |