Memoirs of Waukesha County. From the earliest historical times to the present with chapters on various subjects, including each of the different towns, and a genealogical and biographical record of representative families in the county, prepared from data obtained from original sources of information.

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ecessors here than would probably be now possible otherwise. He says:
"The names contained in the list of piembers, excepting about twenty or twenty-five of those last appearing, are all familiar to me; those last mentioned having become members in the latter part of or after the year 1841, about which time the name of Lucy Ordway dis¬ appears from the record for the reason that our family then changed its residence. -
"Sally Cushman, first named in the list, was the grandmother of United States Senator Cushman K. Davis of Minnesota; Mrs. Cush- man's husband, Peter N. Cushman, was the largest farmer in the town in 1838.
"Martha Love was the wife of Deacon Robert Love, owner in 1837- 38 and later of the quarter section on which is Bethesda Spring.
"Lucy Ordway was the wife of Rev. Moses Ordway, my respected father. She was my so-called stepmother but good beyond question and of the salt of the earth.
"I think that Clarissa F. Davis was the mother of Senator Cushman K. Davis. Miss Harriet Potter afterwards intermarried with The- ophilus Haylett and is the mother of the respected and noted clergy¬ man and, I believe, presiding elder, in the Methodist church organi¬ zation.
"I could give you the history of most of those whose names appear in that list prior to the last twenty years or such a matter but it would not be interesting—probably—except as to two: of those I shall write a few words.
"Sarah M. Davis came with the Vermont people, who settled near to our claim and just southwest of the A. F. Pratt claim—in the sum¬ mer of 1839. She was a sister of Henry and" Asa Davis—unmarried, dark haired, quiet, demure little girl, perhaps eighteen years of age. She it was who signed that record as S. M. Kingsbury, sec'y pro tem. Her preferences were evidently for men who had come to years of understanding, because for her first husband she made choice of the Rev. Mr. Kingsbury whom my father had induced to emigrate to Prairie Village and take—in a way—charge of the "lost sheep of the," etc., who, those good shepherds doubtless thought, needed constant care. After the death of Mr. Kingsbury the subject of these few words intermarried with Mr. William Weed, then a recent emigrant from Plattsburgh, New York, and a most estimable gentleman—one of my very best friends in years after such marriage, and on until his demise. With Mr. Kingsbury I was not intimately acquainted. I was not then more than a mere boy—but of course he was also a gentleman and an honor to his profession, otherwise Sarah M. Davis would never have looked with favor upon him.
"Lovely children were born to Mr. William Weed and his last wife, Sarah, but he was not permitted to live long enough to see and enjoy the later happy condition and surroundings of those children—as to all of which I must refer you to the same lovely little woman, now far advanced in years, and waiting with perfect faith and happy anticipa¬ tion for that great change which will open to her clear vision the lieav-