Historical Perspective: A look back at the Yellow Thunder wedding

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Historical Perspective: A look back at the Yellow Thunder wedding


Chief Yellow Thunder hosted the wedding of his wife’s niece. (Sauk County Historical Society photo)

Mrs. Almira (Brown) Johnson was born in 1847 near Janesville, her family having moved there from Vermont in 1845. They again moved to a farm in New Buffalo, now Delton Township, in 1849. The farm was located about three miles from the 40 acres — east of Co. Tr. A — which had been awarded to Chief Yellow Thunder.

 

 


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