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MARSH Lucy A. (I4009) [Female] b. 2 SEP 1831 Hampstead, Rockingham County, New Hampshire, USA - d. 14 SEP 1862 Peterborough, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, USA
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Title: Vermont, Birth Records, 1909-2008
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Title: New Hampshire, Death and Burial Records Index, 1654-1949
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Title: U.S. Civil War Draft Registrations Records, 1863-1865
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Title: 1850 United States Federal Census
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Title: Genealogy of Dustin/Duston Family Assoc
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Title: Vermont, Vital Records, 1720-1908
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Title: Massachusetts, Death Records, 1841-1915
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Title: North America, Family Histories, 1500-2000
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Title: New Hampshire, Birth Index, 1659-1900
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Title: New Hampshire, Death and Burial Records Index, 1654-1949
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Title: Genealogy of Dustin/Duston Family Assoc
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Title: New Hampshire, Birth Index, 1659-1900
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Title: New York, New York, Extracted Death Index, 1862-1948
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Title: North America, Family Histories, 1500-2000
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Title: 1930 United States Federal Census
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Title: New Hampshire, Birth Index, 1659-1900
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Title: Vermont, Death Records, 1909-2008
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Title: U.S. City Directories, 1822-1995
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Title: North America, Family Histories, 1500-2000
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Title: 1870 United States Federal Census
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Title: Vermont, Death Records, 1909-2008
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Title: 1860 United States Federal Census
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Title: U.S. Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current
Killed as a result of the Dakota War; she was an early Minnesota Territory pioneer, along with her husband, Amos Dustin who came from New York to Minnesota Territory in 1857. They had three children: Alma (6 years of age), Robert (4), and Albert (2). On June 29, 1863, she was traveling with her husband and her children to their new homestead claim at Mooers Prairie in Wright County. First, they stopped at Waverly Mills to pick up her mother-in-law, who had been at her daughter's residence for the past two weeks to take care of her while she was ill. They her daughter's house (the A. D. Kingsley residence), traveling in a wagon driven by an oxen team. When they reached Smith Lake in the late afternoon, they were attacked by Dakota Indians. Her husband, her son Robert, and her mother-in-law were killed after being shot by arrows. She was shot in the back with an arrow, fell foward in the wagon, and was left for dead. Her son Albert was removed from the wagon, but left on the ground unharmed. When her husband was killed, his body fell in such a way that it shielded her daughter, hiding her from the Indians' view. When she revived, she summoned all her strength and with her children, started across the prairie to seek shelter. In great pain, she clung to her children, the arrow still protruding from her breast. By nightfall, she was too weak to travel and wandered from the pathway into some nearby trees, where she lay down. She did not expect to live through the night.
During the attack, the ox team became frightened and had broken loose from the wagon. They started back and stopped at at A. E. Cochran's residence - a neighbor of the Dustin family. He became suspicious and after not hearing from the family, started the next morning to the Waverly mills, where he alerted A. D. Kingsley, Henry Lammers, and others. They gathered at Mr. Cochran's residence, then moved west along the route taken by the family the previous day. A little to the west of Howard lake, they found the family's dog. Soon after, they found Kate's children wandering on the prairie, searching for water. Nearby, in a clump of willows, they found Kate. She was still conscious and was able to tell them what had happened. Messengers were sent to nearby Watertown and Rockford to warn residents of the attack and get more help. They moved Kate to Mr. Cochran's residence. She said that she had recognized Little Crow, his son, and three others in the attacking party. They did everything they could for her, but her wounds proved fatal. She died the next day.
She was buried next to the other victims in a grove on the right bank of a stream forming the outlet to Little Waverly lake. This location is now part of Mission Center cemetery at Waverly, and a marker is erected at the spot where the Dustin family members were buried.
A historic marker at a wayside rest on U. S. Highway 12, about 1.5 miles west of Howard Lake, is located near the spot where the massacre occurred. The marker states that although never proved, it was believed that the attackers were members of Little Crow's party, who were in the area at the time. Four days later, Chief Little Crow was shot and killed by a settler near Hutchinson, where he was spotted picking berries with a son. He was considered a fugitive of the United States and had a bounty on his head because of his role as Chief in highest command of the Dakota during the war.
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Title: Genealogy of Dustin/Duston Family Assoc
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Title: U.S. Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current
The following is an extract from a private letter dated Minneapolis, Minn., June 3, 1894, addressed to Mrs. E. A. Sherwood and signed Albert J.' Dustin, son of Amos' Dustin above:
"My parents met with the same fate that Hannah Dustin did, when I was not one year old, and while i and my sister survived, were the only ones and she was but seven years of age and can remember but very little about it.
"My parents came from Holland, N. Y. State, and I think they first went to Michigan, and from there to Dodge Co., Wis., and about 1860 came to Waverley, Minn. The family consisted of my grandmother, Mrs. Jeannette Dustin, Nathan, Amos, Timothy, and Dallas, her four sons, and Mrs. Kingsley and her young child, Isabella Dustin, her two daughters.
"My father's name was Amos Dustin. He married in Dodge Co., Wis. My mother's name was Katie Miller; she has uncles by the name of Dean, living at Atwater, Dodge Co., at present.
"In July, 1863, my grandmother and my father and mother, left Waverley to settle on claims they had taken about 20 or 30 miles west of there, taking with them my sister and brother, Robert Dustin, four years of age, and myself, and when they were about half-
way to their destination, they met a band of Sioux Indians. The oxen my father had became frightened and broke loose from the wagon, leaving our family in the road without any weapons of defense. The Indians, five in number, were armed with bows and arrows and opened fire at once. My father and brother, sitting on the front seat of the wagon, were almost instantly killed and also my grandmother. My mother was wounded and fainted and they believed her dead, but when they left she regained consciousness, and lived forty-eight hours. My sister was old enough to know the danger and concealed herself under some of the household goods, and they threw me by the roadside, thinking I would die anyway.
They became frightened and left and my mother started with my sister and me to return.
"This took place about two o'clock in the afternoon, and during the night the oxen came to my uncle's in Waverley, where they had started from, and the next morning my uncle with a party of men started out to look for us.
"They found my mother about noon that day, about a mile from the scene of the massacre, unable to go any farther, through the loss of blood and poisoning by the arrows. She lived long enough to tell of the occurrence. They were buried in Old Waverley.
"That same year my oldest uncle, Nathan Dustin, died and shortly after his death, four of Mrs. Kingsley's children were stricken with diphtheria, and they were all buried within a week's time. Their mother, unable to hear so much bereavement, soon followed, and it is said by people who were well acquainted with the family at that time, that she died of grief.
"That left the Dustin's family very small. Ten members are buried at Old Waverley, who died within one year. My Uncle Timothy was the oldest living member at that time. He was 13 years of age, Dallas 11, and Belle 8. Timothy was 7 years of age when he left Holland, N. Y., and knows very little of the Dustins.
"He went back there two years ago on a visit, but I have not met him but once or twice since then, and he being very quiet and reserved, I have not had much opportunity to learn much of our history. I did learn through Mr. Kingsley that my grandfather Dustin, after a sickness of many years, took his own life, but I never dared (or cared rather) to bring up the subject to either my Aunt Belle or Uncle Timothy, so I do not know the particulars, or even his first name."
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Title: North America, Family Histories, 1500-2000
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Title: North America, Family Histories, 1500-2000
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Title: Daughters of the American Revolution Lineage Books
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Title: 1860 United States Federal Census
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Title: Illinois, Deaths and Stillbirths Index, 1916-1947
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Title: U.S. Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-197
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Title: North America, Family Histories, 1500-2000
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Title: 1860 United States Federal Census
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Title: Minnesota, Wills and Probate Records, 1801-1925
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Title: Salt Lake County, Utah, Death Records, 1908-1949
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Title: 1870 United States Federal Census
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Title: 1860 United States Federal Census
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Title: Genealogy of Dustin/Duston Family Assoc
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Title: 1870 United States Federal Census
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Title: U.S. Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current
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Title: Genealogy of Dustin/Duston Family Assoc
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Title: 1870 United States Federal Census
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Title: U.S. Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current
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Title: North America, Family Histories, 1500-2000
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Title: Vermont, Vital Records, 1720-1908
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Title: Vermont, Death Records, 1909-2008
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