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Cass County Minnesota |
Obituaries and Death Notices
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Cass County Minnesota |
Chief Bemidji
The Minneapolis journal., April 20, 1904 - KT - Sub. by FoFG
Duluth, Minn., April 20 - Chief Bemidji, the oldest and one of the best known Indian chieftains of the northwest, is dead at Cass Lake, at the age of 85. He participated in many famous battles and volumes have been written concerning him. The town of Bemidji was named after him. Nearly the entire population will attend the funeral to-day. The burial will be in the Cass Lake cemetery.
For many years before the advent of the first white settler, Bemidji lived on the present townsite of the same name and endeavored to secure the land as his allotment. He failed to have it allotted him, and then tried to secure the land under the homestead laws, by abandoning his tribal relations. His friends contend that he was defrauded out of it, and it was a great sorrow to the old man to see his land pass into the hands of strangers, and himself dispossessed. Until his recent sickness he lived all alone in a little cabin near Rick lake, 14 miles north of Cass lake.
Two weeks ago his life was despaired of, and he gladly bade death come to start him upon his journey to the happy hunting ground where, his simple faith whispered, he would not want either for bread or fire.
Pearl Winney Greenough
Evening Times, ND (6 July 1907) submitted by FoFG MZ
Mrs. Pearl Winney Greenough, formerly of Grand Forks, niece of Mrs. C. P. Lord, died yesterday at Walker, Minn.
Sadie Hodgson
Source: Hutchinson News (Weekly) Hutchinson, Reno County, Kansas (Thursday, April 25, 1878) Page 3, column 2; submitted by Rose
In Memoriam.
Miss Sadie Hodgson, came from her brother’s near Boston, Massachusetts, to this place, January 24, 1878. Taking a severe cold on her journey, which ripened into quick consumption, thus ending a beautiful and pure life April 19th, 1878, in the twenty-second year of her age. She leaves, to mourn her loss, a father, mother and sister, in Minnesota, two brothers, engaged in the practice of medicine, near Boston, and in this vicinity her brothers Harry and William, with their families, and her sister Jennie and Mrs. Sponsler, and husband, at whose house she died. A large circle of the friends of the family tendered to them their sincere condolence. The funeral services were conducted by the Rev. J. C. Post. A very large number of friends attended the funeral.
***Note: Sadie’s parents died in Cass County, Minnesota
H. H. Nelson
----Source: Duluth News Tribune (Duluth, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1 June 1901; transcribed by Marla Zwakman
H. H. Nelson, who came to Cass Lake from Prairie Queen, S. D., a week ago, and went to his father’s claim on Moose Lake, died there last Sunday of diphtheria. The remains were brought to Cass Lake Tuesday and interred in the cemetery here.
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