| Birth | March 27, 1806, Rutland, VT |
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| Father | Daniel Ollis Sumner | ||
| Mother | Delila Reynolds | ||
| Marriage | Adaline Miles | ||
| Death |
August 15, 1900, Dawson, MN Dawson Cemetery |
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HISTORY OF Chippewa and Lac qui Parle Counties MINNESOTA
THEIR PEOPLE, INDUSTRIES AND INSTITUTIONS L. R. MOYER AND O. G. DALE Ebenezer and Adaline Sumner were educated in the public schools of
their native state, later moving with their respective parents to
within twelve miles of Buffalo, New York, where they were married.
Some time after their marriage they left the state of their birth and
early life and removed to Illinois in 1837. There they located in
Scott county, where Ebenezer Sumner engaged in milling, shoe making
and saw-mill work for some eighteen years. He also for a time was
engaged as a steam-boat cook, and while thus engaged went through with
the first boat that went through the Erie canal. In 1855 they came to
Minnesota, and here pre-empted one hundred and sixty acres of land in
Olmsted county, where they remained until 1874, when they came over to
this part of the state, settling in Lac qui Parle county, where they
homesteaded one hundred and sixty acres in section 2, Maxwell
township. They developed and improved the farm and made their home
there. Substantial buildings were erected and a grove was planted,
much being done to improve and beautify the tract. There Mrs. Sumner
died in 1892, at the age of seventy-nine, and there Mr. Sumner con
tinued to live until the year 1900, when he moved to Dawson, where he
continued to reside until the time of his death, in 1904, at the age
of ninety eight years.
Ebenezer and Adaline Sumner were the parents of the following
children: S. Durain, George W., Albums Perry, Mary Rosina, Zella
Sophia, Sarah Hannah, H. H., Martha Louisa, Julia Frances, Ella
Arminda, Silas Daniel, Ezura Olive and Rosilinda Ellen. George W.
Sumner, at the time of the Civil War was in the South and was there
pressed into the Confederate army. Albinus Perry Sumner was a soldier
in the Union army and saw active service in many of the important
battles of the war. He died at Sharpsburg, Maryland, and was buried at
that place.
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