. History of Morrison and Todd counties, Minnesota, their people, industries and institutions. her brother when a small girl. Shealso migrated to Cleveland after arriving in this country and worked outuntil her marriage. After their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Pedley came to Minnesota, wherehe worked in a saw-mill. Later he operated a freight wagon from to Little Falls. By careful saving he was able to accumulate enoughmoney to pay for two hundred acres of land, which he purchased fromthe government for one dollar and twenty-live cents an acre. This land. WILLIAM PEDLEY MORRISON AND TODD COU
. History of Morrison and Todd counties, Minnesota, their people, industries and institutions. her brother when a small girl. Shealso migrated to Cleveland after arriving in this country and worked outuntil her marriage. After their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Pedley came to Minnesota, wherehe worked in a saw-mill. Later he operated a freight wagon from to Little Falls. By careful saving he was able to accumulate enoughmoney to pay for two hundred acres of land, which he purchased fromthe government for one dollar and twenty-live cents an acre. This land. WILLIAM PEDLEY MORRISON AND TODD COUNTIES, MINNESOTA. 513 joins the present corporation limits of Little Falls, Minnesota. This landhe cleared and fanned and later added two hundred acres, situated a fewmiles east of the original farm. Mrs. Elizabeth (Ragan) Pedley lived to be seventy-eight years old,passing away at her home on September 22, 1914. She was a devout mem-ber of the Congregational church, and when she came to Little Falls she wasone of three women who lived here at that time. She was a good motherand a loving wife, rearing a family of children, who are leading honorableand useful lives and who keenly feel their deep loss in her death. Mr. andMrs. Pedley were the parents of ten children, of whom four, Lydia, MaryAnn, Emma Jane and Charles Walter, are deceased. The living childrenare, William, who is unmarried; Elizabeth, who married James Steele, anIndian trader of Little Falls, also a freighter and merchant; Minnie May,who married John Tucker, a merchant of Fort Ripley, M
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