flag Native American female ancestor  Mary (Walking Woman)  -

  (b. 7 August 1825 La Crosse, Wisconsin Territory   d. 22 January 1869 McPhearson Township, Blue Earth, Minnesota, USA )  
Age: 43

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Mary (Walking Woman) - was born 7 August 1825 in La Crosse, Wisconsin Territory

Mary (Walking Woman) - was the child of Yellowthunder? -   and   ?

Mary (Walking Woman) was a Native American/First Nation.
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Mary (Walking Woman)  married  Asa WHITE abt. 1857 .  The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Asa WHITE  was born 29 February 1820 in Erie, Pennsylvania, USA.  Asa died 25 November 1880 in McPhearson Township, Blue Earth, Minnesota, USA.  Asa was the child of Ezra WHITE and .

Mary (Walking Woman) - died 22 January 1869 in McPhearson Township, Blue Earth, Minnesota, USA.
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Mary (Walking Woman) - married flag male ancestor Asa WHITE-- Date: abt. 1857 Place: 
Asa WHITE was the child of Ezra WHITE and




Children of Asa WHITE and Mary (Walking Woman) -:

flag male ancestor George WHITE (b.10 October 1857, Blue Earth County, Minnesota Territory  d. 7 August 1945, Saint Peter, Minnesota, USA)
m. Clara LAFAVOR 1894



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birth1825 Birth
7 August 1825
La Crosse, Wisconsin Territory
NewsFrom the 1840s through the 1880s, thousands trekked westward, carrying only a few belonging and supplies for the journey, and settling on the western frontier, forever changing the American West.
Invention 1843 - The Christmas card is invented (Sir Henry Cole and John Callcott Horsley, England)

Artificial Freezer Patented (Nancy M. Johnson, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA)
1857 Birth of Child
George WHITE was born 10 October 1857, Blue Earth County, Minnesota, USA

Mary (Walking Woman) was 32 years old.
News1863 - November 19 – American Civil War: U. S. President Abraham Lincoln delivers the Gettysburg Address at the military cemetery dedication ceremony in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
death1869 Death
22 January 1869
McPhearson Township, Blue Earth, Minnesota, USA

She died at the age of 43.

Mary is buried at: Buried on family farm
Added: 3/21/2025 12:34:04 PM - Updated: 3/22/2025 11:47:08 AM
Did You Know?According to the Wisconsin Historical Society, Wisconsin means 'river running through a red place' (the red place referring to the red sandstone bluffs of the Wisconsin Dells); they also say the name 'is the English spelling of a French version of a Miami Indian name' for the Wisconsin river (which runs 430 miles through the center of Wisconsin). (statesymbolsusa.org)

May 29, 1848 - Wisconsin becomes 25th U.S. state. The state is smaller than the territory and the leftover area continued to be called the Territory of Wisconsin until March 3, 1849. (www.50states.com)

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