Per an article in "Historically Speaking" the newsletter of Howard County Historical Society, Fall 2006 issue - a 4-day terrible blizzard in April 1873 took the lives of Dillon Haworth, his wife Jane, and daughter Ozella. The youngest daughter Eva Pearl, age 2, was found still alive in her mother's arms.
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From the Saint Paul Press, June 10, 1891, page 1, "The Early Pioneers, Cushing and Vicinity"
......Spring Creek Cemetery Association...is about two miles northwest from Cushing and contains the last resting places of more than fifty bodies. The first persons buried here brings to mind that awful storm on that memorable Easter Sunday, April 16, 1873, remembered by many a western pioneer.
D. C. Haworth, wife and child, aged respectively 25, 24 and 4 years, were the victims of that storm. They were living in a dugout about two miles north of this place. On the second day of the storm they are supposed to have started to a neighbors house, the fuel having become exhausted. After the storm had abated and after it became known that they had left home, search was made and the wife and two children were soon found not far form their home frozen to death, except the younger, an infant, which the mother had carefully wrapped in her own clothing, hoping to preserve the little one's life, realizing that she and the oldest child would have to die.
The infant had suffered but little and was the only one of the family that survived the storm, and she is still living and is the wife of Mr. Danner and lives near the cemetery. The husband and father was not found for two or three weeks, about ten miles form home, frozen to death.
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From the Saint Paul Press, June 10, 1891, page 1, "The Early Pioneers, Cushing and Vicinity"
......Spring Creek Cemetery Association...is about two miles northwest from Cushing and contains the last resting places of more than fifty bodies. The first persons buried here brings to mind that awful storm on that memorable Easter Sunday, April 16, 1873, remembered by many a western pioneer.
D. C. Haworth, wife and child, aged respectively 25, 24 and 4 years, were the victims of that storm. They were living in a dugout about two miles north of this place. On the second day of the storm they are supposed to have started to a neighbors house, the fuel having become exhausted. After the storm had abated and after it became known that they had left home, search was made and the wife and two children were soon found not far form their home frozen to death, except the younger, an infant, which the mother had carefully wrapped in her own clothing, hoping to preserve the little one's life, realizing that she and the oldest child would have to die.
The infant had suffered but little and was the only one of the family that survived the storm, and she is still living and is the wife of Mr. Danner and lives near the cemetery. The husband and father was not found for two or three weeks, about ten miles form home, frozen to death.
Per an article in "Historically Speaking" the newsletter of Howard County Historical Society, Fall 2006 issue - a 4-day terrible blizzard in April 1873 took the lives of Dillon Haworth, his wife Jane, and daughter Ozella. The youngest daughter Eva Pearl, age 2, was found still alive in her mother's arms.
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From the Saint Paul Press, June 10, 1891, page 1, "The Early Pioneers, Cushing and Vicinity"
......Spring Creek Cemetery Association...is about two miles northwest from Cushing and contains the last resting places of more than fifty bodies. The first persons buried here brings to mind that awful storm on that memorable Easter Sunday, April 16, 1873, remembered by many a western pioneer.
D. C. Haworth, wife and child, aged respectively 25, 24 and 4 years, were the victims of that storm. They were living in a dugout about two miles north of this place. On the second day of the storm they are supposed to have started to a neighbors house, the fuel having become exhausted. After the storm had abated and after it became known that they had left home, search was made and the wife and two children were soon found not far form their home frozen to death, except the younger, an infant, which the mother had carefully wrapped in her own clothing, hoping to preserve the little one's life, realizing that she and the oldest child would have to die.
The infant had suffered but little and was the only one of the family that survived the storm, and she is still living and is the wife of Mr. Danner and lives near the cemetery. The husband and father was not found for two or three weeks, about ten miles form home, frozen to death.
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From the Saint Paul Press, June 10, 1891, page 1, "The Early Pioneers, Cushing and Vicinity"
......Spring Creek Cemetery Association...is about two miles northwest from Cushing and contains the last resting places of more than fifty bodies. The first persons buried here brings to mind that awful storm on that memorable Easter Sunday, April 16, 1873, remembered by many a western pioneer.
D. C. Haworth, wife and child, aged respectively 25, 24 and 4 years, were the victims of that storm. They were living in a dugout about two miles north of this place. On the second day of the storm they are supposed to have started to a neighbors house, the fuel having become exhausted. After the storm had abated and after it became known that they had left home, search was made and the wife and two children were soon found not far form their home frozen to death, except the younger, an infant, which the mother had carefully wrapped in her own clothing, hoping to preserve the little one's life, realizing that she and the oldest child would have to die.
The infant had suffered but little and was the only one of the family that survived the storm, and she is still living and is the wife of Mr. Danner and lives near the cemetery. The husband and father was not found for two or three weeks, about ten miles form home, frozen to death.
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