of Renville County, Minnesota · documented from the public record
The family in the record
William Schmidt d. 1862
William Schmidt
childrenMinnie Schmidt
Source: Source: The History of Renville County, Minnesota (1916)
Their story
What the record says
Evangelical Association member of Flora Township.
Killed with wife and two children in the Dakota (Sioux) uprising of August 1862.
Little daughter Minnie died at Fort Ridgely from effects of exposure.
Wife unnamed.
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