EARLY RICHFIELD PIONEER - MINNESOTA TERRITORIAL PIONEER
Eldest daughter of Riley Bartholomew and his wife, Fannie Watkins, was patriotically named by Riley, "America". She was generally known as "Mandy", grew up in Ashtabula Co. Ohio, where her father's family were original settlers and active in their community. Riley was a local political figure, Justice of the Peace, General in the local militia. With her grandparents, parents and siblings Mandy moved West- first to Wisconsin then to Minnesota, by water barge, overland by ox team and finally by steamship. She landed at Fort Snelling in 1854. While her father and brothers staked a pre-emption claim to one of the first plots in Richfield, she and her mother and sister remained at the Fort. Finally, all the family united at the farm claim of Riley Bartholomew on the banks of Wood Lake on the Indian Trail, later named Lyndale Avenue.
Today their farm site is a National Trust Heritage property and is a listed Minnesota Heritage site. It is the Richfield Historical Society's only historic property and is maintained as the Bartholomew Family farm home-- which it was from 1850s through 1960's. A Veteran's Marker and Flag Pole memorializes the service of, not only Riley, but FOUR generations of the family, who served as American soldiers, in the Colonial Wars, American Revolution, and War of 1812, Civil War and Minnesota's Sioux Uprising of 1862 and World War2.
"Mandy" married government surveyor, George N. Propper at the Bartholomew farm in 1855. She then moved with him to the Dakotas where they had four children: Giddlings, Carl, George T. and Nellie. She returned to Richfield after her husband's death in 1912 and lived there with her brother, Winfield Bartholomew's family. She is buried in a plot adjacent to her parents and siblings at Oak Hill Cemetery, where her grave site appears to have been improperly covered over by cemetery road extensions.
Eldest daughter of Riley Bartholomew and his wife, Fannie Watkins, was patriotically named by Riley, "America". She was generally known as "Mandy", grew up in Ashtabula Co. Ohio, where her father's family were original settlers and active in their community. Riley was a local political figure, Justice of the Peace, General in the local militia. With her grandparents, parents and siblings Mandy moved West- first to Wisconsin then to Minnesota, by water barge, overland by ox team and finally by steamship. She landed at Fort Snelling in 1854. While her father and brothers staked a pre-emption claim to one of the first plots in Richfield, she and her mother and sister remained at the Fort. Finally, all the family united at the farm claim of Riley Bartholomew on the banks of Wood Lake on the Indian Trail, later named Lyndale Avenue.
Today their farm site is a National Trust Heritage property and is a listed Minnesota Heritage site. It is the Richfield Historical Society's only historic property and is maintained as the Bartholomew Family farm home-- which it was from 1850s through 1960's. A Veteran's Marker and Flag Pole memorializes the service of, not only Riley, but FOUR generations of the family, who served as American soldiers, in the Colonial Wars, American Revolution, and War of 1812, Civil War and Minnesota's Sioux Uprising of 1862 and World War2.
"Mandy" married government surveyor, George N. Propper at the Bartholomew farm in 1855. She then moved with him to the Dakotas where they had four children: Giddlings, Carl, George T. and Nellie. She returned to Richfield after her husband's death in 1912 and lived there with her brother, Winfield Bartholomew's family. She is buried in a plot adjacent to her parents and siblings at Oak Hill Cemetery, where her grave site appears to have been improperly covered over by cemetery road extensions.
EARLY RICHFIELD PIONEER - MINNESOTA TERRITORIAL PIONEER
Eldest daughter of Riley Bartholomew and his wife, Fannie Watkins, was patriotically named by Riley, "America". She was generally known as "Mandy", grew up in Ashtabula Co. Ohio, where her father's family were original settlers and active in their community. Riley was a local political figure, Justice of the Peace, General in the local militia. With her grandparents, parents and siblings Mandy moved West- first to Wisconsin then to Minnesota, by water barge, overland by ox team and finally by steamship. She landed at Fort Snelling in 1854. While her father and brothers staked a pre-emption claim to one of the first plots in Richfield, she and her mother and sister remained at the Fort. Finally, all the family united at the farm claim of Riley Bartholomew on the banks of Wood Lake on the Indian Trail, later named Lyndale Avenue.
Today their farm site is a National Trust Heritage property and is a listed Minnesota Heritage site. It is the Richfield Historical Society's only historic property and is maintained as the Bartholomew Family farm home-- which it was from 1850s through 1960's. A Veteran's Marker and Flag Pole memorializes the service of, not only Riley, but FOUR generations of the family, who served as American soldiers, in the Colonial Wars, American Revolution, and War of 1812, Civil War and Minnesota's Sioux Uprising of 1862 and World War2.
"Mandy" married government surveyor, George N. Propper at the Bartholomew farm in 1855. She then moved with him to the Dakotas where they had four children: Giddlings, Carl, George T. and Nellie. She returned to Richfield after her husband's death in 1912 and lived there with her brother, Winfield Bartholomew's family. She is buried in a plot adjacent to her parents and siblings at Oak Hill Cemetery, where her grave site appears to have been improperly covered over by cemetery road extensions.
Eldest daughter of Riley Bartholomew and his wife, Fannie Watkins, was patriotically named by Riley, "America". She was generally known as "Mandy", grew up in Ashtabula Co. Ohio, where her father's family were original settlers and active in their community. Riley was a local political figure, Justice of the Peace, General in the local militia. With her grandparents, parents and siblings Mandy moved West- first to Wisconsin then to Minnesota, by water barge, overland by ox team and finally by steamship. She landed at Fort Snelling in 1854. While her father and brothers staked a pre-emption claim to one of the first plots in Richfield, she and her mother and sister remained at the Fort. Finally, all the family united at the farm claim of Riley Bartholomew on the banks of Wood Lake on the Indian Trail, later named Lyndale Avenue.
Today their farm site is a National Trust Heritage property and is a listed Minnesota Heritage site. It is the Richfield Historical Society's only historic property and is maintained as the Bartholomew Family farm home-- which it was from 1850s through 1960's. A Veteran's Marker and Flag Pole memorializes the service of, not only Riley, but FOUR generations of the family, who served as American soldiers, in the Colonial Wars, American Revolution, and War of 1812, Civil War and Minnesota's Sioux Uprising of 1862 and World War2.
"Mandy" married government surveyor, George N. Propper at the Bartholomew farm in 1855. She then moved with him to the Dakotas where they had four children: Giddlings, Carl, George T. and Nellie. She returned to Richfield after her husband's death in 1912 and lived there with her brother, Winfield Bartholomew's family. She is buried in a plot adjacent to her parents and siblings at Oak Hill Cemetery, where her grave site appears to have been improperly covered over by cemetery road extensions.
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