Millicent Medora Salsbery, daughter of Louisa (Haight) Armstrong and Andrew Jackson Armstrong was born at Caledonia, Houston County, Minn., on Nov.2,1859..
In 1864 she moved with her parents to Faribault county where they homesteaded land just north of where the village of Easton is now located..
Here as a girl she experienced the trials and inconveniences of the first settlers and attended school whenever possible..
On January 9,1875, she was united in marriage to George Wesley Salsbery at Delavan. They lived near Easton until September 1876 when they with three other families journeyed with teams and covered wagons to Calamus Valley county, Neb. They remained here but a year, returning to Amboy in October 1877..
Here they farmed until her husband's death in 1897. Since then she has resided in Winnebago, Amboy and Blue Earth..
Mrs. Salsbery witnessed the development of southern Minnesota from the breaking of the prairire (sic), sod and was always intensely interested in every advancement..
She passed away quietly at her home in Blue Earth on Sunday May 14,1944, at 84 years of age, leaving to mourn her loss four daughters and one son: Mrs. Ray C. Stratton, Sedro Woolley, Wash.; Mrs. A.E. Perrine, Blue Earth, Minn.; Mrs. H.A. Hagen, Minneapolis, Minn.; Mrs. Edw. R. Parks, Blue Earth, Minn., and H.E. Dalsbery, Amboy, Minn. Also many grandchildren, great grandchildren and three great great grandchildren. Her husband and eldest son, Freeman J. preceded her in death..
Funeral services were held at the Burke funeral home in Blue Earth at 2 p.m. Wednesday May 17, and interment was made in the Pleasant View cemetery at Amboy..
Others surviving Mrs. Salsbery are four sisters and one brother: Mary Scheide of Minneapolis; Mabel Cyr of Hot Springs, Mont.; Alice Stroman of Four Corners, Sask., Can.; Lola Anderson and Ara Armstrong of Blue Earth..