Cenotaph here
Son of Alanson Boughton and Charlotte (Keeler) Boughton
Husband of Mary Anne (Fisher) White
Father of Angelina (Boughton) Allen and Colonel Daniel Hall Broughton
Brother of Caroline E Clark (Boughton) and Emmet A Boughton
Nelson Boughton. In 1849, shortly after the breaking out of the excitement for gold mining in California, he went there via the Isthmus of Panama, where he took a sailing vessel for Sacramento. The vessel being becalmed on the Pacific, the passengers and crew suffered extremely for want of water and food. During some four years of absence he suffered great hardships in California and on the journeys there and returning, which he did by Cape Horn. He returned to Sempronius, Cayuga county, N. Y., where he married Oct. 2, 1854, Mary Fisher, of that place, born at Spofford, Onondaga county, N. Y., July 29, 1838. Subsequently they moved to Nunda, Freeborn county, Minn., which at the time was a new and unimproved region of country, where he bought a farm and settled. One of their neighbors, a German named Sigler, who was in the habit of getting intoxicated and ill treating his wife, became exasperated on one of those occasions because he, Nelson, offered protection to her against his brutality; the infuriated assassin rushed upon him with a knife, which he had concealed for that purpose, stabbing him three times in the back and penetrating his heart, from which he fell and died instantly. This occurred Sept. 6, 1859. The desperado was immediately arrested, tried, convicted and hanged.
The bereaved widow with her two small children remained on the farm where she was joined by her father and brother, who aided her in its management until her second marriage at Nunda, Freeborn county, Minn., March 19, 1863, to Silas J. White ; settled at Nunda, moved in 1866 to Eyota, Minn., and 1868 moved to Union, Worth county, Iowa, where they resided 1885; post-office address, Plymouth, Cerro Gordo county, lowa.
Source: Bouton--Boughton Family: Descendants of John Boution, a Native of France. By James Boughton, Willis A. Boughton. page 432.
Son of Alanson Boughton and Charlotte (Keeler) Boughton
Husband of Mary Anne (Fisher) White
Father of Angelina (Boughton) Allen and Colonel Daniel Hall Broughton
Brother of Caroline E Clark (Boughton) and Emmet A Boughton
Nelson Boughton. In 1849, shortly after the breaking out of the excitement for gold mining in California, he went there via the Isthmus of Panama, where he took a sailing vessel for Sacramento. The vessel being becalmed on the Pacific, the passengers and crew suffered extremely for want of water and food. During some four years of absence he suffered great hardships in California and on the journeys there and returning, which he did by Cape Horn. He returned to Sempronius, Cayuga county, N. Y., where he married Oct. 2, 1854, Mary Fisher, of that place, born at Spofford, Onondaga county, N. Y., July 29, 1838. Subsequently they moved to Nunda, Freeborn county, Minn., which at the time was a new and unimproved region of country, where he bought a farm and settled. One of their neighbors, a German named Sigler, who was in the habit of getting intoxicated and ill treating his wife, became exasperated on one of those occasions because he, Nelson, offered protection to her against his brutality; the infuriated assassin rushed upon him with a knife, which he had concealed for that purpose, stabbing him three times in the back and penetrating his heart, from which he fell and died instantly. This occurred Sept. 6, 1859. The desperado was immediately arrested, tried, convicted and hanged.
The bereaved widow with her two small children remained on the farm where she was joined by her father and brother, who aided her in its management until her second marriage at Nunda, Freeborn county, Minn., March 19, 1863, to Silas J. White ; settled at Nunda, moved in 1866 to Eyota, Minn., and 1868 moved to Union, Worth county, Iowa, where they resided 1885; post-office address, Plymouth, Cerro Gordo county, lowa.
Source: Bouton--Boughton Family: Descendants of John Boution, a Native of France. By James Boughton, Willis A. Boughton. page 432.
Cenotaph here
Son of Alanson Boughton and Charlotte (Keeler) Boughton
Husband of Mary Anne (Fisher) White
Father of Angelina (Boughton) Allen and Colonel Daniel Hall Broughton
Brother of Caroline E Clark (Boughton) and Emmet A Boughton
Nelson Boughton. In 1849, shortly after the breaking out of the excitement for gold mining in California, he went there via the Isthmus of Panama, where he took a sailing vessel for Sacramento. The vessel being becalmed on the Pacific, the passengers and crew suffered extremely for want of water and food. During some four years of absence he suffered great hardships in California and on the journeys there and returning, which he did by Cape Horn. He returned to Sempronius, Cayuga county, N. Y., where he married Oct. 2, 1854, Mary Fisher, of that place, born at Spofford, Onondaga county, N. Y., July 29, 1838. Subsequently they moved to Nunda, Freeborn county, Minn., which at the time was a new and unimproved region of country, where he bought a farm and settled. One of their neighbors, a German named Sigler, who was in the habit of getting intoxicated and ill treating his wife, became exasperated on one of those occasions because he, Nelson, offered protection to her against his brutality; the infuriated assassin rushed upon him with a knife, which he had concealed for that purpose, stabbing him three times in the back and penetrating his heart, from which he fell and died instantly. This occurred Sept. 6, 1859. The desperado was immediately arrested, tried, convicted and hanged.
The bereaved widow with her two small children remained on the farm where she was joined by her father and brother, who aided her in its management until her second marriage at Nunda, Freeborn county, Minn., March 19, 1863, to Silas J. White ; settled at Nunda, moved in 1866 to Eyota, Minn., and 1868 moved to Union, Worth county, Iowa, where they resided 1885; post-office address, Plymouth, Cerro Gordo county, lowa.
Source: Bouton--Boughton Family: Descendants of John Boution, a Native of France. By James Boughton, Willis A. Boughton. page 432.
Son of Alanson Boughton and Charlotte (Keeler) Boughton
Husband of Mary Anne (Fisher) White
Father of Angelina (Boughton) Allen and Colonel Daniel Hall Broughton
Brother of Caroline E Clark (Boughton) and Emmet A Boughton
Nelson Boughton. In 1849, shortly after the breaking out of the excitement for gold mining in California, he went there via the Isthmus of Panama, where he took a sailing vessel for Sacramento. The vessel being becalmed on the Pacific, the passengers and crew suffered extremely for want of water and food. During some four years of absence he suffered great hardships in California and on the journeys there and returning, which he did by Cape Horn. He returned to Sempronius, Cayuga county, N. Y., where he married Oct. 2, 1854, Mary Fisher, of that place, born at Spofford, Onondaga county, N. Y., July 29, 1838. Subsequently they moved to Nunda, Freeborn county, Minn., which at the time was a new and unimproved region of country, where he bought a farm and settled. One of their neighbors, a German named Sigler, who was in the habit of getting intoxicated and ill treating his wife, became exasperated on one of those occasions because he, Nelson, offered protection to her against his brutality; the infuriated assassin rushed upon him with a knife, which he had concealed for that purpose, stabbing him three times in the back and penetrating his heart, from which he fell and died instantly. This occurred Sept. 6, 1859. The desperado was immediately arrested, tried, convicted and hanged.
The bereaved widow with her two small children remained on the farm where she was joined by her father and brother, who aided her in its management until her second marriage at Nunda, Freeborn county, Minn., March 19, 1863, to Silas J. White ; settled at Nunda, moved in 1866 to Eyota, Minn., and 1868 moved to Union, Worth county, Iowa, where they resided 1885; post-office address, Plymouth, Cerro Gordo county, lowa.
Source: Bouton--Boughton Family: Descendants of John Boution, a Native of France. By James Boughton, Willis A. Boughton. page 432.
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