Surnames: Baker, Mudge, Priest, Stevens
Regions: Jefferson Co., NY - Outagamie Co., WI
Source: Sketches of Wisconsin Pioneer Women, by Florence Chambers Dexheimer,
W. D. Hoard & Sons Co., Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin , Pages 108-109
Hannah Mudge Marble was born in Berkshire County, Massachusetts, in 1799. Her father, Stephen Mudge, had been a soldier in the Revolution, when young. The family "went West" to New York State when she was a child.
She married Ephraim Marble, whose parents had immigrated from Vermont.
In 1826 their daughter, Rachel Sevilla was born in Adams Center, Jefferson County, New York. When she was about six years old they went into the "Black River" country, near Alexandria Bay and made a home for themselves in the wilderness.
Rachel Sevilla Marble married Charles Stevens, whose family was of the same New England stock. In the fall of 1853 the two families consisting of Mr. and Mrs. Marble and Mr. and Mrs. Stevens, with their three children, left New York State for Wisconsin coming directly to Appleton (Outagamie County), of which they had already heard through copies of the "Appleton Crescent" sent to them by relatives there.
Mrs. Marble died in 1883 in Appleton and her daughter, Mrs. Stevens, died in 1889, in Appleton.
Two daughters of Mrs. Stevens, Mrs. Hannah Stevens Baker and Mrs. Aimee Stevens Priest, both born in Jefferson County, New York, are still living here.
See Also: Albert Priest
