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This is some of what I have. It may help you continue your search. It is only part of
what I have but the most important part. THere is a second marriage but I forgot who is
was and I believe it was in 1883 or 1884 in Wisconsin. Just not able to find it again and
MY computer crashed and I lost some of my documentation.
I hope this all fits in:
(NEWS ARTICLES INCLUDED)
Isaac Tawney
Born:
February 24, 1849
Whitley County, Indiana
Died:
About September 1, 1894
Burned at High Bridge, Wisconsin
(From Agnew, Ashland County, Wisconsin)
Buried:
Brought for burial on September 1, 1894
Mount Hope Cemetery
(Potter's Field Section)
1520 Sanborn Avenue
Ashland, WI 54806
Phone Number: (715) 682-5434
Father: Tawney, Abraham
Mother: Lightner, Amanda M.
1st Marriage:
May 14, 1871 (verified)
Noble County, Indiana
Isabella Jones
Born:
1852 in Indiana
Death and location unknown
(Family moved to Wisconsin eventually)
Father: Jones, David
Mother: Margaret
Children:
Son: Tawney, David B.
Son: Tawney, John C.
Dau: Tawney, Margaret
1880 Census: Pierson, Montcalm County, Michigan
Tawney, Isaac 31 Works in Mill b. IN F: OH M: OH
Tawney, Isabella 28 b. IN F: TN M: TN
Tawney, David B. 8 b. IN
Tawney, John C. 6 b. IN
Tawney, Margaret 11months b. MI
1885 Census: Antigo, Langlade County, Wisconsin
June 20, 1885
Tawney, Isaac
4 white males
2 white females
Col. #6: born in the United States
2nd or 3rd Marriage:
Louise Rabe
(Vol. 1, pg. 0060)
June 13, 1889
Langlade County, Wisconsin
4th Marriage:
License #1041
October 17, 1893
Ironwood, Gogebic County, Michigan
(Upper Peninsula of Michigan)
Groom: 44
Bride: 21
Ida Porath
Born: About 1872
Died: On or About September 1, 1894
Burned at High Bridge, Wisconsin
(from Agnew, Ashland County, Wisconsin)
Buried: (See News Articles)
Mount Hope Cemetery
(Potter's Field Section)
1520 Sanborn Avenue
Ashland, WI 54806
Phone Number: (715) 682-5434
Father: Porath, Wm.
Mother: Westfall, H.
Those lost in the fire of 1894 from High Bridge, Wisconsin:
These burned bodies were brought for burial in Ashland, Wis. on Sept. 1st, 1894
BARGRIN, FRANK
BARGRIN, MAGGIE
GRANT, WALTER
TAWNEY, ISAAC
TAWNEY, MRS. (Note: IDA (Porath) TAWNEY)
TAWNEY, ELISHA
TAWNEY, WILLIE
TAWNEY, JESSIE
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New York Times September 6, 1894
WISCONSIN STILL BURNING
LAKE SUPERIOR TOWNS FIGHTING HARD AGAINST DESTRUCTION.
High Winds Drive the Flames Over Burned Territory and It Is Consumed Anew-One Town
Struggles with Fire on Three Sides of It-Nantucket Island Afire-Parts of New-York State
and the West Visited by Much-Needed Showers.
CHIPPEWA FALLS, Wis., Sept. 5.-A late report from Bruce says the little village was
completely enveloped by the forest fire that has been surrounding the place for several
days. The people escaped by running to the creek, covering themselves with wet blankets
and allowing the flames to sweep over them.
D. W. Blackburn's mill camp and a million feet of lumber were burned. There was no
insurance. Stickney, McPherson & Stickney lost 3,000,000 feet of logs by fire at
Cartwright. Bruce is a post settlement on the Chippewas River and on the Minneapolis, St.
Paul and Sault Ste. Marie Railroad, eight miles north of Chippewa Falls. The population
was 100.
Forest fires extended to the village of Throupe, 1,000 population, yesterday afternoon,
but by great efforts the town was saved with little loss. The fire was stopped within
half a block of the Nye, Lusk & Hudson lumber mill, one of the largest plants in this
section. Fires are still raging in the immense pine-land tracts owned by Cornell
University, at Cornell Lake, fifteen miles from here.
ASHLAND, Wis., Sept 5.-The fire broke out in a new spot yesterday, threatening the town of
Odanah, an Indian village of the Bad River Reservation. This country was badly burned
over last year, and it is probably that the Indians have all found places of safety.
Navigation on the south shore of Lake Superior and in Chequemon Bay, between Ashland,
Washburn, and Bayfield has practically ceased. It is impossible to navigate on account of
the dense smoke. Fog whistles are kept continually going, and it has been necessary for
vessels lying in port to guild over boats into the dock by a succession of whistles.
Port Wing is the latest town reported to be burning. It is a lumbering village situated
on the south shore of Lake Superior, midway between Ashland and Duluth. The reports
regarding it came in very late and are meager.
The bodies of eight people, who lost their lives at High Bridge, have been identified as
follows:
BARGRIN, FRANK.
BARGRIN, MAGGIE.
GRANT, WALTER.
TAWNEY, ISAAC.
TAWNEY, Mrs. -.
TAWNEY, ELISHA.
TAWNEY, WILLIE.
TAWNEY, JESSIE.
The remains were brought to Ashland. Brief services were held in the undertaking rooms
this afternoon. Homesteaders near Marengo report twenty-eight dear burned in one bunch,
where they had huddled together in green thicket and suffocated. Baked rabbits,
partridges, and porcupines are numberless.
In a district five miles square in the Town of Marengo thirty-two homesteaders lost
everything, but three house remain. Provisions have already been sent to Marengo.
Dispatches from Sanborn announce to-day:
"This places is all right, but it has been a hard fight. The town is full of
refugees from the surrounding settlements. The majority of these people had to run for
their lives and only saved the clothing they had on.
"There were about twelve or fifteen homesteaders between Sanborn and Bibon that were
burned out and lost everything they had. There have been no mail trains through since
Saturday, and we don not expect any more before next Friday or Saturday James Morgan, who
waked in from Shore's Crossing last night, reports that place in a precarious
condition again. Fires were burning up within a few feet of the town last night, but the
absence of wind gave the people a good fighting chance to save their property."
The Brule correspondent telegraphs the following to-night:
"News just received of burning homesteads and logging camps along the lake shore
north of Burle. A fearful smoke. the citizens are constantly on the outlook for the
fires."
Iron River, a thriving town midway between Ashland and Duluth, on the Northern Pacific,
has anticipated the march of the fire and has sent out a small regiment of volunteer
firemen this afternoon to out off the flames by building back-fences. Iron River was
completely wiped out by fire two years ago, and the citizens are alert.
Cleavedau, however, is the object of anxiety to-night. The Duluth, South Shore and
Atlantic Railroad has a force of men laying new tracks where the long trestle was burned
last Saturday, near Marengo. The foreman of the crew was called upon for assistance last
night, and he took an engine a few miles down the line to Shiloh, where he rescued some
section men who became surrounded by flames. It is not known how Shiloh has fared since.
Fire Chief Scott of the Ashland Fire Department has been out all day supervising the work
of providing better protection against the advancement of fires upon Ashland. A brisk
wind set in this afternoon, causing considerable excitement and apprehension. The path of
the fires has thoroughly destroyed the remaining vegetation.
Fires can be seen blazing from Ashland very plainly. It is almost impossible to
extinguish them, as the very roots of the trees burn and coals become imbedded beneath the
trunks of the trees.
It is dangerous to go from Ashland for three miles. The most critical position of the day
was between 11 and 4 o'clock, when the wind was strongest. If the strong winds of
to-day continue to-morrow, fires will break out again in all of the burned districts. One
burning over does not seem to prove effective in stopping fires. Owing to the large amount
of destruction to look after, there has been no organization to care for settlers and
families that are placed among the missing. It will probably be several days before
organized effort along that line can be put forth.
At Shore's Crossing, which was burned at the same time that Phillips went up in smoke,
determined efforts were necessary to prevent a second burning last night and to-day.
Three hundred men, thorough organized, are keeping back the flames from the
newly-constructed houses. The flames were within 300 feet of the town at one time last
night. This illustrates the fact that one or even two burnings of the forests does not
prevent another fire.
CHIPPEWA FLAAS, Wis., Sept. 5.-Fisher Meadow, near Estells, a small settlement, was wiped
out to-day. The fire is said to be running toward Murray, where danger is apprehended.
ARCADIA, Wis., Sept. 5.-The wreck of the west-bound freight on the Green Bay Road, which
occurred about three miles above this place yesterday, was much more serious than at first
reported. The train was going at the rate of about twenty-five miles an hour and ran into
a burning bridge, which gave way, and the engine and eighteen cars were wrecked.
The fire communicated to the cars and soon the whole was a heap of ashes. Some of the
cars were loaded with sheep, hogs, and cattle, a large number of which were burned up,
while others were crushed beneath the cars. Sheep ran about with the wool on their backs
ablaze. No human lives were lost. The engineer and fireman jumped from the engine before
reaching the bridge.
FIRES ON THREE SIDES OF AITKEN.
For Twenty Miles South There Is Not a Foot of Unburned Land.
AITKEN, Minn., Sept. 5.-Fires are around three sides of this town, and the Fire Department
is hard at work. One boy is reported burned to death from the township of Nordland.
There is not one foot of unburned land from Aitken to Mille Lacs Lake, a distance of
twenty miles south, while the burned district north and south through the pine woods, is
unknown, but settlers for fifty miles reported fire even beyond them and burning
fiercely.
DULUTH, Minn., Sept. 5.-Reports still come in from towns to the southward, reporting fresh
fires springing up. Early this morning it was reported from the railway junction and
sawmill town of Carleton, twenty miles south of here, that fire menaced the town, but
later, after strenuous work, it was beaten back.
Brief messages from surrounding towns to the United Press correspondent here are as
follows:
Cloquet-The smoke is so dense that it is impossible to see clearly twenty feet. Even
buildings are indistinguishable across the street. The smoke is so dense that the pain
resulting is fearful and almost unbearable.
Kerrick-Fires surround the town, but there is no wind to present, and, so long as it
continues so, the town is safe. Most of the people have left.
South Superior.-The fires near this town lat night were all put out. Rumors are current
here that Iron River, Wis., is burning, but they are probably not correct. In this city
the smoke is more dense and pungent than at any time yet, showing it to be from nearer
fires. It is utterly impossible to distinguish even faint outlines of buildings 400 feet
away.
The appearance is that of the densest fog, and vessels arriving from down the lake report
navigation a very serious matter and collisions narrowly avoided. This smoke is believed
to be from fires in brush and dead timber in the immediate vicinity of Duluth. In all,
about 600 refugees are now listed here by relief committees, and the lists are not
complete as yet. Nearly 200 people have already been sent back to Hinckley and Sandstone,
who are not included in above lists. More will be sent down to-day. The temporary relief
fund subscribed here grows, and now reaches over $10,000, of which all but $400 from Two
Harbors, a little village near here, comes from Duluth people. It is estimated that not
less than $350,000 to $400,000 will be required to keep the poor people until they can get
some returns from their own labor on farms next Summer. Many are going to work here in
the vicinity on railroads and in the woods and mills.
One arrival of a train over the Duluth, South Shore and Atlantic Railroad at noon to-day
came, from the statement that at the village of Maregdo, ninety miles east of Duluth, the
bodies of six persons were found who had been burned to death during the night. Offers of
aid to sufferers, both in cash and goods, are coming in from distant States. Tacoma,
Washington, telegraphed this morning, asking if aid was needed, but was answered by the
Mayor that Minnesota would be able to care for all and to rehabilitate the living.
MANISTIQUE, Mich., Sept. 5.-The villages of South Manistique and Thompson are in danger
from the prevalence of fierce forest fires in this vicinity. The conditions are favorable
for a fire throughout Schoolcraft County. The flames have crossed the Soo Railway two
miles east of here, Manistique is almost without fire protection.
ACROSS THE CANADIAN BORDER.
Fires Doing Great Damage in the Rainy River Country.
WINNIPEG, Manitoba, Sept. 5.-The Minnesota forest fires have extended into the woods on
the Canadian side. A dispatch to-night form Ratportage, a town 100 miles eat of here,
says: "Rainy River, on both sides for the whole length, excepting ten miles at the
mouth, is one huge mass of flames. The American woods, where there are but few settlers,
are all burning, and at Barwick the fires are so fierce that they have jumped across the
river, as well as at other places, setting the Canadian woods afire. The Canadian side is
well settled, and the settlers are losing heavily.
On Saturday, Mrs. Lamsby and five children, living on Grassy River, were burned. One boy
took refuges in a well. A daughter of eighteen years had her head and feet burned off.
The father, who was some distance away, escaped with his eyes and face sadly burned.
George Watt's buildings were burned, and the family was saved with great difficulty.
All the settlers back from Rainy River have been burned out, losing everything. Mrs.
William Bartley of Fort Francis is dead, and Arthur Wright, a settler of Rainy River, was
found on Sunday dead in bed.
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