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Dear Donna,
I don't know if you are still looking for the parents of Patience Dye. Enclosed is information on a Patience Dye who matches yours. Her (Patience) sister Sophia was my great grandmother.
Sophia and husband David Shock and their two young children (Clara Belle and Harry Ellsworth and her parents Ezekiel and Phoebe A. Davis) left Ohio because of Sophia's bad health and came to Minnesota in 1868 settling near burns, Anoka County Minnesota (now called). My grandmother Ida May was born shortly after they arrived (3 June 1868) Sophi's oldest sister Mary Hill had come here in 1854. Phoebe died 2 April 1873, Ezekial died 24 Oct 1873 both are buried in the Vernon Cemtery in Elk River, Sherburne County, Minnesota. Sophia died 9 Sept 1874 in Elk River and David died 8 Nov 1880 in Brainerd, Crow Wind County, Minnesota, leaving three very young children orphans. Clara and Harry went to live with Mary and Samuel Hill and my grandmother Ida May went to live with H.H. and Cynthia Sheldon after their mother's death and their father had gone to northern Minnesota to work in the lumber camps. The Sheldon's had a trading post out of Elk River near the Mississippi River. In reading the Dye Data I noticed Dyes and Sheldons being related.
I am also inclosing a copy of some information that was written by Clara Bell Shockley Champlen (Sophia's eldest daughter which she sent to her brother Harry, when he was sheriffing Melle Locs County in Minnesota. Harry's daughter, Mary Gobel sent it to me in 1985. Mary wrote a family history of what she remembers.
I have also exchanged information with David Hill Mary Dye Hill family
Ezekial, Phoebe and Sophia are burried in a family plot in the Vernon Cemetery in Elk River, along with my grandparents Benjamin James Daniels, Ida May Shockley, Marton Daniels, Kathleen Martin, a three year old of Ida May's first marriage and Majorie Daniels Hickman, Ben and Ida's daughter. The plot is under the name of Mis Benjamin Daniels. Benjamin and Ida and Marjorie are the only ones with markers. I hope this helps you in your search and if I can help you in your search and if I can be of any more help, let me know.
Sincerely,
Lorene (Daniels) Bielijeski
