Huldah King

Huldah married Robert E. Stanley, son of Timothy Stanley and Mary Ann (Polly) Sedgwick, on 26 Feb 1826 in Hartford, Connecticut.⁵³⁰ (Robert E. Stanley was born on 30 Sep 1799 in Hartford, Connecticut ⁵³¹, christened on 30 Sep 1799 in First Congregational Church Of West Hartford, West Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, USA and died 1877 or 1878 in Nebraska.)

  Marriage Notes:

Shortly after they were married they moved to Erie County, New York where Robert worked on an Oneida Indian Reservation, he worked the land. He owned a large maple orchard and made maple sugar. Panthers had their lairs in adjoining swamps; the neighborhood was wild, and unsettled. In the fall of 1836, the family migrated westward. They traveled by crossing the lakes into Michigan. From Michigan they traveled to Chicago, Illinois by boat. Chicago, Illinois was a wet prairie with a few log cabins at this time. Robert Stanley settled on Avon Town where they broke land for a man named Churchill Edwards. They built a log cabin 16x24 foot with a puncheon floor, on the peninsula southeast of Fox Lake. The land was purchased from the government and they paid 25% interest on the money. Robert Stanley lost all of 160 acres of land. Hardship and privation were their lot in those early days. During the first year wolves made it dangerous to go out un-armed. The oldest brother (Monroe K. Stanley?) had to make a trip. To protect himself on this journey, he placed a hogshead (barrel) upon the sled and called to the oxen from the bunghole. He took along a dog to keep the wolves from the cattle. He was able to make it back home unharmed.

Their closest neighbors were Indians. The Indians taught them how to make holes in the ice. The children fished and their father sold the fish in Chicago. It was a three day trip by sled to Chicago. They were so poor they put straw on the ice to keep their barefeet from freezing, while they fished

Married in Hartford by Rev. Joel Linsley