Alternate surnames might be Lightfoot or Lightbody
Children may include Joseph, Atina, Nettie, Perry
Daughter of Daniel Dingley, a Yankee fur trader who operated a trading post near the mouth of the Yellow River in Burnett County. She was eight generations removed from John Dingley, who came to Massachussetts in 1636.
Sister of Sarah Dingley, wife of Antoine Gordon (Gaudin).
"When his Chippewa wife Mary died, Joe became very melancholy. He built a larger than usual 'spirit house' for her. (Chippewa tradition was to build a small 'spirit house' over the grave. Joe built a chapel where he would site for hours and mourn.) After Joe's murder, he was buried near the top of cemetery hill in Gordon. Mary was later exhumed and she now rests beside him, and only a short distance from the grave of her sister, Sarah Dingley Gordon." source: Mr. Gordon's Neighborhood by Ron Seningen
"At some time before 1880, Joe Blackburn married Mary Lightbody, a part-Chippewa woman, who died in 1893 at the age of 54 years. He dug her grave in front of his house at the brow of the hill and buried her there, a few feet from his front door. Later he built a small cabin over it which, it is told to this day, he often sat and grieved. The power of legend is so strong that the tale can still say that he installed a shaft in the grave so that he could continue to see her face! He dug his own grave beside hers and left word he was to be buried in it when he died.
After Blackburn's untimely death at the age of 68, his body was interred beside that of his wife as he had wished. According to Ben Keiner, whose family bought the place in 1904 and who had grown up there, the bodies were removed by a previous owner who could get no one to stay on the farm with them there. They were exhumed and buried in the Gordon cemetery and a monument marks their location. The depression left from digging out the coffins is still there on the edge of the hill overlooking the meadowland and forests which Blackburn loved so well. The kiosk which was once over the graves is now a part of a neat house in Wascott. All of the old buildings are gone but some of the foundations are still in place" (page 68).
Marple, Eldon M. "The Hayward Lake Region." Hayward, WI: The Book Store, 1979.
Children may include Joseph, Atina, Nettie, Perry
Daughter of Daniel Dingley, a Yankee fur trader who operated a trading post near the mouth of the Yellow River in Burnett County. She was eight generations removed from John Dingley, who came to Massachussetts in 1636.
Sister of Sarah Dingley, wife of Antoine Gordon (Gaudin).
"When his Chippewa wife Mary died, Joe became very melancholy. He built a larger than usual 'spirit house' for her. (Chippewa tradition was to build a small 'spirit house' over the grave. Joe built a chapel where he would site for hours and mourn.) After Joe's murder, he was buried near the top of cemetery hill in Gordon. Mary was later exhumed and she now rests beside him, and only a short distance from the grave of her sister, Sarah Dingley Gordon." source: Mr. Gordon's Neighborhood by Ron Seningen
"At some time before 1880, Joe Blackburn married Mary Lightbody, a part-Chippewa woman, who died in 1893 at the age of 54 years. He dug her grave in front of his house at the brow of the hill and buried her there, a few feet from his front door. Later he built a small cabin over it which, it is told to this day, he often sat and grieved. The power of legend is so strong that the tale can still say that he installed a shaft in the grave so that he could continue to see her face! He dug his own grave beside hers and left word he was to be buried in it when he died.
After Blackburn's untimely death at the age of 68, his body was interred beside that of his wife as he had wished. According to Ben Keiner, whose family bought the place in 1904 and who had grown up there, the bodies were removed by a previous owner who could get no one to stay on the farm with them there. They were exhumed and buried in the Gordon cemetery and a monument marks their location. The depression left from digging out the coffins is still there on the edge of the hill overlooking the meadowland and forests which Blackburn loved so well. The kiosk which was once over the graves is now a part of a neat house in Wascott. All of the old buildings are gone but some of the foundations are still in place" (page 68).
Marple, Eldon M. "The Hayward Lake Region." Hayward, WI: The Book Store, 1979.
Alternate surnames might be Lightfoot or Lightbody
Children may include Joseph, Atina, Nettie, Perry
Daughter of Daniel Dingley, a Yankee fur trader who operated a trading post near the mouth of the Yellow River in Burnett County. She was eight generations removed from John Dingley, who came to Massachussetts in 1636.
Sister of Sarah Dingley, wife of Antoine Gordon (Gaudin).
"When his Chippewa wife Mary died, Joe became very melancholy. He built a larger than usual 'spirit house' for her. (Chippewa tradition was to build a small 'spirit house' over the grave. Joe built a chapel where he would site for hours and mourn.) After Joe's murder, he was buried near the top of cemetery hill in Gordon. Mary was later exhumed and she now rests beside him, and only a short distance from the grave of her sister, Sarah Dingley Gordon." source: Mr. Gordon's Neighborhood by Ron Seningen
"At some time before 1880, Joe Blackburn married Mary Lightbody, a part-Chippewa woman, who died in 1893 at the age of 54 years. He dug her grave in front of his house at the brow of the hill and buried her there, a few feet from his front door. Later he built a small cabin over it which, it is told to this day, he often sat and grieved. The power of legend is so strong that the tale can still say that he installed a shaft in the grave so that he could continue to see her face! He dug his own grave beside hers and left word he was to be buried in it when he died.
After Blackburn's untimely death at the age of 68, his body was interred beside that of his wife as he had wished. According to Ben Keiner, whose family bought the place in 1904 and who had grown up there, the bodies were removed by a previous owner who could get no one to stay on the farm with them there. They were exhumed and buried in the Gordon cemetery and a monument marks their location. The depression left from digging out the coffins is still there on the edge of the hill overlooking the meadowland and forests which Blackburn loved so well. The kiosk which was once over the graves is now a part of a neat house in Wascott. All of the old buildings are gone but some of the foundations are still in place" (page 68).
Marple, Eldon M. "The Hayward Lake Region." Hayward, WI: The Book Store, 1979.
Children may include Joseph, Atina, Nettie, Perry
Daughter of Daniel Dingley, a Yankee fur trader who operated a trading post near the mouth of the Yellow River in Burnett County. She was eight generations removed from John Dingley, who came to Massachussetts in 1636.
Sister of Sarah Dingley, wife of Antoine Gordon (Gaudin).
"When his Chippewa wife Mary died, Joe became very melancholy. He built a larger than usual 'spirit house' for her. (Chippewa tradition was to build a small 'spirit house' over the grave. Joe built a chapel where he would site for hours and mourn.) After Joe's murder, he was buried near the top of cemetery hill in Gordon. Mary was later exhumed and she now rests beside him, and only a short distance from the grave of her sister, Sarah Dingley Gordon." source: Mr. Gordon's Neighborhood by Ron Seningen
"At some time before 1880, Joe Blackburn married Mary Lightbody, a part-Chippewa woman, who died in 1893 at the age of 54 years. He dug her grave in front of his house at the brow of the hill and buried her there, a few feet from his front door. Later he built a small cabin over it which, it is told to this day, he often sat and grieved. The power of legend is so strong that the tale can still say that he installed a shaft in the grave so that he could continue to see her face! He dug his own grave beside hers and left word he was to be buried in it when he died.
After Blackburn's untimely death at the age of 68, his body was interred beside that of his wife as he had wished. According to Ben Keiner, whose family bought the place in 1904 and who had grown up there, the bodies were removed by a previous owner who could get no one to stay on the farm with them there. They were exhumed and buried in the Gordon cemetery and a monument marks their location. The depression left from digging out the coffins is still there on the edge of the hill overlooking the meadowland and forests which Blackburn loved so well. The kiosk which was once over the graves is now a part of a neat house in Wascott. All of the old buildings are gone but some of the foundations are still in place" (page 68).
Marple, Eldon M. "The Hayward Lake Region." Hayward, WI: The Book Store, 1979.
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