‘Tales from Pioneers & Soldiers Cemetery’ Archives
Same story: Couple fights, man kills woman, police then self
Tales from Pioneers and Soldiers Memorial Cemetery By Sue Hunter Weir 170th in a Series Although half of the National Rifle Association”™s members report that they own guns to protect their families, their rationale is not supported by facts. A study conducted by the Center for Disease Control found that only 16% of women are killed by strangers””more than half are killed by their husbands, lovers, ex-husbands or former boyfriends. Fifty-four percent of those women were shot. Where there was a gun in the house, a woman was five times more likely to be killed by her current or ex-partner than when there was not. There is nothing new about domestic violence that ends with a women”™s death and almost as often, the death by suicide of the person who shot her. In fact, there is a certain sameness to these stories. A couple fights (alcohol may be involved, though not always); the man shoots and kills (or tries to) the woman, and then kills [...]
Phillips woman devotes life to advocating for those with less
Tales from Pioneers and Soldiers Memorial Cemetery By Sue Hunter Weir 169th in a Series Photo courtesy of Atchison FamilyThe photo was taken in 1920 when the women shown in the photo were the first women to serve on the Executive Committee of the nation-wide Republican Party. Carrie Fosseen, suffragist and social reformer (second row, far right) was a long-time resident of what is now the Phillips Community. Carrie Jorgens Fosseen is not buried in Layman”™s Cemetery but this month, on the 100th anniversary of Minnesota”™s ratification of the 19th amendment, she is well worth taking the time to remember. She was a suffragist, a social reformer, and political activist, and for the many years she lived in what is now Phillips. Carrie and her husband, Manley Fosseen, lived at 2916 Bloomington Ave. between 1900 and 1920, in a house that still stands. Although they would not have been considered wealthy, they had enough money that Carrie was [...]
Her family tells Ann Gardiner”™s story via her own web site
Tales from Pioneers and Soldiers Memorial Cemetery By Sue Hunter Weir 168th in a Series AnnGardiner Ann Gall Gardiner has her own web page. Not all that unusual in these times, perhaps, but she is not from these times: She was born more than 200 years ago, on Jan. 20, 1817, in Kincardine, Scotland and died from tuberculosis in Minneapolis on May 31, 1886 when she was 67 years old.  The epitaph “Gone, But Not Forgotten” is one that is commonly seen in cemeteries but it requires some effort to keep someone”™s memory alive. Ann”™s descendants have done just that by creating a webpage where they have told her story (or as much of it as they know at this point in time) and more importantly, they have shared a remarkable photo of her. Ann Gall married James Gardiner, a tinsmith, in Aberdeen, Scotland on Feb. 2, 1838. Between 1838 and 1863, they had 12 children, at least two of whom died before the family came to America. On [...]
