Page 4: Clark County - Greenwood and Withee

Mr. and Mrs. Harry Mead came in 1865 and lived i  Hemlock near Withee and built a house with wooden pins and hinges.  Doors were without wax and tools were left where last used and always found again there when wanted.  Mrs. J. Bibel killed her husband with an ax and dragged his body into the woods.  She was pregnant.  A week later, Fred Limprecht saw crows or ravens circling about all place in the woods and found the body frozen stiff and took it to town and placed it in Honeywell's warehouse.  Later, they put the body in a barrel of water to thaw out. Mrs. Bibel confessed and said it was self defense and was cleared.

Mary Hommel came and 1867.  Black River Bridge went out in a flood in 1887.  Theresa was born in 1887.

The winter of 1858 has been known as the winter of the "Big Snow".

Outstanding - the largest barn in Clark County burned in 1895. It was owned by Robert Schofield. $1,000 insurance was collected.

Baker robbery November 4, 1892,$7102 was taken.  $6000 was gotten back from insurance.  Robbers escaped west with a waiting team. Sperbeck, cashier, received word the next week that the robbers had been captured in Chicago and were brought to Neillsville.

Stephen Case Honeywell was the outstanding character.  Charles Varney, when 11 or 12 years of age, was sent on horseback from La Crosse County to Hemlock, so that the horse might work in the woods.  He walked back alone through dense woods with few settlers and only a blaze trail part of the way.  Took him three days.

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