Appeared in the Duluth Herald, Nov. 29, 1935

Submitted by Lara Lynn - ladyhawk00@yahoo.com

"Mrs. Mohaupt, Survivor of Indian Raid, Succumbs at 81.

Mrs. Susanna Mohaupt, 81, pioneer Minnesota woman

who was one of the few persons to escape the tomahawks

of Indians in the New Ulm, Minn., massacre of 1862,

died late Wednesday in her home, 103 North

Fifty-fourth avenue west. Born in Chicago, Mrs.

Mohaupt was taken to New Ulm by her parents when she

was 11 months old. She was just a little girl at the

time of the massacre.

Her family escaped through a warning given to them

by a friendly Indian who had been fed by Mrs.

Mohaupt's mother. The latter had given some of the

Indians freshly baked bread when they said they were

unable to get game for food. The family was scattered

during the outbreak and reunited many days later at

Fort Snelling.

While their home was one of the few in the

settlement that was not razed by fire during the

massacre, they never went back, moving to St. Paul.

Mrs. Mohaupt came to Duluth 30 years ago and had

resided here since.

Surviving are a daughter, Mrs. Henry J. Sanford,

Oak Park, Minn.; five sons, C.B., Seattle; W.F. and

F.D., Duluth; H.C., Grand Rapids, MInn.; and Albert

A., Chisholm, Minn.; two sisters, Mrs. Catherine

Tuttle, St. Paul, and Mrs. Henry Seidenkranz,

Milwaukee, and 30 grandchildren."

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