Ruth Emma Thayer

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EMMA THAYER: From the Green Bay Advocate, Thursday, May 15, 1851: Hard to Beat - Miss Emma Thayer, a young lady of 15, living at Rowley's Bay, near the town of Two Rivers, while walking on the beach in company with another young lady, on the morning of the first day of May, saw a wolf a short distance off, watching a deer that he had driven into the lake; and, with a courage rarely equalled, she drove the wolf away, and wading into the lake, brought the deer on shore by the ear; but after petting him a short time, the ungallant fellow made several attempts to get away, and finally carried matters so far as to knock her down and tear her dress, when becoming justly incensed by such behaviour, she took a stone and dashed out his brains, the wolf all the time standing a short distance off, a silent spectator of the fight, in which he took no further part than by showing a formidable row of teeth occasionally, to show his disapprobation of her interference. It is safe enough to predict, that if this girl lives a few years longer, she will be able to whip her weight in wild-cats, out-scream the catamount, give a young "badger" the heartache, or what is better, preside with grace and dignity over some "wild Wisconsin home."

Ruth married Samuel A. Stone on 6 Sep 1851. (Samuel A. Stone was born on 20 Mar 1822 in Mackinaw Island, Michigan and died on 4 Feb 1882 in Two Rivers, Manitowoc County, Wisconsin.)

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