Mr. and Mrs. Martin Ercheringer, of Tacoma, Washington, have been visiting at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Rueck and Mr. and Mrs. S. Ebert and other relatives here for the past week. Mrs. Ercheringer is a cousin of Mr. Reuck and Mr. Ebert, whom they had not seen for 33 years. When she was a child of about 5 years of age her parents and baby sister were killed by the Indians at New Ulm, Minnesota. Her brother, John, aged 11, seeing the Indians shoot their parents, led his three smaller sisters safely to a fort 11 miles away. Mrs. Ercheringer never knew whether the baby sister had been killed by the Indians or carried away, until some 28 years ago. Then a tenant, who was setting posts on the farm where they had lived notified her that three skulls, two large ones and a baby one, had been found there. Upon learning this the remains were taken to St. Paul and buried. Mr. John Kockendorfer, the brother mentioned, is now living at St. Paul and here two years ago.
--Roberts Herald. Old clipping. No date.
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