Mary Dorflinger
- Born: 29 Oct 1856, Boonville, Cooper County, Missouri
- Died: 4 Nov 1957, Solomon, Dickinson County, Kansas at age 101
- Buried: Prairie Mound Cemetery in Solomon, Kansas
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The Salina Journal (Salina, Kansas) 29 Oct 1956, Mon Page 2
When she was six years old she came to Kansas with her parents....on the trip one of the oxen died and the trip was completed by driving a cow and an ox..their homestead charter was signed by Abraham Lincoln. They first built a sod house, then one of logs and finally a large stone house which still stands on the farm...Miss Dorflinger remembers how frightened they were of the Indians....her mother would bake pies and donuts o sell to soldiers as they moved from Ft. Riley to Ft. Dodge....when she was eight she had a high fever which made her blind in one eye and cripled..her mother rubbed the limbs and she overcame the crippling...in 1948 she fell and broke a hip...
The Salina Journal (Salina, Kansas) 05 Nov 1957, Tue Page 10 [notes from clipping] Mary Dorflinger, 101, of Solomon died Monday at Salina Nursing Home...born 29 Oct 1856..d/o M/M George Dorflinger,,,burial Prairie Mound Cemetery in Solomon..survivors: Mrs W. P. Wooten (neice) of Sedan, Kansas and G. A. Eisenhauer of Colorado Spgs, CO
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