MRS. NANCY J. HYDE, Montfort; widow of the late David Hyde, who was born in the State of Connecticut in 1797; when he was 9 years of age, his parents removed to the State of New York, where he was married to Martha Cowan, who died in the State of New York; he afterward came to the State of Wisconsin and settled in the town of Mifflin, Iowa Co., where he was married to the subject of this sketch, then Nancy J. Lightner; they were married in 1865; came to Montfort in December, 1873, where Mr. Hyde died in 1875. Mrs. Hyde was born in Huntingdon Co., Penn., in September, 1825; she was married to Mr. Joseph P. Brought, who died in Pennsylvania; she has one son by her first marriage - William M. Brought; she had one daughter by her second marriage - Rachel S. Hyde, who died in 1876, in her tenth year; four children of Mr. Hyde by his first marriage are living. Mrs. Hyde is a member of the M. E. Church.

This biography generously submitted by Roxanne Munns.