Informative Essay On Ellen Hammon

Ellen McConnell was born Scotland in 1791. When she was 70 years old, she lived near Birch Coulee, MN, with her son David, when the US Dakota War broke out in 1862 . On August 18 Ellen was home alone when two Dakota men broke in. Ellen was unharmed but her grandson Thomas Brooks was killed. Her daughter Martha Claussen, an infant, and her grandchildren were captured. After the day of the attack, she and her son David found her other son Joseph at Fort Ridgely. Ellen and her son David never return to their home and moved to Houston County. She died in 1868. She never recovered from the shock of the attack!