Elkhorn WI

Very hot and humid, threat of pm storms, but a nice SW wind pushes me 71 miles north through the corn and soybeans. Leave Norden and Ben's before 8am and make great time, Google navigating the back roads. Even a short 3 mile stint on another bike path, the Long Prairie trail, paved but badly cracked in places.

This cemetery marked an early settlement, and these gravestones show how tough it was for women in the 1850s. Note the stones for Harriet Pramer on the left and Rebecca N.,  both of them the unfortunate wives of B.R.Hall, each dying in childbirth at 19; Harriet's son died two months after her. Evelina in the middle, daughter of another Hall?, might have been B.R.'s niece, dead at 16. No sign of B.R., perhaps he moved on after these tragedies.

On a lighter note, the small town of Delavan just west of Elkhorn was the big 19th century circus capital.