| Additional Information: | 2020 WisDOT survey information:
This house (AHI#241107) is comprised of two wings; a two-story, brick-clad block with a hipped roof and overhanging eaves and a one-and-one-half-story frame wing covered with vinyl siding. Regarding the brick block, a hipped-roof porch on a raised brick porch deck with replacement porch supports and railing extends across the front and shelters a right-of-center entrance. The remaining first-floor elevation contains three, regularly placed, one-over-one-light sash windows with plain sills and headers, while the second floor carries a series of four double-hung sash. The frame wing also includes a hipped-roof open porch with replacement supports. Two windows and a door punctuate the elevation. The concrete cattle pass (AHI#241108) that is located just east of the house and which runs beneath STH 81 to the current county fairgrounds is most likely historically associated with this former farmhouse.
Deeds indicate that the property was purchased by John Marriott from Samuel Salisbury in April 1870. Although little could be found regarding Salisbury, Marriott was a breeder of Berkshire swine, as well as a dealer in and breeder of dark and light Brahmas, buff Cochin and white Guinea Fowls. Marriott was born in 1825 and died in 1898. Based on the appearance of the home, it is likely that Marriott was responsible for the home’s construction (likely in the early 1870s). In 1876, the property was sold to Alden Pratt, a farmer, who then sold it to Samuel H. Ellison a few years later. Born in 1821 in Canada, Ellison came to Darlington in 1858 and ran the Russell House. He served in the Civil War and upon his return resumed working as an inn keeper. In 1872 he married Mrs. Elvira Jane Cone and, as of the 1880 census he was identified as a farmer in Darlington. Samuel, who continues to be be identified as the property owner as of the 1895 plat, died in 1900. The next known owner (in 1916) was Abraham R. Kundert. Born in Monroe, Green County, he came to Darlington by no later than 1905, by which time he is believed to have owned the subject property. Kundert and his wife Mary married in 1881 and owned the farm until at least 1916. Mary died in 1915 and Abraham died in 1935. |
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| Bibliographic References: | Footnotes for WisDOT survey information provided below in Additional Comments:
U.S. Federal Census, Population, 1880, 1900, 1910; Wisconsin State Census, 1875, 1885, 1895; Samuel Salisbury to John Marriott, Warranty Deed (5 April 1870), 15/270; John & Eunice Marriott to Alden Pratt, Warranty Deed (18 March 1876), 21/312; Alden & Laura Pratt to Samuel H. Ellison, Warranty Deed (6 August 1879), 25/302 (Deeds were not reviewed after 1879); History of Lafayette County (1881), 718; Atlas of Lafayette County, Wisconsin (1874); Foote and Henion, Plat Book of Lafayette County, Wisconsin (1895); Standard Atlas of Lafayette County, Wisconsin (1916); “Abraham R. Kundert,” Birth and death dates, as well as an obituary, found on Find A Grave, Available through Ancestry.com at www.findagrave.com/memorial/106209538, Accessed April 2020 (Obituary noted as in the Wisconsin State Journal, 3 December 1935). |
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