"Miss Lois Garrett was born in Connecticut February, 1779; married Samuel Doud January, 1800. In 1822 Mrs. Doud with her husband and eleven children left their home in Connecticut to seek their fortune in the New Connecticut, of which they had heard so much. One wagon drawn by three horses brought their goods, provisions, while in another, drawn by one horse, were Mrs. Doud and her younger children, some of the older ones walking a part of the way. When night came on they generally found some settler's cabin or pioneer hotel in which they could find rest until morning, when they would resume their journey; in three weeks after leaving their childhood's home they reached Fowler, which was to them the far west.
Leaving his wife and small children in Fowler in a log house which he rented, Mr. Doud, with the older children, went on to Vienna, where he bought land to clear the forests and make for them a home. Mrs. Doud remained with her little ones in Fowler for two years, when she joined her husband in Vienna, living there until his death, July, 1849, when she again came to Fowler and lived with her daughter, Mrs. Adaline Chadwick, until her death, February, 1861, aged 82 years.....
Mrs. Doud's daughter, Miss Adaline Doud, was married January 1, 1836, to Joseph Chadwick, and settled in Fowler, at what was afterwards known as Chadwick's Corners."
