Wilmot Maybee [18008] ⁴⁸⁸

  General Notes:

From the Maybee Society files. Not all data is verified. Say dates are estimates and are probably within 20 years. The Maybee Society keeps its data on The Master Genealogist�, and has been modified by Gary Hester?s WIT2NOTE� to form the GedCom file. This information is also available in a TMG file.

  Death Notes:

It was Tuesday, the 26th day of August, 1862, exactly nine days
following the Acton massacre, that a party of 11 men left
Forest City to recover their household goods, livestock, and
provisions which they abandoned at the time of the Acton
massacre. These men were Moody Caswell, N.C. Caswell, R.D.C.
Cressey, Philip Deck, David Hoar, Linus Howe, Wilmot Mabee,
James Nelson, Joseph Page, Thomas Ryckman and Chauncey Wilson.
The men prepared their noon-day meal at the home of Carlos
Caswell, where they left the oxen and proceeded to the home of
James Nelson and Silas Caswell, where they loaded their wagon
with household goods and provisions. The party separated at
this time. Chauncey Wilson was driving the cattle behind the
Wilmot Mabee wagon, and Thomas Ryckman was riding but later
left the wagon to assist Wilson in driving the cattle, thereby
saving his life.
When the Mabee wagon drove into the Carlos Caswell yard, they
were met with a volley of gun fire by the Indians who lay in
ambush. None of the men was hit. Deck, Page, and Howe jumped
from the wagon and fled toward the woods but were overtaken and
killed. Wilmot Mabee, the driver, attempted escape by trying
to drive his team through a pair of bars in the fenced
enclosure. The team ran into a marsh and could go no farther.
Mabee jumped from the wagon and fled toward the river but was
shot in the back and killed.
Ryckman and Wilson witnessed the tragedy but were unable to
render assistance because their guns were left in the wagon.
They were followed by the Indians as they fled toward the
woods, which they reached in safety and the Indians abandoned
the chase. They proceeded to Clearwater, which they reached
safely. The other members of the party reached Forest City in
safety.
The following day a detail of men under Lt. Atkinson Visited
the scene of the massacre and the bodies of Page, Deck and Howe
were interred in the Manannah Cemetery (50 rods distant from
the scene of the tragedy). Page was the only victim scalped.
He was absolutely bald.
Mabee's body was not recovered until the following spring. His
parents refused to believe he had been killed. They said he
was too capable to become the victim of Indians. Wilmot Mabee
frequently asserted he could drive all the Indians out of Union
Grove and Manannah with a pitch fork.

  Noted events in his life were:

• No Name, 1850, Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, USA. ⁴⁸⁸ Wilmot Maybee appeared on the census of 1850 in the household
of Charles Mabey and Harriet Smith Milwaukee, Milwaukee County,
Wisconsin

• No Name, 1860, Manannah, Meeker County, Minnesota, USA. ¹¹⁶ Wilmot Maybee appeared on the census of 1860 in the household
of Charles Mabey and Harriet Smith Manannah, Meeker County,
Minnesota