Francis Hamilton DeGroat was born March 12, 1848 in the Town of Onondaga, Onondaga Co., NY.He married Lydia Amity Welch, the daughter of Benjamin Welch and an Oneida Indian woman Mary Ann Denny, on August 23, 1867 in Calumet Co., WI.They moved to Redwood Co., MN about1887, where Francis worked as a construction worker and stone mason.Lydia and Frank had seven children. |