Daughter of Alfred Raynor and Theresa Inman, her parents were amongst the earliest settlers in Sawyer County, Wisconsin.
This is an excerpt from an article written about her father, Al Raynor, in 1922 and later reprinted in 'Southern Sawyer County Courier', the newspaper for the nearby town of Ojibwa:
Early Days on The Chippewa
The Raynor Stopping Place was headquarters for early trappers, loggers and river men and the farm has an interesting history. Here is the story:
"I came to Southern Sawyer County," said Mr. Raynor, "in the spring of 1867 from the east, with many other old soldiers of the Civil War who were leaving the east to take up homesteads or to do logging in Wisconsin and other western states. The place was then owned by Judge Hayward and McCord who had a logging camp across the river directly opposite the house here (Ojibwa is located on the site of the old logging camp.)"
"The Kelligan Brothers, Strickney & McPherson and Allen Cameron, in the order named, logged near my place and cut a considerable amount of the pine timber with in a radius of six or seven miles and had big crews who spent money here over the bar at the Raynor Farm."
"Old Fred Weyerhauser, stopped with me in the early days, many times, also William Carson. Edward Rutledge of Chippewa Falls was nearly always with Weyerhauser. We often fed 150 men and kept them over night in this place. You had to step high at night after stoppers retired as 100 often slept on the floor."
In 1986, Maggie became the wife of Joe Sarazin, a French-speaking logger from Quebec. His fellow woodsmen lost little time in translating his name into its English version, which was probably easier to remember and pronounce: Buckwheat. And so a family dynasty was begun!
(Note: After her husband Joe Buckwheat died in 1919, Maggie married again to John Maye and lived to be 93.)
Click on the link to her first husband below to read more:
This is an excerpt from an article written about her father, Al Raynor, in 1922 and later reprinted in 'Southern Sawyer County Courier', the newspaper for the nearby town of Ojibwa:
Early Days on The Chippewa
The Raynor Stopping Place was headquarters for early trappers, loggers and river men and the farm has an interesting history. Here is the story:
"I came to Southern Sawyer County," said Mr. Raynor, "in the spring of 1867 from the east, with many other old soldiers of the Civil War who were leaving the east to take up homesteads or to do logging in Wisconsin and other western states. The place was then owned by Judge Hayward and McCord who had a logging camp across the river directly opposite the house here (Ojibwa is located on the site of the old logging camp.)"
"The Kelligan Brothers, Strickney & McPherson and Allen Cameron, in the order named, logged near my place and cut a considerable amount of the pine timber with in a radius of six or seven miles and had big crews who spent money here over the bar at the Raynor Farm."
"Old Fred Weyerhauser, stopped with me in the early days, many times, also William Carson. Edward Rutledge of Chippewa Falls was nearly always with Weyerhauser. We often fed 150 men and kept them over night in this place. You had to step high at night after stoppers retired as 100 often slept on the floor."
In 1986, Maggie became the wife of Joe Sarazin, a French-speaking logger from Quebec. His fellow woodsmen lost little time in translating his name into its English version, which was probably easier to remember and pronounce: Buckwheat. And so a family dynasty was begun!
(Note: After her husband Joe Buckwheat died in 1919, Maggie married again to John Maye and lived to be 93.)
Click on the link to her first husband below to read more:
Daughter of Alfred Raynor and Theresa Inman, her parents were amongst the earliest settlers in Sawyer County, Wisconsin.
This is an excerpt from an article written about her father, Al Raynor, in 1922 and later reprinted in 'Southern Sawyer County Courier', the newspaper for the nearby town of Ojibwa:
Early Days on The Chippewa
The Raynor Stopping Place was headquarters for early trappers, loggers and river men and the farm has an interesting history. Here is the story:
"I came to Southern Sawyer County," said Mr. Raynor, "in the spring of 1867 from the east, with many other old soldiers of the Civil War who were leaving the east to take up homesteads or to do logging in Wisconsin and other western states. The place was then owned by Judge Hayward and McCord who had a logging camp across the river directly opposite the house here (Ojibwa is located on the site of the old logging camp.)"
"The Kelligan Brothers, Strickney & McPherson and Allen Cameron, in the order named, logged near my place and cut a considerable amount of the pine timber with in a radius of six or seven miles and had big crews who spent money here over the bar at the Raynor Farm."
"Old Fred Weyerhauser, stopped with me in the early days, many times, also William Carson. Edward Rutledge of Chippewa Falls was nearly always with Weyerhauser. We often fed 150 men and kept them over night in this place. You had to step high at night after stoppers retired as 100 often slept on the floor."
In 1986, Maggie became the wife of Joe Sarazin, a French-speaking logger from Quebec. His fellow woodsmen lost little time in translating his name into its English version, which was probably easier to remember and pronounce: Buckwheat. And so a family dynasty was begun!
(Note: After her husband Joe Buckwheat died in 1919, Maggie married again to John Maye and lived to be 93.)
Click on the link to her first husband below to read more:
This is an excerpt from an article written about her father, Al Raynor, in 1922 and later reprinted in 'Southern Sawyer County Courier', the newspaper for the nearby town of Ojibwa:
Early Days on The Chippewa
The Raynor Stopping Place was headquarters for early trappers, loggers and river men and the farm has an interesting history. Here is the story:
"I came to Southern Sawyer County," said Mr. Raynor, "in the spring of 1867 from the east, with many other old soldiers of the Civil War who were leaving the east to take up homesteads or to do logging in Wisconsin and other western states. The place was then owned by Judge Hayward and McCord who had a logging camp across the river directly opposite the house here (Ojibwa is located on the site of the old logging camp.)"
"The Kelligan Brothers, Strickney & McPherson and Allen Cameron, in the order named, logged near my place and cut a considerable amount of the pine timber with in a radius of six or seven miles and had big crews who spent money here over the bar at the Raynor Farm."
"Old Fred Weyerhauser, stopped with me in the early days, many times, also William Carson. Edward Rutledge of Chippewa Falls was nearly always with Weyerhauser. We often fed 150 men and kept them over night in this place. You had to step high at night after stoppers retired as 100 often slept on the floor."
In 1986, Maggie became the wife of Joe Sarazin, a French-speaking logger from Quebec. His fellow woodsmen lost little time in translating his name into its English version, which was probably easier to remember and pronounce: Buckwheat. And so a family dynasty was begun!
(Note: After her husband Joe Buckwheat died in 1919, Maggie married again to John Maye and lived to be 93.)
Click on the link to her first husband below to read more:
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