GRIFFITH THOMAS. BUTTERNUT VALLEY, BLUE EARTH, MINNESOTA.
On the night of the 5th January, 1857, one William Hughes and his son in law, Griffith Thomas, when returning from the village of New Ulm, were frozen to death, and
their bodies found next day where the old Fort Ridgley road crossed Bennett creek on the present farm of Jas. D. Price, Esq. in the town of Cambria. These are the
only cases of death by freezing in the history of the Blue Earth and LeSueur county settlements