For many months after the Sioux Uprising of 1862, terror prevailed on Minnesota’s western frontier as roving bands of Sioux eluded pursuers and attacked settlers. On June 29, 1863, Amos Dustin was moving his family by ox-drawn wagon to a new claim in the southwestern part of Wright County, with his wife Kate, their children Alma, Robert, and Albert, and his widowed mother, Mrs. Jeanette Dustin. About one-third mile northwest of this spot, a party of Indians attacked them from ambush, shot three to death with arrows, and mortally wounded a fourth, while Alma and Albert were left unharmed. The victims were buried in a cemetery at Waverly. It has always been believed, although never proved, that the attack was carried out by members of Little Crow’s party who were in the vicinity at the time. Four days later, Little Crow was shot and killed near Hutchinson while picking berries with a son.