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A hostile party of Sioux Indians attacked A. Conroy and his son as they were putting hay east of Fort McPherson. The Indians killed the father and the rake team but the boy was driving and ran off. The boy fell backwards into the hayfilled teeth of the rake and he hid successfully all day. After sunset he escaped to Fort McPherson. In 1962, the Brady Lions Club marked Conroy's grave with a marker that reads "A. Conroy, Sept. 1868, Killed by the Sioux while mowing hay For the government troops, Marker erected by Lions Club of Brady 1962" This marker is in Sec. 28, Twp 12, R. 27. Tri-County donated the large rock from its rock pile at Kingsley Dam. This rock came from Colorado (to be used as rip-rap at the dam). Kugler Brothers erected the first fence around the marker. This fence was replaced by a native cedar pole fence, by the Brady Lions in 1989 for the Brady, NE Centennial. This marker is off the main traveled road—about 1/2 mile south.