DELANCY M. PARCHER

PARCHER

Posted By: Jake Tornholm (email)
Date: 4/22/2020 at 13:19:42

DELANCY M. PARCHER, who resides on section 10, Nodaway township, came to Adams county with Mr. N. N. Odell in November, 1856. He was born in Crawford county, Ohio, February 28, 1833, the son of Simeon Parcher, who died when his son, Delancy M., was but eleven months old. His mother remarried, her second husband being Robert Kirkland, and the date of the marriage was March 24, 1836. The mother died February 23, 1885, at her home in Crawford county, Ohio. Delancy M. Parcher was the youngest of six sons and one daughter. The mother also had two daughters and a son by her second marriage. The subject of this notice and his brother, John Parcher, are the only survivors of his father's family. Two brothers died in the Union army in the war of the Rebellion - Simeon Beal and George.

The subject of this notice remained at his mother's home until he was sixteen years of age, when he engaged to work for Mr. Eli Odell, and one year later for N. N. Odell, with whom he came to Iowa in 1854, and to Adams county in 1856. Mr. Parcher enlisted, January 4, 1864, in Company D, Twenty-ninth Iowa Infantry. He joined the regiment at Little Rock, Arkansas, and served one year under General Steele, in the Seventy Army Corps. In the spring of 1865 he accompanied his regiment to New Orleans, Louisiana, and thence to Alabama - to Spanish Fort - taking part in the siege and battle at the place, thence to Mobile, and thence to Mount Vernon Arsenal, and then again to the city of Mobile and into camp two miles north of that city. There he was taken sick and was sent to the general hospital at Mobile, and about a week later was sent to Sedgwick Hospital, New Orleans, where he was discharged under general order, May 31, 1865. He left the city of New Orleans on the second day of June of the same year, and arrived at home in Adams county, June 12, 1865.

Mr. Parcher was married January 30, 1859, to Miss Nancy A. Thompson, a native of Indiana. Her parents died when she was a child. While Mr. Parcher was absent in the army his family lived in the village of Brooks. In August, 1865, Mr. Parcher removed his family to Nodaway township, settling where he now lives on section 10. His farm of 125 acres had no improvements when he settled here, but it is how under a good state of cultivation. Mr. Parcher and wife have had nine children, eight of whom are living - four sons and four daughters - and although four are married and have families, all are at home but one daughter, having a reunion of the family by invitation of the parents. They lost their second child, George L., at the age of fourteen months. The names of the children in the order of their birth are: Lyman F., who married Emma C. Bowers; George L.; Edwina, wife of John H. Bowers; Noah D., who married Adne Peregrine; Harriet L., wife of Andrew Brown; Frank O., Hannah R., Alma L., John T. It has been seen that Mr. and Mrs. Parcher are among the early settlers of Adams county, who came here when the country was new, and have done their part well, enduring the hardships and trials incident to a new country, and making for themselves a comfortable home.

In his political affiliations Mr. Parcher is a Republican. He cast his first presidential vote for John C. Fremont, in 1856. He and family are faithful and consistent members of the Christian Church. Mr. Parcher has been a resident of Adams county for the long period of thirty-five years. He was a faithful soldier in the cause of the Union, and is a worthy and esteemed citizen.