HENRY ROBLEY

ROBLEY, SPENCER

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Date: 5/23/2009 at 15:51:31

The History of Appanoose County, Iowa, Containing A History of the County, its Cities, Towns, etc., A Biographical Directory of Citizens, War Records of its Volunteers in the late Rebellion, General and Local Statistics, Portraits of Early Settlers and Prominent Men, History of the Northwest, History of Iowa, Map of Appanoose County, Constitution of the United States, Miscellaneous Matters, etc.; illustrated; Chicago: Western Historical Company, 1878.

HENRY ROBLEY, deceased; born August 15, 1793, in Keene, N.H.; died Jan 29, 1872. He married Eliza Spencer, March 22, 1817. She was born June 13, 1799, in Addison Co., Vt.; in 1854 they came to Appanoose Co. She owns 320 acres land. Mr. R. learned the blacksmith trade in New Hampshire and carried on this business in connection with farming; they have six children - Mary, Edwin, John, Timothy, Martha, and Dennis. John and Timothy served three years in the late war.