WILLIAM R. WOOLRIDGE

WOOLRIDGE, JESSEE

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Date: 6/6/2009 at 10:24:25

Source: 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.

WILLIAM R. WOOLRIDGE, farmer, stock dealer and grocer, Sec. 35; P.O. Moulton; born in Russell Co., KY., in 1833; removed with his parents to Davis Co., Iowa, in 1846; thence to Harrison Co., Mo., in 1868; and to this county in 1865; owns 205 acres of land, valued at $25 per acre. Married Miss Susan Jessee in 1857; she was born in Tennessee, December 1837; they have seven children - Margaret, John, Kenneth, Lena, Esca, Mattie and a son 3 years old not named. Members of the Christian Church; Greenbacker. Has held the office of Subdirector and Assessor. Enlisted in the 29th Iowa V.I. in 1863; participated at Helena, July 4, 1863; Little Rock, battle near Spoonville; there lost an arm and was taken prisoner; held ten months and eleven days at Tyler, Texas, and six months of the time lived upon one pint of corn meal and one pound of beef per day; thence to New Orleans; after which he came home on furlough for thirty days, and at the expiration of that time reported at St. Louis and was mustered out June 22, 1865.