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JOHN CAYLER

CAYLER, MOORE

Posted By: Mona Sarratt Knight (email)
Date: 6/14/2009 at 20:03:20

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.

JOHN CAYLER, farmer, Sec. 2; P.O. Unionville; born in Loudoun Co., Va., in 1800; in 1803, his father went to Ross Co., Ohio - there engaged in farming, distilling and milling. When he was 13 years old, his father moved into the adjoining county of Fayette. There at 19 years of age, he married Miss Rachal Moore. She was born in Kentucky in 1800. They remained there for seven years, then removed to Hendricks Co., Ind., and there engaged in farming for twenty-seven years, or until 1851, when they came to this county, where he has followed his usual occupation since, with the exception of one year, in which with his wife and daughter he went to Idaho for their health, his wife being benefited by the journey. They have had sixteen children, eleven of whom are now living - Elender, Adam, Jane, George W., William R., Rachel, Elsie, Elizabeth, Zekal M., Mahala M., and Marion. Democratic; holds to religious principles, though belonging to no church.


 

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