J. W. CLANCY

CLANCY, MARTIN, FROST

Posted By: Mona Sarratt Knight (email)
Date: 6/14/2009 at 20:08:37

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.

J.W. CLANCY, farmer, Sec. 5; P.O. Unionville; born in Jackson Co., Tenn., in 1814; removed to Pike Co., Ill., in 1838; thence in 1840 to what is now Schuyler Co., Mo., then a territory; remained three years, and in 1843, came to this county where he owns 400 acres of land, valued at $30 per acre. He married Miss Malinda A. Martin in 1834; she was born in Monroe Co., Ky., in 1814; died in this county in 1862, leaving seven children - Eliza A., Elizabeth, John W., Mary, George W., M. Jane, Nancy F. Then married Mary Frost in 1863; she was born in Tennessee in 1821; died in February 1873, leaving two children - Cornlius W., born in 1866; Edward, born in 1868; died in December 1874. Democrat; member of the Baptist Church. At the time of Mr. Clancy's coming to this county, two yoke of oxen were his sole possessions and for them he was in debt; now he has one of the finest and best improved farms in the county, made by farming alone; was one of the very earliest settlers and was driven away by the Indians three times before permitted to remain permanently settled.