JOHN CLEMMENS

CLEMMENS, LOUTZ

Posted By: Mona Sarratt Knight (email)
Date: 6/14/2009 at 20:11:02

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 CLEMMENS, farmer, S. 7; P.O. Unionville; born in Pennsylvania in 1802. In 1823, he married Miss Katy Loutz, and about a year after, they removed to Montgomery Co., Ohio; there he followed the business of shoemaking until 1834, when they removed to Wayne Co., Ind., where they cleared up a farm and remained until 1852, when they came to this county again to undergo the many disadvantags and privations of ioneer life, but have withstood them all, and now have a fine farm of 240 acres, valued at $25 per acre. They have nine children, living - Levi, John, Peggy, Sabina, Elizabeth, Samuel, David (died in October 1877), Jake, Mat and Leah. Democrat; members of the German Baptist Church.