MIRANDA WHISLER (nee LEAVELL)

WHISLER, LEAVELL

Posted By: Mona Sarratt Knight (email)
Date: 7/16/2009 at 04:57:30

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.

MIRANDA WHISLER (nee LEAVELL), farm., Sec. 10; P.O. Unionville; born in Henry Co., Ind., in 1827, and there married Samuel Whisler, in 1846; he was born in Rockford Co., Va., in 1822; after they were married they remained in Henry Co. about three years after which they came to this state, Jefferson Co., where they remained for a year and a half, and in 1856, came to this county, where he entered a quarter-section of land, but has since added to it until it now contains 206 acres, valued at $30 per acre; Mr. Whisler died in 1870, leaving nine children - William H., Martha E., Mary J., Columbus E., Louis C., Annie C., Sarah A. and Miranda E. Samuel W. was Reublican in politics; members of the German Baptist church.