JACOB CONDRA

CONDRA, ADAMS, COLLENS

Posted By: Mona Sarratt Knight (email)
Date: 7/17/2009 at 06:09:33

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.

JACOB CONDRA, farmer, Sec. 27; P.O. Livingston; born in Crawford Co., Ind., March 20, 1816. At the age of 22, or in 1838, he married Miss Louisa Adams; she was born in Kentucky in 1820; her father, Aaron Adams, was a pioneer to Indiana from Massachusetts; her mother, whose maiden name was Anna Collens, married Charles Moore, who died; she then married Aaron Adams (now deceased), a carpenter by trade, and lived in Crawford Co., Ind; her mother died in Washington Co. The year following their marriage, Mr. and Mrs. Condra came to Knox Co., Ill., where they engaged in farming on rented land, until 1844, when he bought a farm, on which he remained until 1850, when they came to Appanoose in the spring of that year, where he owned 360 acres of land, but has divided with his children until he has 175 acres, valued at $20 per acre. They have eight children - Wm. W., born in October 1841; Isaac N., October 1843; Rebecca, September 1846; Leander F., February 1849; Angeline, September 1851; Lydia, December 1854; John L., April 1857; Louisa, April 1862; all of whom can read, write, and cypher; all married but one and settled in Iowa. She is a member of the Christian Church and he is a Universalist.