A R Moxley

MOXLEY, BENSON

Posted By: County Coordinator
Date: 10/30/2006 at 00:24:49

A R Moxley, farmer and dairyman, Sec 10, P O Boone, was born in Susquehanna county, Pennsylvania, November 15, 1824, and lived there until 1853, when he went to Madison, Wisconsin, resided there until 1869, and then came to this county and located where he now lives, owning 480 acres of land, he also keeps a fine dairy, has a herd of Jersey cows and keeps from forty-five to fifty cows, was married in Pennsylvania to Miss Ann Eliza Benson, September 26, 1846, she is a native of that State, they have a family of three sons and two daughters: Byron R, Jonathan B, Charlotte A, William D and Jessie, Mr Moxley lived on a far until fourteen years of age, and then learned the carpenter and joiner’s trade, which business he carried on until he came here.

1880 Boone Co History Book