George Ensley

ENSLEY

Posted By: Tina Keister (email)
Date: 1/14/2006 at 17:13:13

George Ensley, farmer and stock-raiser, Sec 27 P O Boone, was born in Pennsylvania March 20, 1826, and received his education in the common schools; when eighteen years of age he commenced farming and contiued the same until the fall of 1849, when he went to Dayton, Ohio; he there attended high school for two years, after which he followed his old trade; he came to this county in the fall of 1853 and still resides here, owning a fine farm of 160 acres of well-improved land, nicely fenced; he was married in Story county, Iowa to Miss Jane Worrell October 10, 1861, they have seven children: Hannah (born May 24, 1863), John (born March 2, 1867), Flora (born April 27, 1869), Lewis (born March 29, 1871), George (born August 26, 1873), and Mabel (born Oct 31, 1877)

From the 1880 Boone County History Book