Christian Daily

DAILY, NEIGHMAN, CROSBY

Posted By: Diane (email)
Date: 2/24/2002 at 19:36:07

Mrs. Emily Daily, widow of Christian Daily, resides on section 22. Christian Daily was born in Pennsylvania in 1803. He moved to Ohio with his parents, when a boy, and there lived until manhood, when he married Miss Emily Neighman. After their marriage they removed to Indiana, where they remained twenty years. They came to Butler county in 1857, and settled on section 22, on the farm which Mrs. Daily now owns.
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Mr. Daily died in 1875. Mrs. Daily was born in Portage county, Ohio, in 1813. Her father, Adam Neighman, was one of the pioneers of that State. Mrs. Daily has three sons and one daughter – Anthony, in Sheffield, Iowa; Lydia, now Mrs. S. E. Crosby; Christian, in Waterloo, and P. F. Daily, who resides at the homestead. She lost five children, three sons and two daughters, all but one of whom reached maturity.
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Source: History of Butler and Bremer Counties, Iowa
Union Publishing Co., Springfield, IL, 1883
Page 744