Nicholas Hartgraves

HARTGRAVES, STACEY

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Date: 2/24/2002 at 21:05:02

Nicholas Hartgraves, a pioneer of Butler county and the first settler in Madison, was born in North Carolina, August 18, 1817. When three years of age his father died; his mother soon married again. In 1827 the family moved to Indiana and settled in Washington county. In July, 1831, his mother lost her second husband. When he was twenty-one years of age he went to Kentucky and there engaged in farming for four years when he returned to Indiana.
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In the summer of 1846 he came to Johnson county, Iowa, living there until 1852, when he moved to Butler county, being the third settler in Beaver Grove. In 1854 he sold his claim and came to Madison, taking a claim on section 18, where he built the first house in the township. His present home is on section 17. He was married in March, 1844, to Miss Sophia Stacey, a native of Indiana. They have had fifteen children; ten are now living – Delila, Clarissa, Marion, Melinda, Richard, Sinie A., Henrietta, Ellen, Estella, Virgil. Ulysses S. G. died in 1871, in his seventh year; the other four died in infancy.
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Source: History of Butler and Bremer Counties, Iowa
Union Publishing Co., Springfield, IL, 1883
Page: 630