Lafayette Levally

LEVALLY, FLANSBURGH

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Date: 3/23/2002 at 22:56:44

Lafayette Levally was born in Oswego county, New York, October 19, 1836. When sixteen years of age his parents moved to Wisconsin, and settled in Walworth county. He enlisted there August 29, 1862, in the Thirteenth Wisconsin Infantry, Company C. He served with the regiment until the close of the war, and was honorably discharged June 13, 1865, and returned to Wisconsin. He made his home there until 1875, when he came to Iowa. He bought land in Washington township, section 4, where he now lives. He married, in 1856, Miss Mary J. Flansburgh, a native of Schoharie county, New York. They have been blessed with nine children – Julia C., Eva M., Ada E., Frank E., Alfred W., Elizabeth, Tina B., Daniel J., and Ethel May.
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Source: History of Butler and Bremer Counties, Iowa
Union Publishing Co., Springfield, IL, 1883
Pages 733-734