TRAVER, Peter

TRAVER, HANSON, HATFIELD, WALLACE, STANLEY, CRAWFORD, VOLMER, PLANTZ

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Date: 12/9/2001 at 10:20:30

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF De Witt TWP.
From the book "The History of Clinton County Iowa" by L. P. Allen (1879) pgs 736-751

PETER TRAVER, farmer, Sec. 15; P.O. De Witt; was born in Montgomery Co., N. Y., in 1814. He married, Dec. 27, 1832, Catharine Hanson, also born in Montgomery Co. in 1815; accompanied by his parents, removed to Medina Co., Ohio, in 1834; his father died July 25, 1835. Mr. Traver came to De Witt Township in 1854; purchased his present farm in the summer 1856, where he located in 1857 have five children-Nicholas P., George P., Nancy A. Hatfield, Mary A. Wallace and James P.; they lost their first and third children-Elizabeth Stanley and Margaret H. Crawford. James P. Traver married, on Jan. 8, 1873, Anna E. Volmer, daughter of Allen A. Volmer. Mr. Traver's father, George E. Traver, was born 1787; died in 1835 his mother, Elizabeth Plantz Traver was born 1797; died at Wheaton, Ill.