COLE, Tunis

COLE, HAYES

Posted By: Sharon R Becker (email)
Date: 1/18/2014 at 21:41:42

Biography ~ Tunis Cole

"Biographical and Historical Record of
Ringgold and Decatur Counties, Iowa"
(Lewis Publishing Company (1887)), p. 612:

TUNIS COLE, farmer and stock-raiser, section 15, Garden Grove Township, owns 120 acres of land. He was born in New Jersey, in 1843, son of EZEKIEL and GERTRUDE COLE, also natives of New Jersey. The father died in 1853. Mr. COLE was reared to the vocation of a farmer, and in 1865 removed to Fulton County, Illinois, then to Decatur County, Iowa, in 1873. He is handling more thorough-bred short-horn cattle. He was married in Illinois, in 1869, to LAURA L. HAYES, born in Tazewell County, Illinois, in 1852. Both are of German extraction. Mr. COLE’s farm is well cultivated, and he has commodious buildings.

Transcribed by Sara LeFleur, Decatur County Historial Society Musuem, January of 2014