Nathan F. Simpson 1838-1907

SIMPSON, HINDE, WELSH

Posted By: Cheryl Locher Moonen (email)
Date: 8/8/2016 at 10:38:09

Co. G. 21st IOWA INF.

N.F. SIMPSON,farmer, Secs. 20, 21, 28 and 29; P.O. Epworth; born in Yorkshire, England, Oct. 14, 1838; to America and to Dubuque Co., in 1839; has 140 acres of land admirably adapted to farming and stock-raising, and, with characteristic energy is extending his business and possessions; quite a number of years in his earlier life were spent in mining, of which business he has thorough knowledge; before settling on his present farm thirteen years ago, he had traveled extensively over Wisconsin, Iowa, Kansas and Nebraska; has made personal observation of much of the Union; with patriotic devotion to the land of his adoption, he devoted three years of his life to the service of his country during the civil war, serving as a non-commissioned officer in Co. C. 21st I.V.I., making an honorable record in the battles of Hartsville and Beaver Creek, Mo., where he was wounded; the Red River and Atlanta campaigns, siege of Vicksburg,etc., until mustered out with his command at the close of the war in 1865.

His first wife was Miss Azubah Welsh, of Virginia, married in 1860, she died in 1862; his second wife, Miss Alice Hinde, a native of Cheshire, England, married in 1865; six children- Martha Elizabeth, Jane Alice Effie, John Thomas, Nathan Frank, Della May, Howard Lee

From The History of Dubuque County