David Haggard 1789-1865

HAGGARD, GENTRY

Posted By: Cheryl Locher Moonen (email)
Date: 2/3/2019 at 14:21:18

David Haggard, the third son of William B. Haggard was born in Kentucky and by occupation was a farmer. He moved with his family to Iowa in the late 1830's, making his home near Peosta in Dubuque County, where he died Dec. 21, 1865, at the age of seventy-six.

In early life he was a Baptist, but later (during the early days of the "Restoration Movement") joined the Disciples of Christ. He was a soldier in the war of 1812, as his father had been in the war of the Revolution. On Jan. 12, 1809, he married Elizabeth Gentry, born in Madison County, Ky., Jan. 6, 1788, daughter of David Gentry and Jane Haggard; she died in Dubuque County. Iowa, Sept. 10, 1846. They had a family of seven sons and six daughters, all born in Kentucky.