Ransom Pelton 1801-1887

PELTON, WAGNER, ANDREWS

Posted By: Merllene Andre Bendixen (email)
Date: 8/21/2012 at 22:46:36

Died
Pelton – Feb. 24, 1887, at his home in Leroy township, Bremer county, Ia., Ransom Pelton in the 86th year of his age. The funeral took place on the 25th of February from his late home and the remains were interred in Andrew’s cemetery in Lafayette township.

The deceased was born on Feb. 25, 1801, in the town of Wet Moreland, in Oneida county, state of New York. He married Mary B. Wagner of Madison county, N.Y. (who survives him) in 1826, when they moved into Chatauqua Co., N.Y. , (while it was still in the wilderness) where they continued to reside until 1845, when they emigrated by wagons to McHenry county, Ill., and settled in the town of Coral where the family continued to reside until 1867, when they came to Bremer county, Ia., and purchased their farm in Leroy Twp.

Mr. Pelton was a strong abolitionist and through his long life witnessed the gigantic strides, sciences and internal improvements have made with deep interest from the building of the Erie Canal, on which he worked, to the completion of the great Pacific Railroads, and from the old weekly packet to the magnet telegraph. He voted every presidential election since John Quincy Adams and was always a strong partisan from principle. He enjoyed good health and dropped off from old age like fully ripe fruit. He had five children one of whom (Addison) died in the army; the others are W.A. Pelton of Lafayette, S.H. Pelton of Estherville, Ia., Mrs. S.E. Andrews of Layfayette and Harvey Pelton of Leroy – Republican, Waverly, Iowa. (Northern Vindicator, Estherville, IA, March 11, 1887)