Jonas Gunn (b. 1829)

GUNN, DARR

Posted By: Dorothy Gosse (email)
Date: 9/21/2002 at 20:58:34

Gunn, Jonas, farmer, Section 14 (Fairfield township); PO Brush Creek; born in Guernsey Co., Ohio, June 21, 1829, where he married Elizabeth Darr Aug. 19, 1850; she was born in Greene Co., Penn., August 31, 1832, settling in Will Co., Ill. in 1851, and in this county in the Fall of 1853; when, in 1866, they settled on their present farm, consisting of 144 acres. Mary, born Oct. 30, 1855; Lafayette, born July 31, 1858; Delilah, born March 12, 1863; Ann, born Aug. 5, 1870; Minnie, born June 27, 1872 and Hulda, born May 31, 1874, are names and births of the children; two children deceased -- William, born June 10, 1861, died. Aug. 21, 1869; Fred, born June 19, 1867, died Sept. 1, 1869.

Page 608 & 609, "1878 History of Fayette County, Iowa"