John Dries

DRIES, PERRY

Posted By: Dorothy Gosse (email)
Date: 3/9/2002 at 23:33:42

Dries, John, farmer, Section 4 and 5 (Auburn township); PO Old Mission; born in Luxemberg, Germany in 1842. Married Mary Perry in 1866; she was born in Germany in 1844; have seven children -- Michael, Nicholas, John, Daniel, Annie, Francis and John Henry. Lost one child -- Theodore; came to this country when 4 years old with his father, Daniel, and settled in Ozaukee Co., Wis., where his father died; also lived in Michigan and Illinois and settled on his present estate in 1874; has a farm of 125 acres, valued at $25 per acre. Both are members of the Catholic Church.

1878 History of Fayette County, page 752