John A. Delezene

DELEZENE, HALL

Posted By: Dorothy Gosse (email)
Date: 3/9/2002 at 23:37:21

Delezene, John A., farmer, Section 17 (Auburn township); PO Douglass; born in Auburn, Ohio in 1833. Married Caroline Hall in 1868; she was born in Oneida Co., NY, in 1841; have two children --- Lafayette E. and Lewis T. Came to this county in 1849, where he resided until he enlisted, Oct. 12, 1861, in Co. C, 12th I. S. V.; participated in battles of Vicksburg, Nashville, Mobile, both engagements at Jackson and Tupelo, serving four years and a half, when he was honorably discharged, Jan. 20, 1866, being mustered out at Memphis, Tenn. In 1868, settled on his present estate; his farm of eighty acres, valued $80 per acre.

Page 751, "1878 History of Fayette County, Iowa"