JOHN STARKEY

STARKEY, SAVAGE

Posted By: Linnie Howell (email)
Date: 5/20/2005 at 00:34:15

STARKEY, John, farmer, Sec. 12; P. O. Clermont; born in England, May 15, 1829, moved to this country and Ohio in 1851; to Iowa and Clermont in 1854; his present farm in 1864. He was married in 1858 to Miss Lucinda Savage, from Ohio; she was born Nov. 29, 1840; they have had seven children, five living - Sarah J., born April 28, 1859; Mary E., born Aug. 19, 1860; Lucretia L., born Jan. 9, 1866; George T., born Sept. 24, 1862; William R., born June 29, 1874. He has held the office of School Director one year; President of the School Board one year; Road Supervisor four years. He has 165 acres of land valued at $3,000. In politics, Republican; religion, Methodist. He is among the early settlers of the county; he dug the first cellar in Clermont; he has a good wheat farm; last year he sowed fifty-eight bushels of wheat on forty acres and harvested 710 bushels.

1878 History of Fayette Co. Iowa - Clermont Township
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