Wesley DeSart (b. 1840)

DESART, WHITING

Posted By: Dorothy Gosse (email)
Date: 6/6/2005 at 22:49:58

DeSart, Wesley, farmer, lime dealer and cooper, Section 15; PO Elgin; born April 22, 1840, in Stephenson Co., Illinois; in 1848 went to Greene Co., Wisconsin, in 1855, came to Fayette Co. and settled on his present farm in 1870; owns 105 acres, valued at $20 per acre. Married Mary J. Whiting Nov. 8, 1868; she was born March 24, 1850, in Illinois; have three children --- Adda May, Jasper A. and Bertha Maud. Enlisted in Co. E, 9th I. V. I., served three years and was honorably discharged; then re-enlisted in Co. K 2nd Regiment of Hancock’s Corps, and remained to the close of the war. His grandfather died at the age of 82 years in Indiana; he was a Methodist minister and a charge in New York as well as other places.

Page 722-723, 1878 History of Fayette County, Iowa
Pleasant Valley township