Samuel T. BETTS (b. 1833)

BETTS, HATHAWAY, PHILLIPS, SCOTT

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Date: 6/7/2005 at 21:51:12

BETTS, Samuel T., tenant farmer, Sec. 24; P. O. Fayette; was born in Livingston Co., N. Y., Aug. 15, 1833; accompanied his parents to Ohio in 1835. Was married Feb. 22, 1855, to Helen Hathaway; she was born July 6, 1837, died in August, 1870; have two children - Edmund L. and Mina E. Mr. Betts was again married, Feb. 17, 1872, to Elizabeth Phillips (maiden name Scott); she was born in Hampshire, England, May 27, 1851; she has two children by her first marriage - William H. and Eliza; and Clarissa L. and Mary E. by the second. Mr. Betts was a member of the I. V. I.; was in the battles of Fort Donelson and Pittsburg Landing; was discharged July 16, 1862.

1878 History of Fayette Co. Iowa - Westfield Township
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