August Schwartz (b. 1832)

SCHWARTZ, SCHLURA

Posted By: Dorothy Gosse (email)
Date: 6/22/2005 at 15:23:36

Schwartz, August, farmer, Section 18; PO Brush Creek; born in Mecklenburg, Germany, 1832; came to this country in 1857 and located in Cook Co., Illinois, and finally moved to this county, 1869. He married Miss Sophia Schlura in 1858; she was born in Germany in 1829; they have five children --- William, born Dec. 9, 1858; Augusta, Dec. 20, 1861; John, Jan. 28, 1863; Rudolph, Sept. 4, 1865; Lewis, 15, 1871. Are Lutherans; he is a Republican. He owns eighty acres of land, worth $1500.

Page 621, 1878 History of Fayette County, Iowa
Putnam township