Lavina Pauley (b. 1823)

PAULEY, TODD

Posted By: Dorothy Gosse (email)
Date: 7/4/2002 at 13:34:09

Pauley, Lavina, Section 17 (Fremont township), PO Mill; born in Armstrong Co., Pennsylvania, in May 1823. Married Ira Pauley January 31, 1849; he was born in New York February 13, 1818, and died at St. Louis May 1, 1861; he moved to Jackson Co., Wisconsin, from Pennsylvania, May 11, 1854. Enlisted in Co. I, 14th Wisconsin Inf.; was in the battle of Pittsburg; taken sick, he was transferred to St. Louis, where, as above stated, he died. Mrs. P. was the mother of eight children, one, Lafayette, died when quite young --- Hattie, Clarissa, Albina, Annetie, William, Lavina and Marietta are the others. Mrs. P., since she was left a widow, has endured hardships which ordinarily only fall to the lot of a man; by energy and economy she has secured a homestead, which is also the home of her youngest daughter and husband, Harry Todd, to whom she was married April 20, 1877.

Page 746, "1878 History of Fayette County, Iowa"