John Secord (b. 1831)

SECORD, SECORD

Posted By: Dorothy Gosse (email)
Date: 7/5/2003 at 10:49:51

Secord, John, farmer, Section 35 (Oran township); PO Fairbanks; born in New Brunswick, Canada, in 1831; located in this county in 1868. He married Miss Mary E. Secord in 1862; she was born in St. John, New Brunswick, Canada, in 1842; have six children ---- Annie F., born Feb. 15, 1863; L. Beatrice, born Feb. 21, 1865; Charlotte E., born April 26, 1867; Edith A., born June 3, 1869; Lilian M., born July 31, 1871; M. M. Gertrude, born Dec. 21, 1873. They are Episcopalians. He owns 190 acres of land, worth $30 per acre.

Page 669, "1878 History of Fayette County, Iowa"