Reuben Wickham

WICKHAM, VANFOSSEN

Posted By: Dorothy Gosse <dagosse@netscape.net>
Date: 3/9/2002 at 22:19:36

Wickham, Reuben, farmer, Section 29 (Auburn township); PO Douglas; born in Ohio in 1818. Married Ellen Vanfossen in 1842; she was born in Ohio in 1826; have ten children ---- Carter E., John, Elizabeth, Frank, Isaac, Rebecca, Lydia, Sophia, Clara and William; lost one child, that died in infancy. Came to this county in 1853, and settled on his present place; has farm of 163 acres, valued at $3,000; is one of the earliest settlers in the town and county; went to Cedar Rapids to mill, ninety miles distant, and has experienced all the endurance of pioneer life; also served in the army, enlisting in the 6th I. V. Cav. in 1862 and served three years under Gen. Sully; was in the battle of White Stone Hill, in Dakota Territory, and other engagements in the Bad Lands, up to the Missouri; was honorably discharged and mustered out at Sioux City.

Page 758, "1878 History of Fayette County, Iowa"

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