Mary (Hadley) Vandolah - 1879

VANDOLAH, HADLEY, BAKER, SPENCER, MCKINLY, MCKINLEY, NICHOLS

Posted By: LuAnn Goeke (email)
Date: 8/1/2009 at 07:27:43

MRS. MARY VANDOLAH (nee Hadley), far., Sec. 11; P.O. Andrew; was born in Center Co., Penn., in 1814; in 1820, she removed with her parents, N. and Anna Hadley, to Seneca Co., Ohio; thence, in 1839, to Jackson Co., Iowa, and settled in Andrew, where Mrs. Vandolah, the subject of this sketch, married, in 1842, Jesse Vandolah, a native of Fayette Co., Penn. He was born in 1802, and moved to Ohio with his parents in 1810, where he remained until 1831, when he went to McLean Co., Ill.; he was in active service during the Black Hawk war, and was in Stillwell's defeat and battle of Bad Axe; he came to Jackson Co., Iowa, in 1840, where he resided until his death, in 1866. Mrs. Vandolah had seven children, five of whom are living - Sarah A., married Albert Baker, and lives near Andrew; Amanda, now Mrs. James Spencer, resides in this township; Alice; Jerusha, now Mrs. Charles McKinly, of Bellevue; Minerva, married William Nichols, and lives in Placer Co., Cal.; John, killed by the Indians near Fort Laramie, Wyo. Ter.; William, also deceased. Mrs. Vandolah owns a valuable farm a short distance from Andrew. This estimable lady is justly entitled to be ranked among the early settlers of this county, having lived over forty years in Perry Township.
1879 History of Jackson County Iowa, pg 742