Caleb Summers 1879

SUMMERS, GREGG

Posted By: LuAnn Goeke (email)
Date: 5/16/2010 at 22:28:11

CALEB SUMMERS, farmer, Sec. 19; P.O. Nashville; is a native of Morgan Co., Ind., and was born Jan. 6, 1834; when 12 years of age, he came with his mother to Iowa; they came in a two-horse wagon and were eighteen days on the way, and arrived in Jackson Co. Oct. 20, 1846; they located at Canton and lived there five years, then removed to where they now live; they were early settlers and have lived in this county thirty-three years; after coming here, Mr. Summers worked two days to earn only money enough to pay the postage on two letters and take them out of the post office; he has carted dressed pork to Bellevue and sold it for 87½ cents per one hundred pounds; he owns a farm of 105 acres. In 1853, he married Miss Nancy Jane Gregg; she was a native of Kentucky; they have four children - Helen, Eva Ann, James G. and Mary Isabel. - 1879 History of Jackson County Iowa, pg. 649.

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