Enoch Seamands 1879

SEAMANDS, BRAMMER, HOWARD, VAN DORN, WHEELER, FRETTS

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Date: 5/17/2010 at 21:58:59

ENOCH SEAMANDS, farmer, Sec. 8; P.O. Andrew; he was born in Cabell Co., W.Va., on the 18th day of February, 1824, where he grew to man's estate, and received a good common-school education, partly in his own State and partly in Lawrence Co., Ohio, where he lived for several years, and emigrated to Iowa in the fall of 1855, and settling in Jackson Co., where he has lived ever since; he has served his township several years as School Director and Road Supervisor. He is a strong Democrat of the old school in his politics. He married Ruth Brammer, a native of Lawrence Co., Ohio, in which county they were married, on the 11th day of December, 1845, and had seven children, all of whom are living at the writing of this history - John Henry, William Grant, Mary Jane, Lucy Ann, Charles Alfred, Joshua Taylor and Enoch Wesley. John Henry, married Elizabeth Howard, of Hamilton Co., Iowa, where he resides; William Grant, married Alice Van Dorn, of Jackson Co., and resides in Hamilton Co.; Charles Alfred, married Ellie Wheeler, of Jackson Co., where he resides; Lucy Ann, married Frank Fretts, a native of Jackson Co., but whose residence is in Hamilton Co. He and his family are liberal in their church views, and are inclined toward the Methodist Episcopal Church. When he first came to Jackson Co., he was a very poor man, and had no capital to begin life with, while he has now a good and comfortable homestead, and a fortune estimated at from $1,800 to $2,000; owns eighty-five acres of land. - 1879 History of Jackson County Iowa, pg 779-780.

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