Sewell, Loamma

SEWELL, WRIGHT

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Date: 12/3/2008 at 10:08:16

SEWELL, Loamma
Farmer; Sec. 17; P. O. Baxter; born in Delaware Co., N. Y., April 17, 1826. Married Mrs. Lucy WRIGHT in New York in 1857; she was born in New York in 1818; she had three children by her first husband - Edwin, Julia and Jane, and they have had three children - Delbert, Borden and Ward; Jane died when 3 years of age. He has sixty acres of land, valued at $25 per acre. Mrs. SEWELL is a member of the M. E. Church. He moved to Iowa in 1864, settled up and improved a farm in Malaka Township, and bought in Independence in 1877. ~ "Independence Township Biographies," The History of Jasper County, Iowa, (Chicago: Western Historical Company, 1878)