Brod, Julius

BROD, FISHER, SMITH, THOMAS

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Date: 8/11/2009 at 18:49:22

Julius Brod, a successful farmer of Jasper County residing on section 18, Mound Prairie Township, was born in France in 1836. He immigrated to the United States in 1853, and for a time resided in Illinois. In 1861 he enlisted as a private in the Union Army, becoming a member of Company G, Third Missouri Infantry, and at the expiration of his term of service was mustered out, in 1864. He again enlisted, this time becoming a member of Company G, Thirty-second Illinois Infantry, in which he served until the close of the war. During the long period of his service he was often in the thickest of the fight and in the greatest peril, and three times minie balls passed through his clothes. As a partial compensation for his services he is now in receipt of a pension of $24.

Mrs. Nancy (Fisher) Brod was born in Indiana April 16, 1828. Her parents were natives of Kentucky, and her father was a hotelkeeper and slave owner. She was the sixth in order of birth among nine children and was reared to womanhood in the place where she was born. She was first married in Brookville, Ind., and by that union became the mother of nine children, of whom five died in childhood and youth. Those surviving are John, Nancy M., Sarah, the wife of Patrick Smith, and Eliza, who married William Thomas.

Mr. and Mrs. Brod were married in 1879, two years after the advent of the former in Iowa. She is the owner of a finely improved farm of forty acres, upon which have been erected suitable farm buildings. In religious belief she is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, with which she has been identified since the age of sixteen years. Portrait and Biographical Record, Jasper, Marshall and Grundy Counties, IA
Page 612.