Whitehead, George G.

WHITEHEAD, WESTON, WATT, STOUFFER, TRAMEL, LEONARD, ALLSPAUGH

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Date: 10/24/2009 at 10:29:08

Whitehead, George G.

George G. Whitehead, farmer of Poweshiek Township, Jasper County, was born here on November 1, 1867, and here he grew to manhood and received his education in the common schools. He is the son of Austin and Elizabeth (Weston) Whitehead, the father born in Ohio in 1837 and the mother in Indiana in 1835. They came to Jasper County, Iowa, in 1856 and 1857, and are now residing at Colfax. They were among the pioneers of this locality.

Five children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Austin Whitehead, named as follows: Mrs. Mollie Watt, born March 5, 1859, lives in Sherman township; Mrs. Clara Watt, born September 10, 1861, lives at Long Beach, California; Mrs. Allie Stouffer, born November 1, 1865, lives near Seevers, Iowa; George of this sketch; Dr. E. I., born August 12, 1872, lives in Nebraska. These children were all reared in Jasper County.

George G. Whitehead has made farming his life work, and is now the owner of a good farm of one hundred and five acres of well-improved and well-cultivated land in Poweshiek Township, also forty acres in Sherman Township.

George G. Whitehead was married on February 23, 1897, to Stella Tramel, who was born in Story County, Iowa, on December 5, 1872, and there she grew to womanhood and was educated. She is the daughter of Joseph and Cynthia (Leonard) Tramel. The father died in Portland, Oregon, when sixty-five years old, and the mother died in Des Moines, Iowa, at the age of sixty-three years. Mrs. Whitehead's paternal grandfather, W. A. B. Tramel, was one of the early settlers in Clear Creek Township. There were four children in the Tramel family, namely: William, who lives in Independence Township; Stella, wife of Mr. Whitehead of this sketch; Walter 0., of Clear Creek Township; Mrs. Bertha Allspaugh, of Boulder, Colorado.

To Mr. and Mrs. Whitehead six children have been born, all in Poweshiek Township and all living, namely: Wilbur Weston, born August 12, 1898; D. May, born August 27, 1900; Floyd, born December 23, 1902; Glen Austin, born January 19, 1905: Ruth Elizabeth, born April 3, 1907; Virgil Paul, born October 12, 1911. The older children are attending school in the home community.

Politically, Mr. Whitehead is a Republican. He is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Lodge No. 174, at Mingo, and of the Yeomen at Ira. He and his wife are faithful members of the Christian Church at Ira. Past and Present of Jasper County Iowa B. F. Bowden & Company, Indianapolis, IN, 1912 Page. 1031.