Romans, A. D.

ROMANS, WOOD

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Date: 11/29/2008 at 16:44:53

ROMANS, A. D.
Farmer; Sec. 19; P. O. Galesburg; owns 152 acres, valued at $3,500; born in Fayette Co., Ill., Aug. 30, 1839; moved with his parents to Monmouth, Ill., when about 5 years old; thence to Iowa in1846, settling in Richland Tp., Mahaska Co.; thence, in Spring of 1850, near Martin's Ferry, on the Des Moines River, but the same Fall moved to Jasper Co., Fairview Tp., where they remained till 1857, and moved to Kansas, but returned to the old farm in Fairview Tp., in the Spring of 1860; there the subject of this sketch remained one year, and June 24, 1861, enlisted in Co. B, 5th I. V. I., and participated in the battles of Iuka,, Mission Ridge, siege of Vicksburg, and many other engagements; was honorably discharged Aug. 11, 1864, and returned to this county. Married Mary WOOD Feb. 5, 1865; she is a native of Indiana; their children are Mahala, Wallace, Jessie, Laura, Frank and Edna. Politically, is a Republican. ~ Elk Creek Township Biographies "The History of Jasper County" (Chicago: Western Historical Company, 1878)