Vangilder, A.

VANGILDER, PAULEY, ANDERSON

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Date: 12/3/2008 at 19:31:29

VANGILDER, A.
Farmer; Sec. 28; P. O. Prairie City; born in Hamilton Co., Ohio, Feb. 9, 1813; came to this county in 1864; has 160 acres of land, valued at $8,000. Held the office of Justice of the Peace, Town Clerk and Secretary of the School Board; member of the M. E. Church. For his first wife, married Rebecca M. PAULEY; she was born in Virginia Feb. 15, 1813; they had eleven children, five living-Charles P., Joseph, Mary Ann, Nancy and Angeline. For his second wife, married Sarah ANDERSON; she was born in Adams Co., Ohio, June 16, 1821; they have seven living children-Catherine, Sophronia, Cora, Kennie A., Oliver, John, Fletcher and Susie I. Mrs. V. was married to a man of the name of EARLY, by whom she was four children, two living-George and Huldah. Mr. V.'s parents emigrated to Indiana; lived there ten years; thence to Knox Co., Ill., where he resided twenty-eight years; was amongst the earliest settlers in Knox Co.; Galesburg was not known when he first went there; did his trading at that time at Knoxville, the county seat at that time; was in the State of Iowa in 1842, at the time of the land sale at Burlington; in 1864, came to Jasper Co.; has a good farm on as fine a prairie as there is in the State. ~ "Mound Prairie Township Biographies," The History of Jasper County, Iowa, (Chicago: Western Historical Company, 1878)