Larrance, Jessie 1823-1907

LARRANCE, LARRENCE, HOSKINS, ALLEN

Posted By: Debbie Nash (email)
Date: 7/9/2003 at 21:54:44

"PLEASANT PLAIN. Jesse Larrence, who lived with his daughter, Mrs. Clark Hoskins, died Mon. night and was buried here in the Friends Cemetery Wednesday. . . ."
Brighton Enterprise
Sat., Apr. 20, 1907, 1-2.

"Jesse Larrence died Mon. night aged 84-1-29. One of the oldest residents of Mahaska County, having settled there before the Civil War. . . . .Born in Randolph Co., N.C., Feb 17 1823 and at the age of 11 came with his parents overland to Indiana. In 1859 married Mary S. Allen who survives. Two years later they moved to Mahaska County, Iowa, and settled on a farm one mile north of Wright. Four children, Wm. Allen of Boise, Idaho; Anna J. Hoskins, Pleasant Plain; Mary Addie who died in her second year, and Jesse Albert who lives on the old home place in Mahaska Co. Lifelong member of the Friends Church. . . . ."
Brighton Enterprise
Sat., Apr. 20, 1907, 4-4.

(NOTE: Name on tombstone is "Jessie Larrance".)

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