Joseph A. Breeding

BREEDING, TURK

Posted By: Judy Wight Branson (email)
Date: 9/15/2004 at 21:27:24

Joseph A. Breeding, Scott twp.; farmer, Sec. 10; P. O. Winterset; the subject of this sketch was born in Adair county, Kentucky, July 27, 1831, where he lived until November 1860, when he came to this county and located in this township; owns 160 acres; he married Miss Eliza A. Turk, September 16, 1851; she is a native of the same county; they have three sons and three daughters: Varriller J., now Mrs. John M. Runkle, George J., James W., Joseph P., Mary L. and Harriet E.; he was in the army, enlisted in company A., 39th Iowa, August 12, 1862, and was discharged August 1, 1863.

Taken from the book, "The History of Madison County, Iowa, 1879" pages 581,582