Pleasant Calvin Brittain

BRITTAIN, COX

Posted By: Judy Wight Branson (email)
Date: 9/15/2004 at 21:30:27

Pleasant Brittain, Jefferson twp.; farmer, Sec. 32; P.O. Winterset; born in Buchanan county, Missouri, September 20, 1843, where he lived until March, 1852, when he came to this county and located in Monroe township; Mr. B. was in the army, in company A, Thirty-ninth Iowa Infantry; enlisted August 20, 1862, and was mustered out in June, 1865; was in the battle of Parker's Cross Roads, Alltoona, and others; was with Sherman on his march to the sea; after being mustered out, he returned home, and October 18, 1866, was married to Miss Sarah Cox, a native of Ohio, and removed to his present home; they have three children: Ruth A., Susanna and Mary Alice; Mr. B. owns ninety acres of land.

Taken from the book, "The History of Madison County, Iowa, 1879" pages 650, 651