Burgess Nelson Conaway

CONAWAY, CONWAY, PARKER

Posted By: Judy Wight Branson (email)
Date: 9/19/2004 at 18:48:56

B. N. Conway, Grand River twp., farmer and preacher, Sec. 29; P.O. Macksburg; born in Clay county, Indiana, September 27 1841, and came to this county February 14, 1868; owns 40 acres of land; has held offices of town trustee and school director; he married Miss Laura Parker, February 11, 1868; she was born in Indiana; has three children: Artie B., born December 13, 1868, Othello P., born October 21, 1870 and Myrtle B., born October 15, 1872. Mr. Conway was licensed as an exhorter in the M. E. church in 1869, and licensed by conference to preach in 1871.

Taken from the book, "The History of Madison County, Iowa, 1879" page 590.