Thomas Warren Folwell

FOLWELL, PYERS

Posted By: Judy Wight Branson (email)
Date: 10/1/2004 at 10:13:51

Thomas W. Folwell, Crawford twp., farmer, Sec. 20; P.O. Patterson; born in Wayne (what is now Holmes) county, Ohio, May 10, 1817, and was raised there; February 15, 1843, he married Miss Hannah Pyers; in the fall of 1851, they came to this county and located in Winterset, where he lived four and a half years, working at the shoemaker's trade; Mr. Folwell started the first shoe shop in Winterset; he then moved to his present home; while in Winterset, he drove to Keokuk with a team, for a load of lumber; they came from Ohio here in a wagon, and were twenty-eight days on the road; he owns a farm of 152 acres of land; has a family of one son and four daughters: Mary E., Luzanna, Sarah R., Warren A. and Minnie; lost one son and one daughter, John M., who died while in the army while a member of the Fifteenth Iowa infantry, and Martha V.

Taken from the book, "The History of Madison County, Iowa, 1879" pages 595, 596