Archibald Holmes
CASKEY, HOLMES, MIDDLETON
Posted By: Judy Wight Branson (email)
Date: 10/7/2004 at 12:08:45
A. Holmes, Ohio twp., farmer, Sec. 22; P.O. St. Charles; born in Tuscarawas county, Ohio, January 6, 1833; came to Iowa and located in Wapello county in 1854; remained there two years, and then came to this county and located where he now lives; has a farm of 120 acres; he married Miss Eliza J. Middleton July 2, 1854; she was a native of Washington county, Pennsylvania; she died March 12, 1869; left five sons and four daughters: A. M., Martha E., Elizabeth M., Isaac E., Curtis L., Mary E., Horace H., Florence E. and James W.; he married again to Martha A., widow of George W. Caskey, March 9, 1873; she is a native of Clark county, Ohio; was in the army, in company F, Thirty-ninth Iowa; enlisted in August 1862, and was discharged eight months afterward on account of disability.
Taken from the book, "The History of Madison County, Iowa, 1879" pages 568, 569
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