Isaac Jessup

BRINSON, JESSUP

Posted By: Judy Wight Branson (email)
Date: 10/8/2004 at 10:03:20

Isaac Jessup, Lincoln twp., farmer, Sec. 24; P.O. Winterset; owns 80 acres of land; born in Switzerland county, Indiana, May 10, 1824; came to Iowa in 1849 and settled in Warren county, and came to this county in 1851; he enlisted in the Fourth Iowa Infantry during the war; he married Miss Malinda Brinson in January 1844; she was born in Indiana; has five children: H. Z., Daniel, Wm. O., Geo. T. and Charles E.; when he came to the county he split rails for twenty-five cents per hundred and paid ten cents per pound for meat, and for eighteen months he carried all of his grain that he used in his family for breadstuff to mill on his back.

Taken from the book, "The History of Madison County, Iowa, 1879" pages 618, 619