William McConkey

MATHEWSON, MCCONKEY, TISDALE

Posted By: Judy Wight Branson (email)
Date: 10/11/2004 at 07:47:24

W. McConkey, Union twp., farmer, Sec. 26; P.O. Winterset; born in Wayne county, Ohio, and removed to Indiana where he lived nineteen years and came to this county in 1856; owns 140 acres of land; has held offices of town trustee and school director; he married Mary Mathewson in 1849; she was born in Vermont and died in 1850; he afterward married Miss Sarah J. Tisdale in 1851; she was a native of West Virginia; has five children: Nancy M., M.J. Patiece, Maggie A., Sophia and Martha; lost one daughter, Martha E., by first marriage; and two by second marriage: Mary H. and Sophronia.

Taken from the book, "The History of Madison County, Iowa, 1879" page 609