Joseph S. McGinnis

BEAL, MCGINNIS, TISDALE

Posted By: Judy Wight Branson (email)
Date: 10/11/2004 at 08:11:27

McGinnis, J. S., Union twp., farmer and stock-raiser, Sec. 25; P.O. Patterson; born in Indiana in 1843, and came to this county in 1852; owns 360 acres of land; he married Miss Melvina M. Tisdale in 1863; she was born in Indiana; has three children: Mary E., Theodore; Bertie B.; his father, Joseph McGinnis, was born in Maryland in 1792; he removed first to Ohio, and afterward to Indiana, where he remained until his removal to this county in 1852; he married Sophia Beal in 1815; she was born in Maryland and died in 1878; Joseph McGinnis died in 1858.

Sources: "The History of Madison County, Iowa, 1879", page 610. First name taken from obituary.