William McKibben

MCKIBBEN, WILSON

Posted By: Judy Wight Branson (email)
Date: 10/11/2004 at 08:41:10

Wm. McKibben, Madison twp., farmer, Sec. 5; P.O. Earlham; born in Delaware county, Indiana, in 1839; when two years old his parents moved to Brown county, Ohio; here he lived until 1855, when he came to Dallas county, Iowa; in 1858 he removed to where he now resides; he married in Dallas county, in 1857, Nehushta Wilson, she being a native of Marion county, Indiana; by this union there were five children: Rachel Ellen, Lydia Suama, Wm. Seward, Jesse W. and Lizzie Jane; owns 160 acres of land, with a fine orchard, running water and a stone quarry; Mr. McKibben enlisted at Winterset, in August 1861, in the 39th Iowa Infantry, Co. A; this regiment was in the terrific battle of Alltoona where five of its commanding officers and thirty-six non-commissioned officers and privates were killed, and also fifty men were wounded, and those missing amounted to eighty; Co A lost two officers and three privates and had sixteen wounded and eleven missing; Mr. McKibben has been township trustee for five years and is still in that capacity, having just received the office for anther term.

Taken from the book, "The History of Madison County, Iowa, 1879" page 647