Hogan Queen

JONES, QUEEN, RUNKLE

Posted By: Judy Wight Branson (email)
Date: 10/11/2004 at 17:53:30

Hogan Queen, South twp., farmer and stock-dealer, Sec. 7; P.O. Winterset; born in Wayne county, Indiana, February 22, 1821; his parents moved to Bartholomew county, Indiana, when he was quite young, and he was raised there; he married Miss Martha A. Runkle in Bartholomew county, February 5, 1846; she is a native of Culpepper county, Virginia, but was raised in Bartholomew county, Indiana; in 1853 he came with his family by wagon to Iowa, and was sixteen days on the road; they located where they now live; Mr. Queen is quite extensively engaged in farming, owning 532½ acres of Madison county’s best soil; they have a family of three sons and one daughter: William H., Phebe J., now Mrs. Morris Jones, John L. and Thomas H. ; Mr. Queen was postmaster at Queen’s Point for ten years: William H. was in the late rebellion; he enlisted in the hundred-days’ of service.

Taken from the book, "The History of Madison County, Iowa, 1879" page 577