Thomas Runkle
BREEDING, GUILLIAMS, JOHNSON, RUNKLE
Posted By: Judy Wight Branson (email)
Date: 10/12/2004 at 21:59:04
Thos. Runkle, South twp., farmer, Sec. 7; P.O. Patterson; born in Culpepper county, Virginia, May 29, 1815; when seven years of age his parents moved to Bartholomew county, Indiana; he was raised there; he married Miss Tabitha Breeding January 21, 1840, in Bartholomew county, Indiana; she was a native of Kentucky; she died December 26, 1852; left one son and two daughters: Mary J., Sarah C., John M.; they emigrated to Iowa and this county and located where he now lives, in the fall of 1851; came by wagon and were seventeen days on the road; in 1855 he married Catherine Guilliams, a native of Putnam county, Indiana; she died September 23, 1859; left one son: Wm. L.; he married again in 1864 to Mary A., widow of John Johnson; she is a native of Marion county, Ind.; has one son: Frederick C.; Mrs. Runkle has two daughters by her former marriage: Sarah J. and Martha V.
Taken from the book, "The History of Madison County, Iowa, 1879" page 578
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