David Stanton

SMITH, STANTON, WILSON

Posted By: Judy Wight Branson (email)
Date: 10/13/2004 at 21:59:53

David Stanton, Penn twp., farmer, Sec. 2; P.O. Earlham; born in Belmont county, Ohio, in 1831, where he resided with his parents; his father being own cousin to Secretary Stanton of Lincoln's cabinet; was married May, 1852, to Martha Wilson, a native of Harrison county, Ohio, who died the following November; April 26, 1854, wedded Hannah J. Smith, of Guernsey county, Ohio; by this union has one son and three daughters: Barclay, Mary D., Sina L. and Anna J.; June 3, 1856, Mr. S. and family arrived in this county and settled in Pilot Grove, improving said farm.

Taken from the book, "The History of Madison County, Iowa, 1879" page 641