Thomas Williamson Stiles

STILES, STOCKDALE

Posted By: Judy Wight Branson (email)
Date: 10/13/2004 at 22:20:56

Thos. W. Stiles, South twp., farmer, Sec. 3; P.O. Patterson; was born in Fayette county, Indiana, March 20, 1832; was raised there; he married Miss Mary A. Stockdale of Henry county, Indiana, November 21, 1852; the same year he moved to Madison county, Indiana, where they lived six years; came to Iowa in 1858, and located in Warren county; came to this county in 1860, and located where he now lives; owns a farm of 124 acres; in the late war he enlisted August 4, 1862, in company F, 39th Iowa Infantry; mustered in as second lieutenant, on the resignation of Capt. Brown, he was promoted to captain; he was wounded by his horse falling in a well at Cornith, Mississippi, while making the grand round of the day; the wound was so serious that he had to resign his commission in June, 1864; has a family of six sons and one daughter: Albert M., Cassius C., Wm. M., Lauren W., Joseph H., Lizzie and Charley D.

Taken from the book, "The History of Madison County, Iowa, 1879" page 579