MILTON, Henry R. (1867)
MILTON, GREELEY, ROBERTSON
Posted By: County Coordinator
Date: 8/14/2010 at 20:07:39
Henry R. Milton was born October 10, 1867 in Fox Lake, Wisconsin to Ann Greeley Milton and Peter Milton, Sr. Ann was born February 2, 1835 in Ireland and died May 25, 1910.
Peter was born in England October 16, 1833 and passed away January 10, 1910. They were married in 1856. Henry married Agnes Mitchell on February 28, 1900. Agnes was born September 22, 1880** on Fiddens Farm in Cardos, Scotland, the daughter of Mr. & Mrs. Alexander Mitchell.
The Mitchell family sailed from Glasgow, Scotland, with their children, on February 20, 1892 and landed in New York on March 2, then came to the home of Mrs. Mitchell's sister, Mrs. A. Robertson of Osage. They later moved to a farm two miles east of Fuller, a Post Office in Mitchell County which was located on the SE 1/4 of Section 19 in Liberty Township. Agnes Mitchell taught in Liberty Township before her marriage.
After Henry and Agnes were married they farmed his parents' farm near Fox Lake, Wisconsin for a time. Here their daughter Laura was born on March 15, 1902. She graduated from the Little Cedar High School, attended teacher's college and taught school. Laura married Louis J. Ethen, the butter maker at the Little Cedar creamery. Later they moved to Stacyville, Iowa where they both worked for the creamery, Louis as butter maker and Laura as bookkeeper.
They were the parents of four children: Betty, Catherine, Richard, and Barbara. Betty and her husband, William Condon, of New Haven, have five children: Carol, Steve, Mark, Nancy, and Scott. They have two grandchildren. Catherine married Donald Nordeen. They live in Michigan and have six sons: Jon, Daniel, Charles, Robert, Curtis, Gregory, and a daughter, Patricia. Richard has six children: Todd, Tim, Tom, Troy, Laurie Jo, and Travis. They live in Illinois. Barbara, now Mrs. James Quinn, is the youngest in the family. They live in California and have a son, Nicholas, and a daughter, Michelle. Laura Milton Ethen died in 1961.
William, the oldest Milton son, was born April 4, 1904. He married Leona Weber, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Pete Weber. Leona was born October 6, 1909. They had two sons, Allyn and Joseph. Allyn married Carol Olson. They have two children" Larry, who is in service in Washington D.C., and Arlene, who married David Arndt. Arlene and David have a daughter Megan. Joseph Milton died in infancy.
William and Leona farmed near Little Cedar and later purchased a farm in St. Ansgar Township, SE part of Sec. 3, where they lived until they moved to Osage where he did carpenter work until they retired.
Leslie, the second Milton son, was born December 23, 1905. He married Alma Williams who was born June 9, 1907. They are the parents of Joan and Russell. Joan married Paul Pearson and they have two children, Neal and Jeri, and two granddaughters. Russell, who was in service from 1953 to 1955 in Germany, married Gloria Estal. They are the parents of Julann, David, and Mark and have nice grandchildren. Leslie worked part time as a reporter for the Mitchell County ASC besides his general farm work on their farm, 120 acres in Sec. 21 near Little Cedar. They moved to Osage in the fall of 1979.
In 1906 Henry and Agnes purchased and moved to the SW 1/4 of Sec. 16 in Liberty Township. This was known as the Milton home place. In 1922 they purchased 120 acres of Sec. 21 in Liberty Township. In 1926 they bought the NW 1/2 of Sec. 16 to add to the home place.
Lloyd, the third son, was born June, 7, 1910. He married Sigrum Loden, (born January 20, 1908), a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Eric Loden. They were the parents of three sons: Eugene, Gary, and Robert. Eugene Henry and his wife live in Waterloo and have two daughters, Karen and Debbie, and one grandson, Gary and his wife, Barbara, have two children, Michelle and Steve. They live in Apple Valley. Robert and Linda have two sons, Brian and Bradley, and a daughter, Michelle. They live in Albuquerque. Sigrun Milton passed away June 25, 1988.
Maurice Milton, fourth son of Agnes and Henry, was born October 10, 1913. He married Teresa Brattrud November 4, 1941. Their daughter, Janice, married Dale Clapper. They have three children, Denise, Chad, and David. They have two grandchildren, Maurice was in the Army serving in Alaska. After that he was with Standard Oil and later he farmed. They are now retired.
Henry Milton served his community by being director of the Little Cedar elevator, he was on the creamery board, a director of the school board when the Little Cedar consolidated school was built. He served as Supt. of the church Sunday School and worked otherwise in the church. Agnes was a long time member of the Ladies Aid, sang in the church choir and taught Sunday School. Both were active Methodist Episcopal Church Members. They retired in 1938 from farming and moved to Little Cedar.
Henry died on March 3, 1943 and Agnes died December 22, 1966.
During this time in history - 1900-1940 or so - they and other farmers raised a little of everything, didn't put everything in one basket so to speak. They raised hogs and cattle for meat, had cows for milk and to sell cream, raised chickens for eggs and meat to sell for income. They raised oats and corn and had clover hay and timothy for livestock feed.
Henry Milton bought and shipped horses to a buyer in Milwaukee, WI to be used on dray wagons to haul freight in the city before trucks and pickups were used. Some farmers raised acres of potatoes. They were loaded into the Great Western railroad cars in Little Cedar and shipped to Chicago, Illinois and some were sold locally to the Osage Cleveland Hotel and other restaurants in the county.
By Leslie Milton
[Mitchell County History, published 1989]---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
NOTES:
** Original text said she was born in 1890. The Liberty cemetery records give a more reasonable year of 1880.
Also, the Social Sec. Death Index says:
MILTON, AGNES
born: 22 Sep 1880
died: Dec 1966
age: 86
residence: 50454 (Little Cedar, Mitchell, IA)
SSN: Iowa 483-28-9506
Mitchell Biographies maintained by Sharyl Ferrall.
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