John George Erb

ERB, CONRAD

Posted By: C Swearingen (email)
Date: 2/13/2007 at 01:48:15

John George Erb, deceased, one of the pioneers of Monona County, came here in the fall of 1854 and settled on a farm on section 5, Franklin Township, where he made his home until September 13, 1865, when he “ passed into the realms of the pale shades of death.” In far-away Germany he first saw the light, July 13, 1800, and in the Fatherland grew to manhood. He was married and three children were born to him there. Crossing the ocean to the free shores of America, for some years he made his residence in Maryland, but in 1849, he removed to Henry County, Iowa, where he lived until 1852. From there he went to Pottawattamie County, and for two years prior to coming to Monona County, was engaged in farming near Kanesville, now Council Bluffs. His wife, Anna Marie (Conrad) Erb, was the mother of ten children, six boys and four girls, and died in September, 1878, in Spring Valley Township. She was born in Germany in 1802.

Source: History of Monona County Iowa
Chicago National Pub. Co. 1890