Aney, Jeremiah

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Date: 3/10/2007 at 20:29:45

Jeremiah Aney

(From the 1883 History of Pottawattamie County, Iowa, by J. H. Keatley, p.198, Norwalk Twp.)
Jeremiah Aney, farmer, P. O. Neola, was born in Cherry Valley, Otsego Co., N. Y., July 17, 1832; he is the son of Jacob and Angeline (Putnam) Aney; his father and mother was both born in Cherry Valley, N. Y., he September 6, 1798, and is still living in New York; she about the year of 1803. Our subject received a common school education and lived at home till he was twenty-one years of age; he was married, December 7, 1854, in Otsego County, N. Y., to Ellen Pearson, born in Cherry Valley July 14, 1835. She is the daughter of John Pearson, who was born in Mohawk, Montgomery Co., N. Y., September 16, 1804; he is still living in Otsego County, N. Y. Her mother, Mary Keeling, was born in Staffordshire, England, October 15, 1806. Our subject lived and farmed in Otsego County, N. Y., until 1874, when he came to Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Here he lived for four years, after which he came to this county. He owns 200 acres of land in Section 11, Norwalk Township, and engaged in general farming. He has one child - Elmer F., who was born in Roseboom, Otsego County, N. Y., November 9, 1857; he was married in Council Bluffs, September 5, 1880 to Mary Charles, who was born in Wayne County, Ind., March 3, 1863. They have one child - Jeremiah Atwood, born May 9, 1881. Our subject is a member of the Society of Friends. In politics, he is a Democrat.