Tedro, John D.

TEDRO

Posted By: Joyce Hickman (email)
Date: 8/2/2008 at 18:13:34

John D. Tedro

(From the 1883 History of Pottawattamie County, Iowa, by J. H. Keatley, p.106, Grove Twp.)
John D. Tedro, farmer, P. O. Wheeler's Grove, born in Westmoreland County, Penn., October 17, 1845, son of Leonard and Nancy (Carpenter) Tedro; he, born in Somerset County, Penn., December 22, 1810, is still living; she, born in Westmoreland County, Penn., September 26, 1809, died June 23, 1847. They had eight children, six of whom are living. Subject received a common-school education; commenced life as a farmer, and married Miss Sarah Stevick in Lee County, this State, November 1, 1866; born in Harrisburg, Penn., December 7, 1846, daughter of David and Mary (Zarker) Stevick; he, born in Harrisburg, Penn., still living; she, born in Harrisburg, Penn., about 1828, died in this State in April, 1861. Mr. and Mrs. Tedro have had four children, viz.: Frank B., born August 16, 1867; Cora Bell, born June 7, 1869, died January 11, 1870; Alice N., born July 4, 1871; Judd, born October 17, 1880. Subject enlisted in Company L, First Iowa Cavalry, at West Point, this State, March 26, 1864; was in several engagements, and was discharged February 16, 1866 at Austin, Texas. He moved with his parents from Pennsylvania to Lee County, this State, in 1855; in 1867, he moved to Montgomery County, this State, and rented land for two years; moving in 1870 to this township, bought eighty acres of land at $12.50 per acre, and now owns 160 acres valued at $30 per acre; there is about one acre of fine young orchard, five acres of grove, consisting of maple, ash, cottonwood, sycamore, box-elder and elm; there are also grape vines, a considerable amount of small fruits and one and one-quarter mmiles of osage and locust fence.