Heywood, James

HEYWOOD

Posted By: Joyce Hickman (email)
Date: 10/9/2008 at 13:48:23

James Heywood

(From the 1883 History of Pottawattamie County, Iowa, by J. H. Keatley, p.201, Norwalk Twp.)
James Heywood, farmer, P. O. Council Bluffs, was born in this county August 15, 1848. He is the son of Jonathan and Mary (Matheson) Heywood. His father was a shoemaker by trade, but was engaged most of his life in farming. He was born in Vermont in 1806. He came to this county thirty-seven years ago, and is still living three miles east of Council Bluffs. Our subject's mother was born in New York about 1824, and died at the age of thirty-six. Our subject received a common-school education and worked on his father's farm until he was nineteen years of age, at which time he began farming for himself. He was married, in Norwalk Township, February 10, 1870, to Ruth J. Price, born in Dowliss, Wales, August 29, 1848. She is the daughter of Rees D. and Jane (Jones) Price. Her father was born in Wales in 1812, and her mother in the same country in 1813. Mrs. Heywood was but five months old when her parents brought her to America. They came all the way to Council Bluffs by water, and was on board the first vessel that had ascended the Missouri to Trader's Point. Our subject has 240 acres of land, most of which is in a good state of cultivation.