Motheral, Robert

MOTHERAL

Posted By: Joyce hickman (email)
Date: 11/7/2008 at 14:01:35

Robert Motheral

(From the 1883 History of Pottawattamie County, Iowa, by J. H. Keatley, p.247, Valley Twp.)
Robert Motheral, farming, P. O. Hancock, was born in Pennsylvania in 1834, son of Thomas and Martha (Aken) Motheral; he, a farmer by occupation, was born in Pennsylvania and died in Missouri; she, born in Pennsylvania, is also dead; was the mother of twelve children, six of whom are dead. When five years old, Mr. Motheral moved, with his parents, to Illinois, where he received an ordinary schooling. In 1854, he came to iowa and located in Poweshiek County, where he engaed in farming till 1871, when he located on his present place in Pottawattamie County. Mr. Motheral's farm consists of 410 acres, mostly under cultivation, and supplied with good buildings; when he first took this farm it was wild prairie. He conducts general farming and trades some in cattle. Mr. Motheral was married, in Iowa, in 1860, to Mis Sarah M. Clark, born in New Jersey, daughter of John and Mary Clark, residents of Iowa. This union has been blessed with four children - Florence E., Sarah M., R. Franklin and Mary J. Mr. Motheral is a Mason and a Democrat.