Persons, Levi A.

PERSONS

Posted By: Joyce Hickman (email)
Date: 11/13/2008 at 14:48:05

Levi A. Persons

(From the 1883 History of Pottawattamie County, Iowa, by J. H. Keatley, p.259, Waveland Twp.)
Levi A. Persons, farmer, P. O. Elliott, Montgomery Co., Iowa, was born in Vermont October 10, 1822. His father was born in Vermont in 1790; was a farmer, and served a short time in the war of 1812. Subject's mother was born in Vermont in 1793, and died in 1860. His parents had five children, four of whom are living. Mr. Persons has a common-school education. He was in Company H, Forty-ninth Wisconsin Infantry, during the rebellion. He was married to Miss Betsey Moore in 1850. She was born in Vermont, of which State her parents were also natives. Mr. and Mrs. Persons have had five children - Zedora L., born January 23, 1851; Susan E., August 27, 1852; Hattie A., June 3, 1855; Herbert H., February 27, 1857; and George A., born April 13, 1859, died June 3, 1864. Mr. Persons emigrated from Vermont to Wisconsin, thence to Pottawattamie County, Iowa, in 1870, where he bought ten acres of land at $10 per acre. He now has fifty acres, worth at least $40 per acre.