Mackland, Elizabeth

MACKLAND

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Date: 9/22/2019 at 16:51:25

Elizabeth Mackland

(From the 1891 Biographical History of Pottawattamie County, Iowa, p.282)
MRS. ELIZABETH MACKLAND of Boomer Township, was born in Cheshire, England, October 24, 1832, a daughter of Joseph and Hannah (HARRISON) BARDSLEY, parents also natives of the Albion Isle. Her father was a weaver by trade. The family comprised eight children: Thomas, William, Mary, Martha, Joseph, Robert, Margaret, and John, all of whom are now deceased. Mr. Bardsley, being the fifth child, was born July 15, 1800, was brought up in the trade of his father, but as soon as convenient, he learned the trade of boot and shoe making. His wife, born July 10, 1810, was the daughter of John and Martha HARRISON, natives of England. Mr. HARRISON was a mechanic and machinist, and his children were: Samuel, Hannah, John, Mary, Elizabeth, William and Joseph, besides one deceased.

Mrs. M. Bardsley being the second child was married in 1830 and remained a resident of the old home until she died, March 7, 1844, leaving three children: Mary and Martha, both deceased, and Elizabeth, the subject of this sketch. After the death of the mother, the father remained in England until 1850, when he sailed from Liverpool for America, landing at New Orleans, after a voyage of eleven weeks. He proceeded to St. Louis, and to Kanesville (now Council Bluffs), and finally located in Keg Creek, where he was a resident until 1855; and in 1852 he married Mrs. Bettie HANDBURY, and in 1854 bought 200 acres of land in Neola Township, and began to make a home.. After making many improvements, he died December 20, 1860, leaving his wife and three children: John is a merchant in Neola Township; Charles is still on the old home place and a thrifty farmer; and Thomas is practicing law in Walnut. Mrs. Bardsley is still living, near her eldest daughter, and she has accumulated considerable property.

March 26, 1852, when twenty years of age, Elizabeth married John MACKLAND, the son of Thomas and Ann (UNION) MACKLAND, natives of England; father a brick maker by trade, and in his family were ten children: Maria, John, Eliza, Ellen, Henry, Elizabeth, Phoebe, and three others. John JACKLAND was born in 1829, brought up in his father's trade, which he followed to some extent after his arrival in this country. Purchasing 160 acres of land in Neola Township, he continued to make many valuable improvements as a foundation for a comfortable home; but in 1865, he moved into Boomer Township and bought a tract of land on section 34, which is now the old home place. Here he began anew, in a wild, unbroken prairie, with only a log cabin and a few acres of sod turned. In a few years, he was enabled to put up a good frame house. He planted shade trees, etc., and made a fine residence. He died October 4, 1876, leaving a wife and eight children. The latter are: Anna, born 1853, now the wife of John LAYTHEM, and residing at Neola; Joseph, born in 1855, and now residing in Boomer Twp.; Emma, born in 1858, is now Mrs. John McGILL of Council Bluffs; Thomas, born in 1860, and residing in Boomer; William Henry, born in 1862, still at home; Mary Ellen, born in 1865, is the wife of Henry PAGE, and living in Boomer; Elizabeth, born in 1868, now at home; and Phoebe, born in 1870, is married to Jefferson SIGLER, a resident of Boomer Township.

Mr. MACKLAND was a decided Democrat, a man who took an interest in benevolent societies, and earned a good reputation by his integrity of character. He was, as Mrs. Mackland still is, a member of the Church of Latter Day Saints, being zealous in the principles of that denomination.