Ostrom, Fred and Maria

OSTROM, HOUSMAN, CRAYNE, DOWLING, BLANKENSHIP, CHESS, TORRANCE, BOPE, RYAN, SMITH, KILLIAN, HARRIS, BEES, HEISHMAN

Posted By: Marilyn Holmes (email)
Date: 5/5/2010 at 20:03:31

Poweshiek County Heritage (History Book publ. 1991 by Poweshiek Co. Historical and Gene. Society) Page 257

FRED AND MARIA OSTROM (Submitted by Betty Roth.)

Fredrick Gibson Ostrom, son of George L. and Margret M. Ostrom, born July 21, 1867 in Poweshiek County, Iowa. He was a life long farmer in the Hartwick area.

Fred married Maria Housman, daughter of Martin Housman and Hannah Crayne Housman, in Belle Plaine, Iowa on March 6, 1889.

Fred and Maria had ten children: Hazel Freda, born April 21, 1890, married Jack Dowling and later married Emmett Blankenship. She died in 1972; Marjorie Helen was born September 21, 1891, married Charles Chess. She died in 1918; Charles Gibson, born April 13, 1893, married Ruth Torrence. He died July 23, 1970; George Martin, born May 21, 1896, married Myrtle Bope. He died May 8, 1934; Edna Rebecca, born January 19, 1899, married Joe Ryan. She died January 2, 1988; Dorothy, born May 3, 1900, married Rolla Smith; Nellie May, born September 23, 1901, married Frank Killian and later Glen Harris. She died December 10, 1984; Mildred Elizabeth, born December 25, 1904, married Fred Bees. She died September 17, 1983; Margret, born January 12, 1908, married Delmar Heishman; Fred Gibson Jr., born May 10, 1909, married Hazel Swain. He died September 12, 1972.

Fred Ostrom died September 6, 1945. Maria Ostrom died May 2, 1942.