Cutting, George W.

CUTTING, MCBRIDE, BALES, KESLOR, HUBBELL, ROSECRANS, COOK, MCGOWIN, ROWELL, ENNIS

Posted By: Gary Norris (email)
Date: 1/4/2013 at 09:54:57

The History of Poweshiek County, Iowa
Des Moines: Union Hist. Co., 1880.

CUTTING, Mrs. GEORGE W. - Deep River Twp - pg 725-26. Section 24, P.O. Deep River. Her maiden name was Mary Ann McBride, and she was born May 24, 1818, in Belmont county, Ohio, and was raised in New Athens, Ohio. She was married October 2, 1837, to Emmor Bales, of Uniontown, who was born in Virginia, December 25, 1801; he was a prosperous mechanic; served as justice of the peace in Uniontown for fifteen years; was a gentleman of scholarly attainments; a class - leader in the Methodist Episcopal Church, and a zealous Christian. He emigrated to this State in 1863, and a few years later moved to Illinois, where, in Henderson county, he died, May 14, 1870, leaving six children: Wilson S. (born August 4, 1839;married), Rebecca J. (born August 17, 1845; married John Keslor), George W. (born August 3, 1849; married Emily Hubbell), Oscar K. (born August 22, 1852; married Frankie Rosecrans), Emmor (born November 12, 1856) and Anna V. (born July 17, 1860). She married in Victor, Iowa, October 9, 1878, to George W. Cutting, a minister of the Baptist church who was born in Vermont, January 24, 1805. He was converted in his thirteenth year; secured a good education; was licensed to preach on his twenty-fifth birthday, and entered upon an active ministerial life, having charge successively of different churches of his denomination in New Hampshire and Vermont. He came to Iowa and entered on the present estate about 1868. Here, in addition to his farming, he became exceedingly popular as a preacher of broad and liberal views, and died April 7, 1880. His first marriage was with Emily Hunt who was born July 12, 1806; she bore him: Eliza A. (born March 3, 1828; married James L. Cook, June 7, 1849), James Colman (born September 25, 1832) and George W. (born August 6, 1837; married Jane McGowin, November 24, 1864). His first wife died September 8, 1838; and on January 22, 1840, he married Hannah Rowell, to whom one child (Emily H.) was born (July 31, 1841; now the wife of Dr. E.E. Ennis), and she (the second wife) died April 19, 1877. Mr. Cutting left his entire estate, including an excellent farm of eighty acres, to the care of his widow until final adjustments are made. He was a man whose pure christian character and great popularity make his death felt and lamented, not only by his family, but by all who knew him.