Leimberer, M.

LEIMBERER, SMITH

Posted By: Gary Norris (email)
Date: 2/11/2013 at 07:44:33

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

LEIMBERER, M.—Jefferson Twp—pg 968. Farmer, section 13, P.O. Belle Plaine. Was born in 1850, in Germany, where he lived till 1854, when he came with his parents to the United States, and settled in Muscatine county, Iowa, and farmed till 1856; then in Cedar county where he farmed till 1878, when he settled where he now lives and owns one hundred and sixty acres of well-improved land. He was married, March 11, 1872, in this county, to Miss Lavina Smith, a resident and native of Illinois, aged nineteen years. They have one son, aged one year, and they buried: Ella, in 1879 (aged five years) and Gracie A., in 1880 (aged four years).