Razey, Alexander

RAZEY, LEWIS

Posted By: Gary Norris (email)
Date: 2/14/2013 at 08:59:03

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

RAZEY, ALEXANDER—Madison Twp—pg 958. Farmer, section 14, P.O. Brooklyn. Was born in Essex county, New York, December 5, 1837, where, after finishing his education, he engaged in farming till 1855, then went to Wisconsin engaging in farming, and in the pineries till 1868, when he came to Iowa and settled where he now lives and owns one hundred and forty-nine acres of farm and timberland. Mr. Razey was married in Wisconsin in the fall of 1863, to Miss Hannah M. Lewis, a resident of Iowa, and a native of New York, aged twenty years. They have six children: Edit M. (aged fifteen), Ella M. (aged fourteen), Asahel J. (aged eight), Francis B. (aged four), Fannie (aged three), Samuel A. (aged five months). And in the fall of 1877 they buried Ada A. (aged two years).