Garnett, William G.

GARNETT, KRAMER

Posted By: Gary Norris (email)
Date: 2/27/2013 at 07:55:24

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

GARNETT, WILLIAM G.—Scott Twp—pg 765-6. Farmer, section 32, P.O. Montezuma. The subject of this sketch is a native of Barnes county, Ohio. His father was a carpenter. Young Garrett received a meager education. In 1837, he went to Linn county, Iowa, and with his parents remained there till 1860, farming for a living. There he was married to Miss Rachel M. Kramer, of the same place; Miss Kramer was born and raised in Linn county, near where Marion now is. Mr. and Mrs. Kramer came from Pennsylvania and settled in Linn county, when there was but one house east of them in the county. Their children having no playmates but Indian children, the Indians were usually friendly and saved them from starvation at one time, always giving them meat on returning from a hunt. Mr. and Mrs. Garnett have three boys and one girl, all home. Mr. Garnett enlisted in 1864, in the Sixteenth Iowa, and served with Sherman till the close of the war, when he was discharged at Washington, D.C.