Lineweaver, C. B.

LINEWEAVER, ANDES

Posted By: Gary Norris (email)
Date: 2/27/2013 at 08:03:16

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

LINEWEAVER, C.B.—Scott Twp—pg 767-8. Farmer, section 4. Born September 24, 1846 in Rockingham county, Virginia; received an ordinary school education while living there on a farm with his parents. In 1873 he came to Bear Creek township, this county, where he remained on a farm five years. In 1878 he removed with his family to his farm of eighty acres on which he now lives, which is under good cultivation. Mr. L. married October 28, 1869, Miss Rebecca C., oldest daughter of Eli and Sarah Andis (Andes). By this union they have five children: Jeremiah Franklin (aged ten years), Sarah Esther (aged eight years), Clara V. (aged five years), Charles Boyd (aged three years) and Fanny May (aged two years). Mr. L., in 1864, at the age of seventeen, was drafted into the Confederate Army, where he experienced all the hardships of and participated in all of the battles fought by that army from the time he joined them till the surrender of General Lee.