BISOM, JOHN

BISOM, HOUCK, KESTER, HALL

Posted By: Marilyn Norris Holmes
Date: 4/14/2013 at 09:21:37

The 1880 History of Poweshiek County Iowa

Warren Township

Page 797-8

BISOM, JOHN--Farmer, section 11, P.O. Victor. Was born December 11, 1811, in Hessen Cassel, Germany, where, after finishing his education, he engaged in farming till 1839, when he came to the United States and settled in Berkeley county, Virginia; he bought two hundred and twenty acres of land and farmed the same till the fall of 1865. During the late rebellion his farm was first in the possession of the Union army, then the Confederates, and he and family witnessed battles from their home. In the fall of 1865 sold his farm and came to Iowa, settling where he now lives, and owns eighty acres of good land with good improvements on the same. He was married October 8, 1839, in Virginia, to Miss Elizabeth Houck, who was born in Germany in 1821. They have had fourteen children, born as follows: Anna Maria (born September 3, 1840; died July 21, 1860), Henry (born December 5, 1841; married, and lives in Jasper county, Iowa), Hannah (born May 5, 1842; died in 1844), Anna Eliza (born February 24, 1845; died in 1869), John Wm. (born February 28, 1847; married, and lives in Jasper county, Iowa), Daniel (born December 14, 1849; married, and lives in O'Brien county, Iowa), Emily Susan (born March 16, 1851; now the wife of Samuel Kester, of Grundy county, Iowa), George (born September 10, 1859; married, lives on adjoining farm), William (born September 3, 1855; died May 15, 1860), Margaret (born April 28, 1857; now the wife of Geo. Hall of Audubon county, Iowa), Chas. Lewis (born June 16, 1858), Mary Belle (born November 26, 1867), and Fannie Amelia (born February 19, 1865).