KEARNS, T.F.

KEARNS, GETTINGS

Posted By: Marilyn Norris Holmes
Date: 4/15/2013 at 08:48:08

The 1880 History of Poweshiek County Iowa

Warren Township

Page 807

KEARNES, T.F.--Farmer, section 1, P.O. Victor. Was born September 28, 1840, in Scott county, Iowa, where, after completing his education, he engaged in farming till October, 1870, when he came to this county and bought the eighty acres now owned by Mary A. Posten, which he farmed till the spring of 1875, then sold the same and bought and settled where he now lives, and works his fine farm of one hundred and twenty acres of land, having the same well stocked. He was married September 19, 1865, in Davenport, Iowa, to Miss M.J. Gettings, a resident of the same place, born in England, August 26, 1847; by this union there are five children, born as follows: Frank A. (born January 6, 1866), Wilbert T. (born February 4, 1869), Jasper P. (born November 18, 1870), Wesley D. (born March 17, 1873), Flora E. (born May 27, 1875).