LEPLEY, J.K.

LEPLEY, MANATT, HARDING, WINCHESTER, DUNN, NIKERK, GORMER

Posted By: Marilyn Norris Holmes
Date: 4/15/2013 at 11:45:11

The 1880 History of Poweshiek County Iowa

Warren Township

Page 810

LEPLEY, J.K.--Farmer and stock-raiser, section 26, P.O. Victor. Was born March 13, 1835, in Somerset county, Pennsylvania, where he lived on a farm with his grandparents (his mother having died when he was one day old), attending school in winter, till 1851. In 1851 he went to Knox county, Ohio, where his father lived, and there engaged in farming till the spring of 1859, when he came to Iowa and resumed the tilling of the soil, and in the spring of 1861 bought and settled where he now lives and owns 160 acres of well improved land. Joseph, his father, died in Ohio, January 10, 1878, aged sixty-five. Mr. L. was married, August 19, 1861, in Brooklyn, to Mrs. Margaret Jane Manatt, a resident of Warren township, who was born May 12, 1826, in Ohio. She had five daughters by a former marriage; Mary Ann (born September 6, 1845; now the wife of John Harding, of this township), Sarah Jane (born December 12, 1846; now the wife of George Winchester), Eliza I. (born January 29, 1849; now the wife of George Dunn, of Colorado), Jemima (born December 22, 1851; died March 13, 1874; was the wife of John Nikerk) and Amanda S. (born May 6, 1854; now the wife of S. Gormer, of Victor). By this union there is one son, John B.T. (born October 2, 1862) and one daughter, Flora E. (born July 30, 1865).