POSTIN, MRS. MARY A.

POSTIN, KEARNS, BLAIR, DAUGHERTY

Posted By: Marilyn Norris Holmes
Date: 4/15/2013 at 15:59:38

The 1880 History of Poweshiek County Iowa

Warren Township

Page 814

POSTIN, MRS. MARY A.--Section 1, P.O. Victor. Widow of William Postin, who was born in Butler county, Ohio, July, 1825, and when four years old went with his parents to Crawford, Indiana, where he attended school till 1844, when he came to Iowa, settling in Scott county, and engaged in surveying throughout the State. He, in company with Captain Morehead, surveyed the greater part of Iowa, often suffering much in the storms of those times. He also owned and operated a number of coal mines in Scott county, employing some thirty men in the same, and continued in that till his death, which occurred March 28, 1872, he being widely known and highly esteemed. He was married December 2, 1849, in Davenport, to Miss M.A. Kearns, a resident of Davenport, born in Zanesville, Ohio, in 1830, and from this union there were born seven children, as follows: Mary L.B. (born October 23, 1850; now the wife of J. Blair, of Warren township), Thos. J. (born August 13, 1852; married and lives in Decatur county, Iowa), William F. (born July 24, 1854), Lovinia (born July 26, 1856; now the wife of David Daugherty, of Scott county, Iowa), Annette (born March 2, 1859; died November 12, 1862), Edwin Richard (born January 2, 1864), Rosie Nell (August 8, 1870). Mrs. Postin, with her family, came to this county in March 1875, and bought eighty acres of improved land and settled on the same, where she now lives, and with the aid of her sons, Wm. F. and Edwin R., farms the same.