SCHOLES, R.

SCHOLES, CLARY, GWIN

Posted By: Marilyn Norris Holmes
Date: 4/16/2013 at 07:51:46

The 1880 History of Poweshiek County Iowa

Warren Township

Page 816

SCHOLES, R.--Farmer, section 24, P.O. Victor. Was born December 28, 1820, in Belmont county, Ohio, where he attended school until nine years old; then went with his parents to Ashland county, Ohio, where he attended school winters, and summers engaged in tilling the soil, also in carpenter work till 1848, when he moved to Athens county, where he farmed and worked at his trade till the fall of 1849. He came to Iowa and settled in this county where he worked at his trade four years. Then engaged in farming and in the spring of 1866 bought and settled where he now lives and owns forty acres of well-improved land, he having recently sold 200 acres of his farm. Mr. S. has been twice married: First, July 28, 1842, in Belmont county, Ohio, to Miss Cordelia Clary, a resident of Guernsey county, Ohio. From this union there were eight children: Joanna (aged thirty-four years), Samuel (aged thirty-three years), Joshua (aged thirty-one years), Reuben (died when five months old), John (aged twenty-five years), Geo. W. (aged twenty-two years; married and lives in Nebraska), Henry C. (aged twenty-one years),Thomas J. (aged nineteen years). Mrs. S., after a short illness, died, January 3, 1875, leaving a wide circle of friends and relatives to mourn her loss. Mr. S., for his second wife, married, September 2, 1877, Miss Susan Ann Gwin, of this county, who was born in Holmes county, Ohio, in 1832.