WILLETT, W.C.

WILLETT, ADAMS

Posted By: Marilyn Norris Holmes
Date: 4/16/2013 at 09:49:06

The 1880 History of Poweshiek County Iowa

Warren Township

Page 820-821

WILLETT, W.C.--Farmer, section 29, P.O. Brooklyn. Was born September 27, 1827, in Charles county, Maryland, where he lived, and at an early age engaged in farming till 1870, when he came to Iowa and settled where he now lives, and owns one hundred and forty-five acres of improved land, with good house on the same, he having lost his home by fire August 7, 1877. Mr. Willet was married April 8, 1862, in Charles county, Maryland, to Miss Eliza Ann Adams, who was born in Maryland in 1844; they have had ten children in all: Eliza C. (born December 22, 1866), William A. (born January 6, 1869), Cornelius E. (born January 1, 1871), Clara F. (March 19, 1873), Anna R. (April 9, 1874; died November, 1875), Effie D. (born June 24, 1877), Richard P. (born February 16, 1879), and three buried, two infant sons and one infant daughter.