Keysor, Robert

GISER, KEYSOR, FIELDS

Posted By: Marilyn Holmes (email)
Date: 5/1/2009 at 11:52:31

1880 History of Poweshiek County Iowa

WARREN TOWNSHIP

Page 803-4

Assistant County Coordinator's Note: My research verifies the surname GISER was a typographic error and the surname is actually KEYSOR.

GISER, ROBERT (KEYSOR, ROBERT)--Farmer, section 30, P.O. Brooklyn. Was born July 7, 1838, in Morrow county, Ohio, where, after finishing his education he learned the carpenter's trade and worked at the same till 1864, when he came to Iowa and engaged in tilling the soil in Pleasant township, this county, till October 23, 1879, when he moved upon one of Thomas Manatt's farms, where he now lives and cultivates 120 acres of land. Mr. Keysor was married September 15, 1860, in Morrow county, Ohio, to Miss Elizabeth E. Fields, a resident and native of the same county; they have six children: Almeda (aged nineteen), Arminda (aged eighteen), Sarah A. (aged fifteen), Joseph R. (aged thirteen), Margaret J. (aged ten) and Mary S.(aged nine).