Hafkey, Wm. C.

HAFKEY, LUMBACH

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Date: 10/22/2012 at 20:07:32

1880 History of Poweshiek County Iowa

CHESTER TOWNSHIP

Page 934

HAFKEY, WM. C.--Section 10, P.O. Chester Center. Was born in Mecklenberg, Germany, in 1842. His parents removed to America in 1851, and came immediately to Iowa, settling in Scott county. Here Mr. Hafkey was brought up on the farm and educated in the schools of Davenport and Le Claire. He continued to make his home in Scott county for twenty-four years, with the exception of three years while he was in the army. In the year 1862 he enlisted in compnay K, Twentieth Iowa infantry volunteers, which regiment was mustered into the United States service at Clinton, Iowa, in August of the above mentioned year, and went immediately south, via Davenport and St. Louis; from St. Louis to Rolla and Springfield, Missouri. Their first engagement was at Prairie Grove, Arkansas, from whence they went to Vicksburg, where they were engaged in the siege, and was one of the first regiments to enter the city when it surrendered on the fourth of July, 1863. From here they went to New Orleans and to Brownsville, Texas, and after some unimportant maneuvering returned to New Orleans, thence to Fort Morgan, where they participated in the siege; thence to Pensacola, Florida, and Fort Blakely, where they participated in the siege of and charge on that Fort. They were mustered out and honorably discharged on the 25th of July, 1865, at Clinton, Iowa. He was married, in 1865, to Miss E. Lumbach of Scott county, Iowa, who is still living, by whom he has six children, whose names are: William F., Charles A., Frank F., Matilda A., George F. and Louis. He has a fine eighty acre farm about one mile from Chester Center all of which is improved.