Parnham, George

PARNHAM, PADERY, SHEETS, HARPER

Posted By: Gary Norris (email)
Date: 12/21/2012 at 09:13:34

The History of Poweshiek County, Iowa
Des Moines: Union Hist. Co., 1880.

PARNHAM, GEORGE—Bear Creek Twp—pg 845. Farmer, section 4, P.O. Brooklyn. Was born in Linconshire, England, June 26, 1825, and was there educated and raised to manhood. His occupation has been that of a farmer since his early life. He was there married on the twentieth day of May, 1850, to Miss Mellincent Padery of that county. In 1852 he came to the United States and settled in Piketown, Ohio, where he remained about one year, when he moved to Whiteside county, Illinois, there resided until 1865 when he moved to his present location where he owns a farm of one hundred and twenty acres of cultivated land well stocked. Their family consists of five children: Eliza (now Mrs. M.C. Sheets of this county), John Henry (who is married and lives in this county), Walter Scott (who resides with him), Charles Robert and Mary Jane; they have lost four, two in childhood and George, and Phebe (then wife of H. Harper).