Pool, Francis

POOL, STEWARD

Posted By: Gary Norris (email)
Date: 1/7/2013 at 07:40:28

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

POOL, FRANCIS—Deep River Twp—pg 740. Section 30, P.O. Tilton. His great-grandfather and three brothers came from England to this country during the colonial days. His grandfather was a minister in the Methodist Episcopal Church; fought in the War of 1812; received a severe wound in the last battle of the war, on account of which he was pensioned by the government; he was born in New York, in 1780, and died in October, 1864. His father was born in New York, in 1817; is a farmer; fought in the late war, and still lives. Francis was born in New York, the eighth of June, 1838. He emigrated directly from his native place to this county in March, 1867, and the following fall bought and removed to his present place. Mr. Pool married, on the twelfth of March, 1861, Miss Frances F. Steward, of Chautauqua county, New York, who was born January 15, 1843. Their children were born as follows: Annette (born March 23, 1862), Ida D. (born March 12, 1865), Ida Delbert (born October 13, 1867), Nellie O. (born October 24, 1870), Emma (born January 7, 1873), Francis (born January 21, 1876), Rosella (born August 18, 1877) and Elma May (born July 14, 1879). Mrs. Pool’s grandfather (Nathaniel Warner) when twelve years old was General Washington’s body servant, and served the father of his country in that capacity during the entire War of the Revolution. Mr. Pool owns forty acres of good land, and takes great interest in raising fine stock.