Slack, Mrs. John

SLACK, GRIFFIN, LADELY, STRAUB, HILL, POLLOCK, MARSHALL

Posted By: Gary Norris (email)
Date: 1/7/2013 at 07:57:36

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

SLACK, Mrs. JOHN—Deep River Twp—pg 746. Section 25, P.O. Deep River. Her maiden name was Mary Griffin, and her ancestors were Franco-English. She was born in New Castle county, Delaware, December 18, 1809, and raised and educated there. She was married to John Slack, in Muskingum county, Ohio, January 29, 1829, with the following result: Cornelia (born January 19, 1830; married Wm. Ladely), Lydia (born May 3, 1832; married Michael Straub), Ira (born December 12, 1835; married Elizabeth Hill), Susan (born October 30, 1837; she was married January 17, 1867, in Zanesville, Ohio, to A.J. Pollock, to whom she bore: Hattie, born September 17, 1867; died May 8, 1868, and Frances May, born September 24, 1869; died January 29, 1870; her husband was a soldier; died from disease contracted in the federal army, December 31, 1869, in consequence of which she receives a pension), John H. (born December 28, 1839; died December 24, 1841), Charlotte (born October 18, 1842; married to G.H. Marshall, and died December 3, 1874), Mary E. (born December 17, 1844), Sarah J. (born November 18, 1849; married) and Philip Henry (born February 4, 1852). Mr. Slack’s grandfather emigrated from Holland to America during the colonial days and settled in Virginia. Was a fifer in the Revolutionary War, and died in April, 1838. He was born in Muskingum county, Ohio, June 23, 1806, and was raised and educated on a farm in his native county. He entered a homestead in this county in 1853, but continued to work in a boiler manufactory at Zanesville, Ohio, until his death, July 23, 1865. He left an estate of 160 acres of unimproved prairie in this county and a large house and lot in Zanesville, to the disposition of his widow. After his death the house and lot were sold, and the family emigrated to and improved the land, eighty acres of which has been deeded to the son Henry. The estate is in good condition and out of debt.