Tibbals, William F.

TIBBALS, HOLMES

Posted By: Gary Norris (email)
Date: 2/27/2013 at 08:08:16

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

TIBBALS, WILLIAM F.—Scott Twp—pg 769. Farmer, section 16, P.O. Montezuma. Was born May 10, 1837, in Grenville, Massachusetts, where he lived with his parents till eighteen years old, when, with his parents, he moved to Delaware, Ohio, at which place he attended the Ohio University for four years, during which time his father died at the age of sixty-two. After graduating young Tibbals went to Missouri to buy land, but not liking the country he came to this county, where he bought eighty acres adjoining 120 which he had previously bought of his father who had entered it from the government. Mr. T. then returned to Delaware, remaining with his mother till her death in 1863. At that time he was the owner of a marble shop in Delaware, which he sold in 1867. In 1868 he went to Brooklyn and engaged in buying oats for shipment and loaning money. Mr. T. went to Franklin county, Ohio, and married a Miss Sarah Jane Holmes, of that place, in 1871; then, in company with his young wife, came West and settled on the farm where they now live, and to which he has added 160 acres, making a farm of 320 acres. He has 260 apple trees, part bearing, also, small fruit in abundance, as well as first-class buildings. One boy has been born to them: Leroy H. (aged eight years). Mr. T. has 120 acres in Scott township, 160 in Malcom township, 160 in Jackson township, forty in Deep River township and seven and one-half near the town of Brooklyn.