Abel, August W. (1827-1913)

ABEL

Posted By: Karon Velau (email)
Date: 12/4/2016 at 01:22:35

August W. Abel
[listed as Able in this biography, but Abel on his gravestone in IOOF Cemetery, Indianola, IA]

The Advocate-Tribune newspaper, Indianola, Iowa, Thursday, July 5, 1906, front page

Palmyra (by Hayseed)
A.W. Able is spending a week with his old friends. He now makes his home with his daughter, Mrs. Friar, who lives near Pleasant Hill church. Fifty-seven years ago he sailed from Hamburg, Germany, at the age of twenty-three, it took their ship eight weeks to cross the ocean; the ship landed at Quebec. He located for a time at Urbana, Champaign county, Ill., he here married Elizabeth Crab; they came to Palmyra and started with but little but that little was enough for a Dutchman. He had practical ideas of farming and realized upon these ideas. After his wife died six years ago, he gave each of his three children, Lena, Billy and Jim, a farm a piece. He is a lively man of eighty summers. He visited with Enos Jury and George Bartholomew, M. T. Bruce and Hayseed, and the coming week will sit at other tables. He moved from this place thirty-seven years ago and never forgot a friend.