Council, Willis

COUNCIL

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Date: 7/5/2021 at 01:23:42

History of Warren County, Iowa; Containing a History of the County, Its Cities, Towns & Etc., by Union Historical Company, 1879, p.666

COUNCIL, WILLIS, farmer, Jefferson Township, Sec. 9; P. O. Lothrop; born in Illinois in 1812, and lived there till the 7th of March, 1832, when he enlisted in the Black Hawk war, under Gen. Adkinson, and served till the close, August 27th of the same year; he left Illinois in 1844, and came to Carroll county, Mo., and remained till he came to this county, in August, 1846, and since that time has lived here; he was the second child born in the State of Illinois; was first married in Illinois, to Miss Matilda Basman, a native of Kentucky, in 1834; by this marriage he has a family of two sons and three daughters: Jane, Frances, Clarinda, Leonard B., and John W.; he was married a second time to Elizabeth M. Stockton, a native of Illinois, in August, 1872; he owns fifty-seven acres of land.