Hargis, John

HARGIS

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Date: 7/5/2021 at 14:40:35

History of Warren County, Iowa; Containing a History of the County, Its Cities, Towns & Etc., by Union Historical Company, 1879, p.717

HARGIS, JOHN, grain dealer; Allen Township, P. O. Carlisle, born in Pulaski county, October 4, 1816; when fourteen years of age his parents moved to Edgar county, Illinois, where they remained one year, and then removed to Shelby county, Indiana; while there he married to Miss Sarah E. Reamer, February 19, 1839; she was born there in December, 1822; in 1844 they removed to St. Joseph county, Missouri, where they lived until 1848, when they came to this county and located in Carlisle; his wife died August 5, 1863; they had one son, who was in the late rebellion, in Co. B. 10th Iowa infantry, and was wounded at Champion Hills, and died three days after his return home; Mr. Hargis married again, to Mary E., widow of Samuel Mack (her maiden name was Scovill), September 25, 1844; she died February 5, 1874; he married again to Sarah Scovill, sister of his second wife, January, 1875.