Moon, Isaac F.

MOON

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Date: 7/9/2021 at 16:12:21

History of Warren County, Iowa; Containing a History of the County, Its Cities, Towns & Etc., by Union Historical Company, 1879, p.696

MOON, ISAAC F.,(listed as J. F. Moon in book),of Moon and Chapman, wagon-makers and blacksmiths, Union Township, P. O. Sandyville; born in Fayette county, Ohio, December 11, 1841, and when eight years old, his parents came to this county, where the subject of this sketch was raised, and has experienced the ups and downs connected with pioneer life, and the improving of a new country; when twenty-eight years of age he learned his present trade which he has successfully followed since; he was married in October, 1868, to Miss Amy Baccus, who was born in the State of Missouri; they have four children: Ulyssus S., Edward H., Arch and George; he enlisted in the 1st Iowa Cavalry in 1861, but was rejected on the account of his age, which was only fourteen years; on January 17, 1865, he again enlisted in Co. B, Fortieth Iowa Infantry, and served till the close of the war.